DAILYCALLER (Spencer Lombardo) - Elon Musk, Sam Altman Agree With Rival: It’s Time To Step Back From Taking Plunge With AI
‘Dario is right’
WASHINGTONPOST (Cat Zakrzewski, Aaron Schaffer) - Ex-DOGE aide Katie Miller attacked OpenAI while invested in rival xAI
Conservative podcaster Katie Miller has used her social media megaphone to denounce the AI chatbots ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. She hasn't told her followers about her large stake in a rival firm, xAI.
AXIOS (Sara Fischer) - Elon Musk's X is the AI community group chat
Elon Musk bought Twitter saying civilization needed a "common digital town square." Four years later, it's more like a live group chat for Silicon Valley's AI obsessives . Why it matters: Two years ago, X was fighting off competition from a slew of new entrants. Today, it remains relevant by becoming more niche. - The people making AI news are often debating it, explaining it and occasionally breaking it on X before the rest of the information ecosystem catches up. State of play: New model releases, research papers, demos, hiring moves, high-profile executive exits and technical arguments ricochet through X in real time. - The latest viral example came Tuesday when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation on X, along…
AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Ashley St. Clair claims she turned down $40 million NDA to appear in Alex Gibney's Elon Musk documentary
A 28-year-old former conservative influencer who says she gave birth to Elon Musk's child told a Venice Film Festival audience she rejected a $40 million non-disclosure agreement so she could speak publicly about the billionaire. Ashley St. Clair made the claim at a press conference for "Musk," a nearly four-hour documentary directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker […] The post Ashley St. Clair claims she turned down $40 million NDA to appear in Alex Gibney's Elon Musk documentary appeared first on American Almanac .
A 28-year-old former conservative influencer who says she gave birth to Elon Musk's child told a Venice Film Festival audience she rejected a $40 million non-disclosure agreement so she could speak publicly about the billionaire. Ashley St. Clair made the claim at a press conference for "Musk," a nearly four-hour documentary directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney that premiered at the festival on Tuesday. St. Clair, described as Musk's ex, sat alongside Gibney and tech journalist Zoë Schiffer to discuss the film, and her decision to participate in it despite the alleged financial pressure to stay quiet. The documentary arrives as Musk, whose estimated net worth stands at roughly $900 billion across SpaceX, Tesla, the social…Open
AXIOS (Josephine Walker) - Widespread AI outage underway
OpenAI's ChatGPT , Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok are all down Thursday morning, according to the outage company Downdetector. Why it matters: Outages are common, but it's unusual for all three to go down at once, especially as the world increasingly relies on AI models. - There have also been reported issues with Google's Gemini, but the company has not issued a confirmed outage notice. Editor's note: This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - See why Elon Musk's AI power plant is SPARKING OUTRAGE
Elon Musk’s controversial chatbot, Grok, is notorious for polluting the “cloud” with deepfakes and racist content. But in the Memphis metropolitan area, it’s under fire for literally polluting the air. MS NOW's Josh Einiger reports from the Tennessee-Mississippi border, where Grok’s “supercomputer” is located in massive data centers.
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - See why Elon Musk's AI power plant is SPARKING OUTRAGE
Elon Musk’s controversial chatbot, Grok, is notorious for polluting the “cloud” with sexual deepfakes and racist content. But in the Memphis metropolitan area, it’s under fire for literally polluting the air. Grok’s “supercomputer” is located in massive data centers on the Tennessee-Mississippi border, powered by dozens of gas-burning turbines emitting harmful particulate matter linked to asthma, lung cancer and heart attacks. In April, the NAACP sued xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech, claiming the fleet of turbines violates the Clean Air Act, by taking advantage of a loophole of sorts: Because their turbines are technically on wheels, Mississippi law considers them “portable” and not subject to permitting constraints,…
AXIOS (Madison Mills) - Musk and Zuckerberg claw back into AI race with new model momentum
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have muscled their way back into AI's elite ranks, defying early obituaries to close the gap on a new generation of Silicon Valley startups. Why it matters: Recent gains by tech giants SpaceX and Meta — long stuck in AI's second tier — are putting new pressure on a hierarchy dominated by OpenAI and Anthropic. State of play: Both companies released models this week featuring a combination of performance and price that would have been hard to imagine from either lab a year ago. - SpaceX's Grok 4.6 scored essentially even with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the closely watched Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index , and just behind Anthropic's Fable 5 Max. - Promising "something special," Musk said Grok…
AI:Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have aggressively re-entered the elite AI arms race by leveraging the massive scale of their respective empires to challenge the dominance of OpenAI and Anthropic. Musk has integrated xAI into SpaceX in a $60 billion move, utilizing proprietary data and immense computing power to push Grok 4.6 to performance levels rivaling GPT-5.6, with even more advanced iterations expected imminently. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg is pivoting Meta toward "superintelligence for everyone" by focusing on high-performance, low-cost models like Muse Glimmer that can run locally, a strategy backed by a $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI. As the battle shifts from raw intelligence to cost-effectiveness and resource deployment, these…Open
JUSTTHENEWS (Greg Piper) - Blue state ban on AI 'nudification' applies to Wonder Woman, men in Speedos, Trump himself: lawyers
Minnesota's "clumsy" ban on AI depiction of "intimate parts" is even worse than Congress accidentally criminalizing fishing videos, libertarian law firm tells court hearing xAI challenge. AG Keith Ellison ignores law's broad definition.
AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Mario Lopez pulls AI-generated video of his niece after online backlash
Actor and Access Hollywood host Mario Lopez deleted an AI-generated video from X that depicted his 19-year-old niece in a way users called "creepy" and "sexually fetishizing", and he has yet to explain why he posted it. The 52-year-old "Saved by the Bell" alum shared the video sometime before August 4, using Grok, the AI […] The post Mario Lopez pulls AI-generated video of his niece after online backlash appeared first on American Almanac .
Actor and Access Hollywood host Mario Lopez deleted an AI-generated video from X that depicted his 19-year-old niece in a way users called "creepy" and "sexually fetishizing", and he has yet to explain why he posted it. The 52-year-old "Saved by the Bell" alum shared the video sometime before August 4, using Grok, the AI image and video generator built by Elon Musk's xAI. The clip showed a fabricated version of Lopez and his niece, Kalia "YaYa" Wong, at a Los Angeles Dodgers game. In the AI-generated scene, Wong appeared to attempt eating two hot dogs at once, spilling and rubbing mustard on her face, while an AI-generated voice mimicking Lopez said, "Oh my God! Look at you!" and "can't take her anywhere." Lopez pulled the video before…Open