The SpaceX IPO is here, and it’s more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. It also reveals more ways in which Elon Musk’s companies interact and overlap with each other, shuffling money around in ways that are often difficult to keep track of. This is evident…
Just a simple country CEO who was being tricked by that sophisticated lawyer | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images About five hours into Elon Musk’s testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: “I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life.” Musk’s direct testimony was an improvement…
With an IPO looming for Elon Musk’s SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an odd arrangement to either acquire the automated programming platform Cursor for $60 billion or pay a fee of $10 billion. Buying this startup that’s focused on AI coding could help xAI’s tools compete with market…
A group of teenagers has filed a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, alleging that its “Grok” model was used to generate and distribute non-consensual sexualized images and videos of minors. Filed in the Northern District of California, the case represents a legal milestone as the first instance of minors pursuing…
xAI’s Grok is removing clothing from pictures of people without their consent following this week’s rollout of a feature that allows X users to instantly edit any image using the bot without needing the original poster’s permission. Not only does the original poster not get notified if their picture was edited, but Grok appears to…
Grok’s track record is spotty at best. But even by the very low standards of xAI, its failure in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia is shocking. The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who heroically disarmed one of the shooters, and claimed the…
Elon Musk envisions Grokipedia – xAI’s AI-generated, anti-woke spin on Wikipedia – as a definitive monument to human knowledge, something complete and truthful enough to etch in stone and preserve in space. In reality, it’s a hot mess, and it’s only getting worse now that anyone can suggest edits. Grokipedia was not always editable. When…
