# @hrkrshnn: Grok Build uploads code to xAI cloud despite zero data retention

Source: https://x.com/hrkrshnn/status/2076716354754015368?s=12
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/hrkrshnn-Grok-Build-uploads-code-to-xAI-cloud-despite-zero-data-retention?index=0x6a55bd0b03d0c7da357ede3506b2d75c1cb0b62566673e0d549966ffde15198ebbeb804f
Submitted by tim on 2026-07-14 UTC, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

SpaceXAI was caught uploading your code to its cloud.

I reversed xAI's official Grok Build binary. In a controlled session with zero tool-calls, it uploaded the complete codebase to xAI's storage

It ships a malware-like background code collector.