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.
SpaceX filed plans with the FCC to deploy up to 1 million AI satellites in low Earth orbit, aiming to provide 100 GW of AI compute power by 2030. The combined SpaceX-xAI entity, valued at $1.25 trilli…
The US Department of Justice moved to dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, arguing that the NAACP's case threatens AI projects tied to national military operations. The NAACP alleg…
A bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Gabe Evans and Rep. Kathy Castor would require utilities to treat AI data centers as a separate customer class, forcing tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Mic…
Two former xAI employees estimate that over half of Grok AI's traffic is for pornographic content, including images, videos, and roleplay chats. xAI is expanding Grok's image and video generation capa…
The Trump administration's chief digital and artificial intelligence officer argued that shutting down xAI's Colossus 2 data center in Memphis would threaten national security, as the facility powers …
SpaceX acquired Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal on June 16, marking the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup in history. The deal gives SpaceX con…
The Independent examines whether the current AI investment surge is a speculative bubble or the early stage of transformative technology, comparing it to the dotcom era while noting key differences in…
Artificial Analysis launched the Speech to Speech Index, a new metric combining Big Bench Audio, Full Duplex Bench, and τ-Voice to evaluate native Speech to Speech models. OpenAI's GPT-Realtime-2 (Hig…
SpaceX raised $75 billion in its June 12, 2026 IPO on Nasdaq, briefly reaching a $2 trillion market cap before a 32% pullback. The company acquired xAI earlier in 2026 to integrate AI into its space o…
Polymarket odds for Claude Fable 5 restoration have rebounded to 60% by July 1 and 88% by July 31 after code hints and an Amazon Bedrock reappearance, though the update may be overconfident. The incid…
The Trump administration is pressuring Meta to join a federal program that reviews advanced AI models before public release, citing national security concerns. Meta is the only major US AI developer n…
SpaceX's Starship rocket will enable Elon Musk's plan to deploy up to 1 million solar-powered AI satellites in low Earth orbit, creating orbital data centers. The project, supported by Andreessen Horo…
Congress is moving to prevent households from subsidizing Big Tech's AI data center energy costs. A House panel votes this week on a package of bills, including the Ratepayer Protection Act, which wou…
KraneShares' AGIX ETF holds a $13 million stake in Anthropic, acquired during a February 2025 funding round, giving retail investors pre-IPO exposure to the $183 billion AI company. The position repre…
Elon Musk's xAI, now under the SpaceX umbrella, launched Grok Imagine Video 1.5 in early June 2026, offering 720p video generation with synchronized audio and competitive API pricing. The expansion co…
The Washington Post tested major AI chatbots for political bias, finding OpenAI's GPT-5.5 gave left-leaning arguments 80% of the time, while Google's Gemini presented balanced views in over 90% of res…
Meta remains the only major U.S. AI lab that has not joined the White House's voluntary pre-deployment review program for advanced AI models, which allows agencies like the NSA and CISA to assess mode…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman called Elon Musk's xAI a 'complete train wreck' and dismissed SpaceX's AI strategy as a 'premium-priced CoreWeave' in a recent interview, arguing that buying an AI com…
Meta is the only major U.S. AI developer that has not agreed to a voluntary government framework for pre-release model reviews, as rivals including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have already begun sha…
Vercel released AI SDK 7, a major update for building production agents in TypeScript, requiring Node.js 22 and ESM imports. The SDK introduces new primitives for agent development, runtime, integrati…