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Barclays analyst Dan Levy says Elon Musk’s two publicly traded companies, Tesla and SpaceX, could announce a merger within the coming weeks, possibly before Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly in talks to buy customer and operational data from defunct and struggling startups, a move that could feed the training of its Grok AI models.

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 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.

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.

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).

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.

The concept of building AI data centers in orbit has gained renewed momentum following SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO that raised over $85 billion and valued the company in the trillions. Elon Musk’s success and the massive pushback against AI data centers in rural and suburban communities has spurred competitors including Jeff Bezos to develop their own plans for space-based data centers

Yann LeCun, regarded as one of the “Godfathers of AI,” has publicly denounced Elon Musk’s AI company xAI, describing it as a “failure” and claiming Musk faces significant challenges in attracting top talent because the SpaceX and Tesla CEO has “not behaved in very good ways towards the previous team.”

The DOJ has intervened in a pollution lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI company, now a division of SpaceX, claiming the AI firm plays a vital role in military operations and national security.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced Tuesday it will acquire Anysphere, the software company behind the AI coding tool Cursor, in a $60 billion transaction aimed at expanding its footprint in the enterprise AI sector. Shares jumped more than nine percent in morning trading, giving SpaceX a similar market capitalization to Amazon.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly breaking with Wall Street convention by establishing a fixed IPO price of $135 per share before its investor roadshow, aiming to raise a record $75 billion on a valuation of $1.75 trillion. Financial services firm Morningstar believes Musk’s company is only worth about half that amount.

Elon Musk has created uncertainty among potential investors after posting details about SpaceX’s partnership with Anthropic on social media that appear to contradict information in the company’s IPO filing.

Sam Altman faced damaging testimony from former OpenAI colleagues during the second week of Elon Musk’s trial against the AI company and its CEO.

French cybercrime prosecutors have announced that their investigation into Elon Musk and his social media platform X has been upgraded to a criminal probe, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing legal scrutiny of the tech tycoon’s deepfake porn scandal.

Elon Musk repeatedly clashed with OpenAI’s attorney during a heated cross-examination on the second day of a landmark trial that could shape the future trajectory of AI development.

Google has joined other major technology companies in signing an agreement with the Department of War to provide AI models for classified government operations, according to a report from The Information.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announced a win for American AI dominance after challenging a Colorado law.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has secured an agreement granting it the option to acquire Cursor, a rapidly growing AI coding start-up, for $60 billion as the rocket maker pushes deeper into AI ahead of its hotly anticipated IPO.

Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk has called for the United States federal government to provide “Universal HIGH INCOME” checks to citizens as he believes AI and robotics will radically reshape the employment landscape.

Sam Altman’s OpenAI has formally requested that the attorneys general of California and Delaware investigate what it characterizes as “anti-competitive behavior” by Elon Musk as a courtroom showdown between the AI moguls nears jury selection.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken a major step toward becoming a publicly traded company by confidentially filing for an initial public offering with securities regulators.

A California jury has determined that Elon Musk defrauded Twitter shareholders during the period leading up to his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform, according to a verdict delivered on Friday.

Three teenage girls have filed a class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk’s AI company xAI, alleging that its Grok image generator was used to create and distribute child sexual abuse material featuring their likenesses.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that the company’s Terafab Project for producing AI chips will commence on March 21, marking a significant shift for Musk toward vertical integration in semiconductor manufacturing.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing for what could become the largest initial public offering in history, potentially raising $50 billion and exceeding the total amount raised by all 90 IPOs that debuted last year.

Leaders from the leading companies in AI including Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI, and Amazon have signed a non-binding agreement at the White House committing to fund the electricity infrastructure needed for their data center operations.

When Israel and the United States launched coordinated military strikes against Iran on Saturday, one AI system was not surprised. According to the Jerusalem Post, Elon Musk’s AI platform Grok had correctly predicted the specific date of the attack last week when the publication asked four AI systems when the strikes would occur.

Tech tycoon Elon Musk publicly slammed AI rival Anthropic this week, calling its AI models “misanthropic and evil” in a post on his social media platform X. According to Musk, Anthropic’s AI “hates Whites & Asians, especially Chinese, heterosexuals and men.”

Jimmy Ba, a cofounder of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI, announced his departure from the company on Tuesday, marking the second high-level exit in less than 48 hours.

Elon Musk is combining SpaceX with his artificial intelligence startup xAI as the merged entity prepares for a massive IPO that could value the combined company at $1.25 trillion.

Tech giants Apple and Google are offering numerous AI-powered applications on their app stores that can generate non-consensual nude images from ordinary photographs, according to a new report from industry watchdog Tech Transparency Project. The report comes after a global scandal erupted at Elon Musk’s Grok AI generated sexual deepfakes of women and children and posting them on X.

The European Commission has initiated a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s social media platform X over the scandal centering on its Grok AI generating sexualized deepfake images of women and children.

Elon Musk’s xAI is still permitting users to create and post highly sexualized pictures and videos of real women generated through its AI tool Grok, despite recent company claims of implementing stricter content controls.

Tech Tycoon Elon Musk has declared that traditional retirement planning is obsolete due to coming technological advances he believes will eliminate scarcity. Musk says, “Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years. It won’t matter.”

Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot will no longer allow users to sexualize images of real people by portraying their targets in revealing clothing, the company announced Wednesday evening, following global criticism over the tool’s usage as a “nudify” app to portray women and even children in sexual situations.