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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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Lake Tahoe loses its power supplier to Nevada's AI data center boom
Liberty Utilities' contract with NV Energy expires May 2027, and data center load requests dwarf the resort region's needs by 40x.
Andon Labs' AI-run radio stations melt down in four days
Four stations hosted by Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok burned through $20 each, hallucinated sponsors, and went off the rails on air.
Nine California jurors begin deliberations in Musk v. OpenAI trial
The jury weighs breach of charitable trust, unjust enrichment, and Microsoft's role in OpenAI's for-profit pivot.
xAI runs 46 gas turbines at Mississippi data center under 'mobile' loophole
Mississippi treats the trailer-mounted turbines as mobile, exempting them from air-pollution rules for one year; the NAACP is seeking an injunction.
xAI adds 19 gas turbines at Colossus 2 as NAACP lawsuit proceeds
Internal emails show xAI installed 19 portable turbines in Southaven between late March and early May, bringing the site to 46.
Threads tests Meta AI mentions in a Grok-style rollout across five countries
Public Threads users can tag @meta.ai for real-time context on news and trends; the beta is live in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Argentina, and Singapore.
Altman testifies Musk floated passing OpenAI to his children
On the stand in Musk's suit against OpenAI, Sam Altman described a 2017 control fight and a foundation now holding $200B in assets.
Google and SpaceX discuss orbital data centers ahead of $1.75T IPO
The talks tie Google's Project Suncatcher to SpaceX's launch capacity, with prototype satellites slated for 2027.
SpaceX Commits $55bn to Texas AI Chip Fab, With Spend Potentially Reaching $119bn
A Grimes County filing reveals SpaceX's TerraFab project, tied to Elon Musk's plan for 200 gigawatts of Earth compute and one terawatt in space.
SpaceX Commits Up to $119 Billion for Texas AI Chip Plant
Elon Musk's rocket company files for tax breaks on TerraFab, a Grimes County compute facility, while leasing its first Memphis data center to Anthropic.
CAISI signs Google, Microsoft and xAI to AI safety tests after Mythos scare
Trump's renamed AI safety body locks in pre-deployment evaluations with three frontier labs as a mandatory testing executive order looms.
SpaceX weighs $119B 'Terafab' chip plant in Texas to feed xAI and Tesla
A Grimes County filing pegs initial spend at $55B, with Intel and Tesla joining a fab targeting 1 terawatt of chip output per year.
Google, Microsoft and xAI hand US government pre-release access to frontier models
The Commerce Department's CAISI will run security evaluations on new models from three more labs, expanding a program that began with OpenAI and Anthropic in 2024.
Musk's lone AI expert at OpenAI trial warns of AGI arms race
Berkeley's Stuart Russell told jurors AGI development creates winner-take-all dynamics that pull labs away from safety work.
Musk's 'World War III' Twitter threat resurfaces at OpenAI trial
OpenAI wants the judge to admit a pre-trial message from Musk to Greg Brockman warning he and Sam Altman would be 'the most hated men in America.'
Musk Concedes xAI Used Distillation on OpenAI Models to Train Grok
Under oath in federal court, the xAI founder said his team partly trained Grok by querying OpenAI's models, calling it standard industry practice.
Minnesota becomes first state to ban AI nudify apps, with $500K fines per image
The Senate passed the bill 65–0 after a Minnesota man was found to have nudified more than 80 women he knew personally.
Pentagon awards classified AI contracts to OpenAI, Google, Nvidia — Anthropic shut out
The Defense Department signed seven AI vendors for classified use and labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk after a fight over autonomous weapons.
Musk testifies xAI used OpenAI models to train Grok
Under cross-examination, Musk said distillation is standard practice across AI labs and admitted xAI did it 'partly' to OpenAI.
X starts phased rollout of an AI-rebuilt ad platform as revenue ticks up
eMarketer pegs X's 2026 ad revenue at $2.46B, up from $2.26B in 2025 but still half of Twitter's 2021 peak.
Musk admits under oath Tesla isn't pursuing AGI, contradicting his own X post
On day two of his OpenAI trial, Elon Musk's tweets keep undercutting his testimony — including a $100M investment claim that was actually $38M.
Google opens its AI to the Pentagon on terms Anthropic refused
Google joins OpenAI and xAI in signing broad DoD access; 950 of its own employees signed an open letter asking it not to.
Musk v. Altman trial opens in Oakland with 9 jurors, several wary of Elon Musk
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman showed up in the security line. Musk did not. Opening statements begin Tuesday in federal court.
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