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Elon Musk’s xAI secures $6 bln in equity financing: Report
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, has raised $6 billion in equity financing as it intensifies efforts to compete with industry leaders in the AI sector, according to a recent report by Reuters.
Elon Musk asks US court to block OpenAi's for-profit conversion
Attorneys representing the billionaire and his AI startup, xAI, filed the injunction Friday, the financial news site reported.
xAI to launch its own app soon: Report
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, is preparing to launch its own app for the Grok chatbot as early as December, according to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal.
What forcing Google to sell Chrome could mean
Elon Musk's AI startup could conceivably be a Chrome contender, bankrolled by his riches and having the deal cleared thanks to his close working relationship with incoming president Donald Trump.
Why is Elon Musk all over US politics?
Musk’s bet on Trump has already benefited him.
Musk's SpaceX test launches Starship rocket; Trump attends
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its massive Starship rocket system from Boca Chica, Texas, on Tuesday, in a test attended by President-elect Donald Trump. While the launch marked progress in spaceflight technology, the mission faced a setback when the rocket’s booster, Super Heavy, failed to land as planned.
Can the Trump-Musk 'bromance' last?
Can the bromance between the world's wealthiest man and the soon-to-be US president survive some major policy differences and their own combustible personalities?
Elon Musk's political rise stirs hopes for banks that financed his X purchase
Some of the lenders in the consortium, which included Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, think Musk's emergence as a close aide to Republican President-elect Donald Trump could boost the prospects of X
Facebook is making 'views' as primary content performance metric
Facebook has recently announced to shift its focus to "views" as the primary metric for measuring content performance, aligning its approach with Instagram’s existing system.
Musk's new AI image generator causes ethical concerns
Elon Musk's Grok, an AI-powered chatbot integrated into X (formerly Twitter), has recently been given image generation capabilities, which is raising significant ethical and legal concerns due to the AI image generator's apparent lack of restrictions.
Starlink obtains license to operate in Sri Lanka
Starlink, the satellite internet service owned by Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX, has been granted a license to operate in Sri Lanka by the country's telecommunications regulator. This makes Sri Lanka the first South Asian country to potentially have Starlink's internet services.
Blue checkmarks on X deceives users: EU investigation
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has reportedly breached European Union (EU) content rules because, as per the EU, the platform deceives users with its blue checkmarks. As such, X is expected to pay a large amount of fines under disciplinary action to be taken by the EU.
Apple and Meta might form AI partnership: report
Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms has talked about incorporating its generative AI model into Apple's newly revealed AI system for iPhones, reveals a report from The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. These discussions are reportedly in preliminary stages and could still be abandoned.
Musk threatens to ban Apple devices at his companies
Elon Musk has recently stated that he plans to ban Apple devices at his companies, on the condition that Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level.
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI now worth $24 bln
Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, has recently raised $6 billion in Series B funding, culminating in a total post-money valuation of $24 billion, according to the company.
Elon Musk plans supercomputer to power xAI's Grok: report
Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, is reportedly planning on building a supercomputer to power the next version of xAI's chatbot Grok, according to the American tech publication The Information. As per the report, Elon Musk told investors that the supercomputer is planned to be four times bigger than modern GPU clusters.
Musk arrives in Indonesia's Bali for planned Starlink launch
Tycoon Elon Musk arrived on the Indonesian island of Bali on Sunday ahead of the planned launch of SpaceX's Starlink internet service, which the Indonesian government hopes will boost internet penetration and health services in remote parts of the sprawling archipelago
Musk says Tesla charger network will grow, days after layoffs
Elon Musk said Tesla would invest over $500 million this year to install new superchargers, just days after a report of massive layoffs
What is Elon Musk doing in China?
Elon Musk's recent visit to China has stirred significant interest and speculation, drawing attention to the purpose and implications of his journey. Musk's visit, the details of which were mostly kept secret, was primarily aimed at the rollout of Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) software in China, as well as receiving necessary permissions for data transfer regulations.