The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, the former Pentagon employee said.

During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one engineer said.

The billionaire recently stirred up trouble for disregarding local regulations in his small neighborhood in West Lake Hills, Texas

Last week, billionaire Elon Musk revelaed his AI startup's "companions," an unlikely pair of characters, including a hypersexualized goth anime girl, dubbed Ani, and an extremely vulgar red panda, named Bad Rudi.

Tesla owner Alexander Kristensen has is mounting an unofficial campaign to bring Tesla's supervised self-driving technology to the streets of Stockholm, arguing it's a greater safety risk not to trial the feature.

A dynamic is emerging among Elon Musk’s Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, fueling talk of consolidation. That isn’t necessarily a problem for Tesla shareholders.

No one doubts that rocket tests mean failures, but the question for Starship is this: Is it just having extended teething pains, or are its failures a symptom of a fundamentally unworkable design that will never be fixed?

Tesla opened the doors on its “retro-futuristic” drive-in diner in Hollywood, California on Monday after several years in development.