Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired his AI company, xAI
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired Musk’s xAI, the companies announced. The merger will “form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated…
Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI (and X)
SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI,…
Elon Musk Considers Merging SpaceX With xAI, as He Races to Beat Sam Altman to IPO
Elon Musk’s rocket company is reportedly in talks to merge SpaceX with some of his other businesses, ahead…
Tesla’s Profits Are Plummetting As It Steers Toward AI
For most companies, a 46% year-over-year drop in profits would sound major alarm bells. But Tesla isn’t most…
Dozens of nudify apps found on Google and Apple’s app stores
Removing or restricting access to Grok’s AI image editor might not be enough to stop the flood of…
Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it
For many years, credit card companies and other payment methods were aggressive about policing child sexual abuse material.…
Engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview
Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless last week to…
Humans&, a ‘human-centric’ AI startup founded by Anthropic, xAI, Google alums, raised $480M seed round
Humans&, a startup with a philosophy that AI should empower people rather than replace them, has raised $480…
For These Women, Grok’s Sexualized Images Are Personal
On a recent Saturday afternoon, Kendall Mayes was mindlessly scrolling on X when she noticed an unsettling trend…
The Wacky Musk-OpenAI Legal War Now Involves a Fittingly Insane Amount of Money
One of many fascinating details in the multi-year legal dispute between Elon Musk and OpenAI is that OpenAI…
Under Musk, the Grok disaster was inevitable
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Ashley St. Clair sues Elon Musk’s xAI over AI-deepfake images – National
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of Elon Musk’s son Romulus, is suing the tech billionaire’s artificial intelligence (AI)…