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FTSE 100 falls back from record high amid AI worries; gold heads for best day since 2008 – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

The Guardian - UK

Inside Grok’s pivot to porn — all in a bid to keep users engaged and away from the AI system’s original purpose

Former employees have alleged that the chatbot’s ongoing scandals over sexualized images are a direct result of Musk’s drive to corner the market in lewd AI

The Independent UK

Elon Musk’s SpaceX buys xAI in stunning deal valued at $1.25 trillion ahead of looming IPO

“My estimate is that within two to three years, the lowest cost way to generate AI compute will be in space,” Musk wrote in a post on SpaceX’s website on Monday.

Fortune

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Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1.25tn valuation

Aerospace business and artificial intelligence firm to unite for IPO as world’s most valuable private company

The Guardian - US

Elon Musk's SpaceX to merge with xAI

The deal raises the stakes for the widely reported looming SpaceX IPO.

Axios

Indonesia lifts ban on Grok but AI tool to remain ‘under strict supervision’

Ban was imposed over concerns that the AI tool was being used to generate sexualised imagery

The Independent UK

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI explore merger for space-based AI

The deal would unite SpaceX’s reusable rockets, Starlink internet satellites, the X platform and the AI chatbot Grok

The Independent UK

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Musk weighs tech mega-merger across SpaceX, Tesla and xAI, reports say

Tech circles are buzzing over talks that could combine Musk’s space, AI, and electric vehicle businesses into a trillion-dollar group ahead of a potential SpaceX listing.

Euronews

SpaceX reportedly mulling Tesla merger or tie-up with Elon Musk’s xAI firm

Rocket company examining feasibility of both options before potential $1.5tn stock market flotation, report says

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk's Grok just ranked worst among AI chatbots in new Anti-Defamation League safety study — here's how it responds to 'antisemitic and extremist content'

An ADL audit ranks Elon Musk’s Grok last among major AI chatbots for detecting antisemitism, highlighting safety gaps across leading AI models.

Tom’s Guide

Tesla's Profits Are Plummetting As It Steers Toward AI

Today on Critical Materials: Tesla's profits fell 46% last year, Musk's xAI gets a $2 billion cash infusion and a real autonomous trucking firm sets up shop.

InsideEVs

Tesla reveals $2 billion investment in Elon Musk’s xAI and officially kills the Model S and Model X

Tesla also scrapped its mission to “accelerate the transition to sustainable energy,” replacing it with a new goal of building “a world of amazing abundance.”

Fortune

Why Ashley St Clair, MAGA influencer and Elon Musk's ex, is taking on his AI empire

Conservative influencer Ashley St Clair says Grok generated explicit deepfakes of her—including images from when she was 14. Now she's fighting xAI and Elon Musk.

Fortune

Why Trump is worried datacenters might cost his party an election

The president wants big tech to pay more for electricity, but he’s curbing renewable projects that could boost supply

The Guardian - US

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International Business Times UK

The 71-Minute Podcast that Cost an xAI Engineer his Job with Elon Musk

An hour-long podcast cost an xAI engineer his job after he shared too much about Elon Musk's AI venture.

TechRadar

Tough luck, Elon - EPA shuts loophole that lets hyperscalers quickly deploy power generators without needing a permit

EPA closes loophole allowing temporary gas turbines, forcing hyperscalers to acquire permits and meet federal air quality standards immediately.

Tom’s Hardware

Elon Musk's xAI Colossus 2 is nowhere near 1 gigawatt capacity, satellite imagery suggests — despite claims, site only has 350 megawatts of cooling capacity

Despite Elon Musk's claim that xAI’s Colossus 2 has already reached a 1 GW scale, satellite analysis by Epoch AI indicates the supercomputer is still far below that level due to limited cooling capacity.

International Business Times UK

ChatGPT Linked to Nine Deaths Including Five Suicides, Elon Musk Says Keep Your Family Away

Elon Musk's warning against ChatGPT, citing nine alleged deaths including five suicides, sparks intense dispute with OpenAI's Sam Altman amid ongoing legal and safety controversies over AI harm risk.

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Euronews

Elon Musk’s Grok still being used to generate explicit images despite new safeguards, study finds

An overwhelming majority of Grok user-generated content from a mid-January analysis depicts nudity or sexual activity, according to a think tank.

The Guardian - US

Big tech continues to bend the knee to Trump a year after his inauguration

Inside the big rewards tech titans have reaped from caving to Trump. Plus, a look at the US datacenter boom and the effects of Australia’s social media ban

Windows Central

OpenAI rejected a Tesla merger years ago — now Musk is misrepresenting the truth to promote his rival AI company, xAI

OpenAI accuses Elon Musk of misrepresenting the truth in his court filings by only sharing snippets of previous conversations that portrayed him favourably.

International Business Times UK

xAI's Colossus 2 AI Goes Gigawatt‑Scale — EPA Alarm as Power Turbines Ruled Illegal

EPA has ruled Elon Musk's xAI Colossus Datacentre in Tennessee's use of dozens of power turbines as illegal, despite xAI's claims that they are only temporary.

International Business Times UK

800 Billion Reasons to Watch xAI: Inside the Funding Round That Made Musk Untouchable

Elon Musk sets the record for the first person worth $800 as his xAI and X (formerly Twitter) are now worth more than ever

Tom’s Hardware

U.S. govt says Musk's gas turbine generators for xAI aren’t exempt from permits — EPA ruling closes local loophole that allowed Musk to get power from temporary on-site power generators

The U.S. EPA now requires permits to operate gas turbine generators, even temporary ones, closing loopholes in some local ordinances that waived this requirement for deployments that lasted for less than 364 days.

International Business Times UK

Elon Musk's xAI Facing Lawsuit After Grok AI Generates Explicit Deepfakes of Ashley St. Clair

Ashley St. Clair sues Elon Musk's xAI after Grok generated explicit deepfakes of her, while Canada launches an investigation into the AI tool to protect citizens.

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