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Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Rebrand AI

about 1 month ago

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Elon Musk says he will rename company ‘SpaceXSI’ after Trump’s AI rebrand The Independent - AI • October 05, 2026

OpenAI DevDay: Dots Always-On AI Agents Launched

about 1 month ago

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The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch TechCrunch AI • September 29, 2026

xAI Launches Grok 4.7 at Bargain Prices

about 1 month ago

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SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.7: A Larger Base Model at the Same $2/$6 Price as Grok 4.6 MarkTechPost • September 22, 2026
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xAI launches Grok 4.7 at bargain prices, but benchmarks reveal a wide gap to Claude and GPT-6 The Decoder • September 21, 2026

Tech Leaders Rally Behind Amodei's AI Slowdown Plan

about 2 months ago

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Anthropic’s 3-Step ‘Pace the Frontier’ Plan Wins OpenAI, xAI and Microsoft Support: Is It Too Late to Slow AI Down? MarkTechPost • September 13, 2026

xAI Loses Bid to Block Minnesota Nudify Ban

3 months ago

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Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps TechCrunch AI • August 01, 2026
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Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ‘nudification’ technology The Guardian AI • July 29, 2026
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xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law The Verge AI • July 29, 2026

xAI Sues User for Generating CSAM With Grok

4 months ago

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Elon Musk’s xAI, Which is Being Sued Over AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes, Sues Grok User Over AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes Futurism AI • July 17, 2026
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Musk’s xAI sues user who allegedly used Grok to create child sexual abuse material The Guardian AI • July 16, 2026
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xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’ The Verge AI • July 15, 2026

xAI Open-Sources Grok Build After Data Breach

4 months ago

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xAI open-sources "Grok-Build" on GitHub after massive data breach The Decoder • July 16, 2026
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xai-org/grok-build, now open source Simon Willison's Weblog • July 15, 2026

DOJ Invokes National Security to Defend xAI's Gas Turbines

5 months ago

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Trump’s DOJ intervenes to keep Musk’s xAI gas turbines polluting Memphis Electrek • June 17, 2026
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DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’ TechCrunch AI • June 16, 2026
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DOJ invokes national security to defend xAI's unpermitted gas turbines in NAACP lawsuit The Decoder • June 16, 2026
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DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit Wired AI $ • June 15, 2026

SpaceX Files IPO, Targets $2 Trillion Valuation

6 months ago

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xAI burned $6.4B last year. SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over TechCrunch AI • May 20, 2026

xAI Expands Gas Turbines Amid Lawsuit

6 months ago

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Musk’s xAI is being sued over its data center generators. Now, it’s buying $2.8B more. TechCrunch AI • May 20, 2026
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Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center TechCrunch AI • May 13, 2026
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xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit Wired AI $ • May 12, 2026

Anthropic Pays xAI $1.25B Monthly for Compute

6 months ago

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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute TechCrunch AI • May 20, 2026

Anthropic Taps SpaceX Colossus-1 for 220,000 GPUs

6 months ago

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Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal Simon Willison's Weblog • May 07, 2026
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Anthropic to use SpaceX’s Colossus 1 supercomputer for inference SiliconANGLE AI • May 06, 2026
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Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus-1 data center for 220,000 GPUs to power Claude The Decoder • May 06, 2026

US Government to Review AI Models Pre-Release

6 months ago

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Google, Microsoft and xAI agree to allow government safety checks of their AI models prior to release SiliconANGLE AI • May 05, 2026
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Trump admin. moves further into AI oversight, will test Google, Microsoft and xAI models CNBC Technology • May 05, 2026
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Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models The Verge AI • May 05, 2026

Musk OpenAI Trial: Extended Cross-Examination, Days 2-3

6 months ago

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Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI’s models MIT Technology Review $ • May 01, 2026

Musk Admits xAI Trained Grok on OpenAI Models

6 months ago

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Elon Musk confirms xAI used OpenAI’s models to train Grok The Verge AI • April 30, 2026
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Elon Musk testifies that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models TechCrunch AI • April 30, 2026
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Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI's Models to Train Its Own Wired AI $ • April 30, 2026

