‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk’s xAI is starting over again, again

The AI lab is revamping its effort to build an AI coding tool, with two new executives joining from Cursor.

Musk admits xAI ‘not built right’ — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion
Musk admits xAI ‘not built right’ — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion

Elon Musk admitted today that xAI, his artificial intelligence venture, “was not built right first time around” and “is being rebuilt from the foundations up.” The admission comes just six weeks after he had Tesla pour $2 billion of shareholder money i…

Musk confirms xAI-Tesla joint ‘Digital Optimus’ project — after saying Tesla didn’t need xAI
Musk confirms xAI-Tesla joint ‘Digital Optimus’ project — after saying Tesla didn’t need xAI

Elon Musk announced today that “Digital Optimus”, also called “Macrohard”, is a joint xAI-Tesla project that will use xAI’s Grok large language model to power a computer-controlling AI agent. The project is part of Tesla’s $2 billion investment agreeme…

Tesla Cybertruck owner sues over FSD crash, alleges ‘negligent’ retention of Musk
Tesla Cybertruck owner sues over FSD crash, alleges ‘negligent’ retention of Musk

A Texas woman is suing Tesla for over $1 million after her Cybertruck, running on Autopilot, attempted to drive straight off a Houston overpass and crashed into a concrete barrier. The lawsuit includes an unusually pointed allegation: that Tesla was ne…

DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says

A whistleblower is accusing a former DOGE member of stealing a large number of Americans’ personal data while he was working at the Social Security Administration, with the plan of using it at his new job.

Elon Musk moves for mistrial in Twitter fraud case because everyone hates him
Elon Musk moves for mistrial in Twitter fraud case because everyone hates him

Elon Musk’s legal team filed a motion for mistrial in the ongoing Twitter securities fraud class action lawsuit in San Francisco, arguing that the plaintiffs’ lawyers and the judge have created an environment where Musk cannot get a fair trial. The 20-…

Nashville opposes Elon Musk’s Loop tunnel — a decade later, still no proof it beats a subway
Nashville opposes Elon Musk’s Loop tunnel — a decade later, still no proof it beats a subway

Nashville’s Metro Council voted 20-15 to formally oppose the Boring Company’s Music City Loop, a proposed 13-mile underground tunnel system that would shuttle passengers in Tesla vehicles between downtown Nashville and the airport.

The non-binding r…

X taps William Shatner to give out invites to its payments service, X Money

42 X users donated to William Shatner’s charity in exchange for an early invite to X Money beta.

Musk claims Tesla will ‘make AGI’ after years of wrong AI predictions
Musk claims Tesla will ‘make AGI’ after years of wrong AI predictions

Elon Musk declared today that Tesla will be “one of the companies to make AGI” and “probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form.” It’s the latest in a long string of grand AI predictions from the Tesla CEO.

The problem is that Musk h…

Elon Musk’s xAI is undoing Tesla’s climate work all in the name of AI slop
Elon Musk’s xAI is undoing Tesla’s climate work all in the name of AI slop

Elon Musk’s xAI is now operating 62 unpermitted methane gas turbines across two data centers in Memphis, Tennessee, and Southaven, Mississippi. According to xAI’s own permit application, the facilities could emit more than 6 million tons of greenhouse …