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.
The US reclassified the UAE to Country Group A:5, effective July 10, 2026, lifting license requirements for exports of advanced AI chips, servers, and dual-use technologies. The policy shift, which bu…
Elon Musk told Tesla employees to switch to using Grok, the AI model from his own xAI, despite admitting it is inferior to rivals. The directive follows Tesla capping employee spending on third-party …
GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Meta's Muse Spark were tested head-to-head on building four apps: a raycaster, Rubik's cube, calculator, and Game of Life. The models were evaluated over five attempts e…
Apple accused former employees of sharing confidential information with OpenAI to support the AI company's device development efforts. The accusation adds strain to an already tense partnership betwee…
Elon Musk has directed Tesla employees to use Grok 4.5, an AI system from his own company xAI, and capped spending on rival AI tools at $200 per week per employee. The move raises conflict-of-interest…
In a head-to-head test of 12 text tasks, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro scored 112.0 to xAI's Grok 4.5's 106.1, winning 5 tasks to 3 with 4 ties, giving OpenAI a narrow but real edge. Sol Pro excelled in im…
XAI is doubling down on explicit image and video generation as Grok loses ground to rival chatbots, with over half of its traffic now driven by adult content. The strategy comes amid legal scrutiny in…
The U.S. Department of Commerce has relaxed export restrictions for the United Arab Emirates, allowing Apple and seven other U.S. companies to bring advanced-computing chips, servers, and controlled t…
SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor IDE, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal on June 16, 2026. The acquisition raises concerns about Cursor's model neutrality, as SpaceX…
The U.S. Department of Commerce loosened export controls on the United Arab Emirates, making it easier to export military items, AI chips, and commercial satellites. The UAE government and approved co…
Anthropic's shares are trading on secondary markets at an implied valuation of $1.2 trillion, a 550% jump in a year, driven by extreme scarcity as almost no employees or early investors are selling. T…
US venture capital hit a record $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, but AI companies absorbed 86% of that capital, and deals over $100 million accounted for 91% of total investment, leaving non-…
SpaceX unveiled its first AI compute satellite, the AI1, as part of its Starmind constellation, designed for orbital AI compute. Elon Musk's companies secured approximately $50 billion in infrastructu…
OpenVole 4.5, a self-hosted agent operating system for running and managing AI agents on personal hardware, has been released. The platform is model-agnostic, supports peer-to-peer networking via Vole…
Supercomputing is splitting into two tracks in 2026: publicly funded exascale systems ranked by TOP500 FLOPS and hyperscaler-built AI campuses measured in megawatt–gigawatt capacity. Microsoft claimed…
Elon Musk predicted that SpaceX will be worth more than the rest of Earth if it achieves its goals, responding to a debate about the company's AI infrastructure deal with Anthropic. Musk also acknowle…
U.S. venture capitalists deployed a record $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, with 86% going to AI deals and 91% to deals of $100 million or more, according to a PitchBook and NVCA report. The …
Independent AI safety researcher @cereblab has published a wire-level analysis showing that xAI's Grok Build CLI (version 0.2.93) transmits the entire repository contents, including files the agent wa…
XAI's Grok 4.5 model constructed a counterexample proving that hypercontractivity fails on the 4-sphere, closing a dimensional gap in functional analysis that had stumped mathematicians for years. The…
OpenAI's Noam Brown argued at ICML that next-generation models will absorb the agent harness, but the week's releases—including Bun's Rust rewrite via Claude Code and ChatGPT Work with GPT-5.6—show mo…