SpaceX Secures Option to Acquire Cursor for $60 Billion

7 months ago

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Musk's SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to fix xAI's coding gap The Decoder • April 22, 2026

xAI Grok CSAM Lawsuit Against Musk

8 months ago

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Three Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk’s xAI for creating sexually explicit images of them Fortune • March 20, 2026
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Teens launch lawsuit against xAI over Grok deepfakes SiliconANGLE AI • March 16, 2026
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Teens sue Elon Musk’s xAI over Grok’s AI-generated CSAM The Verge AI • March 16, 2026
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Warren presses Pentagon over decision to grant xAI access to classified networks TechCrunch AI • March 16, 2026
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Teenage girls sue Musk’s xAI, accusing Grok tool of creating child sexual abuse material The Guardian AI • March 16, 2026

Musk Restructures xAI After Cofounder Exodus

8 months ago

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Elon Musk admits xAI ‘wasn’t built right’ as only 2 co-founders remain and its biggest AI bet stalls out Fortune • March 16, 2026
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Elon Musk teases crazy outlook for xAI against its competitors Teslarati • March 16, 2026
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‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk’s xAI is starting over again, again TechCrunch AI • March 13, 2026
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Elon Musk Orders Sweeping Layoffs as xAI Fails to Catch Up Futurism AI • March 13, 2026
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Elon Musk admits xAI "was not built right first time around," launches full restructuring The Decoder • March 13, 2026
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Elon Musk says xAI must be 'rebuilt' as co-founder exodus continues, SpaceX IPO awaits CNBC Technology • March 13, 2026
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Elon Musk Says He’s Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding “From the Foundations” Futurism AI • March 13, 2026
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Musk admits xAI ‘not built right’ — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion Electrek • March 13, 2026

xAI Expands Memphis Data Center

9 months ago

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Musk’s xAI wins permit for data center’s makeshift power plant despite backlash The Guardian AI • March 10, 2026
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Elon Musk’s xAI, creator of Grok and Grokipedia, celebrates its third birthday Teslarati • March 10, 2026
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Elon Musk’s xAI plans $659M expansion at Memphis supercomputer site Teslarati • March 06, 2026
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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell details xAI power pledge at White House event Teslarati • March 05, 2026
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Elon Musk’s xAI is undoing Tesla’s climate work all in the name of AI slop Electrek • March 03, 2026
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xAI's next phase unleashed The Rundown AI • February 12, 2026
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xAI's co-founder exodus continues The Rundown AI • February 11, 2026

OpenAI Business and Legal Developments

about 1 year ago

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Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit Ars Technica AI • February 25, 2026

