Musk and Amodei Agree: AI Is Already Risky Enough to Worry About
Elon Musk expanded on his endorsement of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s AI safety warning, saying danger is significant now and competitors should test each other’s models.
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Elon Musk expanded on his endorsement of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s AI safety warning, saying danger is significant now and competitors should test each other’s models.
The FBI, NSA and CISA jointly accused six Chinese AI companies of systematically distilling US models including Claude and ChatGPT since 2024, calling it their core development strategy.
OpenAI has notified SpaceX of its intent to wind down the contract supplying OpenAI models to Cursor, citing concerns that SpaceX cannot be trusted to comply with its terms of service based on prior violations by Elon Musk’s companies.
Elon Musk says xAI plans to release Grok 4.6 around August 7 and follow it with the larger Grok 4.7 several weeks later, extending the company’s rapid model rollout.
Opponents of the AI data center boom held 142 protests across 42 states, the first nationwide backlash against a buildout that crosses political lines and worries local communities.
A Reuters analysis found xAI installed 59 unpermitted gas turbines to power its Colossus 2 data center, releasing pollution near predominantly Black Memphis-area communities.
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a coding and agentic model trained jointly with Cursor that undercuts rivals on price and token use, though it trails Fable 5 on benchmarks.
Elon Musk’s xAI has rebranded to SpaceXAI, folding its Grok chatbot and X into SpaceX and signaling that AI, not rockets, is now central to the space company’s strategy.
OpenAI has proposed handing the US government a roughly 5% stake, worth about $43 billion, to seed a public wealth fund and ease mounting political pressure in Washington.
Cursor unveiled its first from-scratch AI model, an agent-first Git platform called Origin and an iOS app, days after SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of its parent.
SpaceX is pitching investors on a vertically integrated AI strategy spanning chips, data centers and even compute satellites in orbit, bankrolled by Starlink’s profits.
SpaceX IPO sold 555.6 million shares at a fixed $135, nearly tripling the prior record as heavy demand bets on Musk despite steep losses and no path to profit.
Goldman Sachs is projecting SpaceX’s AI revenues will grow roughly 100 times by 2030 – from $3.2 billion to $322 billion annually – figures the bank is using to anchor a $1.78 trillion IPO valuation for the company it is simultaneously leading to market.
SpaceX is a space, satellite connectivity, and AI company that acquired xAI effective February 2, 2026, bringing Grok, X, and AI infrastructure under SpaceX.
xAI is Elon Musk’s AI company behind Grok, real-time AI assistants, large-scale compute infrastructure, and AI products integrated with X.