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xAI is Elon Musk's AI company and the maker of Grok. Our xAI coverage tracks model releases, infrastructure moves (Colossus supercluster), and the company's positioning inside the X ecosystem.
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Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as it funds $50B AI buildout with debt
A 12.9% workforce reduction and $1.8B in restructuring costs accompany Oracle's debt-fueled push into AI cloud infrastructure.
SpaceX signs $6.3B compute deal with open-source lab Reflection AI
Reflection becomes the third AI lab to rent GB300 chips from SpaceX's Colossus 2 site, joining Anthropic and Google.
DOJ moves to dismiss NAACP Clean Air Act suit over xAI's Memphis turbines
Justice Department says shutting down 57 unpermitted gas turbines powering Grok would threaten Pentagon operations and AI innovation.
DOJ calls xAI's 57 Memphis gas turbines a national security asset
Justice Department says shutting down xAI's unpermitted turbines would cripple AI that backs US military operations, including strikes in Iran.
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after record IPO
The all-stock deal closes a path Musk laid out in April, when SpaceX agreed to buy Cursor or pay a $10B break-up fee.
DOJ backs xAI in NAACP suit, calling Grok 'vital' to military operations
Justice Department says shutting xAI's unpermitted gas turbines at Colossus 2 would threaten Iran strike operations and national security.
Grok still hosting sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and a US lawmaker
A WIRED review found dozens of nonconsensual explicit images on Grok.com days before SpaceX's IPO, despite xAI's January safeguard pledges.
Ex-xAI engineer Devin Kim sues over alleged firing for Grok safety complaints
Suit filed in California state court days before SpaceX's IPO targets xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba, not Musk, over Grok safety pushback.
Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month to rent xAI compute capacity
The 32-month deal covers 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and lands one week before SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO on the Nasdaq.
Anthropic's Daniela Amodei defends AI economics as IPO filing lands
Annualized revenue hit $47B in May, up from $9B at the end of 2025, as the co-founder pitches public markets on frontier-model economics.
Anthropic files to go public at $965B, beating OpenAI to the IPO window
Anthropic, SpaceX-owned xAI, and OpenAI are all racing to list — and San Francisco realtors are now pricing homes in pre-IPO stock.
Musk petitions FTC to end X privacy order running through 2042
X argues the 20-year monitoring deal is obsolete after merging into xAI and SpaceX; public commenters are urging the FTC to refuse.
Meta is building data centers in tents to keep up with AI compute demand
Six 125,000-square-foot rapid-deployment structures outside New Albany, Ohio, powered by 200 MW of off-grid gas turbines.
xAI moves to unmask Grok deepfake plaintiffs in California federal court
Four pseudonymous claimants say revealing their names would invite doxing; xAI argues the case lacks the privacy interests that justify anonymity.
Grok barely appears in federal AI records as agencies favor OpenAI and Anthropic
Reuters reviewed 400+ government AI deployments and found xAI's chatbot in just three entries.
SpaceX pitches $26.5T AI market as Grok lags OpenAI and Anthropic
The company's IPO filing projects orbital data centers while Grok holds 0.174% paid consumer share.
SpaceX commits $2.8B to gas turbines for xAI data centers as IPO filing reveals energy bet
The investment covers turbines through 2029 as xAI faces lawsuits over unpermitted generators at Colossus 2.
xAI burned $6.4B in 2025 as SpaceX IPO filing reveals widening losses
Musk's AI unit lost twice its revenue last year; capex hit a $30.8B annualized run rate in Q1 2026.
Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute through May 2029
The deal secures 300 megawatts from xAI's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, potentially $40B in total revenue.
xAI commits $2.8B to turbine purchases as NAACP lawsuit challenges Memphis generators
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals xAI will buy $2B in mobile gas turbines—the same kind it's being sued over in Tennessee.
Former OpenAI staffers warn xAI safety record could complicate SpaceX IPO
A new watchdog group says xAI's safety incidents are disproportionate to its market share and should trigger investor disclosures.
Elon Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit on statute of limitations ruling
A jury found Musk should have sued by 2021, three years before he filed — the case never reached the merits.
Jury dismisses Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman as untimely
The verdict ends a 3-week trial over Musk's claims that Altman betrayed OpenAI's nonprofit mission.
Musk v. Altman trial closes with $134B at stake and an OpenAI IPO in the balance
Closing arguments wrapped in Oakland as Musk seeks to unwind OpenAI's 2025 restructuring; the jury begins deliberating Monday.
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