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 is overhauling how it builds and tests xAI data centers after facilities in Tennessee and Mississippi ran for months without complete backup power and cooling systems, causing outages and uptim…
X Corp. and xAI filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on August 25, 2025, in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, alleging the companies conspired to suppress Elon M…
Warp updated its security and compliance addendum to add xAI to the list of contracted LLM providers covered by Zero Data Retention (ZDR) agreements, alongside Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. The chang…
Elon Musk announced on September 14 that xAI's Grok 4.8, a 2.5 trillion-parameter AI model, is finishing its initial training run this week and entering the reinforcement learning phase, following Gro…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier" drew agreement from OpenAI's Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind Co-Founder and Chairman Demis Hassabis on slowing frontier …
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old safety researcher who helped train Anthropic's Claude models and previously worked at OpenAI, quit Anthropic and warned that AI could 'kill us all' by the end of the decade,…
China's state-run Global Times published an editorial accusing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using AI safety language as cover to contain China's technological rise, calling his essay "We Must Pace th…
King Charles will host the chief executives of the world's leading AI firms at Dumfries House in Scotland this week, days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 12 September essay urging the ind…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a three-step "Pace the Frontier" plan to slow AI development, drawing endorsements within a day from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk and Microsoft CEO Satya…
Over the past nine months, low Earth orbit has become a contested layer of the AI infrastructure war, with SpaceX filing for a million-satellite AI constellation, signing roughly $26 billion in annual…
The heads of Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind publicly converged on a call to slow advanced AI development after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 titl…
Microsoft added xAI's Grok model to the model choices available in Copilot, according to a Microsoft Tech Community blog post. The announcement expands the set of third-party models Copilot users can …
A developer's survey of LLM API pricing found that most comparison tables understate costs for long-context workloads because several providers double their per-token rates above a context threshold. …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman committed OpenAI to matching Anthropic's pledge to give outside evaluators ongoing, employee-like access to its AI systems, after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a roughly 3…
President Donald Trump rejected a call from the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI to slow down AI development, saying "whoever wins with AI wins." The three companies' chief executives had urged cauti…
US President Donald Trump pushed back on calls to slow or more heavily regulate artificial intelligence, telling reporters at his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland on Sunday that "very negative forces" …
XAI's GrokBot, which entered beta on August 11, 2026, and Meta's Muse, launched September 8, 2026, have both shipped persistent cloud virtual machines for AI agents, giving each agent a dedicated brow…
President Trump said at his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland, on Sunday that AI doomsday predictions are "things that won't happen" and that the US must push ahead to beat China, adding "whoever wins A…
CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have paused development efforts over concerns about the rapid advance of AI capabilities, Axios reported, a slowdown that has pushed the market-implied probability o…
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to deliberately slow development of its most powerful models, warning in a Saturday essay that progress is moving "drastically faster"…