SpaceX AI's Grok Build coding tool was found to be automatically uploading users' entire codebases, including deleted secrets, to Google Cloud storage before the feature was disabled. Researchers confirmed that the company has since turned off this functionality, as indicated by a server flag returning 'disable_codebase_upload: true'.
Background
AI coding assistants have become popular for developers, raising significant concerns about how much source code and sensitive data is transmitted to cloud servers for processing.
- Source
- The Verge
- Published
- Jul 15, 2026 at 03:25 AM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10