Hark users say it makes whole videos from a chat

HarkWhat's new#

Hark users say it makes whole videos from a chat (Hark; reported, user reports)#

Six users have posted videos they say Hark made or helped make. Uzer Kayat posted that "Hark handled the animation, the voiceover and the background music" for his launch videos. Hark hasn't announced video, and one user's fan edit came out "rather chaotic." The entry has the steps users describe and a prompt (ours, untested).

OpenAI refunds credits drawn in the OpenCode Console attack (OpenAI; confirmed, staff)#

If you saved an OpenAI API key in OpenCode Console, OpenAI says credits drawn in the attack were refunded. OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux, who works on Codex and ChatGPT, posted at 12:12 AM ET today: "Our team worked with OpenCode to have their users who are also OpenAI API customers back in business and any credits refunded which would have been drawn in the attack." OpenCode said the breach "impacted 1.4% of OpenCode Console users". Still delete the key and set a hard spend limit.

Your Bot can make phone calls, with a calling service (Grok Bot; reported)#

What happened: Brian Roemmele posted at 9:31 AM ET Sunday that his Bot called a restaurant and booked a table, and shared the template. He says it read everything back and "waited for my OK before it dialed," and that he has "no connection" to ClawCall, the calling service he used. Elon Musk quoted it at 1:10 PM ET: "Grok @Bot can call restaurants by phone and book you a table".

Who it's for: anyone with errands that need a call. Grok Bot has no number of its own. ClawCall's site says it "currently handles English-language calls to US +1 numbers."

What to do now: message a Bot "Get the ClawCall MCP so you can make phone calls for me," authorize the card, and ask for one call with a read-back before dialing. The trial wording differs: ClawCall's FAQ says "30 calls and 30 minutes, whichever lasts later," and Brian says he got "30 calls or 30 minutes." Paid plans "start at $4.99 per month." We didn't place a call.

What to watch: whether SpaceXAI adds calling itself. Brian's post includes "A Proposal: Grok Phone."

Claude Personal Finance spotted, not confirmed (Anthropic; rumor)#

Rumor: TestingCatalog, which tracks unreleased app builds, posted screens at 6:18 PM ET Sunday of an unreleased Claude "Personal Finance" feature that would link banks through Plaid, with the line "Read-only, so Claude can't move money." Anthropic hasn't confirmed it, and the leaked screen itself says "Plaid isn't available on this account." TestingCatalog first spotted it on Sep 14 as "Claude Money".

Local tools stuck on "Never": staff now have a workaround (Grok Bot; confirmed, staff; not fixed)#

Follow-up to our Oct 16, 17 and 18 items. Colin explained at 12:13 PM ET Sunday that "for some newer accounts, the Grok Bot app doesn't finish linking your computer to your account." Until it does, the computer is treated as Never "no matter what Settings says." What to do: on grok.com, open Settings, then Privacy, click Edit and save ("saving is what matters, even if you keep the same option"), wait about a minute, then ask again. If it still refuses, quit and reopen Grok Bot. In the same post, Colin wrote "For some people it has also cleared up on its own after about a day" and "This is a known issue we're already tracking". mohitjain gave similar steps on another thread at 3:57 AM ET. One user still reported it at 12:31 AM ET Monday. (confirmed issue and workaround; not fixed)

