Elon Musk
CEO, Tesla and SpaceX (including SpaceXAI / xAI) · as of 2026-10-04 · source
OpenAI co-founder turned rival; runs SpaceXAI (xAI merged into SpaceX, maker of Grok), which bought Cursor in 2026, and is suing OpenAI.
News mentioning Elon Musk (30)
- NYC Council AI hearing: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testify under oath, SpaceXAI defies subpoena, Coxon says humanity 'more likely than not' loses control ★★★
On Oct 5, 2026 the New York City Council held a Committee of the Whole hearing (all 51 members) on AI risks. Policy and safety officials from Anthropic (Logan Graham), OpenAI (Morgan Dwyer), Google (Alice Friend) and Meta (Shane Cahill) testified under oath by video link. None would guarantee…
- Vanity Fair names Sam Altman No. 1 on its New Establishment list; two-part interview covers extinction risk, Astra 6.1, regulation and accepting 'severe cyber incidents' from open models ★★★
On Oct 5, 2026 Vanity Fair revived its New Establishment list with Sam Altman at No. 1 and published two video interviews with editor Mark Guiducci (recorded Sept 11 and Oct 2). Altman said GPT-6.1 Astra was held back because it "would've tipped too much towards the accident risk". He called the…
- Musk confirms TSMC talks over Terafab, the Tesla–SpaceX AI chip fab in Texas ★★★
On Oct 3, 2026 Elon Musk confirmed on X that his Terafab chipmaking project is in talks with TSMC ("Just discussions, but something may come of it"), after Tim Culpan's Culpium reported that TSMC was exploring ways to work with Terafab, possibly by owning and operating the fab. Terafab is the…
- SpaceXAI turns into an AI cloud provider: talks with Microsoft on leasing capacity, on top of Anthropic and Google contracts ★★★
The Information reported on Oct 2, 2026 that SpaceX's AI unit (SpaceXAI, ex-xAI) held talks over the summer with Microsoft about leasing it computing capacity, and that it has "lined up billions of dollars a month in commitments from compute-hungry AI labs". Earlier reporting (Fortune, July) put…
- Federal appeals court pauses Minnesota's first-in-the-nation AI 'nudification' ban in xAI's First Amendment lawsuit ★★
On Friday Oct 2, 2026 the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted Elon Musk's xAI an injunction pending appeal. This blocks for now Minnesota's ban on AI "nudification", which took effect Aug 1, 2026. The law bars website operators, software developers and others from letting users create…
- Trump TIME interview: Amodei 'different than I thought', AI renamed 'SI', open to US stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic ★★★
In a TIME interview conducted Sept 28, 2026 and published Oct 1, President Trump said his views on Anthropic's Dario Amodei had changed after a White House dinner. He said he now calls AI "SI" (super intelligence) and will rename the AI Force accordingly. Asked about taking government stakes in…
- Hegseth announces a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command (via Project Agincourt) and Project Meridian led by Musk, Luckey and Gingrich ★★★★
In a "State of the Force" address at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept 30, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new four-star Autonomous Warfare Command (AutoWarCom), targeted for Oct 1, 2027. Its interim step is Project Agincourt, led by DIU director Owen West and SEAL Senior Chief…
- Kevin Roose's 'The AGI Chronicles' excerpt in The Atlantic: the Altman–Amodei feud and a 2017 Brockman/Sutskever plan to auction OpenAI's AGI to countries ★★★
On Sept 30, 2026 The Atlantic published an excerpt from Kevin Roose's book "The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, on sale Oct 6, 2026). The excerpt covers the OpenAI–Anthropic rivalry and the personal feud between…
- SpaceXAI plans a unified Grok + X subscription, from free and $8 Lite up to $100/month Ultra with Grok Bot (report) ★★
Bloomberg reported on Sept 30, 2026, citing a document, that SpaceXAI plans to merge Grok and X subscriptions into one plan with four tiers: a free tier with tighter Grok limits, an $8/month Lite tier (Grok access, verified checkmark, fewer ads on X) and a $100/month Ultra tier that includes the…
- Trump hosts AI CEOs at the White House; they sign a voluntary 'morally binding' Accord on Superintelligence, and Trump rejects new federal AI rules ★★★★
On Sept 29, 2026 President Trump hosted about 31 tech leaders and officials at a White House lunch on whether and how to regulate AI, after a month of lab leaders calling for a slowdown. Guests included Amodei, Brockman, Pichai, Zuckerberg, Huang, Nadella, Musk and Speaker Mike Johnson. Afterwards…
- US launches America.gov, an AI chatbot portal to federal services powered by Gemini and Grok ★★★
On Sept 29, 2026 the Trump administration launched America.gov, an AI-powered search and chat portal that answers questions about federal services by drawing on about 29,000 federal websites. US Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia (National Design Studio) said it runs on Google's Gemini and xAI's…
- Trump signs executive order 'Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence', ordering federal agencies to replace 'AI' with 'Super Intelligence (SI)' ★★★
On the evening of Sept 29, 2026, after the White House AI summit, President Trump signed an executive order titled "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence". It directs executive departments and agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in…
