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xAI launched Grok 4.7, its newest flagship model for coding and knowledge work, available via Cursor, Grok Build, its API, and other platforms. Pricing stays flat versus Grok 4.6, with a faster, pricier option. xAI claims strong…

AI Business & Money · AI Agents

On the same Thursday that OpenAI declared "the AGI era," the AI most people actually use simply stopped working. For roughly 90 minutes that morning, the biggest AI assistants went dark at once: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy · AI Adoption · OpenAI · Anthropic

OpenAI is ending its nearly four-year partnership with Cursor, the popular AI coding tool, after Elon Musk's SpaceX bought it for $60 billion—cutting Cursor's built-in access to OpenAI models on November 12. Read against the deal's…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

SpaceXAI—the Elon Musk venture that folded in his xAI startup—released Grok 4.6 this week, and the pitch is all about price. Investor Gavin Baker, an early SpaceX backer, laid out the bull case: Grok 4.6 delivers "roughly the same…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI · Anthropic

SpaceX reported its first quarterly results since its record June IPO, and for a rocket company the numbers are increasingly an AI story. Revenue jumped 92% from a year earlier to $7.8 billion, beating estimates—but the company still…

AI Business & Money

A large-scale study comparing Grokipedia—an encyclopedia written entirely by xAI's Grok model—against Wikipedia found both sources exhibit political bias, but in opposite directions. Researchers analyzed 1,394 article pairs about…

Deepfakes & Misinformation

xAI open-sourced Grok Build, its command-line coding agent, publishing the entire ~844,000-line Rust codebase under a permissive Apache 2.0 license—an unusual move, and a direct response to a controversy that broke earlier in the week. On…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI Agents · Open-Weight Models

Elon Musk reversed himself on Anthropic Thursday, calling it "obviously currently the leader in AI," its Mythos and Fable models unmatched—a total turnaround from September, when he'd said "winning was never in the set of possible outcomes…

AI Business & Money · Anthropic

Elon Musk's xAI—renamed SpaceXAI since his SpaceX absorbed it in February—released Grok 4.5, and the story is less the model than where it came from and where it runs. Grok 4.5 is the first model SpaceXAI and Cursor built together, per…

AI Business & Money · AI Agents

An OpenRouter developer dropped eleven AI models into a 2D battle royale game for 30 matches to see how they'd compete. Grok 4.1 Fast dominated, winning 43% of games at just $0.97 per win. Claude Sonnet 4.6 won only 5 games at $26.78 per…

AI Agents · Anthropic · OpenAI

Days after a record-setting IPO made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire, SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere—maker of the AI coding tool Cursor—for $60 billion in an all-stock deal expected to close in the third quarter. The price was…

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Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft after a California jury unanimously ruled his claims were filed too late. The jury deliberated under two hours before finding that any harms Musk alleged occurred before…

Courts & Lawsuits · AI Business & Money · OpenAI · Microsoft

Sam Altman testified Tuesday that Elon Musk, while still a co-founder of the then-nonprofit OpenAI, repeatedly sought control of the organization — including by suggesting it could one day pass to his children. "A particularly hair-raising…

Courts & Lawsuits · OpenAI

In one of the most unexpected partnerships of the AI race so far, Anthropic announced it has signed a deal to lease the entirety of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center—more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs across 300+ megawatts of compute…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy · AI Business & Money · Anthropic · Nvidia

Elon Musk took the stand Tuesday in an Oakland federal courthouse to launch a high-stakes civil trial against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft — a case that could reshape how AI is governed in the U.S. Musk's claim, simply put…

Courts & Lawsuits · AI Business & Money · OpenAI · Microsoft

SpaceX announced an agreement to acquire Cursor, the AI coding assistant, for $60 billion. The deal would mark one of the largest acquisitions in tech history and SpaceX's first major software company purchase, with a $10 billion breakup…

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading digital rights organization, announced it's leaving X after nearly 20 years on the platform. The group cited a dramatic collapse in reach under Elon Musk's ownership: posts now receive less…

Revise, a new document editing tool, lets users work alongside AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI for proofreading, revision, and PDF-to-rich-text conversion. The tool claims to learn user preferences over time and offers custom…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI · Anthropic

OpenAI leadership told staff to drop 'side quests' and focus on core priorities, with COO Simo declaring 'code red' urgency and calling Anthropic a 'wake-up call,' according to a Wall Street Journal transcript review. The article…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI · Anthropic

French authorities raided X's offices while the UK opened a separate investigation into Grok, X's AI assistant. The enforcement actions relate to concerns about non-consensual sexual imagery, including child sexual abuse material, and…

Regulation & Policy · Deepfakes & Misinformation · Europe & UK

SpaceX announced it has acquired xAI, Elon Musk's AI company behind the Grok chatbot. The combined entity would merge AI development with SpaceX's rocket, satellite internet, and direct-to-mobile businesses. The companies frame the deal as…

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