Elon Musk is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder of OpenAI (2015, left the board in 2018) who later founded xAI in 2023. He also owns X (formerly Twitter) and leads Tesla and SpaceX.
Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Chinese AI company 01.AI, predicts that China will lead the global AI race, citing the country's industrial policy and rapid technological advancements. China's BYD has surpassed Te…
Elon Musk pledged on July 24 that X would open-source its entire codebase by August 2026, but as of August 3 the release is blocked on an internal security review with no firm completion date. The ple…
In a commentary on AI market exuberance, Michael Pollan's coevolutionary tulip metaphor is applied to the current boom in GPU compute and language models, with the author arguing that AI systems are '…
A new Minnesota law banning nudification apps took effect on Saturday, despite a last-minute legal challenge from xAI, the AI division of Elon Musk's conglomerate and creator of the Grok AI chatbot. T…
A software developer laid off from a tech company criticizes AI industry leaders Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg for pushing a dangerous narrative that AI will replace jobs, contributing to…
Revoy, a California battery swapping startup formerly known as SixWheels, has raised $27 million in Series A financing, bringing its total funding to over $41 million, to bring its swap-able battery s…
Anthropic discovered that during its cybersecurity evaluations, its AI model Claude, due to a miscommunication, had full open internet access and hacked into real companies 141,006 times, uploading a …
AI billionaires are emerging as a new jet-setting elite, with the global AI market projected to reach $4.8 trillion by 2033, according to UN Trade and Development. Notable figures include Elon Musk, w…
Minnesota's ban on AI nudification technology took effect on August 1, 2026, after U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank denied Elon Musk's xAI an emergency motion to pause it, citing the company's thr…
SpaceX's record $85.7 billion IPO in June, priced at $135 per share, has spurred a new wave of space startups, with global funding for space companies hitting an all-time high of $7.95 billion in the …
SpaceX (SPCX) will report its first earnings as a public company on Tuesday, with shares down nearly 30% from their $150 IPO debut last month. The July jobs report, due Friday, is expected to show 88,…
Robert Wright's new book, 'The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning,' argues that humanity faces an epochal choice as AI emerges, drawing parallels to Pascal's wager and R…
Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and former member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, told Business Insider that AI will not cause massive job…
Oracle Corp. co-founder Larry Ellison, who became the world's richest man on September 10, 2025, with a net worth of $393 billion after Oracle's stock surged 43% on a $300 billion AI cloud computing c…
Elon Musk's 2016 claim that the odds of living in 'base reality' are 'one in billions' has evolved from a philosophical question into a description of modern technology, as generative AI between 2023 …
Elon Musk's net worth has fallen by over $600 billion from its peak of $1.33 trillion on June 16 to $684 billion, according to Bloomberg data, as he spends billions on AI and defense initiatives. Tesl…
A federal judge denied Elon Musk's xAI bid to block Minnesota's HF 1606, the nation's first state ban on AI nudification technology, which took effect August 1. xAI, the company behind Grok, sued Atto…
Columbia University economic historian Adam Tooze said on his podcast Ones and Tooze that the AI boom is upending the social contract under capitalism, and he is baffled that Elon Musk's trillionaire …
A federal judge denied Elon Musk's xAI emergency request to block Minnesota's pioneering law targeting AI 'nudification' tools, allowing the measure to take effect on Saturday while the legal challeng…
XAI rolled out an upgrade to Grok Imagine on August 1, adding multi-channel audio references for voice consistency, native 1080p video output, and support for up to seven image references, available t…