For all his furore over voter fraud, Elon Musk has been one of the most vocal promoters of the US election law. Now his America PAC has been reprimanded by the Georgia State Board of Elections for sending out pre-filled absentee ballot applications. State law prohibits anyone, except an authorized relative, from mailing in an … Read more
Different AI labs have different priorities. For example, OpenAI has traditionally focused on consumer users, while its competitor Anthropic tends to target enterprises. We recently discovered Elon Musk’s xAI puts a special emphasis on tutorials in video games. On Friday, Business Insider’s Grace Kay published a detailed and wide-ranging report on xAI, the AI startup … Read more
Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more cluttered,” according to a former employee who spoke to The Verge about recent departures from Musk’s AI company. This week, following the announcement that Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring xAI (which previously acquired his social media company X), at least 11 engineers and two co-founders … Read more
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of releasing the entire 45-minute video of the all-hands meeting to the public on X. Details of Tuesday night’s meeting were previously reported by The New York Times, which may have influenced xAI’s decision to post the video online. The full video reveals significant new details about Musk’s … Read more
Elon Musk is dealing with a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six from the original 12. At yesterday’s all-hands meeting, Musk suggested that outputs should be about fit, not performance. “Because we’ve reached a certain scale, we’re organizing the company to be more … Read more
On Monday evening, xAI co-founder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu announced that he was leaving the company. “It’s time for my next chapter,” Wu wrote in an overnight post on X. “It’s an era of full possibilities: a small team armed with AI can move mountains and redefine what’s possible.” Less than a day later, on Tuesday … Read more
A year and nearly 2,000 pages of documents later, a group suing to reveal what the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was doing at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says the agency withheld relevant documents “in bad faith” and is asking a court to allow discovery and depositions to obtain the information. “To date, Defendant … Read more
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get it delivered to your inbox, sign up here for free – just click on TechCrunch Mobility! WaymoThe acceleration over the last 18 months is undeniable. The Alphabet-owned self-driving company now operates commercial robotaxi services in … Read more
Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI to create what could be a blueprint for Silicon Valley’s new power structure. With his $800 billion net worth already rivaling the highest market capitalization of historic conglomerate GE, and Musk vocal about his view that “technical victory is determined by the speed of innovation,” the question is … Read more
On Friday, when SpaceX filed plans with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a network of millions of satellite data centers, you might have thought Elon Musk was having a little fun with us. A week later, however, it is clear that he is dead serious. The most visible step, of course, is the formal … Read more