Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center

Emails show that Elon Musk's company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.

Meta announced on Tuesday that it's testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers to questions or context about a conversation on the platform. If you've spent any time looking at replies on X as of late, this new feature sounds a lot like Meta's take on people tagging xAI's Grok. But, as reported by Engadget, Threads users quickly discovered that you can't block the new Meta AI account, and they aren't happy about it. Meta has invested heavily in AI as it works to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Google, spending billions to hire AI talent. It launched a new AI model called Muse Spark in April, which it s … Read the full story at The Verge.

The post xAI partners with Cursor in $10 billion deal to supercharge AI coding capabilities appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Elon Musk’s xAI has struck a partnership with Cursor, the AI-powered coding assistant, backing it with a $10 billion investment and an option to acquire the startup outright for $60 billion in 2026. The structure here is worth unpacking. xAI is investing $10 billion into Cursor now, with an option to buy the company for $60 billion that becomes exercisable in 2026. If xAI decides to walk away from the acquisition, there’s a $10 billion breakup fee attached. Cursor is currently running at roughly $2 billion in annual revenue. That’s a staggering number for a company whose flagship product, Composer, launched less than six months ago. In that short window, Cursor scaled its reinforcement learning capabilities by over 20x, which partly explains why xAI is willing to write such a large check. The partnership specifically addresses one of Cursor’s biggest bottlene

The partnership could significantly enhance AI development efficiency, diversify revenue streams, and reshape investor expectations in tech sectors. The post xAI partners with Cursor in $10 billion deal to supercharge AI coding capabilities appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we discussed what xAI's deal with Anthropic might mean for parent company SpaceX.

Elon Musk’s AI ambitions are converging on multiple fronts simultaneously. SpaceX is considering spending up to $119 billion on a semiconductor facility in Grimes County, Texas, dubbed “Terafab” — a vertically integrated chip manufacturing complex developed alongside Tesla and Intel. The facility is intended to produce chips for AI servers, satellites, autonomous vehicles, and SpaceX’s proposed orbital […]

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), a division of the US Department of Commerce, has signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI that would give the agency the ability to vet AI models from these organizations and others prior to their being made publicly available. According to a release from CAISI, which is part of the department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), it will “conduct pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities and advance the state of AI security.” The three join Anthropic and OpenAI, which signed similar agreements almost two years ago during the Biden administration, when CAISI was known as the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute. An August 2024 release about those agreements indicated that the institute planned to provide feedback to both companies on “potential safety improvements to their models, in close collaboration with its partners at the UK AI Safety In

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.