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.
A Forbes investigation citing The Information reveals that the majority of activity on xAI's Grok chatbot is driven by explicit content, including pornographic images and adult role-play. Similarweb d…
Elon Musk confirmed Starmind as the name of SpaceX's planned AI satellite constellation, targeting up to one million orbital compute nodes. The satellites will perform AI inference in orbit using sola…
A developer built a multimodal AI pipeline in under 55 lines of Python using yait_aichain's Skill and Model primitives, chaining Claude, an image generation model, and Qwen Vision across three provide…
Perplexity AI's new product, Computer for Enterprise, deployed as a Slack integration, processed over 16,000 queries in four weeks, completing the equivalent of 3.25 years of human work and saving the…
Anthropic surpassed OpenAI as the most valuable AI company at $965 billion, while three major AI conglomerates—Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX—filed for IPOs within weeks. The quarter saw circular finan…
SpaceX has transformed into an AI landlord by leasing computing power from its Colossus data center to AI startups and tech giants, mirroring McDonald's real estate model. The company has signed deals…
Anthropic, the AI safety company valued at nearly $1 trillion, believes it must lead the AI race to ensure safe development, according to former employees and analysts. The company's strategy involves…
A new report reveals that NSFW activities account for well over half of Grok's traffic, including porn generation and adult role-play chats, according to two former xAI employees. The findings suggest…
The Pentagon issued a new AI Acceleration Strategy on January 9, 2026, mandating an AI-first warfighting force and requiring frontier models to be battlefield-ready within 30 days of public release. T…
Loxia AI released OnBuzz Community, an open-source platform under Apache-2.0 for running and orchestrating multiple autonomous AI agents locally on a user's machine. The platform is local-first, suppo…
Standard Compute, a Dallas-based startup founded in 2026, offers unlimited LLM tokens for AI agents via flat monthly subscriptions and an OpenAI-compatible API, eliminating per-token billing and rate …
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…