xAI is running 59 unpermitted gas turbines, twice what it has admitted
xAI is running 59 unpermitted gas turbines, twice what it has admitted

Emails between regulators and xAI’s consultants put most of the turbines in Southaven, Mississippi. Within five miles on the Tennessee side, about 94% of residents are Black. Ervin Laws lives in Colonial Hills, a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi…

OpenAI wants its legal fees from xAI, while Apple comes for OpenAI
OpenAI wants its legal fees from xAI, while Apple comes for OpenAI

On Monday, OpenAI asked a federal judge in California to rule that xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit against it “should never have been filed,” and to make Elon Musk’s company cover more than $1m in legal expenses. The filing landed hours after xAI gave noti…

‘Scam Altman’: inside Musk and Altman’s weekend war on X
‘Scam Altman’: inside Musk and Altman’s weekend war on X

Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman in court. This weekend, he tried to win it back on X, one insult at a time. The two men who founded OpenAI spent the weekend calling each other frauds in public. It played out on X, in real time, in front of m…

Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok — a model he admits is worse
Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok — a model he admits is worse

Elon Musk told Tesla staff to move to using Grok, the AI model from his own xAI (now folded into SpaceX), according to a memo sent to employees on Friday.
The push comes days after Tesla capped employee spending on third-party AI tools — and it lands e…

Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic

Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.

Musk’s SpaceXAI ships ‘Opus-class’ Grok 4.5 to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic
Musk’s SpaceXAI ships ‘Opus-class’ Grok 4.5 to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic

SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, its most capable model yet. It is the company’s first release since going public and buying the AI coding startup Cursor. This is the joint model the two firms had raced to ship. Elon Musk aimed it squarely at coding and…

Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200/week except for Grok
Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200/week except for Grok

Tesla told staff it will impose a $200-per-week limit on employee AI spending starting July 6, according to an internal memo reported by The Information (paywall).
The cap lands just months after Tesla pushed employees to use AI more aggressively, a si…

SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish

SpaceX reportedly showed investors a “handset-like” AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.

Congress wants Big Tech to pay AI’s power bills
Congress wants Big Tech to pay AI’s power bills

Congress is moving to stop households paying for Big Tech’s AI power bills. A House panel votes this week on a package of measures. The aim is to put AI data centre energy costs back on the companies that create them. As AI drives up electricity bills,…

The ‘godfather of AI’ called xAI a failure and warned of a bubble. He’s also selling the alternative.
The ‘godfather of AI’ called xAI a failure and warned of a bubble. He’s also selling the alternative.

Yann LeCun has never been quiet about his doubts, and his latest target is one of the most valuable companies on earth. Elon Musk’s xAI is “kind of a failure” that will not be able to compete on the frontier with OpenAI and Anthropic, LeCun, the founde…