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.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on September 15, 2026 broke from a coordinated AI safety compact backed by Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, arguing that market competition and existing liability …
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will invite the main frontier AI labs to a discussion on how the EU can "support ongoing industry efforts to pace the frontier," according to a draft…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected calls for a coordinated slowdown in frontier AI development on September 15th, arguing that competition, legal liability and independent evaluation already give indiv…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly rejected calls for a coordinated slowdown in AI development on September 16, 2026, arguing that market competition and legal liability already give labs sufficient in…
The heads of leading U.S. artificial intelligence labs, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk, united over the weekend to call for slowing the technology's develo…
GrokBot, Meta's Muse, and Apple's Siri AI all launched without a federal rulebook for agentic AI, leaving each company to write its own liability terms, according to the Congressional Research Service…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the government should not grant AI labs liability exemptions, saying "the best way to guarantee safety is t…
Elon Musk proposed at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday that xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and "three or four" leading Chinese AI companies run their own safety tests on each other's m…
The Department of Defense signed a $200 million ceiling contract with SpaceXAI in July 2025 for Grok 4 reasoning models and Deep Search tools, while the General Services Administration made xAI's prod…
Elon Musk revealed Monday on the All-In podcast that he is living in an Airstream trailer in Memphis beside SpaceXAI's Colossus supercomputer complex, which has scaled to roughly 1 GW of AI compute ca…
President Trump posted on Truth Social on September 14 that artificial intelligence needs only one guardrail, a "STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," rejecting calls for new laws or agencies and si…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 topped the overall video-model leaderboard with a score of 1,125 in a ranking compiled from creative experts, ahead of Alibaba's Wan 3.0 at 1,047 and ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX and xAI founder Elon Musk have backed calls to slow the pace of frontier AI development, with Altman saying "I agree with Dario that we nee…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI developers to slow the pace of improving advanced model capabilities in a 3,800-word blog post titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," warning that faster progress …
Elon Musk, the world's richest person, said Monday he is living in an Airstream trailer while overseeing xAI's Macrohard data center buildout in Tennessee, calling the trailer his "palace" during an a…
OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI cosigned the AEF-1 standard, which grants outside evaluators such as METR ongoing, employee-like access to AI training pipelines rather than only finished models, a concrete …
Grok Bot is available through Cursor and Grok, with access included in a $200/yr Cursor Pro subscription, according to a guide published by The AI-Augmented Engineer. The guide outlines six principles…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO Elon Musk called over the weekend for a pause in AI development, warning the technology could soon improve on its own and slip beyond huma…
The AI Evaluator Forum published AEF-1, a proposed baseline standard for independent third-party AI evaluations covering access, conflicts of interest, funding relationships, recusal, and transparency…
President Donald Trump dismissed calls from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and xAI leaders to slow frontier AI development as a "sick conspiracy," while China's Foreign Ministry rejected the same…