Over Halloween weekend, some Grok Bot users awoke to something especially spooky: their weekly usage limits were unexpectedly maxed out, even if they hadn’t been using SpaceX’s agentic AI overnight. Some users reported on X that their usage jumped from as low as 50% to 100%.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed in an X post on Sunday that this was not a glitch.
“The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue,” he wrote in a reply to a question from a user. He has not addressed the issue on his main feed, but has continued boasting that Grok Bot can help you buy gifts for your family.
Grok Bot has been positioned as a success story for the newly public SpaceX, which said in a filing last month that AI now makes up 52% of company income. Its renamed “Super Intelligence” division actually turned a profit of $431 million, which is a rarity in the AI industry. Its profit would’ve been higher if not for $1.2 billion of one-time costs related to its acquisition of Cursor. Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having “the fastest growth of a product that I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Musk has not yet shared how subscribers’ usage limits will be impacted moving forward.

SpaceX (SPCX) may be attempting an end run to circumvent obstacles it’s facing in getting a mobile network off the ground.
Per the Washington Post, SpaceX is in talks with EchoStar (SATS) about launching its own wireless phone service through Boost Mobile, after the country’s three biggest carriers — Verizon, AT&T (T), and T-Mobile (TMUS) — reportedly turned down SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
Musk met with EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen last month, according to two people familiar with the negotiations cited by the Post. The talks could end with SpaceX buying Boost Mobile outright or getting access to its network, which the discount carrier leases from AT&T and T-Mobile.
In recent months, Musk asked the heads of Verizon (VZ), AT&T and T-Mobile to let SpaceX use their networks for its own mobile service. All three said no, per the Post.
But there may be a catch to SpaceX’s plan. Typically, a carrier’s lease agreement can’t be transferred to a new owner without the host carrier’s permission, meaning AT&T and T-Mobile may still need to approve a Boost deal to provide access to SpaceX.
SpaceX is open about its ambitions in the terrestrial mobile space. On the company’s recent earnings call, CFO Bret Johnsen said the goal is to “become a major mobile carrier … in the United States.” SpaceX also recently agreed to buy $8 billion worth of wireless spectrum licenses intended for cellular service in places satellites can’t reach.
“This is the last critical piece of the spectrum puzzle needed for SpaceX to provide complete phone coverage in America,” Musk said on X.
SpaceX and EchoStar already have a relationship. In September 2025, SpaceX agreed to buy EchoStar’s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for about $17 billion, split between up to $8.5 billion in cash and up to $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock,EchoStar said at the time. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said the deal would “advance our mission to end mobile dead zones.”
What SpaceX still lacks is a ground network. Its satellite signal isn’t strong enough yet to carry cell coverage indoors or in dense cities, where most phones are – and that’s why a deal with Boost would be so crucial.
An MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) like Boost rents capacity on an existing carrier’s network. Last month, TD Cowen’s Gregory Williams called acquiring an MVNO the cheapest and fastest route for SpaceX to launch mobile service, noting a network build would cost “upwards of $80B” and take years.
The Big 3, he said, still show no desire “to (ever) sign an MVNO deal with Starlink that could ravage the industry.”

Dozens of supermarkets in Europe have reported temperatures of their refrigerators and fridges rising overnight, now widely believed to be caused by cyber attacks similar to the one that affected France several weeks ago.
Supermarket chains in Belgium, Sweden, Estonia, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Ireland have been affected.
The story began with Belgian media reporting on Monday that fridges were turned up to 17 degrees Celsius, forcing many stores to throw away food.
Belgium’s Centre for Cybersecurity (CCB) told Belgian outlet Belga that it is aware of an incident targeting supermarket refrigeration systems.
CCB spokesperson Katrien Eggers told Euronews Next, “We are aware of an incident, but have no further information.” There are no reports yet as to who was behind the attack… and it may never be possible to identify them.”
Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office have opened an investigation into the incident, according to a spokesperson.
Some 40 Delhaize Proxy supermarkets, 15 Carrefour Shop & Go stores, 15 Intermarché shops and five Spar Q8 service station locations have reportedly been impacted in Belgium, according to Belgian outlet Le Soir.
Butchery group De Laet en Van Haver also said that their fridges were affected. IKEA have also said their Bergen shop located at Mons was affected, bringing the total to 75 stores affected in Belgium.
“We have identified an IT incident affecting the refrigeration systems in several dozen stores. We immediately took the necessary measures to keep our stores operational,” a spokesperson from Delhaize told Euronews Next.
Carrefour told Euronews Next this morning that “the impact at Carrefour is very limited: currently 15 of our 700 stores are affected, both in Flanders and Wallonia. Not a single hypermarket is among them.”
“All stores remain open because it only concerns a few refrigeration units, mainly freezers. Quick action was taken so that all stores can stay open,” they added.
Meanwhile later this morning Carrefour Belgium spokesman Mich Vergauwen said, “It’s a cyberattack, there is no other reason,” adding that the “impact is very limited”.
It’s believed the incident took place between Sunday night and Monday morning, skyrocketing refrigerator temperatures.
Stephan Moelans, CEO of refrigeration installer Sabcobel, which manages Delhaize’s fridges and freeze systems, told the Belga news outlet that the Belgian attack involves exactly the same mechanism as the previous French cyberattack.
“Over the past few weeks, we’ve been working very hard to protect our customers’ fridges against this vulnerability,” Moelans said.
He said the incident happened when the units’ evaporators were switched to defrost mode.
The refrigeration executive said a software update alone is not enough to address the vulnerability, with physical modifications required instead.
“That requires investment. The simplest solution is to manage the fridges over a secure internet connection. Most of our customers switched to that after the attack in France.”
Sabcobel know of around twenty affected units, out of the hundreds it manages across Belgium.
Danfoss, the company that supplied the software for the refrigeration systems affected in both the latest incident and the one in France in October, said customers who had not updated their software were affected.
A spokesperson told VTM NIEUWS that “the company says that the vulnerability lies primarily in outdated software and that they had already urged customers to start using their new software”.
Stores hit Europe wide
Problems reportedly also occurred at a number of stores of the Swedish supermarket chains ICA and Coop last night, with refrigerators and freezers turned up to 50 degrees Celsius.
A similar incident occurred in Estonian at one location of supermarket chain Selver, according to media reports.
13 SuperValu stores in Ireland were affected by a suspected cyber incident, according to a statement by owner Musgrave made to the Irish Times.
In the Netherlands, the freezing and cooling systems of at least seventeen companies were attacked last night, according to a spokesperson for supplier Danfoss. The identities of the companies were not disclosed.
Delhaize also suspended its ordering systems in Luxembourg as a precaution to prevent a similar incident.
Finnish media report that several K Group supermarkets have been affected. K Group is one of Finland’s largest retail chains.

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