HarkHow people are using it#

• A personal trainer from your watch and mattress data (Grok Bot). Paul Vann, whose X bio lists @spacexsi and the X API, posted at 3:36 PM ET Sunday that he "asked my @bot to connect my @Garmin and @eightsleep data, and operate as my personal trainer." He says it can "triage my sleep data between my watch and @eightsleep." He didn't say which connectors he used. (reported, one user who works at the company)
• One home for everything a Bot writes (Grok Bot). Melvin Vivas, who shares Grok Bot templates, described at 11:21 PM ET Sunday how he files Bot output: notes to Notion as markdown, documents to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, and "anything else" to Google Drive, so it's "ready for sharing." (reported, one user)
• A Bot made from inside the Grok app (Grok Bot). Carolina Dill wrote at 5:34 PM ET Sunday that while she chatted with Grok, it "offered to create a Grok Bot for it," and a few seconds later the Bot was in her list "already set up with its own folder and a short README." We haven't seen this documented. (reported, one user)
• Setup of the day: A crypto creator's bot prints a fact-checked one-page news sheet each morning (Grok Bot). James Rule says his Bot "checks it against primary sources" and prints it "every morning at 6:00am Central." He estimates it saves "about an hour and a half a day." He's a crypto creator who also promotes his free bot templates. (self-reported)
• A checker bot that looks for the output, not the green run (Grok Bot). @grovr_au keeps one bot that "checks whether a routine actually did its job, not just whether it says it ran," and says it caught a sync that had "succeeded" for six days without writing anything. (self-reported, one user)

HarkThe digest#

Grok Bot#

• No new version. The changelog still ends at 0.70.2 from Oct 11, and Cursor's status page is All Systems Operational this morning. (confirmed)
• Routines can lose your Mac after an update. Follow-up to our Oct 17 item. One user's Mac "registered as a new computer" on the first launch after the update, so a routine kept pointing at the old one, mohitjain said at 5:12 AM ET. It's tracked. Staff tip: name the computer in the routine, like "If the saved computer isn't connected, use the connected computer with that same name." (confirmed, staff; one report)
• Bots missing after the X Subscription switch? Don't reset. For one user, "The switch to The X Subscription didn't fully finish combining your accounts," mohitjain wrote at 4:41 AM ET. The Bots, chats and files "aren't lost," and "Retrying, Reset, or creating a new Bot won't bring them back." Wait for staff. (confirmed, staff; one report)
• Windows: let updates finish before you shut down. A downloaded update installs when the app quits, and "if it's interrupted you're left with a partial or empty folder," Colin said at 11:46 AM ET Sunday. Turning off Automatic Updates doesn't stop that. Click Restart to finish installing while you're at the PC, and wait until Settings shows the new version before shutting down or sleeping. If the folder is already empty, reinstall; "your Bots and settings are kept." (confirmed, staff; one report)
• iPhone app can't show connector cards yet. On iOS, cards from connectors such as Fastmail show an update message even when you're up to date. Colin said at 11:58 AM ET Sunday that support "is already built and will come in an upcoming iOS update." Meanwhile, open the chat on your Mac or ask the Bot to write the details as a regular message. (confirmed, staff)
• X Subscription tiers, in staff's words. mohitjain wrote at 3:59 AM ET that "Pro ($20) maps to Premium ($30), Pro+ ($60) to Super ($100)," and usage "is now one weekly pool shared across Cursor and the Grok apps." Tip from the same post: "Fast models use the pool about twice as fast." In Korea, plans have fixed won prices, and ₩45,000 includes VAT. (confirmed, staff)
• Teams with one paid seat can't change tiers yet. On The X Subscription, changing a seat's tier "isn't possible from the dashboard right now when the team has a single paid seat," mohitjain said at 4:03 AM ET. Email support@x.ai with the team name, the exact change and a link to the thread. (confirmed, staff)
• Annual billing is for individuals only. Ultra is "$2,000 per person per year," and "Team plans (one bill + admin controls) are monthly only today," mohitjain said at 5:01 AM ET. (confirmed, staff)
• Template installs failing? Check your X account. Monetization Coach posted at 12:01 AM ET Monday that when bot template installs failed, "Usually, it's because Grok Bot is connected to a different X account than the one I'm logged into for X." (reported, one user)
• A formal verification skill in pstack. Lauren (@poteto), whose X bio reads "Grok @Bot at @SpaceXSI", posted at 5:05 PM ET Sunday that pstack v0.15.27 "ships with a new skill /create-formal-verification-skill," a beta "meta-skill that creates a new skill and formal verification suite." (confirmed, author)

