Consumers filed a class-action antitrust complaint, Buist v. Anthropic PBC, N.D. Cal., No. 3:26-cv-10693, on September 18, 2026, alleging that four artificial intelligence companies coordinated to slo…
Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google face a lawsuit filed in a Texas federal court over their advocacy for accelerating AI development, adding a new dimension to antitrust litigation against the co…
SpaceXAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 on September 18th, claiming the speech recognition model is twice as accurate as version 1.0 at the same price of $0.10 per batch hour and $0.20 for streami…
Z.ai said it will open-source the ZCode codebase and invite independent third-party evaluators to audit the system after users reported that ZCode uploaded repository data to its own cloud with no opt…
Judge Mark Pittman rejected OpenAI's request to obtain X and SpaceXAI's confidential settlement agreement with Apple in the antitrust lawsuit, ruling after an in camera review that the agreement does …
SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence division formed when SpaceX merged with xAI in February, has held informal internal talks about buying customer and operational data from failed startups to train…
SpaceXAI announced on September 17th that Grok Bot is adding voice conversations, rolling out to desktop and mobile users over the next several days, five weeks after the persistent AI agent launched …
SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational data from troubled or defunct startups to train its Grok AI models, according to people familiar with the matter, as its SpaceXAI unit seeks afford…
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Pittman ordered SpaceXAI and X Corp. on September 15 to submit any agreements with Apple related to the resolution of their antitrust claims for in camera review, after …
Federal judge Mark Pittman ordered X and SpaceXAI to produce "any agreement or combination of agreements with Apple that relate to the resolution of Plaintiffs' claims against Apple in this litigation…
US District Judge Mark Pittman ordered X Corp and SpaceXAI on Wednesday to produce for his review any agreements with Apple related to their decision to voluntarily dismiss antitrust claims against Ap…
Security experts told TechCrunch that frontier AI labs should prioritize network security basics such as logs, permissions, and real-time monitoring over the third-party auditing plan proposed by Anth…
Epoch AI's AI Data Centers database now tracks 86 large AI facilities worldwide, covering an estimated 46% of all deployed AI compute as of June 2026, up from roughly 22% in early 2024. The tracked si…
Senators are expected to debate the concept of an artificial intelligence "kill switch" on Wednesday, as Capitol Hill weighs calls from AI industry leaders to regulate the most advanced models. Anthro…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the world is "right to be afraid" of artificial intelligence while urging the public to "trust that we are going to do the right thing," comments that followed a week of war…
Elon Musk's X Corp. and SpaceXAI filed a motion in federal court in Texas to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple with prejudice, resolving that portion of a lawsuit that accused the iPhone ma…
The CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633) failed a Senate cloture vote 50-49 on September 15, 2026, falling short of the 60-vote threshold and leaving federal oversight of agentic AI shelved until after the Novembe…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and SpaceXAI's Elon Musk have publicly agreed in recent days that AI development needs to slow down, following the resignation of an Anthropic resear…
The Department of Defense signed a $200 million ceiling contract with SpaceXAI in July 2025 for Grok 4 reasoning models and Deep Search tools, while the General Services Administration made xAI's prod…
Elon Musk revealed Monday on the All-In podcast that he is living in an Airstream trailer in Memphis beside SpaceXAI's Colossus supercomputer complex, which has scaled to roughly 1 GW of AI compute ca…