xAI testing new 'Highlight Stories' for Grok as new video and Imagine features roll out in Android 1.0.70

xAI appears to be experimenting with a fresh way to surface news and trending topics inside the Grok app, according to code spotted by developer Nima Owji.

The feature, dubbed “Highlight Stories,” would pull together recent news events and pair them with relevant posts from X users discussing those topics. A screenshot shared by Owji shows a feed-style interface where users can thumb up or down individual highlight stories, presumably to train the algorithm on what they find useful.

The implementation looks fairly straightforward — each highlight gets a title, a brief summary, and engagement buttons at the bottom. While xAI hasn’t officially announced the feature, the groundwork is clearly being laid for a more curated news experience within Grok.

Meanwhile, Grok’s Android app just got more functional with version 1.0.70 rolling out to users this week. Lara Lu, an xAI engineer, confirmed the update brings video playback controls that were oddly missing before — you can now tap to pause or play videos, and there’s a seek bar for scrubbing through clips.

Lu also teased that video extension capabilities are coming next, which would let users generate longer clips that build on existing video output. One X user reported seeing what looked like early glitches of this feature, where attempting to edit a video instead created a new one starting from the end frame. Lu clarified that proper video extension will work differently, creating genuinely extended footage rather than separate clips.​​

The 1.0.70 update also includes a shortcut for snapping photos and uploading them directly to Imagine, Grok’s image generation tool. Lu noted the feature is still being rolled out gradually, so not everyone will see it right away.

These video-focused improvements build on Grok’s recently launched text-to-video generation capability, which we covered last week. That feature lets users type out prompts and get back short video clips with sound in under 20 seconds, putting xAI in direct competition with tools like OpenAI’s Sora.

Between the new playback controls, upcoming video extension tools, and the potential arrival of Highlight Stories, it’s clear xAI is trying to position Grok as more than just another chatbot, and they’re building out a full creative toolkit that’s tightly woven into the X platform.

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