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Musk Pulls a VHS Move, Turning Grok into a Porn Platform
Musk Pulls a VHS Move, Turning Grok into a Porn Platform According to The Information, two former xAI employees estimate that well over half of all...
26.06.2026Meta and the US Government: No Agreement on AI Model Review
Meta and the US Government: No Agreement on AI Model Review According to a report by The New York Times, Meta has not yet agreed to submit its AI...
22.06.2026SpaceX: Is Cursor Musk's Instagram Moment?
SpaceX: Is Cursor Musk's Instagram Moment? SpaceX has acquired Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, for a reported $60 billion. Cursor is one of the...
21.06.2026GPT-5.6 Is Likely Coming Next Week
GPT-5.6 Is Likely Coming Next Week OpenAI is launching GPT-5.6 next week, presumably including Mini and Pro variants. The context window is expanding...
19.06.2026Bernie Sanders Wants to Redistribute $7 Trillion from the AI Industry to the People
Bernie Sanders Wants to Redistribute $7 Trillion from the AI Industry to the People Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill that would create a...
18.06.2026The Moat is Now Called Megawatts
The Moat is Now Called Megawatts The AI race has reached its absurd phase: it's no longer about who trains the best model, but who buys turbines the...
17.06.2026SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60 Billion
SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60 Billion SpaceX is acquiring the AI coding startup Cursor (founded in 2022 as Anysphere) for $60 billion in stock, just...
07.06.2026Google Rents Compute from SpaceX for $920 Million a Month
Google Rents Compute from SpaceX for $920 Million a Month One week before the biggest IPO in history, SpaceX has brokered its next compute deal, this...
07.06.2026It's All Stolen: Elon Musk Trained on Anthropic's Outputs for Months
It's All Stolen: Elon Musk Trained on Anthropic's Outputs for Months According to The Information, Elon Musk's xAI trained its own coding model for...
01.06.2026Conway's Law 2.0: Grok Does What Grok Must and Descends into Chaos
Conway's Law 2.0: Grok Does What Grok Must and Descends into Chaos Researchers simulated a society with five AI models governing a virtual city for...
30.05.2026Anthropic and xAI: Who's Telling the Truth?
Anthropic and xAI: Who's Telling the Truth? Anthropic has leased space on xAI's Colossus cluster—for $1.25 billion per month. This is the largest...
29.05.2026Anthropic Reaches $965 Billion Valuation, Overtaking OpenAI
Anthropic Reaches $965 Billion Valuation, Overtaking OpenAI Anthropic has raised $65 billion from investors in its latest funding round, reaching a...
23.05.2026SpaceX IPO: too big to fail
SpaceX IPO: too big to fail SpaceX has filed a 200,000-word prospectus, paving the way for the largest IPO of all time. With a valuation of $1.75...
18.05.2026Mira Murati's dream team took the stock options and left
Mira Murati's dream team took the stock options and left Thinking Machines Lab is losing a third of its founding team to competitors. 13 of the...
13.05.2026Trump copies Xi Jinping's AI control strategy
Trump copies Xi Jinping's AI control strategy Donald Trump is flying to China this week, and his guest list reads like a Who's Who of the American...
02.05.2026Musk isn't just fighting Altman in court: Grok 4.3 at China prices
Musk isn't just fighting Altman in court: Grok 4.3 at China prices xAI has released Grok 4.3, setting new standards in pricing: At $1.25 per million...
01.05.2026Musk pulls a China move and is now also copying OpenAI models
Musk pulls a China move and is now also copying OpenAI models Elon Musk has testified under oath in a federal court in Oakland that his AI lab, xAI,...
01.05.2026Codex Has One Rule: Never Talk About Goblins – Easter Eggs Are Debugging in Production
Codex Has One Rule: Never Talk About Goblins – Easter Eggs Are Debugging in Production OpenAI's new Codex CLI contains a curious instruction in its...
26.04.2026Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 — The Voice Agent with Thinking Time
Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 — The Voice Agent with Thinking Time xAI has released Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0, a voice agent that, for the first time,...
26.04.2026Musk vs. Altman in Court — A Founder Dispute Becomes Industrial Policy
Musk vs. Altman in Court — A Founder Dispute Becomes Industrial Policy Starting Monday, a California court will hear the lawsuit by Elon Musk against...
22.04.2026Elon Musk Wants CursorX
Elon Musk Wants CursorX SpaceX has reached an agreement with the AI startup Cursor that could lead to a $60 billion acquisition later this year. The...
11.04.2026Google and Intel Are Writing the Hardware Grammar of the AI Era
Google and Intel Are Writing the Hardware Grammar of the AI Era Google has expanded its TPU fleet 11.5-fold in just seven quarters. The energy...
10.04.2026Microsoft Copilot Just Wants to Play
Microsoft Copilot Just Wants to Play Microsoft has hidden a remarkable sentence in its terms of service for Copilot: “Copilot is for entertainment...
09.04.2026Neuro-Symbolic AI: The Next Breakthrough in Token Costs?
Neuro-Symbolic AI: The Next Breakthrough in Token Costs? Researchers at Tufts University have developed an AI system that reduces energy consumption...