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SpaceXSI apparently cuts Grok Bot quotas weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product The Decoder • November 02, 2026
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Grokipedia offers lessons in how AI can help Wikipedia Hacker News AI • November 02, 2026
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Elon Musk says he is taking over an old Spam factory and a gun range to expand his Colossus 2 AI complex Business Insider • November 01, 2026
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Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward TechCrunch AI • October 31, 2026
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xAI is buying out homeowners who promise not to sue over data center noise The Verge AI • October 28, 2026
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‘Elonville’: Mississippi residents say Musk’s xAI is buying up homes if they don’t sue over noise The Guardian AI • October 28, 2026
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Meet Grok Voice 3.0: SpaceXAI Voice Agent Model Ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis MarkTechPost • October 15, 2026
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Grok Voice 3.0 from SpaceXSI outscores OpenAI and Google on speech-to-speech index SiliconANGLE AI • October 14, 2026
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SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok and Cursor into one subscription TechCrunch AI • October 13, 2026
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SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute The Verge AI • October 08, 2026
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Elon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia is updating again The Verge AI • September 29, 2026
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Elon Musk, SpaceXAI subpoenaed by NYC in AI safety investigation CNBC Technology • September 28, 2026
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Lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google violated antitrust laws when they coordinated AI slowdown, reducing value of subscriptions Fortune • September 19, 2026
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SpaceXAI Releases Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0: A Speech-to-Text API Claiming 2x Accuracy Over 1.0 at $0.10 per Hour MarkTechPost • September 18, 2026
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, says he’s living in an Airstream trailer to oversee xAI’s biggest expansion yet Fortune • September 15, 2026
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xAI's Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchmarks The Decoder • August 08, 2026
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xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout Hacker News AI • August 06, 2026
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SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year TechCrunch AI • July 31, 2026
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Labour MP suing Elon Musk’s xAI says chatbot added own fake abusive content The Guardian AI • July 28, 2026
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SpaceX shows investors a slim AI smartphone prototype powered by xAI technology The Decoder • July 01, 2026
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Reid Hoffman says SpaceX is ‘not an AI company’ and xAI is a ‘complete train wreck’—and there’s room for both OpenAI and Anthropic Fortune • June 24, 2026
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xAI Launches /goal in Grok Build, Adding Long-Running Autonomous Execution With Built-In Verification for Multi-Step Coding Tasks MarkTechPost • June 22, 2026
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SpaceX confirms third massive compute deal at Colossus data center Teslarati • June 22, 2026
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Godfather of AI blasts Musk's xAI as 'failure,' says labs are risking a 'big bubble explosion' CNBC Technology • June 18, 2026
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xAI Ships Grok Build Plugin Marketplace With MongoDB, Vercel, Sentry, Chrome DevTools, Cloudflare, and Superpowers Plugins at Launch MarkTechPost • June 11, 2026
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Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims The Guardian AI • June 11, 2026
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xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims TechCrunch AI • June 10, 2026
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Elon Musk's xAI reportedly trained its coding models on Claude outputs for months before getting cut off The Decoder • June 06, 2026
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New claimants seek to sue Elon Musk’s xAI after Labour MP’s test case The Guardian AI • June 05, 2026
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SpaceX’s xAI just bought another $269M of Tesla Megapacks Electrek • June 04, 2026
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xAI updates Grok Imagine to 1.5 with image-to-video generation at 720p resolution The Decoder • June 04, 2026
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xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity Wired AI $ • June 03, 2026
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The Sequence Radar #865: Last Week in AI: Last Week in AI: Karpathy, Google, Colossus, and the Coming IPO Wave TheSequence • May 24, 2026
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SpaceX IPO Filing Opens Up xAI Finances AI Business • May 21, 2026
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Former OpenAI Staffers Warn xAI's Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX’s IPO Wired AI $ • May 19, 2026
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Musk’s xAI Launches Grok Build to Take on Claude Code, Codex AI Business • May 18, 2026
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We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic TechCrunch AI • May 10, 2026
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Is xAI a neocloud now? TechCrunch AI • May 06, 2026
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xAI's new Custom Voices feature turns a minute of speech into a usable voice clone The Decoder • May 02, 2026
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xAI drops Grok 4.3 with steep price cuts and an Imagine agent mode for creative projects The Decoder • May 02, 2026
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The Sequence Radar #849: Last Week in AI: OpenAI Ships Agents, xAI Eyes Cursor, DeepSeek and Kimi Advance TheSequence • April 26, 2026
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xAI Launches grok-voice-think-fast-1.0: Topping τ-voice Bench at 67.3%, Outperforming Gemini, GPT Realtime, and More MarkTechPost • April 25, 2026
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US justice department steps in on behalf of xAI in Colorado regulation case The Guardian AI • April 24, 2026
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xAI Launches Standalone Grok Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech APIs, Targeting Enterprise Voice Developers MarkTechPost • April 19, 2026
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NAACP lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near Memphis The Guardian AI • April 14, 2026
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Elon Musk’s xAI sues Colorado over new rules for artificial intelligence The Guardian AI • April 09, 2026
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Bezos' Project Prometheus hires xAI co-founder from OpenAI The Decoder • April 07, 2026
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PitchBook: US venture funding surges to record $267B as OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI dominate AI deals SiliconANGLE AI • April 03, 2026
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Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI TechCrunch AI • March 28, 2026
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Musk Reveals Chip Megaproject Spanning Tesla, SpaceX and XAI AI Business • March 24, 2026
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Musk says Tesla, SpaceX, xAI chip project to kick off in Texas Fortune • March 22, 2026
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LWiAI Podcast #237 - Nemotron 3 Super, xAI reborn, Anthropic Lawsuit, Research! Last Week in AI • March 16, 2026
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Last Week in AI #338 - Anthropic sues Trump, xAI starting over, Iran AI Fakes Last Week in AI • March 16, 2026
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What is Digital Optimus? The new Tesla and xAI project explained Teslarati • March 14, 2026
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Residents Raise Alarms as Mississippi Approves Turbines for Musk’s xAI NY Times - Home Page $ • March 12, 2026
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Elon Musk teases massive new Tesla-xAI joint project known as ‘Digital Optimus’ Teslarati • March 11, 2026
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Musk confirms xAI-Tesla joint ‘Digital Optimus’ project — after saying Tesla didn’t need xAI Electrek • March 11, 2026
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Elon Musk’s xAI wins permit for power plant supporting AI data centers Teslarati • March 11, 2026
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Katie Miller—who left Trump’s White House with Elon Musk—surfaces at xAI Fortune • July 03, 2025
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Elon Musk’s xAI is buying equipment—and getting a tax break—for an X data center in Atlanta, documents show Fortune • January 24, 2025

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