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July 2026
June 2026
- Only 16% of Americans see positive AI societal impact per Pew
- SpaceX acquires Cursor AI coding startup for $60B
- Former engineer sues xAI claiming retaliation over Grok safety warnings
- Nashville Zoo petition hits 288k signatures against adjacent AI data center
- xAI asks court to strip anonymity from Grok deepfake lawsuit plaintiffs
May 2026
- OpenRouter raises $113M Series B led by CapitalG
- xAI retires multiple Grok API models effective May 15
- OpenAI Cofounder Brockman Testifies Musk Sought 'Absolute Control' Over For-Profit Arm
- French Prosecutors Open Criminal Probe Into Elon Musk and X
- xAI launches Grok 4.3 with always-on reasoning and voice cloning suite
- Shivon Zilis Emerges as Key Figure in Musk v. Altman Trial
April 2026
- Elon Musk testifies xAI 'partly' used OpenAI models to train its own
- Google Expands Pentagon Access to AI After Anthropic Refusal
- Study finds major chatbots vary widely in safety when responding to simulated delusional users
- Intel beats expectations for sixth straight quarter as AI CPU demand surges
- Japanese TV Shopping Company Quadruples VC Fund to $200M After Early AI Bets Pay Off
- Gas-Powered Data Center Projects Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
- SpaceX IPO could value company at over $1 trillion as investors weigh space economics
- Jeff Bezos close to $10B funding for AI lab Project Prometheus
- DOJ Declines French Request for Assistance in X Criminal Probe
- Thiel-backed startup Objection uses AI to judge journalism for $2,000 per challenge
- Tesla unveils AI5 processor sample with claimed 40X performance boost over predecessor
- NAACP sues xAI over unpermitted gas turbines at AI data center
- Apple threatened to remove Grok from App Store over sexualized deepfakes
- xAI Sues Colorado to Block AI Anti-Discrimination Law
- xAI Reorganizes Engineering Team, SpaceX Executive Michael Nicolls Named President
- Intel joins Musk's Terafab project alongside Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI
- Intel partners with Elon Musk to build Terafab AI chip factory in Texas
- Intel Stock Climbs After Joining Musk's Terafab Chip Manufacturing Project
- Bezos' Project Prometheus recruits xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI
- OpenAI accuses Musk of 'anti-competitive behavior,' asks state AGs to investigate
March 2026
- Mistral AI Raises $830 Million to Expand Nvidia GPU Data Center Capacity
- Elon Musk's Last xAI Co-Founder Has Left the Company
- Elon Musk Announces $10B Terafab Chip Facility in Austin for Tesla, SpaceX, xAI
- xAI sending engineers to enterprise client sites to win business from OpenAI and Anthropic
- Musk says Tesla, SpaceX, xAI chip project to kick off in Texas
- Senator Warren presses Pentagon over xAI classified network access
- Teens sue xAI over Grok-generated CSAM
- Devendra Chaplot joins SpaceX and xAI to build superintelligence
- President Trump Secures Historic Commitment to Keep Electricity Costs Down Amid Data Center Boom
February 2026
- Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying 'nobody committed suicide because of Grok'
- Anthropic CEO Stands Firm as Pentagon Deadline Looms Over AI Model Safeguards
- Anthropic and Pentagon argue over military use of Claude models
- Is safety 'dead' at xAI?
- With co-founders leaving and IPO looming, Elon Musk holds xAI all-hands on lunar ambitions
- Research reveals which popular generative AI chatbots lie