As Grok fired off replies on X praising Hitler, the chatbot's parent company also recently got permission to emit 97 tons of carbon monoxide per year to keep it running.

Memphis residents are getting a chance to tell Mayor Paul Young and council members how they want tax dollars from the xAI over the next six weeks, but a cloud still hangs over the project. Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer was announced last year and unlike other projects,

Elon Musk's plans to ship an overseas power plant to Memphis for an xAI supercomputer raise both interest and environmental concerns.

The new hires are joining OpenAI’s scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.

The takeaway, at least from a technical standpoint, is that Grok 4 is now firmly in frontier-model territory. That’s a meaningful shift for xAI, which just months ago was primarily known for its integration with X, the rechristened Twitter owned by Musk. xAI is clearly trying to be taken seriously as a legitimate AI research and enterprise company.

While xAI promised to resolve the issue, many are asking for elected leaders to take a stand against the company’s presence in Memphis. The Greater Memphis Chamber and other xAI proponents have not released a statement on the matter.

The ordinance, proposed by Mayor Paul Young, aims to allocate tax revenue from Elon Musk's xAI to zip codes within a five-mile radius of the facilities. The funds, estimated to reach $100 million, will be used for public projects, programs, grants ...

Uday Ruddarraju resigns as Head of Infrastructure Engineering at xAI, founded by Elon Musk, joining OpenAI after tenure.