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.
Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton criticized Elon Musk's xAI and warned of growing risks in AI development, declining an advisory role at the company. Hinton raised concerns about job dis…
Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a one-time 50% stock tax on major AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to create a public fund potentiall…
Cursor and SpaceX have agreed to co-develop coding and knowledge agent models, with SpaceX holding an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion or pay $10 billion instead. The deal aims to combine Curs…
A new open-source benchmark platform called AIStupidLevel continuously monitors 21 production AI models from 7 providers for performance degradation. The platform runs 24/7 tests including coding, dee…
The Pentagon disclosed in a legal filing that xAI's Grok chatbot was used to fire 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets within 96 hours, marking the first formal acknowledgment of a commercial generative A…
Sam Altman outbid Elon Musk to recruit Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the transformer architecture, for Google's Gemini initiative. Shazeer's return to Google follows a $2.7 billion licensing deal for h…
A comparative analysis of scale-out RoCE network traffic patterns in training large language models reveals that hyperscale deployments like xAI's Grok 4.0 generate network loads orders of magnitude h…
XAI's Grok Build AI coding agent is now available as a one-click deployment on DigitalOcean's Marketplace, allowing developers to quickly set up a pre-configured Ubuntu 24.04 Droplet. The terminal-nat…
OpenAI has joined a coalition allowing the US government pre-release access to its most advanced AI models for safety testing, part of a broader industry shift toward voluntary cooperation with federa…
Jacky Liang, Dev Rel Lead at OpenRouter, dropped 11 large language models into a 2D battle royale game for 30 matches. Grok 4.1 Fast won 13 games at $0.97 per win, while Claude Sonnet 4.6 won 5 games …
SpaceX stock surged nearly 60% above its IPO price following last week's record-breaking public offering, giving the company a market capitalization of over $2.6 trillion. Despite $18.7 billion in 202…
A new Pew Research poll finds that only 16% of Americans believe AI will positively impact society, despite half of U.S. adults using AI chatbots and 24% using them daily. ChatGPT remains the most pop…
Eric Worrall published an essay on Watts Up With That claiming he used Claude to produce a simple game in 30 minutes for about $2 in token costs, and argued that multi-agent AI workflows could scale e…
SpaceX's stock surged nearly 50% since its IPO, making its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor cheaper in terms of dilution. Bill Ackman highlighted the dynamic as a core part of SpaceX's valu…
XAI's Grok AI models are now available on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, expanding beyond Elon Musk's ecosystem. The move positions Grok alongside OpenAI's GPT-4o and Anthropic's Cla…
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, surpassed Amazon in market capitalization to become the world's fifth most valuable company after its stock rose 13% on its Nasdaq debut. The surge followed news of Space…
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet warned that surging AI demand will keep the semiconductor market supply-limited for years, with Elon Musk's $119 billion TeraFab factory in Texas adding further pressure on…
The US Department of Justice has intervened to defend Elon Musk's xAI against a Clean Air Act lawsuit, arguing that the company's unpermitted gas turbines near Memphis are a matter of national securit…
SpaceX shares fell below $200 on Wednesday, dropping to the high $180s after peaking at $222 on Tuesday following its IPO. The decline reignites concerns about overvaluation, as the company burns bill…
A court filing alleges the Pentagon used Elon Musk's Grok AI, developed by xAI, to launch over 2,000 missiles at Iran in a 96-hour period, marking a significant escalation in U.S.-Iran conflict and hi…