twitter Twitter Employs Poison Pill Strategy to Thwart Elon Musk Takeover Twitter adopts a shareholder rights plan, commonly known as a poison pill, to prevent Elon Musk from acquiring a controlling stake in the company. The defensive strategy makes a hostile takeover prohibitively expensive for the billionaire.
elon musk Elon Musk Abruptly Declines Twitter Board Seat Elon Musk officially declines to join Twitter's board of directors, leaving his future plans and stake in the company unclear. The surprise decision removes restrictions on how much of the social media platform he can own.
openai Jury Dismisses Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit Over Statute of Limitations A federal jury unanimously throws out Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, ruling that Musk waits too long to file the case. Musk immediately announces plans to appeal the decision.
tesla Utah Driver Admits Phone Distraction During Tesla Autopilot Crash A 28-year-old woman tells Utah police she was looking at her phone when her Tesla Model S, operating on Autopilot, runs a red light and strikes a fire truck at 60 mph. Tesla states it has not yet received vehicle data to confirm if the semi-autonomous system is engaged during the collision.
elon musk Lawmakers Demand AI Regulation After Musk Shares Fake Harris Video Elon Musk faces intense criticism for sharing a deepfake video of Vice President Kamala Harris that receives over 132 million views on X. The incident prompts California lawmakers to push for urgent legislation requiring social media platforms to label or block deceptive AI content during elections.
deepfakes Musk-Spread Harris Deepfake Ignites Election Free Speech Debate A manipulated Kamala Harris campaign ad shared by Elon Musk highlights the growing challenge of regulating AI deepfakes during an election year. Experts and politicians remain divided on whether the viral audio constitutes dangerous misinformation or protected parody.
grok-2 xAI Launches Grok-2 With Advanced Reasoning and Image Generation xAI releases the Grok-2 beta, introducing state-of-the-art reasoning and the ability to generate images directly within the platform.
xai xAI Unveils Grok-2 and Grok-2 Mini with Native Image Generation Elon Musk's xAI introduces Grok-2 and Grok-2 Mini, featuring powerful image generation tools and benchmark scores that rival top industry models. Both chatbots are currently available on the X platform, with an enterprise API release planned for later this month.
elon musk Musk Threatens to Ban Apple Devices Over OpenAI Security Concerns Elon Musk vows to ban Apple devices from his companies if Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, calling it an unacceptable security violation. He even threatens to store visitor iPhones in Faraday cages to block any potential data transmission.
tesla Tesla Grapples With Falling Sales and Robotaxi Doubts Ahead of Q1 Report Tesla prepares to release its first-quarter earnings as CEO Elon Musk confronts a significant slide in electric vehicle sales and widespread skepticism regarding his robotaxi ambitions. The automaker responds to these market challenges by implementing broad price cuts across its vehicle lineup.
elon musk Unsealed Evidence Reveals Explosive Details in Musk Versus OpenAI Trial Thousands of pages of unsealed court documents expose shocking internal dynamics at OpenAI ahead of the upcoming jury trial between Elon Musk and Sam Altman. The evidence highlights massive personal stakes and complex corporate ties surrounding the 2023 firing of Altman.
xai xAI Unveils Grok-1 as Largest Open Source Mixture-of-Experts AI Model Elon Musk's xAI releases Grok-1, a massive 314-billion-parameter model, under the Apache 2.0 license. The base model lacks safety tuning and matches early GPT-3.5 benchmark performance.
grok Elon Musk's xAI Launches Grok Chatbot to Rival ChatGPT Grok is a new AI chatbot from Elon Musk's xAI that pulls real-time data from the web and X to answer provocative questions. The tool directly competes with ChatGPT by offering a rebellious alternative to traditional AI assistants.
elon musk Elon Musk Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Contract Breach and Mission Shift Elon Musk files a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the organization violates its founding agreement by prioritizing profit over its original nonprofit mission to develop safe artificial general intelligence.
openai Ilya Sutskever Uses Secret Memo to Oust Sam Altman and Plot Anthropic Merger Newly released deposition transcripts reveal that former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever orchestrated Sam Altman's firing using a 52-page memo of secondhand accusations. The documents also uncover a panicked board's failed weekend plot to merge the collapsing company with rival Anthropic.