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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Musk’s Grok AI chatbot praises Hitler on X

    Incident follows xAI bot sharing ‘white genocide’ tropes in response to unrelated questions

    Grok and xAI logos on a wall
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    X Corp
    Elon Musk’s X to offer investment and trading in ‘super app’ push

    Foray into financial services could include introducing credit or debit card, CEO Linda Yaccarino says

    Linda Yaccarino
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Musk’s xAI nears $9.3bn equity and debt deal

    Investors undeterred by unravelling of billionaire’s relationship with Trump

    The image shows the logos of xAI and Grok
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    Musk’s feud with Trump muddies xAI debt raising for Morgan Stanley

    Bank was close to lining up $5bn for artificial intelligence group when US president and billionaire attacked each other

    A montage of Donald Trump, left, and Elon Musk
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Musk’s xAI seeks $113bn valuation in $300mn share sale

    Deal to allow investors to buy into group following March takeover of X

    A person holds a telephone displaying the logo of xAI
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    News in-depthX Corp
    How Wall Street offloaded $13bn of debt tied to Musk’s Twitter deal

    Trump’s election helped revive loans that once threatened to hit banks with big losses

    Elon Musk, Twitter logo, US dollars and Morgan Stanley logo
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Telegram
    Musk’s xAI agrees Telegram tie-up as billionaire ‘bromance’ blooms

    Messaging app’s 1bn users will gain access to Grok chatbot after Tesla chief met founder Pavel Durov

    A montage of Pavel Durov with the Telegram logo and US dollars in the background
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Microsoft Corp
    Microsoft to offer Elon Musk’s xAI models to cloud customers

    Tech giant’s move is latest signal of cooling relations with OpenAI

    Montage of Microsoft and xAI logos
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    What do AI chatbots say about their own bosses — and their rivals?

    Leading models are sycophantic about their makers, critical of rivals but agree on one thing: the brilliance of AI chiefs

    Montage of AI CEOs and speech bubbles
  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence group buys X for $45bn

    Billionaire entrepreneur says social media platform and AI group will share data and computational power

    The xAI logo
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Elon Musk’s xAI and Nvidia join BlackRock and Microsoft’s $30bn AI fund

    Tech groups and financial institutions join forces in plans to build data centres and energy projects to underpin AI boom

    Nvidia chief Jensen Huang at a conference in San Jose, California, US
  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
    News in-depthElon Musk
    Chinese investors privately take stakes in Musk’s companies

    Asset managers have been promoting tech mogul’s ties to Donald Trump to lure capital to xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX

    A montage of Elon Musk, China stars, US dollars, logos of xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    Musk’s risqué Grok AI chatbot offers challenge to risk-averse rivals

    Billionaire’s xAI start-up creates model with fewer ‘guardrails’ on adult content, seeking to differentiate itself from OpenAI

    Mobile phone displaying xAI Grok logo on top of a keyboard
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    ExplainerElon Musk
    What will Musk’s businesses gain from his proximity to Trump?

    The world’s richest man now holds huge sway over its most powerful leader — and the US government

    Elon Musk stands with his son X Æ A-Xii on his shoulders as Donald Trump sits at the desk, looking on
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    News in-depthElon Musk
    Sam Altman reckons with a growing threat to OpenAI: Elon Musk

    Tesla chief’s influence over Donald Trump encourages ChatGPT-maker into patriotic pitch to incoming administration

    A montage of Sam Altman and Elon Musk with the OpenAI logo in the background
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Musk plans to expand Colossus AI supercomputer tenfold

    Facility in Memphis expected to incorporate more than 1mn GPUs as billionaire’s xAI aims to catch up with rivals

    The xAI logo and a computer motherboard in the foreground
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Elon Musk’s Twitter backers gain windfall from xAI deal

    Investors hit by losses following billionaire’s takeover of social media platform reap rewards from shares in his AI start-up

    A montage of Elon Musk wearing sunglasses with xAI and X logos on the lenses standing in front of a red background with dollar bills and a Twitter logo
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Elon Musk
    Valuations at Musk’s SpaceX and xAI set to soar in new deals

    Billionaire’s rocket builder plots huge share sale while AI start-up closes in on $5bn funding round

    Elon Musk is seen in the foreground, smiling and waving, wearing a t-shirt that reads "Occupy Mars." In the background, SpaceX's mega rocket Starship is depicted with billowing smoke, set against a red and black graphic design.
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Musk in funding talks with Middle East investors to value xAI at $45bn

    Early discussions include existing backers of artificial intelligence start-up

    Elon Musk appears on a large screen with the stage backdrop featuring the event's logo and a futuristic design
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Musk’s xAI launches Grok-2 in race to catch ChatGPT

    Latest chatbot ranks in top 5 models, according to independent benchmark sites, and will be available to X subscribers

    The xAI logo is seen next to a computer motherboard
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    X Corp
    Musk’s X faces questions from watchdog over AI data grab

    Social media company’s move to automatically allow user data to train chatbot could breach European privacy rules

  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Musk to seek Tesla board approval for $5bn injection into xAI start-up

    Move would see questions resurface over conflicts of interest as EV maker seeks to recast itself as robotics and AI group

    xAI logo
  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    Musk closes $6bn financing for OpenAI challenger xAI

    Latest round puts it in top tier of artificial intelligence start-ups after barely a year

    Elon Musk
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Meta and Elon Musk’s xAI fight to partner with chatbot group Character.ai

    Talks come as Big Tech seeks tie-ups with Silicon Valley artificial intelligence firms

    Character.ai example on a smartphone
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Musk’s xAI secures new backing from Andreessen, Lightspeed, Sequoia and Tribe

    Billionaire’s artificial intelligence start-up closes in on $6bn funding round as it seeks more financial firepower

    Elon Musk and xAI logo
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