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.
XAI's Grok 4.5, launched on July 8, 2026, achieved a 29.0% resolution rate on the SWE Marathon benchmark, outperforming Claude Opus 4.8 (26.0%) and Fable (24.0%), and posted an 83.3% rate on Terminal-…
A security researcher found that xAI's Grok Build silently uploads entire codebases to Google Cloud, even with the 'Improve the model' toggle disabled, and xAI has not issued a public statement. Separ…
Coatue Management is leading a $3 billion investment in Databricks, valuing the data and AI company at $188 billion, up from $134 billion five months earlier. The round comes as Databricks' annualized…
SpaceX's $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Anysphere, the company behind AI coding tool Cursor, marks the largest developer tools deal ever and signals the end of model-neutral AI coding assistants…
Chinese LLM developers are reportedly using large-scale distillation attacks on U.S. frontier AI models, prompting policy responses from Anthropic, the White House, and Congress, but experts argue tha…
XAI filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Terry Wayne Harwood, the first user accused of using its Grok chatbot to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM), after Harwood was arrested earlier this year for…
AWS has integrated xAI's Grok 4.3 model into Amazon Bedrock, making it generally available as of June 15. The model features a 1-million-token context window, claims the lowest hallucination rate amon…
XAI's Grok 4.3 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, offering configurable reasoning effort, a 1 million token context window, and tool use for building agents. The model runs on Mantle, Amazo…
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, recently renamed SpaceXAI, is in turmoil as it struggles to match rival Anthropic's Claude chatbot, leading to dozens of employee departures, a planned 30% workforce reduct…
Elon Musk secretly acquired APR Energy, a Jacksonville-based power infrastructure company, in a deal valued at more than $1 billion, according to Federal Trade Commission documents. The acquisition, w…
Thinking Machines' model Inkling has been added to an arena where 27 frontier AI models, including OpenAI's GPT-5 series, Anthropic's Opus 4.1, and Google's Gemini 3, compete by generating 52 small ap…
XAI has sued 67-year-old Terry Wayne Harwood of South Carolina, who already faces criminal charges for child sexual exploitation, alleging he used fake Grok accounts from December 2025 to February 202…
Apollo Global Management co-president Marc Rowan warns that a multi-layered compute shortage is reshaping corporate strategy and market leadership, with constraints emerging simultaneously across GPUs…
Elon Musk's xAI is suing South Carolina resident Terry Harwood for allegedly using its Grok AI system to generate child sexual abuse material, marking one of the first legal actions by an AI company a…
A new open letter calls for AI regulation, following Demis Hassabis's regulatory call. Twenty-six Meta employees filed a novel lawsuit alleging AI-powered software disproportionately targeted disabled…
A Jacobin contributor argues that nationalizing AI firms, as proposed by Bernie Sanders, is insufficient without democratizing control over the technology's development and use. The author warns that …
The machine translation industry is seeing convergence as translation AI companies launch their own TMS platforms, while TMSes add AI features. DeepL launched Translation Flow to connect enterprise ap…
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm xAI is suing South Carolina man Terry Wayne Harwood, accusing him of using its generative chatbot Grok to create and distribute child sexual abuse material, ac…
Anaconda acquired the open source AI coding agent Kilo Code, which has over 3 million developers and processes nearly 10 trillion tokens per month, and will keep it MIT-licensed with no immediate pric…
A security researcher known as cereblab found that xAI's Grok Build coding agent CLI 0.2.93 uploaded 5.10 GiB of data to a Google Cloud Storage bucket named `grok-code-session-traces` when only 192 KB…