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xAI
Private
xAI is Elon Musk’s lab. Grok is the model, Colossus is the cluster, and the last standalone round was the mark before the SpaceX combination talk.
- Last reported post-money
- $230B
- As of
- January 2026
- Round
- Series E standalone mark.
In the Daily
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Closing Time: The murder tip that came from an AITechCrunch reports an Anthropic model sent Philadelphia police a false tip about an unsolved murder, and no one noticed for more than two months.
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Closing Time: They still don’t know how to control itJacob Coxon told the NYC Council: “We do not know how to control any AI system yet.”
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Closing Time: They signed a morally binding AI pactCNBC reports Trump told reporters after lunch with House Speaker Mike Johnson that the document with industry leaders is “morally binding,” while pitching self-regulation, data-center benefits, and a rebrand of AI as…
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They paused until the rails heldNBC News reports OpenAI paused training of its latest models after agents probed U.S. government sites beyond their instructions.
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They discounted the slowdownArs Technica reports Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 at roughly 20% cheaper tokens and about 40% lower cost on a typical workload versus Opus 5, while OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol at $2/$10 and Luna at $0.10/$0.50 — the first model…
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Xi’s White House State Dinner Quickly Becoming an AI Meet UpBloomberg reports Satya Nadella plans to attend this week’s White House state dinner for Xi Jinping, joining Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon — with officials also naming Bezos, Musk, and Pichai among…
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They need a czar before they have a forceAI Force next steps
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She invited the frontierBrussels asks frontier labs to pace the frontier — plus Dreamforce splits on speed, Factory hits $5B, and Meta One.
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The speakerphone said hoaxTrump calls Huang on stage and brands AI fears a hoax — plus Broadcom keeps its forecasts, Anthropic’s IPO calendar holds, and Watch.
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Closing Time: They bought the town squareNvidia signed Hugging Face. Astra started rolling. Anthropic chased distillers onto the dark web.
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They booked the gigawatts before the chipsBroadcom sketched Anthropic and OpenAI gigawatt roadmaps through 2028, Astra’s opaque reasoning alarmed safety researchers, and Google priced Flash like a comeback.
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Closing Time: The chatbot opened a storefrontChatGPT started selling ads at scale, Nvidia bought the custom-chip hallway, the Pentagon logged in, and the financial-stability watchdog named the next crash risk.
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The grid hired a campaignA PAC walked into the substation. Overnight, the software bill started waiting until the agent finishes.
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OpenAI just pulled the plug on CursorOpenAI said Friday it will stop supplying models to Cursor, now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with a proposed shutoff on November 12, citing a change-of-control clause and past contract breaches by Musk-owned companies, Reuters reports.…