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Elon Musk’s xAI to build $20 billion data center in Mississippi

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi, ...

Factbox-Elon Musk's Grok faces global scrutiny for sexualised AI photos

Governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexually explicit content ...

U.K. says ban on Elon Musk's X platform "on the table" over Grok AI sexualized images

Britain's leader says all options on the table if Musk's X platform doesn't stop Grok AI tool being used to generate ...

Elon Musk's X limits some sexual deepfakes after backlash, but Grok will still make the images

NBC News asked Grok in its standalone app, the Grok X tab and website to transform a series of photos of a clothed person who ...

After ‘digital undressing’ criticism, Elon Musk’s Grok limits some image generation to paid subscribers

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has limited some aspects of its Imagine image generation features to paid subscribers on X, days ...

Why Elon Musk says saving for retirement will be 'irrelevant' in the next 20 years

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk described a future where technology creates an abundance of resources so "anyone can have ...

Elon Musk's Grok Faces Backlash Over Nonconsensual AI-Altered Images

The AI chatbot has been creating sexualized images of women and children upon request. How can this be stopped?

I met a lot of weird robots at CES — here are the most memorable

If the robots don't always give a totally accurate representation of where commercial deployment is at the moment, they do give visitors a peek at where their parent companies might be headed.

Google moonshot spinout SandboxAQ claims an ex-exec is attempting ‘extortion’

A former SandboxAQ executive filed a wrongful termination lawsuit filled with shocking allegations. The company is fighting back, hard.

Anthropic cracks down on unauthorized Claude usage by third-party harnesses and rivals

Anthropic has confirmed the implementation of strict new technical safeguards preventing third-party applications from spoofing its official coding client, Claude Code, in order to access the underlying Claude AI models for more favorably pricing and limits — a move that has disrupted workflows for users of popular open source coding agent OpenCode. Simultaneously but separately, it has restricted usage of its AI models by rival labs including xAI (through the integrated developer environment Cu

CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities 

CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from Sunday’s Unveiled event. 

Orchestral replaces LangChain’s complexity with reproducible, provider-agnostic LLM orchestration

A new framework from researchers Alexander and Jacob Roman rejects the complexity of current AI tools, offering a synchronous, type-safe alternative designed for reproducibility and cost-conscious science.In the rush to build autonomous AI agents, developers have largely been forced into a binary choice: surrender control to massive, complex ecosystems like LangChain, or lock themselves into single-vendor SDKs from providers like Anthropic or OpenAI. For software engineers, this is an annoyance.

How the Sleepbuds maker, Ozlo, is building a platform for sleep data

Ozlo Sleepbuds are going to have a big year, with new products, AI features, and more.

The 11 runtime attacks breaking AI security — and how CISOs are stopping them

Enterprise security teams are losing ground to AI-enabled attacks — not because defenses are weak, but because the threat model has shifted. As AI agents move into production, attackers are exploiting runtime weaknesses where breakout times are measured in seconds, patch windows in hours, and traditional security has little visibility or control.CrowdStrike's 2025 Global Threat Report documents breakout times as fast as 51 seconds. Attackers are moving from initial access to lateral movemen

Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power

Two smaller companies, Oklo and TerraPower, along with Vistra, a large energy company, just signed agreements with Meta.

Are Tech giants killing cold outreach?

This is one of the most concerning questions for sales teams at the beginning of 2026: are tech giants killing cold outreach? The answer is that we do not know yet, but here is a perspective from someone working in sales. Apple and Google have recently introduced two features that show a clear tendency toward the decline of cold outreach. Apple’s new feature, “Ask Reason for Calling,” is a game changer. It effectively turns cold calling into another form of messaging. No more dynamism, no elemen

X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire

Elon Musk's AI company has restricted Grok's controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heated criticism from across the world for letting users generate sexualized images of women and children.

The venture firm that ate Silicon Valley just raised another $15 billion

In a blog post published Friday morning, Ben Horowitz writes that "as the American leader in Venture Capital, the fate of new technology in the United States rests partly on our shoulders." It's the kind of statement certain to cause agita at rival firms.

'I'm Not Black': Elon Musk Slams South Africa's 140 Discriminatory Laws – Does Reverse Racism Really Exist Here?

In a recent series of posts on X, the SpaceX and Starlink chief said South Africa has more than 140 laws that discriminate ...

How Elon Musk’s Tesla diner ran out of juice in just 6 months

Declining customer numbers and mounting scorn for the ‘retro-futuristic’ eatery show how tough the restaurant business can be ...