Cursor#

• Measure how much of an agent's patch survives review. Cursor staff member deanrie suggested Plan mode for fixes and refactors and a "reuse first" rule in Project Rules, noting "rules are a strong hint, not a guarantee." To compare models, he added at 6:04 AM ET: in the cloud SDK "Each run through Agent.create gets its own branch," found in result.git.branches, so git diff --stat <agent branch> <final branch> shows the cleanup. Locally, commit the agent's output first as its own commit. (confirmed, staff)
• Anthropic's cyber filter blocks a chat? Start fresh or switch models. The block "comes from Anthropic's own cyber-content filter, not Cursor," and it reads the whole conversation, mohitjain said at 4:41 AM ET. Start a new agent, or use a non-Anthropic model for security work. Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program relaxes the filter, and "it's currently available on Enterprise plans." (confirmed, staff)
• Opus 5.5 over your own AWS Bedrock key can break long chats. It's "an issue we're tracking," mohitjain said at 4:01 AM ET. Start a new chat, or switch a stuck one to "Opus 5 or 4.6." (confirmed, staff)
• The SDK's systemPrompt isn't open to outside accounts. mohitjain said at 4:00 AM ET it "isn't open to external accounts yet," and the "unknown option" error is misleading. Use an always-applied project rule or AGENTS.md instead. (confirmed, staff)
• Too many Agents windows on Windows launch. Set Cursor Settings, General, Startup, Window Restoration to Last Used Windows, close the extras and quit fully, mohitjain said at 3:58 AM ET. "It's an issue we're tracking." (confirmed, staff)
• Don't remove an empty duplicate Agents section. Both entries "point at the same folder," so removing one hides your chats, Colin said at 11:47 AM ET Sunday. To get them back, use Open Workspace and pick the same folder. (confirmed, staff)
• CLI resume fails when /tmp is locked down. Persistent sessions use "a fixed /tmp path rather than respecting $TMPDIR," Colin said at 11:49 AM ET Sunday. Workaround: an admin creates /tmp/cursor-agent-persist-<your uid> owned by you with chmod 700. (confirmed, staff)
• Remote server freezing? Don't open the whole disk. An SSH window with / open can push a small server to its memory limit, Colin said at 11:43 AM ET Sunday. Open only your project folder. .cursorignore "won't lower memory use there." (confirmed, staff)
• No-Git plugin uploads aren't coming soon. Colin said at 6:24 AM ET that manual plugin uploads aren't "on our short-term roadmap," but admins can create Team Rules and Team Hooks in the web dashboard, which "sync to all team members automatically." (confirmed, staff)

Anthropic#

• Claude Code 2.1.303: a bug-fix release. Version 2.1.303 reached npm at 5:15 PM ET Sunday and is the latest and next tag; stable stays on 2.1.292. The CHANGELOG says only "Bug fixes and reliability improvements". The Agent SDK moved to 0.3.303 the same minute. No need to rush the update. (confirmed)

OpenAI#

• Edit earlier messages in a thread. OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux, who works on Codex and ChatGPT, posted at 9:18 PM ET Sunday under "Day 14/": "Small quality of life improvement. You can now edit previous messages within a thread in the desktop app. Long time requested, and took way too long to get that one out." In a reply, he wrote "Registers as time travel". BlockBeats reports it as a Codex desktop feature. Tibo named no plans or versions, and OpenAI has no docs or changelog entry for it yet. Our suggestion: when a requirement several turns back was wrong, fix it there instead of stacking corrections. (confirmed, staff)

Hark#

• Adcock says active users rose 67%. Brett Adcock, Hark's founder, posted at 1:00 AM ET Monday that "active users are up +67% over last weekend." He gave no base number, and nobody outside Hark has checked it. In a follow-up he said "the free tier is really generous". (reported, founder's claim, unverified)
• A company demo: a DMV address change. Lara Lu, whose X bio reads "mobile @hark_labs", posted at 2:24 PM ET Sunday that Hark "signed into the DMV, found my old address, and filed the change. 2 min." She appears to work at Hark, so treat it as a company demo, not an independent review. (company demo)