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.
A jury in Oakland found that Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman and OpenAI were barred by the statute of limitations, resulting in a loss for Musk. The jury's verdict was advisory, but U.S. Distric…
A California jury unanimously ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft, finding that his claims of being misled and harmed by the creation of a for-profit affil…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are engaged in a high-stakes trial over the future of OpenAI, with Musk accusing the company of abandoning its nonprofit mission to prioritize profits. Key witnesses, includin…
Final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, where lawyers attacked the credibility of both tech leaders, revealing new details about OpenAI's nonprofit status and a donkey trophy awarded to an employee wh…
President Trump hosted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Citigroup's Jane Fraser, and Boeing's Kelly Ortberg in the Oval Office ahead of a China summit, arranging for Huang to fly on Air Force One. Trump outli…
A new analysis argues that Peter Thiel's military-AI companies Palantir and Anduril, named after artifacts from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, fundamentally contradict the author's ethical framework. …
Elon Musk skipped the closing arguments of his own trial against OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on Thursday, traveling to Beijing on Air Force One while his attorney apologized to the…
Meta laid off roughly 8,000 employees, or 10% of its workforce, as part of a broader wave of tech industry cuts driven by AI adoption. Oracle eliminated an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 positions globall…
Space-based AI datacenters can effectively dissipate heat through radiators in shaded areas, using radiation as the primary cooling method in a vacuum. While the concept requires launching hundreds of…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has partnered with Anthropic and xAI to advance artificial intelligence capabilities, marking a strategic shift for the aerospace company. The deal positions SpaceX to serve other c…
Elon Musk’s xAI has reportedly struck a deal with rival Anthropic, a move that signals Musk’s company is not leading the artificial intelligence race. The agreement suggests xAI is seeking external pa…
Elon Musk, through SpaceX, has granted Anthropic exclusive access to the Colossus 1 data center's entire compute capacity—over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs—to run Claude AI models, effectively making him a kin…
Anthropic announced a partnership with SpaceX to take over all of Colossus 1, a deal estimated at $5 billion per year, making xAI a neocloud provider. At its second annual developer event, the company…
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman appeared in their first joint media interview in 10 years, a 90-minute podcast on Core Memory, covering OpenAI's history, the Elon Musk trial, and a product strategy that …
The White House has asked Anthropic to halt further expansion of its Mythos AI model due to national security concerns about its cyber capabilities, marking the first instance of direct government con…
Anthropic executive Boris Cherny stated that major job loss due to automation is imminent, but job creation will also follow, as the nature of AI-driven economic disruption becomes clearer. The assess…
OpenAI lost its legal leverage, revenue credibility, and cloud exclusivity in five days. Elon Musk testified in a trial that could redefine for-profit AI conversions, while the company missed revenue …
Platformer is restructuring its daily newsletter model to focus more on original reporting and less on link aggregation, as AI tools increasingly automate the curation of news summaries. The shift com…
Tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Peter Thiel do read the science fiction works they reference, but they misinterpret them by identifying with the authoritarian or dystopian factions r…
The article reflects on the author's 45-year history in Silicon Valley, contrasting past economic cycles with current layoffs at Meta and Twitter. The author argues that despite sensationalized news c…