AI Regulation
xAI Lost Its OpenAI Trade Secrets Case, Then Appealed
A 56-page opening brief landed at the Ninth Circuit on Monday. Its own jurisdictional statement contains the fact that most coverage of this fight has never carried.
6d ago
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AI Safety
A Fourth Family Is Suing xAI Over Grok-Generated Abuse Images
The newest complaint is filed for a 16-year-old boy, the first male plaintiff in the series. All four trace back to one Arkansas photographer's arrest in June.
Aug 16, 2026
AI Models
xAI Shipped Grok 4.6. It Is the Same Foundation Model, Trained Harder.
An Intelligence Index of 61 and a 500K context, built by post-training Grok 4.5 rather than pretraining anything new. On coding it still trails GPT-5.6.
Aug 13, 2026
Anthropic
SpaceX's AI Arm Outspent Rockets 13-To-1, Anthropic Pays $1.25B
The first earnings report since June's IPO shows a launch company whose financial centre of gravity is inference. Revenue beat, the loss narrowed, and the capital expenditure line took eight percent off the stock.
Aug 6, 2026
US AI Regulation
xAI Agreed to Remove 69 Turbines, While Gas Capacity Rises
Mississippi regulators and SpaceX signed an agreed order covering the unpermitted turbines running Colossus. They come out over the next year, and a permanent 1.2-gigawatt plant replaces them.
Aug 1, 2026
AI Safety
Judge Refuses to Block Minnesota's Nudification Law
xAI lost its emergency motion on timing, not on the merits. The law took effect on Saturday, and the constitutional challenge gets a real hearing on 19 August.
Aug 1, 2026
UK AI Regulation
An MP Is Asking the High Court to Order xAI to Fix Grok
Jess Asato filed her claim in June. On Tuesday the filings went further: permanent technical measures so the model cannot make sexualised images of her, and removal of the ones still online.
Jul 29, 2026
AI Models
Musk Gave Grok 4.6 a Date, and Quietly Took Away Half a Trillion Parameters
Ten days ago Grok 4.6 was going to be the 2-trillion-parameter model. On Tuesday it became the 1.5T model again, with the bigger one renamed 4.7.
Jul 29, 2026
US AI Regulation
xAI Is Suing to Kill America's First Nudification Ban, Four Days Before It Bites
Minnesota's law takes effect on 1 August with penalties up to $500,000 per violation. xAI filed a First Amendment challenge on Monday arguing it sweeps in shorts and swimsuits.
Jul 28, 2026
AI Research
Musk Says xAI's 2-Trillion-Parameter 'Grok 4.6' Will Finish Initial Training Next Week
Elon Musk says the successor to the 1.5T model behind Grok 4.5 is 'better in every way,' could 'exceed Kimi,' and should keep speed and token efficiency close to today's model.
Jul 19, 2026
AI Regulation
xAI Appeals Its Dismissed OpenAI Trade-Secret Suit as OpenAI Seeks $1M in Sanctions
A federal judge twice threw out Elon Musk's claim that OpenAI poached engineers to steal secrets; now xAI is taking it to the Ninth Circuit while OpenAI asks the court to declare the case should never have been filed.
Jul 14, 2026
AI Agents
SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.5, an 'Opus-Class' Model at a Fraction of the Cost
Elon Musk says the new model rivals Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 while running faster and cheaper, priced at $2 per million input tokens — a public launch timed one day before OpenAI's GPT-5.6 reaches everyone.
Jul 9, 2026
AI Models
xAI Is Now SpaceXAI as Musk Folds His AI Company Into SpaceX
The rebrand makes it official: the Grok maker no longer exists as a separate company. Its new name signals the plan Musk has pushed since the $1.25 trillion merger — AI compute in orbit.
Jul 8, 2026
