Grok Bot now gets its own email address, so an AI agent can sign up for services and contact businesses for you

xAI's Grok Bot, an agent that signs in to a user's tools and does tasks for them, now has its own email address. xAI says the bot can use it to sign up for services, contact businesses on a user's behalf and schedule time with someone. It began rolling out on 9 October: users ask the bot to claim an address ending in @mail.grokbot.com. The bot is on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and 9to5Mac says its model got an upgrade earlier this week using Anthropic's Claude.

• Expect enquiries, booking requests and supplier sign-ups that come from an AI agent's own address. Reply as you would to a person, but check that a real customer stands behind it before you quote or take a deposit.
• If you try an agent like this yourself, give it its own address rather than your main inbox, and keep anything that spends money or promises a date behind your approval.

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