Musk’s Grok Bot will use Anthropic’s Claude, Midjourney and Suno models
Musk’s Grok Bot will use Anthropic’s Claude, Midjourney and Suno models

Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will no longer run only on SpaceX’s own AI models. It will also use models from rivals, including Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno, Musk said in a post on X on Wednesday. “Going forward, @SpaceX will use the best ba…

Elon Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI after Trump’s AI order
Elon Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI after Trump’s AI order

Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX’s artificial intelligence unit, SpaceXAI, will change its name to SpaceXSI. The plan follows an order from US President Donald Trump directing federal agencies to drop the term “artificial intelligence.” Musk confir…

Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do
Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do

In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X. To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from “Big Tech Alert,” an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other. That post noted […]

SpaceXAI weighs one Grok and X plan, from free to $100, Bloomberg reports
SpaceXAI weighs one Grok and X plan, from free to $100, Bloomberg reports

SpaceXAI is weighing a plan to fold Grok and X into a single subscription with four price tiers, from free to $100 a month. The plan comes from a company document viewed by Bloomberg, whose Edward Ludlow reported it on Wednesday. SpaceXAI is the artifi…

Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan
Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a “hoax” cooked up by Democrats no longer apply now that he’s renamed the technology to “Super Intelligence.” He […]

Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal
Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal

We now have the full details of the “morally binding” AI safety deal announced by President Trump yesterday, in which top executives agreed to self-regulate their artificial intelligence technology. The accord, officially titled the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, was shared online by tech founder and presidential adviser David Sacks, and has been signed by […]

Tesla (TSLA) wins SEC OK to auto-vote retail shares with board ahead of SpaceX merger
Tesla (TSLA) wins SEC OK to auto-vote retail shares with board ahead of SpaceX merger

Tesla (TSLA) got the SEC’s blessing today to let retail shareholders sign up for a standing instruction that automatically votes their shares the way Tesla’s board recommends, at every meeting, until they cancel it.

The timing is hard to ignore. Tes…

X withheld nearly 500 accounts in Turkey in a week, censorship monitor says
X withheld nearly 500 accounts in Turkey in a week, censorship monitor says

According to a report by Bloomberg on Tuesday, X has concealed around 500 accounts from users in Turkey over the past week, many of which are operated by reporters, economists and academics. The figure is provided by EngelliWeb, a censorship monitoring…

US asks EU court to let it back Musk’s challenge to €120M X fine
US asks EU court to let it back Musk’s challenge to €120M X fine

The US government has asked the EU’s General Court to let it join Elon Musk and X in their challenge to the €120 million fine Brussels imposed on the platform. The Justice Department announced the filing on Thursday. The application covers two cases be…

The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over
The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

At the start of this week, the who’s-who of AI seemed – at least tentatively – on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including by embedding third-party evaluators in labs, coordinating across the domestic industry, and forging international agreements potentially […]