Elon Musk’s business empire has been rocked by a wave of high-level executive departures over the past year, as the billionaire’s intense management style and interests outside of business shake the ranks of his formerly loyal acolytes.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has accused rival Sam Altman’s OpenAI of stealing trade secrets with the help of former Musk employees, according to new court filings.
Elon Musk’s xAI has suffered another key executive departure as CFO Mike Liberatore leaves the company after just a few months on the job.
Tesla has offered CEO Elon Musk a new compensation agreement potentially worth up to $1 trillion, a massive package without precedent in corporate America.
Elon Musk’s xAI has filed a lawsuit accusing former employee Xuechen Li, which the suit describes as a “Chinese national,” of stealing confidential information and trade secrets before resigning to join rival company OpenAI. Musk has been a long-time champion of H-1B visas and bringing in engineers from China and India, claiming they have talent that Americans lack.
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI, accusing the two companies of engaging in an “anticompetitive scheme” to hinder the growth of rival AI companies.
Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday to launch his own venture capital firm, Babuschkin Ventures.
Elon Musk has lashed out against Apple, alleging that the tech giant is engaging in anticompetitive practices by favoring OpenAI’s apps in the iPhone App Store rankings over his own AI offering, Grok. The tech tycoon promised to file an antitrust lawsuit against the iPhone giant over Grok’s rankings in the App Store.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok was briefly suspended from the social media platform X — which Musk also owns — after it answered users’ questions in “unhinged mode” on Monday.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is offering virtual “companions” to paid subscribers. The options include an anime girl that offers a “spicy” mode, and an animated fox creature.
The Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it had awarded contracts to several artificial intelligence (AI) companies, such as Elon Musk’s xAI, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.
Elon Musk, the billionaire tech tycoon and Tesla CEO, has suggested that Tesla shareholders will vote on investing in his AI startup, xAI, as the company seeks additional funding to keep pace with competitors in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that Grok, the AI chatbot developed by his company xAI, will soon be integrated into Tesla EVs, despite the AI’s antisemitic meltdown on X this week.
Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, has come under fire for making a series of wildly antisemitic remarks on Musk’s X platform, sparking outrage and concern among users. After the chat started calling itself “MechaHitler,” the company claimed it has “taken action to ban hate speech” and deleted many of the AI’s recent replies.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is joining woke idiots like Rosie O’Donnell in blaming President Donald Trump for deaths resulting from the horrific flooding in central Texas during Independence Day weekend. After receiving pushback, the AI chatbot ultimately conceded to X users by changing its claim from “directly” to “likely,” and promising to “aim for more nuance.”
Elon Musk’s ongoing legal cage match with Sam Altman’s OpenAI has taken an interesting turn after the tech titan’s legal team stated that Musk “does not use a computer” in a recent court filing.
AI company Anthropic has found that top artificial intelligence models from industry leaders like OpenAI, Elon Musk’s xAI, and Google are prone to employing unethical means, including blackmail, when their goals are under threat.
OpenAI, the developer of popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, wants to embed its AI technology in every aspect of college life. A company executive explains, “Our vision is that, over time, AI would become part of the core infrastructure of higher education.”
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) wants Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer project in Memphis, Tennessee, shut down due to environmental concerns.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has acknowledged that an “unauthorized modification” to its Grok chatbot resulted in the AI generating unprompted responses about “white genocide” in South Africa.
The U.S. Copyright Office recently published a report that could have significant implications for how Big Tech giants train their AI models, a process notorious for indiscriminately sucking up vast amounts of copyrighted works.
A new study from Columbia Journalism Review’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism has uncovered serious accuracy issues with generative AI models used for news searches. According to the study, AI search engines have a startling error rate of 60 percent when queried about the news.
Chinese asset managers are funneling tens of millions of dollars into Elon Musk’s private companies like SpaceX, Neuralink and xAI, using special purpose vehicles to shield investor identities, according to financiers involved in the deals.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has unveiled its updated Grok-3 model, claiming it to be the “smartest AI on Earth” and directly competing with AI giants like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek.
Elon Musk has stated that he will withdraw his $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit arm if Sam Altman halts his plans to convert it into a for-profit entity, according to a recent court filing.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has firmly rejected a $97.4 billion takeover attempt by Elon Musk, characterizing the bid as a competitive maneuver rather than a genuine acquisition offer.
A group of investors led by tech billionaire Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion unsolicited offer to acquire control of OpenAI, the AI powerhouse behind ChatGPT, adding a new twist to Musk’s ongoing legal dispute with the startup and its CEO Sam Altman.
A federal judge expressed skepticism over Elon Musk’s claims that he will suffer irreparable harm if OpenAI is allowed to proceed with its transition to a for-profit company, but welcomed the possibility of a trial to resolve the billionaire’s lawsuit against the AI startup founded as a non-profit.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at developing AI systems that are free from ideological bias and engineered social agendas. Scientific studies have demonstrated that essentially all popular AI chatbots show a leftist bias.
Tech moguls Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have found common ground in their opposition to OpenAI’s planned transition from a non-profit to a for-profit entity.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has secured $6 billion in fresh capital, capping off a funding round that values the company at over $40 billion.
Elon Musk has filed for a preliminary injunction in federal court to prevent OpenAI from transitioning into a fully for-profit business.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has initiated an informal poll on X (formerly Twitter), asking whether the electric vehicle giant should invest $5 billion in his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, a move that has raised eyebrows in the tech and automotive industries.
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X/Twitter and CEO of Tesla, has voluntarily dismissed his breach of contract claims against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman.
As the race for artificial intelligence supremacy heats up, the world of AI research is being rocked by bitter rivalries, poaching sprees, and public spats between tech titans. The head of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI research team recently attacked rival Elon Musk for his “crazy-ass conspiracy theories.”
In a race to secure partnerships with top AI start-ups, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Elon Musk’s xAI have been engaging in discussions with chatbot-maker Character.ai, as the AI arms race in Silicon Valley intensifies.
In a significant move to cement its position in the AI industry, Elon Musk’s xAI has secured $6 billion in Series B funding from investors including Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding.
xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup aiming to rival ChatGPT developer OpenAI, is set to close a massive $6 billion funding round that values the 10-month-old company at a staggering $18 billion.