xAI is an AI company founded by Elon Musk in 2023 that develops the Grok series of large language models, integrated with the X (formerly Twitter) platform.
Elon Musk is recruiting skilled trades workers for SpaceX's AI data center buildout, asking applicants to email three bullet points demonstrating exceptional ability to datacenters@spacex.com. The pus…
Actor Mario Lopez faced widespread criticism after posting an AI-generated video on X that showed him and his niece at a baseball game, with viewers accusing him of sexualizing her. The clip, created …
Top AI researchers are leaving Google DeepMind for rivals such as OpenAI and Anthropic, including Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper, who moved to OpenAI, and John Jumper, leader of the …
As of August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act's transparency rules under Article 50 took effect, requiring AI systems serving EU users to disclose AI-generated content, while the European Commission gained enfo…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
A federal judge denied xAI's request for a preliminary injunction against Minnesota's ban on "nudify" apps, allowing the law to stand while the case proceeds. The ruling signals that courts may uphold…
California's AI Transparency Act (SB 942 as amended by AB 853) took effect August 2, 2026, requiring covered generative AI providers with more than 1 million monthly California users to offer free pub…
CostPerPrompt, a new web tool launched on Hacker News, provides live pricing for 232+ AI models and calculators that estimate real-world costs for chatbots, agents, RAG, voice AI, and GPU rental, with…
XAI's Grok Build coding CLI silently uploaded entire Git repositories — including full commit history and deleted credentials — to a Google Cloud Storage bucket, sending 5.10 GiB per session versus ro…
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…
A federal judge in San José refused xAI's attempt to compel four women suing the company over sexualised deepfakes generated with Grok to reveal their real names, allowing the case to proceed under ps…
Code Arena, an AI evaluation platform at arena.ai, launched an Image-to-WebDev benchmark on April 15, 2026, ranking large language models on converting UI screenshots into functional web code, with An…
OpenAI has claimed that an unreleased model has solved 10 major open mathematics problems, a result that, if verified, would mark a qualitative leap in AI reasoning beyond memorized knowledge. The cla…
SpaceX has agreed to remove all 69 temporary gas turbines at its Colossus AI data center power facility in Southaven, Mississippi, by July 2027, according to an announcement Thursday. The agreement wi…
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…