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.
MIT alumni and supporters are rallying to defend the institution's mission of advancing scientific research, merit-based admissions, and national prosperity amid perceived threats to academic freedom …
Oracle laid off 21,000 workers, a 12.9% reduction, partly due to AI adoption and a restructuring plan to focus on cloud offerings. The company plans to raise $45–50 billion in 2026 to expand AI data c…
SpaceX, with $100.8 billion in cash, is issuing at least $20 billion in bonds to replace a short-term bridge loan used to acquire xAI, despite negative free cash flow of $14.1 billion last year. The m…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed Elon Musk's plan for orbital data centers, saying the costs would outweigh the benefits and that the AI race will be decided on Earth. Son's comments came as Space…
Daters are increasingly using AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude as relationship coaches to draft messages, interpret replies, and even break up, sparking debate about authenticity in romance. While …
XAI's Grok 5 remains unreleased as the company's Q2 2026 window closes, with crowd-sourced predictions now pointing to an August 1, 2026 release date. The probability of a June 30 launch has collapsed…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticized rival tech executives for being too honest about AI's potential to eliminate white-collar jobs, urging a focus on reorganizing jobs rather than announcing layoff…
XAI launched /goal in Grok Build, a mode for long-running autonomous coding tasks with built-in verification. The agent plans, executes, and verifies multi-step objectives like module migration, reduc…
Open source AI startup Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150 million per month through 2029 for access to Nvidia GB300 chips at SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center, in a deal worth up to $6.3 billion. The ag…
SpaceX shares have plummeted from a post-IPO high of $225 to around $170, wiping out gains for investors who bought near the peak. The decline follows a merger with Musk's AI startup xAI, which added …
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…