
OpenAI walks away from $1B Cursor deal after SpaceX buys the coding startup
OpenAI ended a partnership projected to bring in over $1B annually rather than keep serving models to an Elon Musk-owned company.
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OpenAI ended a partnership projected to bring in over $1B annually rather than keep serving models to an Elon Musk-owned company.

Users report word-salad replies on Grok.com starting Wednesday; xAI blames a rare generation bug and says services are operational.

After Musk's DOGE fired 400 FAA employees and delivered no upgrades, Peter Thiel's Palantir is lined up for a chunk of $12.5B in new funding.

A fourth plaintiff joins a Tennessee suit alleging Grok generated child sexual abuse material from a childhood photo.

The deal folds Cursor into a SpaceX stack that already includes xAI and rents compute to Anthropic and Google.

The always-on agents run in their own cloud environment and sign into your apps to complete multi-step tasks without preset workflows.

In a new book, the Harvard historian argues Silicon Valley leaders — especially Musk and Altman — are staging a corporate takeover of democratic government.

Elon Musk's AI encyclopedia launched last October with 885,000 articles. A Lawfare audit found zero accepted edits since April 24th.

A seven-year transcript analysis shows Musk now talks about AI, robotaxis, and Optimus nearly 50% of the time — up from 15-20% in 2022.

The statute imposes $500,000 per-violation penalties starting August 1st; xAI filed suit just days before it takes effect.

Elon Musk's xAI says Minnesota's August 1 law would force $50B in fines and gut Grok Imagine's editing features.

The claimant is asking a UK court to order xAI to block Grok from producing sexualised depictions of her likeness.

The AI coding startup's first localized subscription undercuts its $20 Pro tier by two-thirds as India becomes its third-largest market.

Elon Musk's xAI filed its first lawsuit against a user accused of generating child sex images, staking out a legal theory that shifts liability from model to prompter.

Terry Wayne Harwood, arrested in February on eight felony counts, allegedly bypassed Grok's safeguards to create explicit deepfakes from real photos.

Researchers found the CLI packaged secrets and ignored files into cloud storage; Musk says the retained data will be deleted.

The OpenAI CEO's weekend jab lines up with what space-compute engineers have been saying: orbital AI inference is a 2030s business, not a near-term one.

Musk called Anthropic the current AI leader and pledged not to weaponize the 300 MW hosting contract, reversing a September 2025 dismissal.

Amended class action accuses xAI of obstructing police probes into Grok-generated child sex images; Stability AI added as co-defendant.

Elon Musk calls the new model Opus-class but faster and cheaper, at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output.

Cursor wants to keep serving rival models after the acquisition closes, but its two biggest suppliers now have to sell through Elon Musk.

The device reportedly runs on a proprietary OS with xAI integration, pitching Musk into the same hardware race as OpenAI and Jony Ive.

SoftBank's CEO says space-based compute won't arrive in time for the AI race that matters — the next few years, not the next decade.

Justice Department says shutting down 57 unpermitted gas turbines powering Grok would threaten Pentagon operations and AI innovation.

Justice Department says shutting down xAI's unpermitted turbines would cripple AI that backs US military operations, including strikes in Iran.
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