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Intel to keep working on Musk's Terafab chipmaking venture
Business

Intel to keep working on Musk's Terafab chipmaking venture

Bloomberg reports Intel will continue collaborating on Terafab, a chipmaking venture tied to Elon Musk.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Grokipedia ships v0.3 redesign after months of dormancy
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Grokipedia ships v0.3 redesign after months of dormancy

SpaceXAI's Wikipedia rival adds a featured-articles homepage and live-edits tracker after a report found no entry had changed in three months.

Jaeden Schafer3 min read
Tesla workers resist training Optimus robots built to replace them
Business

Tesla workers resist training Optimus robots built to replace them

Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus units per week by end of 2026, but worker pushback and 100-plus-part hands are slowing the ramp.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
AI CEOs have called for regulation for a decade. Little has passed.
Analysis

AI CEOs have called for regulation for a decade. Little has passed.

From Musk in 2017 to Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, and Nadella today — the pattern of executive alarm-bells rarely produces binding law.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Security

Musk drops Apple from antitrust suit but keeps OpenAI in the fight

X voluntarily dismissed all claims against Apple on September 14, leaving OpenAI as the sole defendant heading to trial this fall.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Analysis

Top AI lab CEOs align on slowdown after Hugging Face agent hack

Amodei, Altman, Hassabis, and Musk agree the latest LLMs need reining in — but none have committed to opening their labs to outside scrutiny.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

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.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI's Grok spits gibberish at users in Grok Lite glitch
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xAI's Grok spits gibberish at users in Grok Lite glitch

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Palantir moves in on FAA air traffic overhaul after DOGE cuts 400 staff
Business

Palantir moves in on FAA air traffic overhaul after DOGE cuts 400 staff

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.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI faces expanded lawsuit as woman says stepfather used Grok to make 7,000 explicit images
Security

xAI faces expanded lawsuit as woman says stepfather used Grok to make 7,000 explicit images

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX closes $60B Cursor acquisition, pulls AI coding into its GPU empire
Business

SpaceX closes $60B Cursor acquisition, pulls AI coding into its GPU empire

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI launches Grok Bot, an agent service you assign work like a coworker
Business

xAI launches Grok Bot, an agent service you assign work like a coworker

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Historian Jill Lepore says tech firms are replacing the functions of the state
Analysis

Historian Jill Lepore says tech firms are replacing the functions of the state

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Grokipedia, xAI's Wikipedia rival, hasn't accepted an edit in three months
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Grokipedia, xAI's Wikipedia rival, hasn't accepted an edit in three months

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Musk spends nearly half of Tesla earnings calls on AI and robots
Business

Musk spends nearly half of Tesla earnings calls on AI and robots

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.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI sues Minnesota days before nudify law hits, citing First Amendment
Security

xAI sues Minnesota days before nudify law hits, citing First Amendment

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI sues Minnesota to block $500,000-per-image nudify ban on Grok
Security

xAI sues Minnesota to block $500,000-per-image nudify ban on Grok

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
UK lawmaker sues xAI, seeks injunction to stop Grok generating sexualised images
Security

UK lawmaker sues xAI, seeks injunction to stop Grok generating sexualised images

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Cursor launches ₹649 India-only plan weeks before $60B SpaceX close
Business

Cursor launches ₹649 India-only plan weeks before $60B SpaceX close

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI sues Grok user for CSAM generation, argues users own AI outputs
Security

xAI sues Grok user for CSAM generation, argues users own AI outputs

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.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI sues South Carolina man for using Grok to generate CSAM
Security

xAI sues South Carolina man for using Grok to generate CSAM

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
xAI's Grok Build coding tool was silently uploading entire codebases to Google Cloud
Security

xAI's Grok Build coding tool was silently uploading entire codebases to Google Cloud

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Analysis

Altman calls Musk's space data centers a short-term sales pitch

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.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Business

Musk vows not to 'cut off' Anthropic from SpaceX's $40B compute deal

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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