- NYC Council subpoenas SpaceXAI for an Oct 5 sworn AI-safety hearing; Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta agree to testify; 10-bill package includes a kill-switch mandate ★★★
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin called a rare Committee of the Whole hearing (all 51 members) on AI risks for Oct 5, 2026. On Sept 25 she unveiled a 10-bill package (third-party validation and a kill-switch mandate, a first-in-the-nation whistleblower bounty, 24-hour incident reporting…
- Coinbase: Grok handles ~60% of agent trading on Coinbase for Agents, ahead of Claude (13%) and ChatGPT (1.5%) ★★
On Sept 24, 2026 Coinbase's developer account said Grok was "pulling away as the dominant agentic trading harness" on Coinbase for Agents, with 59.54% of measured activity against 21.73% for custom CLIs, 13.37% for Claude, 3.48% for Perplexity, 1.54% for ChatGPT and 0.35% for Claude Code. CEO…
- Subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google, calling the 'pace the frontier' agreement an illegal antitrust conspiracy ★★★
On Friday Sept 18, 2026 four paid chatbot subscribers filed a proposed nationwide class action in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act when their leaders publicly agreed to Dario…
- Von der Leyen's State of the Union backs 'pacing the frontier' of AI and offers EU support to the labs ★★★
In her State of the Union address on Sept 16, 2026, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen endorsed slowing frontier AI: "CEOs of the most advanced companies tell us that it is time to slow down on the self-recursive models. To pace the frontier. If the people developing the technology…
- Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI drop antitrust claims against Apple, keep suing OpenAI ahead of a Jan 2027 trial ★★
On Sept 14, 2026 X Corp and SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) asked the federal court in Fort Worth, Texas to dismiss with prejudice their antitrust claims against Apple, saying the claims had been "resolved". The suit, filed in August 2025, alleged that Apple and OpenAI colluded through the ChatGPT…
- Dario Amodei publishes "We Must Pace the Frontier", calling for a deliberate slowdown ★★★★
On September 12, 2026 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published 'We Must Pace the Frontier'. The essay argues that AI capability, especially through recursive self-improvement, is outpacing alignment and security, and lays out a three-part plan to slow the frontier. Anthropic unilaterally committed to…
- Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns, warning labs are "gambling with our lives" ★★★★
On Sept 8, 2026 pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon (OpenAI, then Anthropic) quit Anthropic in an X thread saying both labs are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives". Press reported 100M+ views within about a day. Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger…
- OpenAI ends its model contract with Cursor after SpaceX's acquisition, citing Musk's record of breaking contracts ★★★
On Aug 28, 2026 OpenAI told SpaceX it would wind down its contract supplying OpenAI models to Cursor, the AI code editor SpaceX had just acquired, with a proposed shutoff on Nov 12, 2026. OpenAI said it could not be confident SpaceX would respect its terms of service "based on our experience with…
- SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot, always-on agent 'teammates' with their own cloud computers ★★★
On Aug 11, 2026 SpaceXAI introduced Grok Bot in beta: persistent AI agents that each run on their own cloud computer, sign into a user's apps, work 24/7 across inboxes, CRMs and product UIs, remember preferences, and coordinate with other Bots. It shipped to SuperGrok tiers and to Cursor…
- Texas announces SpaceX's $16.8B first phase of Terafab in Grimes County, a 100-million-sq-ft chip campus with 3,000 jobs ★★★
On Aug 6, 2026 Governor Greg Abbott announced that SpaceX will build the first phase of Terafab, a vertically integrated chip plant for logic, memory and advanced packaging, in Grimes County, Texas, with over $16.8B of capital investment and 3,000 jobs, backed by a $30M Texas Enterprise Fund…
- SpaceX exercises its option to buy Cursor maker Anysphere for $60B in stock; deal closes Aug 14 ★★★★
On June 16, 2026 SpaceX said it would buy Anysphere, maker of the AI code editor Cursor, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal. It was exercising a right it had announced on April 21, 2026: buy Cursor later in the year for $60B, or pay $10B for the companies' joint work. The acquisition closed on…
- Code with Claude 2026: Managed Agents "dreaming", doubled Claude Code limits and SpaceX Colossus 1 compute deal ★★★
Anthropic's second Code with Claude developer conference (San Francisco, May 6–7, 2026; London May 19; Tokyo June 10) brought new Managed Agents capabilities (dreaming, outcomes, multi-agent orchestration), doubled Claude Code five-hour rate limits, and, per third-party recaps, a compute deal to…
- Intel joins Musk's Terafab as manufacturing partner; Musk later says Terafab will use Intel's 14A process, Intel's first big external 14A customer ★★★
