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X Vows Full Codebase Open Source After Grok Build Exfiltrated Dev Repos
X pledges to open-source its entire codebase with independent auditor verification that published code matches production systems, following a security incident where xAI's Grok Build tool exfiltrated developers' full Git repositories including credentials and secrets. The commitment goes beyond prior transparency pledges by proposing live-system verification rather than static code release.
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The Wire takeaway
If X actually ships third-party audited code matching production, you can now sell trust-verification tooling to AI platforms that need to prove they're not exfiltrating user data. The Grok incident just created a market for runtime attestation.
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Topics: Cybersecurity · AI Frontier Models · ai-security · open-source-verification · supply-chain-trust · code-transparency · grok-incident