Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’

The footage looks okay, as long as you’re not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.

Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats. 

A new study found Grok’s AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI’s GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares
Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares

Oh sure, SpaceX’s credit risk is pretty high because it’s about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger! The degree to which you find this merger compelling likely has to do with the degree to which […]

SpaceX signs up Apollo and Nvidia for a new Grok partner network
SpaceX signs up Apollo and Nvidia for a new Grok partner network

SpaceX has launched the Super Intelligence Partner Network for companies that deploy or build on Grok, with Apollo, Nvidia, Snowflake, Databricks, Bain and more than 130 firms joining early. It follows a quarter in which SpaceX’s AI unit turned a profi…

Tesla (TSLA) proxy shows a board getting ready for a SpaceX merger
Tesla (TSLA) proxy shows a board getting ready for a SpaceX merger

Tesla’s proxy for its 2026 annual meeting, filed today, confirms that one of its supposedly independent directors now sits on SpaceX’s board. Ira Ehrenpreis, who chairs both Tesla’s compensation committee and its governance committee, joined SpaceX’s b…

Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot purchase mistakes and leaked cards
Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot purchase mistakes and leaked cards

“To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it.” Elon Musk posted that advice on X on Saturday. On Thursday he added a promis…

The tech backlash is now in theaters
The tech backlash is now in theaters

Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can […]

Ofcom says it still has concerns over how X removes illegal hate content
Ofcom says it still has concerns over how X removes illegal hate content

Britain’s online safety regulator, Ofcom, says it still has concerns about how well X removes illegal hate and terror content. This comes even though X is now reviewing these reports more quickly. In May, X promised to review posts reported through its…

SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute
SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute

If Elon Musk and SpaceXAI were going to back any Linux distro, it seems obvious they’d back Omarchy. Today it was announced that SpaceXAI would be joining the Omacom Foundation, which oversees Omarchy, as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to David Heinemeier Hansson’s Linux project. According to Hansson’s […]

ICO secures data protection changes from 10 AI developers, turns to agents
ICO secures data protection changes from 10 AI developers, turns to agents

Ten of the biggest AI developers have made, or committed to make, changes to how they handle personal data. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) secured the changes after two years of scrutiny. The data regulator named them on Thursday: Ama…