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Elon Musk says the company will bring back Vine's archive of videos back online.
Elon Musk continues to position Grok as an unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI.
Construction could start fast -- but that speed has edangered Boring Company workers in the past.
The deal for next-generation chips is a boon for Samsung.Â
The Department of Government Efficiency has presented plans to use a new AI tool to eliminate half of the federal governmentâs regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of President Donald Trumpâs return to office, according to The Washington Post.
Tesla saw a 17% growth in its services business, but it was not enough to close the gap in falling EV sales, fewer regulatory credits, and a decline in solar and energy storage sales.
Tesla's debut in India has not convinced its early backers, who waited for the company to enter the market for nearly a decade.
SpaceX has been moving at breakneck pace, rapid progress comes at a cost. Worker injury rates at its Starbase facility are almost six times higher than the average, data reveals.
The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company's technological advances.
As Elon Musk once said, "We dug our own grave with Cybertruck."
One Elon Musk business might be making a big investment in another.
Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week, including a shakeup at X, Hugging Face’s new robot, new phones from Nothing and Samsung, and a whole lot more. Have a great weekend! Off to do something else: X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped down this week after a tumultuous […]
In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was âhorrific behavior.â The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the Elon Musk-led company behind Grok, as opposed to an AI-generated explanation for Grokâs posts. (xAI recently acquired X, where Grok is prominently featured.)
This raises real questions around how "maximally truth-seeking" Grok is designed to be, versus how much it's designed to just agree with Musk, the world's richest man.
Elon Musk said in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok â the chatbot from his AI company, xAI â will be coming to Tesla vehicles âvery soon.â âNext week at the latest,â he said.
President Donald Trump appointed Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to lead NASA.
Elon Muskâs AI company, xAI, late on Wednesday released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 4, and unveiled a new $300-per-month AI subscription plan, SuperGrok Heavy. Grok is xAIâs answer to models like OpenAIâs ChatGPT and Googleâs Gemini, and can analyze images and respond to questions. In recent months, Grok has become more deeply integrated into Muskâs social […]
Though he officially left the U.S. government in May, Steve Davis -- Elon Musk's low-flying former top lieutenant at the Department of Government Efficiency -- continues wielding influence at DOGE, according to the WSJ. The outlet says Davis regularly gives directions to current DOGE officials and has privately dismissed his departure as "fake news."
Elon Musk's X has taken the automated account for Grok, its AI chatbot, offline after it spent Tuesday afternoon pushing antisemitic narratives.
Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, stepped down from her role on Wednesday morning after two years.
SpaceX is in talks to raise fresh capital at a $400 billion valuation.
Previous lawsuits against SpaceX have alleged similar stories of bias against female employees and a hostile work environment that enabled gender-based harassment.
Tesla sales fell more than 13% compared to last year as the company struggles to find demand for its aging lineup, and as CEO Elon Musk continues to damage the brand.
Legacy aerospace giants scored a win Tuesday when the U.S. Senate passed President Trumpâs budget reconciliation bill that earmarks billions more for NASAâs flagship Artemis program. The $10 billion addition to the Artemis architecture, which includes funding for additional Space Launch System rockets and an orbiting station around the moon called Gateway, is a rebuke […]
Musk has openly criticized the president's 'big, beautiful' bill.
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has raised $5 billion in debt and $5 billion in equity, Morgan Stanley said on Monday.
The car traveled around 15 miles on highways, surface streets, and even a roundabout. But many questions remain about the stunt.
A crane collapsed at SpaceX’s South Texas rocket facility this week, and the company’s newly-formed city won’t say if anyone was hurt. On June 23, a crane being used to clean up debris from the most recent SpaceX rocket explosion collapsed at the company’s launch complex. Footage of the accident was captured by Lab Padre, […]
Omead Afshar, one of Musk's top lieutenants, is out after more than seven years at the company. He was recently elevated to a VP role in late 2024.
Bezos allegedly sees an opening for his space company, Blue Origin, now that Musk has been diminished in the eyes of the President.
Elon Musk's xAI company is looking to raise $4.3 billion in equity funding, adding onto the $5 billion it's seeking in debt funding.