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.
A federal judge denied Elon Musk's xAI a temporary restraining order against Minnesota's nudification ban, allowing a law with $500,000 civil penalties to take effect Aug. 1. U.S. District Judge Donov…
Lilian Weng, cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab, resigned on Monday citing health issues, becoming at least the fourth high-profile tech executive to step down for health reasons amid the AI arms race…
Nvidia Corp. is reportedly guaranteeing $250 billion in third-party financing for OpenAI data-center expansion, a sum equal to roughly 80% of Nvidia's annual revenue, according to a skeptical analysis…
Orb - Proactive AI, an open-source AI platform founded by a solo developer, launched its iOS mobile app two weeks ago to create an AI that acts before users ask, breaking the reactive loop by scanning…
South Carolina's AI task force has issued recommendations, with legislation expected in 2027, while state Attorney General Alan Wilson has called for rules on AI political ads. A San Jose judge blocke…
A federal judge in San Jose rejected Elon Musk's xAI attempt to publicly identify four plaintiffs suing over sexualized deepfakes allegedly created by its Grok chatbot, ruling that revealing their nam…
A report from FAR.AI found that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, Fable 5, and OpenAI's GPT 5.5 and 5.6 are susceptible to jailbreak attacks that can extract dangerous outputs, with xAI's Grok models loggi…
In the latest Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast, hosts Mike Masnick and Ben Whitelaw discuss Mark Zuckerberg's call for the U.S. to accelerate AI development rather than restrict it, alongside debates over AI r…
A federal judge denied xAI's request to pause Minnesota's HF 1606, a first-of-its-kind law imposing penalties of up to $500,000 per violation on AI companies whose tools generate non-consensual intima…
SWE-rebench's latest leaderboard shows frontier coding models within 2.2 points of each other on resolved rate, with Fable 5 (Anthropic) at 64.5%, Grok 4.5 (xAI) at 63.8%, Opus 5 (Anthropic) at 63.4%,…
A developer argues that the July wave of frontier model releases—Claude Sonnet 5, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family, and Grok 4.5—should not be treated as a race to pick a single winner. Instead, they advocate …
SpaceX announced Thursday it will remove the unpermitted gas turbines powering its xAI data centers near Memphis, but not until July 2027, as it transitions to a permanent 1.2 gigawatt natural gas pow…
X's Creative Revenue Sharing program is paying creators for AI-generated melodramatic stories that dominate feeds, with one Nigerian stock trader earning money from such content. The program, intended…
Elon Musk's xAI, now called SpaceXAI, will phase out 69 gas turbines at its Colossus data center in Memphis, Tennessee, following protests and lawsuits over noise and air pollution. The company announ…
Elon Musk's AI company SpaceXAI, formerly xAI, asked a federal judge in San José on Thursday to halt a proposed class action lawsuit accusing it of creating non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes,…
XAI's Grok 4.3 reasoning model is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West), marking the first time a model from Elon Musk's AI startup has been offered in a U.S. government-authorized…
Elon Musk's X feed has escalated into open white nationalism, with his AI company xAI suing Minnesota to block a law targeting nonconsensual sexual deepfakes. Musk posted that 'Hitler was a socialist,…
XAI has sued to block Minnesota's new law banning nudification technology, arguing it is an unconstitutional restriction on speech. The law, HF 1606, is overbroad and not limited to child sexual abuse…
Elon Musk predicts that artificial intelligence will be unrecognizably advanced within two years, citing the rapid pace of progress from 2023 to 2026 as evidence. Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, …
Elon Musk's xAI filed a federal complaint to block a Minnesota law that would restrict apps and websites from creating nonconsensual sexual imagery of people, including minors. Minnesota lawmakers cri…