On April 7, 2026 Intel said it would join Terafab, the Tesla–SpaceX–xAI chip-fab project, as a manufacturing and process-technology partner (not an equity owner). On Tesla's Q1 2026 earnings call (April 22), Musk said Terafab plans to use Intel's 14A process, which Reuters called Intel's first…
- Musk launches Terafab, a $20–25B Tesla–SpaceX–xAI AI chip fab project in Austin aiming at 1 terawatt of compute a year ★★★
On March 21, 2026, at the disused Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, Elon Musk launched Terafab, a joint chipmaking project of Tesla, SpaceX and xAI to build a vertically integrated fab for AI and memory chips, estimated at $20–25B. It targets "one terawatt" of AI compute a year and up to 1 million…
- SpaceX absorbs xAI in a $1.25 trillion merger (later rebranded SpaceXAI) ★★★★
In early February 2026 Elon Musk's SpaceX combined with his AI company xAI (maker of Grok, owner of X), in a deal reported at a combined $1.25 trillion valuation - the largest merger ever. The rationale was pitched as merging Starlink and launch capacity with frontier AI, including orbital data…
- xAI launches Grokipedia, an AI-written encyclopedia meant to rival Wikipedia ★★★
On 2025-10-27 xAI launched Grokipedia v0.1, an online encyclopedia of about 885,000 articles generated by Grok and not editable by the public. Elon Musk pitched it as a less biased alternative to Wikipedia. Critics found many articles copied from Wikipedia and others pushing misinformation and…
- Future of Life Institute open letter calls for a 6-month pause on training AI more powerful than GPT-4 ★★★★
On March 22, 2023, a week after GPT-4's release, the Future of Life Institute published "Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter". It calls on all AI labs to immediately pause, for at least six months, the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, and on governments to impose a…
- OpenAI founded as a non-profit AI research lab ★★★★
OpenAI launched as a non-profit research company with a mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, backed by pledges from Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others.
Posts (10)
- Elon Musk: 'Propagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader' original ↗ Elon Musk @elonmusk · x · 2026-10-05
Musk recasts his 2014 warning ('Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence') as a success condition, a day after renaming SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI (~2.7M views). - Elon Musk: 'No more AI / SI / It's better', then confirms SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI original ↗ Elon Musk @elonmusk · x · 2026-10-04
First major AI-company head to adopt Trump's 'Super Intelligence' terminology (~8.7M views). In replies he confirmed renaming SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI (~1.4M views) and said 'SpaceX is a super intelligence company' (~5M views). - Elon Musk confirms Terafab–TSMC talks: 'Just discussions, but something may come of it' original ↗ Elon Musk @elonmusk · x · 2026-10-03
First-hand confirmation (~690k views) that TSMC and Musk's Terafab AI-chip fab project are in talks. - Sovey original ↗ Sovey @SoveyX · x · 2026-10-02
Cited as a source by: soveyx-musk-80-20-p-doom-music-video-x - Aaron Rupar original ↗ Aaron Rupar @atrupar · x · 2026-10-01
Cited as a source by: 2026-10-01-trump-time-interview-amodei-si-stakes - The Information original ↗ The Information @theinformation · x · 2026-10-01
Cited as a source by: 2026-10-02-spacexai-ai-cloud-microsoft-talks - We Must Pace The Frontier original ↗ Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi · substack · 2026-09-14
Zvi's commentary on Dario Amodei's 'We Must Pace the Frontier' essay and the endorsements from Altman, Musk and Hassabis. - Altman: "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier" original ↗ Sam Altman @sama · x · 2026-09-12
OpenAI's CEO publicly endorsed a rival CEO's call to slow frontier development and committed OpenAI to independent evaluators with employee-like access. - "Dario is right" original ↗ Elon Musk @elonmusk · x · 2026-09-12
Musk's three-word endorsement of Amodei's slowdown essay, posted within about 15 minutes, turned the essay into a cross-industry story and moved markets (chip selloff coverage). - "Grok 4.7 comes out in 10 days" original ↗ Elon Musk @elonmusk · x · 2026-09-02
Musk's release teaser for Grok 4.7 (about 35K likes). The model actually shipped on Sept 21, nine days late, after the pacing debate.
Videos (10)
- Did the AI Bubble Just Pop?! Anthropic's Leaked Numbers are INSANE Tom Bilyeu · 2026-10-03
- AI News: OpenAI Unleashes TONS of new stuff! Matt Wolfe · 2026-10-02
- Music video on Musk's '80% good outcome, 20% annihilation' (X video) Sovey (@SoveyX) · 2026-10-02
- Gemini 4 Argon explained in 5min.. Caleb Writes Code · 2026-10-01
- The AI Industry is a Complete Mess ColdFusion · 2026-10-01
- "The Clodyssey" (Claude, another 12 hours; X video) anabology (@anabology) · 2026-09-30
- Amodei & Musk on AI risks C-SPAN · 2026-09-29
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Asked: After Trump Tech Summit, How Do You Feel About AI Slowdown Call? Forbes Breaking News · 2026-09-29
- Anthropic CEO reacts to 'AI could kill us all' warning CNN · 2026-09-15
- Claude Opus 4.7 - A New Frontier, in Performance … and Drama AI Explained · 2026-05-02
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