The whirlwind 72 hours of rival AI announcements

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AI executives Alexandr Wang, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei are pictured.
Alexandr Wang, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei lead three of the leading AI labs. All released new products and features this week.

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XAI makes its rebrand to SpaceXAI complete with a new logo

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Elon Musk is leading a group of investors making a bid for OpenAI.

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  • xAI has officially been rebranded to SpaceXAI.
  • The change follows SpaceX's historic IPO and acquisition of xAI earlier this year.
  • Elon Musk previously said xAI would be dissolved and folded into SpaceX.

xAI is no more.

Elon Musk says SpaceX is putting top Starship and Starlink engineers to work on Grok

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Elon Musk said SpaceX would release new AI models "trained from scratch" every month.

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SpaceX and Tesla merger chatter is heating up. Here's how Musk's companies work together.

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Elon Musk's companies have been swapping IP and cash. It's led to rumors of potential mega mergers.

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Claude, brought to you by Elon Musk

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Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., inside the federal court in Oakland, California, US, on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Microsoft Corp. over claims that the startup abandoned its founding mission when it took billions of dollars in backing from the software stalwart and planned its restructuring.

Anthropic taps Elon Musk's SpaceX for more AI compute power

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Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO.

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman are headed to court. Meet the 9 players to watch.

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Mira Murati, Satya Nadella, and Shivon Zilis are set to be trial witnesses in Elon Musk's lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

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Can Sam Altman be trusted? Elon Musk wants a jury to answer Big Tech's hottest question.

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Elon Musk is putting Sam Altman's credibility on trial

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What smart people are saying about SpaceX's $60 billion deal with Cursor: 'The Hunger Games have just begun'

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Michael Truell's startup, Cursor, is partnering with Elon Musk's SpaceX.

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SpaceX and Cursor have explored a team-up with Mistral to take on AI rivals

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Elon Musk expressed concerns to engineers about Anthropic's lead in the AI race, sources say.

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