Elon Musk

The mother of one of Elon Musk’s children has sued his company xAI over Grok deepfakes of her, alleging it’s a “public nuisance” — a legal term that doesn’t always seem to do its targets justice.

Michael O’Leary, on the radio show Newstalk, was asked about Elon Musk calling his reasoning for not installing Starlink on Ryanair airplanes “misinformed.“

The Atlantic reached out to a number of top investors in Elon Musk’s AI company in response to the flood of nonconsensual deepfakes generated by Grok on X. They said nothing. Other companies that provide infrastructure to xAI — Nvidia, Google, Apple, Oracle, and AMD — also kept quiet.

Elon is continuing to play the martyr. While his AI chatbot is creating sexualized images of real people and children, he claims people are up in arms because “they just want to suppress free speech.” While he cries censorship, the UK is gearing up to potentially block X temporarily if it can’t get its deepfake porn-maker under control. Musk has responded in typical childish fashion, according to the BBC:

SpaceX is planning to go public at a valuation that would make it the biggest listing of all time, Bloomberg reports. “The Elon Musk-led company is targeting a valuation of about $1.5 trillion for the entire company” and while they’re saying they plan for next year, it’s a Musk company so you know what that means: “the timing could slip until 2027.” SpaceX expects $15 billion in 2025 revenue, and $22 billion to $24 billion in 2026, mostly due to Starlink.

xAI’s chatbot offered little to no pushback when reporters at Futurism asked for addresses of 33 non-public figures, coming up with accurate current or previous home addresses to 17 of the names tested. In a stalkerish manner, Grok also offered up addresses of the people’s potential relatives, without being prompted.

Tesla might be about to give in and adopt Apple’s CarPlay system in its cars. It’s a welcome change, but somehow I suspect this commenter isn’t the only one holding out on a Model Y purchase for slightly different reasons.

Former Real World cast member and current Transportation Secretary / acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy recently said SpaceX was “behind” on its contract for Artemis III and proposed reopening it. (Elon Musk responded with a predictable slew of insults.)

Kind of a “no duh” conclusion, but Petter Törnberg, Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam, has the data to back it up. His new study (which has yet to be peer reviewed) is about shifts in social media usage in the last four years, with the biggest shifts being on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Elon Musk’s political activities — buying Twitter, renaming it X, and letting election deniers and white supremacists back on; donating nearly $300 million to elect Donald Trump; heading DOGE — have dramatically harmed Tesla’s financial fortunes, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research by Yale University economists. Musk’s polarizing behavior likely cost the company up to 1.26 million vehicle sales in the US alone, the group estimates. Meanwhile, EV sales from other automakers popped 17-22 percent, as Musk-disgusted shoppers spent their cash elsewhere.

Elon Musk’s xAI has launched Grokipedia, and no-one was more surprised than us to discover that some pages appear to have been lifted wholesale from Wikipedia. But fortunately Verge commenters have led the way on the best possible response.

Elon Musk rode a Cybertruck into DC declaring that he would cut up to $2 trillion in government spending. The reality: The federal government actually spent $220 billion more, up four percent for the year. In fact, spending was up almost across the board with only a few exceptions according to the Congressional Budget Office:

xAI is recruiting humans to train its AI system Grok to “excel” at making video games, according to the company’s job posting for a “video games tutor.”