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 quietly acquired APR Energy, a mobile gas and diesel turbine company, in May for an estimated $1 billion, according to an FTC filing. The purchase is expected to power AI data centers for Mu…
XAI open-sourced its coding agent Grok Build on July 15, 2026, after the tool was caught syncing entire code repositories to the cloud even when users had privacy settings enabled. The company permane…
Elon Musk's xAI is suing South Carolina man Terry Wayne Harwood for allegedly using the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate and distribute child sexual abuse material (CSAM), bypassing safeguards an…
Elon Musk's xAI has filed a lawsuit against Terry Harwood, a South Carolina man arrested earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting minors, alleging he misused the company's AI tool Grok to c…
Elon Musk quietly acquired APR Energy, a Jacksonville-based mobile gas and diesel turbine company with over 1 GW of generation capacity, for over $1 billion, according to an FTC early termination noti…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is pushing for the US AI industry to self-regulate with government support, proposing a new Standards Body modeled on FINRA to test frontier AI models, particularly …
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis reiterated his push for a US government-led AI industry self-regulation effort focused on artificial general intelligence and national security, proposing a new Stan…
Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence startup xAI sued South Carolina man Terry Harwood in federal court in Texas on Tuesday, alleging he used the company's AI system Grok to create child sexual abuse m…
The value in AI has shifted from models to the inputs around them—training data, environments, and inference capacity—as model capability commoditizes rapidly, according to an industry analyst. This w…
Nvidia's automotive division head Xinzhou Wu said on The Verge's "Decoder" podcast that internal teams still compete for scarce GPU supply, requiring CEO Jensen Huang to occasionally settle disputes. …
SpaceX reportedly showed a prototype of a slim, AI-driven smartphone to select investors, according to a July 1, 2026 Wall Street Journal report, but Elon Musk denied the report as 'utterly false.' Th…
TypeWhisper 1.5, an open-source dictation and workflow tool for macOS and Windows, now supports system-wide dictation, file transcription, and unified workflows with on-device AI models or cloud APIs …
The US Commerce Department eased export controls for the United Arab Emirates around July 10-11, 2026, granting license-free access to advanced AI chips and military tech in a deal no other Middle Eas…
A security researcher published a wire-level analysis on July 12 proving that xAI's Grok Build coding CLI was packaging developers' entire tracked repositories, including full Git history, committed s…
Cereblab found that Grok Build transmits file contents without redaction to a Google Cloud Storage bucket used by SpaceXAI and uploads entire repos as Git bundles instead of only files needed for a us…
Perplexity AI open-sourced WANDR, a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on complex research tasks, on July 11, 2026. The benchmark, which stands for Wide and Nuanced Deep Research, measures performance…
Elon Musk's xAI has deployed 59 natural gas turbines without required Clean Air Act permits to power its Colossus 2 supercomputer and data center project near Memphis, Tennessee, triggering lawsuits f…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order freezing state permits for new hyperscale data centers drawing 50 megawatts or more for up to a year, the first statewide moratorium of its kind. T…
A new resource catalogs deep-link URL schemes for invoking popular AI tools including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Zed, providing developers with the exact formats and caveats needed t…
OpenAI asked a judge to find that a lawsuit filed by xAI Corp. accusing the ChatGPT maker of trade secret theft should never have been filed and seeks to recoup more than $1 million in legal expenses …