Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.

In a dramatic development that bodes well for its coffers, but not so for the competitiveness of its Grok AI model, SpaceX has just inked a $6.3 billion compute deal to start renting out Colossus 2 GPUs, raising question marks over its strategy to compete with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. SpaceX will collect $150 million per month from July onwards by renting out NVIDIA GB300 GPUs at its Colossus 2 data center to Reflection As of May 2026, SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center supported over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, divided between H100, H200, and around 30,000 units of the […]

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Although Wall Street loves AI, every day Americans are significantly less optimistic about the industry, a new report from Pew Research shows.

A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic IPO.

SpaceX's IPO filing reveals xAI lost $6.4 billion in 2025 while planning a massive Grok expansion — offering the first public look at Elon Musk's AI financials and more details about his ambitions.

"Distillation" is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models.

X's AI-powered custom timelines are replacing Communities, with Grok-curated feeds...and new ad slots.

Apple may not be leading on AI at the moment, but that has not stopped the tech giant from profiting off the mania around generative artificial intelligence apps. What's more, Apple's haul from AI apps is only expected to grow in 2026, as per a new analysis. Apple collected $900 million in fees from generative AI apps in 2025, and is all set to increase its haul to over $1 billion in 2026 As per the data from AppMagic, Apple collected $900 million in fees from generative AI apps in 2025, with 75 percent of this haul coming from OpenAI's […]

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After their dramatic falling-out, it doesn't seem as though Anthropic and the Pentagon are getting back together.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren noted that Grok, xAI's controversial chatbot, has created harmful outputs for users and poses a potential national security risk.

The three plaintiffs are seeking to represent anyone who had real images of them as a minor altered into sexual content by Grok.

CollectivIQ looks to give users more accurate answers to their AI queries by showing them responses that pull information from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok — and up to 10 other models — all at the same time.

In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images.

A new report from Business Insider reveals that high-level engineers at xAI were pulled off other projects to make sure Grok could answer detailed questions about the video game Baldur's Gate.