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Research & KnowledgeDone with Grok Bot 2026-10-19
Scrape AI news three times a day with a custom bot
A paying user built three bots in week one, including a news scraper collecting AI news three times daily; one other bot flopped.
- What They Did
- Chris Alarcon paid for Grok Bot, xAI's beta product where each bot gets its own cloud computer. He set up a news bot that collects the latest AI news three times a day. It runs on its own, and he says it also tidied some of his lists. The source gives no setup detail beyond that.
- How It Went
- He calls the news scraper simple and boring, which is what he wants from an assistant. His lead-scout bot, built the same week, produced nothing. He hit his usage limit once on the $100 plan.
- Worth Knowing
- Bot access is listed from the $30/month SuperGrok tier, but docs and pricing have disagreed during beta, so check xAI's pricing page before you buy.
Try it yourself with Grok Bot
Set up a recurring job that runs [three times a day, at 8am, 1pm, 6pm] to collect the latest news on [topic] from [sources or sites]. Summarize each item in one or two sentences with a link, remove duplicates from earlier runs, and send the digest to [email or chat]. Run it once now so I can check the format, then ask me what to adjust before scheduling it.