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 announced the acquisition of Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in stock, just days after its $75 billion IPO. The deal, expected to close in Q3 2026, give…
Yann LeCun called Elon Musk's xAI a failure and warned that frontier AI labs face a bubble burst due to unsustainable investor subsidies, citing xAI's $2.5 billion quarterly loss. LeCun, who left Meta…
Tesla filed a trademark application for 'Megapod,' a modular AI data center hardware system, signaling plans to sell turnkey computing infrastructure for AI workloads. The product would bundle servers…
AI data-center developers are building their own natural gas plants to bypass the electric grid, with at least 46 facilities pursuing 56 GW of on-site generation. The trend, led by companies like xAI,…
Elon Musk's xAI installed 27 unpermitted gas turbines in a Black Mississippi neighborhood to power its Colossus data center, and the Trump DOJ moved to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the project, citin…
At least 57 off-grid natural gas plants with 73 gigawatts of combined capacity are being built to power AI data centers across the US, often bypassing environmental review. xAI's Colossus facilities i…
OpenAI's ChatGPT leads the Rallies AI Stock Market Arena with a 72.4% return since November 2025, outperforming the S&P 500's 11.3% gain and rival AI models. The virtual stock-picking contest pits lea…
San Francisco's housing market is surging due to the AI boom, with median home prices topping $2 million and rents doubling since Covid. Real estate insiders attribute the spike to AI startups and tec…
OpenAI and Anthropic plan IPOs at valuations near $1 trillion, potentially exposing retirement accounts to AI stocks through index funds. Critics warn of risk from unprofitable companies spending bill…
Google paid $2.7 billion to bring back Noam Shazeer, the inventor of the transformer architecture, but he left for OpenAI in June 2026. The departure is part of a broader talent exodus from Google Dee…
As millions of Americans use AI agents to file their 2026 taxes, tests show chatbots miscalculate refunds by over $2,000 on average, raising questions about liability when algorithms fail. Intuit, H&R…
A leaked list exposed members of Peter Thiel's secretive 'Dialog' society, sparking widespread discussion. The EU is using Anthropic's AI to rank job candidates, raising privacy and fairness concerns.…
Elon Musk's xAI plans to produce a full-length AI-generated movie by the end of 2026, starting with an Alice in Wonderland demo. The company's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 model, launched in June 2026, can …
Elon Musk's xAI made Grok models available inside Databricks Agent Bricks on June 18, a distribution deal that places Grok as a native model choice for enterprise developers building AI agents on Data…
SpaceX went public last week with a $1.7 trillion market cap, making Elon Musk a trillionaire on paper, despite the company posting a $4.94 billion net loss. The IPO filing emphasized AI infrastructur…
The US government blocked Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 19, 2026, citing a jailbreak vulnerability. Theories suggest the move may be tied to Anthropic's upcoming IPO, regulatory c…
SpaceX, now a $1.25 trillion private behemoth after merging with xAI, has undergone a leadership reshuffle ahead of its record-breaking IPO. Key executives like Gwynne Shotwell now oversee both SpaceX…
A developer argues that relying on a single AI model for all tasks is suboptimal, comparing it to using a hammer for a screw. The piece profiles seven major AI models—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…
Elon Musk predicted that fully AI-generated movies will be possible by the end of 2026, following xAI's release of Grok Imagine Video 1.5 and an Imagine API for video generation. The claim aligns with…
SpaceX exercised an option to buy Anysphere, the company behind AI code editor Cursor, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal expected to close in Q3 2026. The acquisition raises concerns about Cursor's…