xAI acquires dot.com domain before OpenAI Dots launch, redirects to Grok

Hours before OpenAI announced its new Dots agent product, xAI acquired dot.com and redirected it to the Grok chatbot download page, in what appeared to be a deliberate trolling of OpenAI's launch event.

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