Musk says he doesn’t want Tesla to buy xAI, just invest in it
CEO Elon Musk doesn’t think his car company should merge with his AI company, xAI, he said on his social media platform, X, which itself was recently purchased by xAI . No — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July...
xAI launches Grok 4, Grok 4 Heavy, SuperGrok Heavy
The launch of a major new version of the Grok AI model should be a triumphant moment for Elon Musk’s xAI, but a week of self-induced chaos has overshadowed the release. During a midnight livestream on...
Ives: Apple needs to buy Perplexity
Dan Ives has a short message for leadership: time’s up. The Wedbush Securities analyst released a note today saying that Apple CEO Tim Cook needs to “rip the band-aid off” and make a big move to shak...
Musk’s Grok spews antisemitic posts after “improvement”
A few weeks ago, after expressing his displeasure that his Grok chatbot was “parroting legacy media” when it wrote that data showed “right-wing political violence has been more frequent and deadly,” ...
Meta poaches top Apple AI executive for its superintelligence group
now counts head of AI models among its growing “Meta Superintelligence Labs” team, Bloomberg reports . Ruoming Pang’s pay package will reportedly cost Meta tens of millions per year and is the latest...
Apple is up on news it’s considering using OpenAI or Anthropic to power its AI assistant
The updated AI assistant announced at its developer conference last year never came to fruition. Instead, the Apple Intelligence-powered Siri was rife with errors and was never able to pull contextua...
Zuckerberg announces new AI hires for “Meta Superintelligence Labs”
CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially announced the initial roster of AI researchers that he recruited away from his competitors . In an internal memo to employees, Zuckerberg said the new team will be calle...
OpenAI “recalibrating comp” to keep Meta from poaching more AI talent
OpenAI is hoping to fight back against , which is using its deep pockets to poach talent. Wired reported that OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen said in a memo on Saturday that the ChatGPT maker ...
Meta’s “superintelligence” AI team appears to be largely made up of OpenAI, and has their work cut out for them
Meta’s plan to rival OpenAI seems to be largely dependent on OpenAI itself. The social media company has been assembling a “superintelligence” team to boost its AI chops, help it reach AGI , and allow...
Judge rules Anthropic training on books it purchased was “fair use,” but not for the ones it stole
When AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and were racing to build and train new large language models, they scrambled to find enough text to train their systems on. Countless web pages , photos, You...
Apple is behind in AI — maybe it can buy its way to the top?
Apple hasn’t taken AI as seriously as some of its peers, and now, it seems that the company’s top brass are considering writing a very large check to catch up in the space. Though the company is yet t...
Report: Musk’s xAI is burning through $1 billion per month
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has a history of burning piles of money in pursuit of eventual profits (see and SpaceX). The way he is running his AI startup, xAI, is no exception. Bloomberg is r...
Things are not going well for the OpenAI and Microsoft partnership
A pair of reports paint a fraying partnership between and OpenAI. The Wall Street Journal wrote that the companies are still arguing about several issues, including the final size of Microsoft’s stak...
Another Chinese startup claims to outperform DeepSeek
- and -backed AI startup MiniMax said its latest model outperforms DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup whose “faster, cheaper, better” performance caused a market rout earlier this year that had Big Tech...
AMD surges as traders hope that new AI chips will spur faster growth
is the best-performing member of the S&P 500 around midday as investors belatedly cheer its ambition to challenge Nvidia in the AI chip space, with Wall Street warming to its prospects. Over 682,000 c...
When is AGI coming? These experts have it figured it out.
Can you feel the AGI? It’s coming. At least that’s what a lot of big names in AI are saying. While there isn’t even an agreed upon definition of what AGI — artificial general intelligence — is, these ...
Disney, NBCUniversal sue AI image generation startup Midjourney for copyright infringement
Midjourney, the early AI image generation startup, is being sued by and on allegations of copyright infringement. This is a significant case with huge consequences for the AI industry, as it’s the f...
Snap spikes after becoming the latest tech company to announce AI glasses
is trading higher today after the company announced yesterday it would be debuting new AI-powered smart glasses next year. “The tiny smartphone limited our imagination,” Snap CEO Evan Spiegel told the...
Report: Meta is staffing up a “superintelligence” lab to win the race to AGI
Mark Zuckerberg is putting a team together. The CEO is not happy with where his company stands in the race for AGI (artificial general intelligence), the loosely defined goal of creating an AI that i...
Analysts: “We were not expecting much... but were still slightly disappointed” by Apple
Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC, was no Google I/O this year. After overpromising the capabilities of its AI software last year, dialed back boasting big ideas and instead focused on more i...