The CEO’s embrace of nascent AI technology is a shift from the company’s early days when it used off-the-shelf technology for electric cars.

Google is planning to end its business relationship with Scale AI after its rival, Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META), acquired a 49% stake in the AI data-labeling startup.

xAI is the company behind Grok, Musk’s “anti-woke” chatbot that is, sometimes, surprisingly woke. It also has, on occasion, broken down and ranted about “white genocide” unprompted. The company merged with X (the company formerly known as Twitter, which Musk bought in 2022) earlier this year.

Two dozen venture capital firms and other investors are investing in xAI, the artificial intelligence and social media company.

The Commercial Appeal has put together a little cheat sheet of sorts to help readers understand commonly used phrases associated with xAI in Memphis.

In early June 2025, a screenshot of an allegedly authentic X post from tech billionaire Elon Musk saying he "took" the wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller spread widely online. "Just like I took your wife," Musk purportedly said in response to an X post from Miller that said, "We will take back America."

Elon Musk took had to correct his own AI chatbot after it incorrectly claimed that he deleted a post he never posted, in which he mocked Stephen Miller.

Even though the billionaire is no longer leading the Department of Government Efficiency effort, many key staffers — and DOGE ideas — are now more permanently embedded in the federal government.

Earth’s fastest AI training supercomputer—armed with 100,000+ GPUs, liquid cooling, Tesla Megapacks, and vision-powered Grok. Built in just 122 days, it's racing toward artificial general intelligence—and industry giants are getting nervous.