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Musk's xAI seeeks up to $200 billion valuation in fresh funding talks

If the new financing materializes, it would bring xAI's total new backing to $20 billion - a goal that has been discussed by the company

DigiPub moves Karnataka High Court against Centre's takedown directives

DigiPub News India Foundation challenged the Centre's content takedown directives, telling the Karnataka HC that media houses are vulnerable to subjective decisions made by officers issuing orders

Tesla likely to begin its first car deliveries in India from August

Deliveries are expected to start from late August, a separate person familiar with the development said. Customers will be able to configure and order their Tesla EVs from next week

Elon Musk unveils Grok4 AI after backlash over 'antisemitic' content

Grok 4's release comes just a day after xAI was forced to remove inappropriate Grok posts from X that included antisemitic comments and replies to users

xAI's head of infrastructure engineering resigns, joins Altman's OpenAI

In a post on X on Tuesday, Ruddarraju reflected on his journey at xAI, during which he played a pivotal role in the development of Colossus, a massive supercomputer comprising over 200,000 GPUs

Starlink gets key govt nod, prepares for broadband service rollout: Report

Starlink clears final regulatory hurdle as India's space body IN-SPACe gives nod; firm still needs spectrum allocation, infra setup, and trials before launching satellite internet services

Linda Yaccarino quits as CEO of Elon Musk's X after two-year stint

Yaccarino, a seasoned advertising executive, was brought on board in May 2023, several months after Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022

Turkish court orders ban on Musk's AI chatbot Grok for offensive content

A Turkish court ordered Wednesday a ban on access to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok from Turkiye, after the platform allegedly disseminated content insulting to Turkey's president and others. The chatbot, developed by Musk's company xAI, posted vulgarities against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his late mother and personalities, while responding to users' questions on the X social media platform, the pro-government A Haber news channel reported. Offensive responses were also directed toward modern Turkiye's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatrk, other media outlets said. That prompted the Ankara public to file for the imposition of restrictions under Turkiye's internet law, citing a threat to public order. A criminal court approved the request early on Wednesday, ordering the country's telecommunications authority to enforce the ban. The incident is part of a broader controversy surrounding a recent update to Grok, which resulted in more politically incorrect and

SpaceX eyes share sale deals, valuation likely to hit around $400 billion

This would mark the largest-ever valuation for a privately held US company, surpassing SpaceX's previous record of $350 billion from its share buyback in December

Virgin Atlantic signs deal to use Musk's Starlink for fleet Wi-Fi

The British long-haul carrier will start installing Starlink on its aircraft next year and expects to finish the full retrofit by the end of 2027

Grok AI goes full Nazi-mode, sparks social media outrage with Hitler praise

The controversy over the now-deleted inflammatory posts erupted just days after X CEO Elon Musk claimed major upgrades to Grok, mentioning that the chatbot had improved significantly

Govt officials acting on 'whims and fancies', X tells Karnataka HC

X Corp argues before the Karnataka High Court that arbitrary content blocking under Section 79 of the IT Act by government officers violates constitutional safeguards

Govt denies Reuters takedown order; Elon Musk's X insists it happened

X says blocking done on government request, while the IT ministry claims no such request was made

Centre refutes claims, says X took 21 hours to unblock Reuters accounts

The clarification came after X blocked accounts of several news platforms including Reuters and Reuters World on July 5

Elon Musk confirms xAI's Grok 4 launch for July 9: Where to watch, features

Elon Musk announces that its AI entity xAI will launch the Grok 4 on July 9 at 8PM PT via livestream. The new xAI model will bring enhanced reasoning, coding features, and dual-model capabilities

Jeffrey Epstein 'client list' does not exist, says Justice Department

Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a client list, the Justice Department acknowledged Monday as it said no more files related to the wealthy financier's sex trafficking investigation would be made public despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists. The acknowledgment that the well-connected Epstein did not have a list of clients to whom underage girls were trafficked represents a public walk-back of a theory that the Trump administration had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting in a Fox News interview earlier this year that such a document was sitting on my desk for review. Even as it released video from inside a New York jail meant to definitively prove that Epstein killed himself, the department also said in a memo that it was refusing to disclose other evidence investigators had collected. Bondi for weeks had suggested more material was going to be revealed "It's a new administration and ...

Wall Street falls as fears over Trump's new tariffs weigh on markets

Stocks fell on Wall Street as the Trump administration stepped up pressure on trading partners to make deals before punishing tariffs imposed by the US take effect. The S&P 500 lost 0.8 per cent Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gave back 0.9 per cent, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.9 per cent. Tesla tumbled as the feud between CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump reignited over the weekend. Musk, once a top donor and ally of Trump, said he would form a third political party in protest over the Republican spending bill that passed last week. US stocks are losing ground in afternoon trading Monday as the Trump administration steps up pressure on trading partners to make deals before punishing tariffs imposed by the US take effect. The S&P 500 was down 1.2 per cent in the first day of trading in the US after a holiday-shortened week. The benchmark index remains near its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 641 points, or 1.4 per ...

Trump calls Musk's America Party 'ridiculous', says doomed to fail

Trump's remarks came a day after tech billionaire Elon Musk officially launched the America Party, a political platform he said was aimed at challenging what he called a 'one-party system' in the US

Tesla's money man Vaibhav Taneja joins Musk's America Party as treasurer

Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja appointed Treasurer and Custodian of Records for Elon Musk's newly launched America Party, aimed at offering an alternative to the two-party political system

'What's Truth Social?' Musk hits back after Trump slams America Party

As Donald Trump calls Elon Musk a 'train wreck' over America Party announcement, the Tesla CEO mocks him with a jab on Truth Social, reigniting their war of words on social media