07.04.2026Social Media as Greenhouses for Digital Anomalies
Social Media as Greenhouses for Digital Anomalies Nate Silver describes the transformation of social media from reach-maximization machines to...
26.03.2026Jury Rules: Musk Defrauded Twitter Investors
Jury Rules: Musk Defrauded Twitter Investors A jury ruled on Friday that Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors in 2022 when he repeatedly disparaged...
25.03.2026Fight Club: AI Argues With Itself for Better Code
Fight Club: AI Argues With Itself for Better Code Developers are increasingly experimenting with having AI coding agents adopt different personas,...
16.03.2026Silicon Valley Fights for Chinese AI Talent—China Laughs
Silicon Valley Fights for Chinese AI Talent—China Laughs Elon Musk's xAI shows the new face of Silicon Valley: 80% of the faces in the team photo are...
16.03.2026Altman, Musk, Zuckerberg: 'Sorry, We Took a Wrong Turn'
Altman, Musk, Zuckerberg: 'Sorry, We Took a Wrong Turn' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has admitted that pure scaling will not lead to Artificial General...
14.03.2026AI for Drone Targets: Chatbots Decide on Life and Death
AI for Drone Targets: Chatbots Decide on Life and Death The U.S. military could soon use ChatGPT or Grok to prioritize attack targets. A Pentagon...
04.03.2026Anthropic: Thriving Without Trump
Anthropic: Thriving Without Trump The Pentagon is demanding unrestricted access from Anthropic to its Claude AI for classified data analysis and...
01.03.2026Trump Invites Big Tech to the White House: Energy Self-Sufficiency for AI Data Centers
Trump Invites Big Tech to the White House: Energy Self-Sufficiency for AI Data Centers Tech giants are being summoned to the White House in March to...
22.02.2026Conversation with Ro Khanna about Silicon Valley
Conversation with Ro Khanna about Silicon Valley Progressive Democrat Ro Khanna, in a conversation with Paul Krugman, criticizes the growing...
21.02.2026Scott Galloway's Resistance
Scott Galloway's Resistance Scott Galloway is mobilizing against Big Tech and ICE supporters with his 'Resist and Unsubscribe' campaign, calling for...
13.02.2026Safety Researchers Are Fleeing OpenAI & Co
Safety Researchers Are Fleeing OpenAI & Co In the past week, several high-ranking employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have left their...
04.02.2026Orbital Verticalization: SpaceX Buys xAI
Orbital Verticalization: SpaceX Buys xAI Elon Musk has completed the merger of SpaceX and xAI, creating a private conglomerate valued at $1.25...
26.01.2026ChatGPT Uses Elon Musk's Grokipedia as a Source
ChatGPT Uses Elon Musk's Grokipedia as a Source ChatGPT's latest model, GPT-5.2, is increasingly citing Elon Musk's Grokipedia as a source for a...
25.01.2026Alignment as an Economic Factor
Alignment as an Economic Factor The common assumption that AI safety (alignment) is purely a cost factor and a brake on development is increasingly...
25.01.2026The Evaluator-Optimizer Pattern
The Evaluator-Optimizer Pattern For complex tasks where an LLM's first answer is rarely the best, the 'Evaluator-Optimizer' pattern is becoming...
23.01.2026Humans& launches with a $480M Seed Round
Humans& launches with a $480M Seed Round The AI startup Humans&, founded by former employees of Anthropic, xAI, and Google, has closed a $480 million...
22.01.2026The $480 Million Seed Round
The $480 Million Seed Round The startup Humans&, founded by former researchers from Anthropic, xAI, and Google, has closed a $480 million seed round....
22.01.2026The Rise of “Human Emulators”
The Rise of “Human Emulators” An engineer at xAI provided insights into the development of “Human Emulators”—AI employees designed to mimic human...
20.01.2026Musk Demands $134 Billion from OpenAI
Musk Demands $134 Billion from OpenAI In a new court filing, Elon Musk is demanding up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft. He is claiming...
20.01.2026Threads Overtakes X in Mobile Users
Threads Overtakes X in Mobile Users Meta's Threads has reportedly surpassed X in daily active mobile users worldwide. This momentum isn't attributed...
18.01.2026OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman's BCI Startup
OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman's BCI Startup In a remarkable transaction, OpenAI has invested in Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup...
15.01.2026Grok's Deepfake Problem Goes Global
Grok's Deepfake Problem Goes Global xAI's AI, Grok, generates uncensored, non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes on demand, leading to investigations...
12.01.2026Indonesia and Malaysia Block Grok
Indonesia and Malaysia Block Grok Indonesia and Malaysia have temporarily blocked access to xAI's chatbot Grok. The stated reason is the risk of...
11.01.2026Holographic AI Companions
Holographic AI Companions Razer is introducing Kira, a holographic AI assistant powered by xAI's Grok. The 5.5-inch device projects an avatar that...
11.01.2026The End of AI Cooperation
The End of AI Cooperation Anthropic has blocked its competitor xAI from accessing its models. This move signals a new phase in the competition among...
04.01.2026The Economics of AI Models Under Pressure
The Economics of AI Models Under Pressure In the tech industry, a certain disillusionment is spreading regarding the business models of Large...