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SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals xAI Lost $6.4 Billion in 2025 — and the Spending Is Just Getting Started

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI burned through $6.4 billion in operational losses last year on just $3.2 billion in revenue, according to confidential filings made public as part of SpaceX’s initial public offering. The numbers, revealed for the first time in audited financial documents, underscore the enormous cost of competing in the frontier AI […]

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SpaceXAI Bleeds Talent: Over 50 Researchers Depart Since Merger, Raising Doubts About AI Ambitions

Elon Musk’s newly rebranded SpaceXAI is facing a significant talent crisis, with more than 50 researchers and engineers departing the company since February, according to a report from The Information. The exodus, which includes key leaders across coding, world models, and the Grok voice assistant, has raised serious questions about the company’s ability to compete […]

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xAI sells Colossus capacity to Anthropic, raising questions about its future as an AI company

On Wednesday, xAI and Anthropic announced a surprise partnership that has the Claude-maker buying out all of the compute capacity at xAI’s Colossus 1 data center — roughly 300 megawatts. The deal, likely worth billions of dollars, allowed Anthropic to immediately raise its usage limits. More importantly, it immediately monetized one of xAI’s most impressive […]

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Warren Demands Pentagon Explain xAI Classified Access

WASHINGTON — March 17, 2026 — Senator Elizabeth Warren has formally challenged the Pentagon’s decision to grant Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, access to classified military networks, citing “serious risks” posed by the firm’s controversial Grok chatbot. Letter Details National Security Concerns In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Massachusetts Democrat […]

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Musk’s xAI Rebuilds as Founders Depart

March 15, 2026 — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, is undergoing a foundational rebuild amid significant personnel changes and competitive pressures. Only two of the lab’s original 11 co-founders remain with the company. Musk confirmed the restructuring on his social media platform, X. “xAI was not built right first time around, so is being […]