xAI Employee Leaks Private API Key on GitHub, Exposing SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter/X Data
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An employee of xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, leaked a private API key on GitHub. For two months, this key allowed anyone to access xAI's private large language models (LLMs), which were apparently designed to handle internal data from SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter/X. KrebsOnSecurity revealed this leak.