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Anthropic remains on track to go public sometime in 2026, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, even as Dario Amodei set off an AI safety firestorm with his call for a tech slowdown, which was endorsed by Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.

President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) destroying humanity as a “hoax” and argued that strict regulations would put American companies at a disadvantage against China.

President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed warnings from leading AI executives including Anthropics Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Elon Musk who urged a slower pace of AI development. The President’s response is that “Whoever wins AI, wins.”

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday, urging AI companies to pace how quickly they improve model capabilities, and both Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded within the day expressing support.

A Sydney businessman has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for a four-year campaign of domestic abuse against his former wife that included using a Tesla smartphone app to control her car’s speed, temperature and locks.

A former Anthropic researcher’s warning that OpenAI and Anthropic are gambling with humanity’s survival has racked up more than 165 million views and drawn accusations from Elon Musk and others that the whole episode was staged.

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Alex Gibney has made films about powerful people, corporations and organizations before: Enron, Elizabeth Holmes, Scientology and the U.S. military’s abuses at Bagram and Abu Ghraib are just a few. And yet, he said, nothing compares to the scope of power held by his latest subject, Elon Musk.

Talking Heads front man David Byrne reportedly wrote a song using only quotes from Elon Musk for a “scathing” new documentary about the SpaceX CEO.

Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) spent months attacking Tesla chief Elon Musk but then turning around and investing in Tesla stock when its share prices fell.

Elon Musk addressed a virtual session of the G20 yesterday, laying out predictions on AI, humanoid robots and regulation. According to Musk, within 10 years, 1 billion humanoid robots will outproduce all of humanity.

The Pentagon has rolled out custom versions of ChatGPT and Grok to millions of Defense Department personnel. The Department of War has now replaced Anthropic’s Claude with access to multiple different AI platforms.

Sam Altman’s OpenAI has announced it is ending developer access to its models on Cursor, the popular coding assistant that Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired earlier this month. The AI rivals have been locked in a bitter feud for a decade.

A woman identified as “Jane Doe” sued Elon Musk’s xAI this week, alleging the company trained its Grok AI chatbot on child pornography depicting her, in what appears to be the first case accusing xAI of training its AI on child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Tech-sector titans do not have the right to replace endless Americans college graduates with unlimited inflows of migrants, says Harmeet Dhillon, the top-ranking civil rights official in President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice.

Billionaire Michael Saylor says AI may make life’s necessities cheaper or even free, but it will not eliminate money because people will always compete for scarce, status-conferring goods. Saylor refutes Elon Musk’s claim that money will be meaningless in the near future, stating: “Everybody doesn’t get a Hampton’s house. Everybody doesn’t get their own private jet.”

SpaceX and Tesla are building a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor facility in Grimes County, Texas, that would dwarf the current record holder for the world’s largest building.

SpaceX insiders have gained their first chance to sell stock publicly on Thursday as a lockup agreement expired, freeing up to 911.5 million shares valued at roughly $101 billion. This is likely to put pressure on the stock price of Elon Musk’s rocket company as insiders cash out.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX posted second quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations in its first earnings report as a public company, but shares dropped 10 percent in morning trading as investors reacted to ballooning AI investments.

SpaceX is preparing for two significant events that could trigger substantial volatility in its stock price: the company’s first quarterly earnings report as a public entity Tuesday and the expiration of a lockup period that will release nearly one billion shares into the market on Thursday.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has publicly rejected a media report suggesting the EV giant is preparing to divest its Chinese operations to facilitate a potential merger with SpaceX. The tech tycoon called the report “fake news.”

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has reached a settlement with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a contentious legal battle that began in 2024 over allegations of an advertising boycott.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has filed a federal lawsuit against Minnesota, challenging a pioneering state law that prohibits “nudify” apps capable of creating AI-powered fake, sexualized images of individuals.

Elon Musk’s social media platform X officially launched “X Money” on Monday, a new banking and financial services feature that brings the billionaire entrepreneur closer to his long-stated goal of creating an “everything app.”

Approximately $650 billion to $700 billion of Elon Musk’s net worth has evaporated over a five-week period as both Tesla and SpaceX stock prices experienced significant declines.

World’s richest man Elon Musk now claims he became too consumed by politics during his alliance with President Donald Trump and his brief stint running DOGE.

If Elon Musk pulls this off, it will be seen as the biggest threat to Hollywood since the arrival of television.

Tech mogul Elon Musk has promised to harness artificial intelligence to create his own version of “The Odyssey” after becoming a vocal critic of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation.

The White House pushed back after leftist actor Richard Gere blasted the Trump administration for doing away with the wasteful USAID program, which for decades sent billions of American tax dollars to fund far-left programs and politicians in foreign countries.

AI startup Anthropic is scheduling investor meetings ahead of a possible IPO, advancing preparations for what could be one of the year’s most significant technology listings after Elon Musk’s blockbuster SpaceX public offering.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX aborted a planned test flight of its Starship rocket Thursday when several of the Super Heavy booster’s engines failed to ignite during the final countdown sequence at the company’s South Texas launch facility.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX stock price has fallen below its IPO price of $135, marking a significant downturn for Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company just over a month after it began trading publicly.

The New York Times has published a piece about Bernadette Meehan, who this year became CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia. The article praised Meehan’s background in diplomacy, serving primarily during the Obama and Biden administrations, and claimed the site was “in peril” from right-wing critics and AI with Meehan arriving to protect it. Despite mentioning Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, the piece fails to mention his ban from the site, which the Times covered.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) formally closed its operations on July 4 as investigating fraud government-wide becomes an integral part of the Trump administration’s agenda.