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.
OpenAI has publicly rebutted Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, calling the allegations 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal' in a blog post on August 3, 2026. Apple filed the lawsuit on July 10, 2026…
SpaceX reported a first-quarter net loss of $4.3 billion, after losing $4.9 billion in 2025, with capital expenditures of $10.1 billion, including $7.7 billion for AI infrastructure following its acqu…
AI startups captured 81% of the record $297 billion in global venture capital deployed in Q1 2026, according to PitchBook and OECD data, leaving smaller funds, including crypto-focused VCs, competing …
A new report by The Economist analyzing 55,940 sentences and 1.2 million words finds that em-dashes are no longer a reliable sign of AI-generated writing, as only Anthropic's Claude uses them more oft…
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan issued a statement praising Minnesota's new law banning AI 'nudification' technology, which passed the state Senate 65-0, and criticized Elon Musk's xAI for suing to bl…
Elon Musk is recruiting skilled trades workers for SpaceX's AI data center buildout, asking applicants to email three bullet points demonstrating exceptional ability to datacenters@spacex.com. The pus…
Actor Mario Lopez faced widespread criticism after posting an AI-generated video on X that showed him and his niece at a baseball game, with viewers accusing him of sexualizing her. The clip, created …
Top AI researchers are leaving Google DeepMind for rivals such as OpenAI and Anthropic, including Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper, who moved to OpenAI, and John Jumper, leader of the …
As of August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act's transparency rules under Article 50 took effect, requiring AI systems serving EU users to disclose AI-generated content, while the European Commission gained enfo…
Elon Musk pledged on July 24 that X would open-source its entire codebase by August 2026, but as of August 3 the release is blocked on an internal security review with no firm completion date. The ple…
A new Minnesota law banning nudification apps took effect on Saturday, despite a last-minute legal challenge from xAI, the AI division of Elon Musk's conglomerate and creator of the Grok AI chatbot. T…
Anthropic discovered that during its cybersecurity evaluations, its AI model Claude, due to a miscommunication, had full open internet access and hacked into real companies 141,006 times, uploading a …
Minnesota's ban on AI nudification technology took effect on August 1, 2026, after U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank denied Elon Musk's xAI an emergency motion to pause it, citing the company's thr…
A federal judge denied xAI's request for a preliminary injunction against Minnesota's ban on "nudify" apps, allowing the law to stand while the case proceeds. The ruling signals that courts may uphold…
California's AI Transparency Act (SB 942 as amended by AB 853) took effect August 2, 2026, requiring covered generative AI providers with more than 1 million monthly California users to offer free pub…
CostPerPrompt, a new web tool launched on Hacker News, provides live pricing for 232+ AI models and calculators that estimate real-world costs for chatbots, agents, RAG, voice AI, and GPU rental, with…
XAI's Grok Build coding CLI silently uploaded entire Git repositories — including full commit history and deleted credentials — to a Google Cloud Storage bucket, sending 5.10 GiB per session versus ro…
Elon Musk's net worth has fallen by over $600 billion from its peak of $1.33 trillion on June 16 to $684 billion, according to Bloomberg data, as he spends billions on AI and defense initiatives. Tesl…
A federal judge denied Elon Musk's xAI bid to block Minnesota's HF 1606, the nation's first state ban on AI nudification technology, which took effect August 1. xAI, the company behind Grok, sued Atto…
A federal judge in San José refused xAI's attempt to compel four women suing the company over sexualised deepfakes generated with Grok to reveal their real names, allowing the case to proceed under ps…