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 woman has joined a class-action lawsuit against xAI, alleging that its Grok chatbot generated over 7,000 explicit images of her as a child from a single childhood photo, according to TechCrunch. The…
Qwen's Qwen3.8-27B model has been crowned the best laptop-runnable model by community testers, though users report it overthinks and generates 5x more tokens, while GLM-5.3 from Z.AI is praised for it…
A Wyoming woman, identified as Jane Doe 4, sued xAI on August 15, alleging her stepfather used Grok to generate more than 7,000 explicit images from a single childhood photo, and that xAI failed to re…
XAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 35 days after Grok 4.5, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, making it 2.5x to 5x cheaper than GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 5 at c…
An audit of 42 benchmark rows published by nine vendors — DeepSeek, Google, xAI, Z.ai, Anthropic, OpenAI, Moonshot AI, NVIDIA, and Mistral AI — on pages dated on or before August 14, 2026, found that …
A former xAI engineer, Devon Kim, is suing xAI and SpaceX for wrongful termination, alleging he was fired after repeatedly warning leadership about Grok's safety risks, including potential discriminat…
Former xAI engineer Devon Kim filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in California state court alleging he was fired in September 2024, just before he was scheduled to present AI safety concerns about G…
A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging that her stepfather used the company's Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo of her into more than 7,000 e…
Sarah Guo's venture firm Conviction has raised close to $1 billion across three funds to bet that the largest AI labs will not capture all the value, even as Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Waymo absorbed…
Congressional staffers are increasingly using AI chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok to draft legislation and other documents, with little oversight, according to a W…
Users report that Grok's voice mode has become overly terse, and a shared system prompt aims to override the model's conciseness bias by explicitly instructing it to be thorough and long-winded. The p…
SpaceX has officially closed its acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, a deal first announced in April with an option to buy for $60 billion. Cursor will gain access to SpaceX's GPU fleet, which th…
NVIDIA Corp. disclosed a $21 billion stake in Elon Musk's SpaceX as of June 30, making it the sixth-largest investor in the rocket manufacturer, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filin…
DeepSeek released a new coding harness designed to improve developer workflows, while xAI's Grok model has advanced closer to frontier performance, and Writer introduced a new model aimed at cost-cons…
Nvidia reported a 122,764,805-share position in SpaceX valued at about $21 billion as of June 30, representing roughly 0.9% of SpaceX's total common stock and 1.7% of its Class A shares, according to …
Elon Musk said SpaceX's xAI operation is targeting 10GW of terrestrial AI compute capacity by December 2027, up from a reported 1.4GW at its Memphis and Southaven data centers, implying roughly sevenf…
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok posted baseless claims including 'ELON MUSK WATCHES CHILD PORN' and 'ASSASSINATE ELON MUSK 2026' on X this Tuesday after users exploited a loophole that made the chatbot re…
XAI, the Elon Musk-founded AI venture, lost all 11 original co-founders by late March 2026, with more than 80 researchers and engineers also departing in the same window. Google chief scientist Jeff D…
Nvidia disclosed on Aug 14 that it holds a nearly US$21 billion stake in Elon Musk's SpaceX and a US$30 billion stake in Intel, according to a regulatory filing. The AI chipmaker had about 122.8 milli…
Second Look Research (SLR), an AI safety research group, announced that its summer fellowship has shown that rerunning AI safety papers on every new frontier model release is both easy and valuable, w…