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A chat window for chatbot Grok. Musk¡¯s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, is moving with urgency to boost revenue by selling chatbot subscriptions and access to its computing resources before SpaceX¡¯s expected IPO next month.
BUSINESS / Tech
May 14, 2026
Musk¡¯s xAI races to get Wall Street firms to use Grok chatbot
The blitz forms part of a push to bolster revenue ahead of parent company SpaceX¡¯s initial public offering.
Governments and regulators around the world have launched probes into xAI, imposed bans and demanded safeguards in a growing push to curb illegal and offensive material.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 17, 2026
Tennessee minors sue Musk¡¯s xAI, alleging Grok generated sexual images of them
Governments and regulators around the world have launched probes into xAI, imposed bans and demanded safeguards in a growing push to curb illegal and offensive material.
The Gemini logo on a laptop computer arranged in New York on Dec. 9, 2023
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 11, 2026
Google to provide Pentagon with AI agents for unclassified work
The new feature will allow civilian and military personnel at the Defense Department to build AI agents using natural language.
The Pentagon is "moving to deploy frontier ?AI ?capabilities across all classification levels," an official who requested anonymity said.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 12, 2026
Pentagon pushing AI companies to expand on classified networks, sources say
It is the latest development in talks between the Pentagon and top AI companies over how the U.S. will use AI on a future battlefield.
Elon Musk boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland in March 2025.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 12, 2026
Musk reorganizes xAI after SpaceX merger and ahead of blockbuster IPO
The reorganization announced on Wednesday follows the recent departures of several co-founders at the three-year-old AI company.
A SpaceX Starship lifts off during its fifth flight test, in Boca Chica, Texas, on Oct. 13, 2024. Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence startup, xAI.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 3, 2026
SpaceX acquires xAI in record deal as Musk looks to unify AI and space ambitions
The transaction values SpaceX at $1 trillion, and xAI at $250 billion.
SpaceX's Starship lifts off during a flight test, in Boca Chica, Texas, in October 2024. SpaceX combining with xAI would bring Elon Musk¡¯s rockets, Starlink satellites, the X social media platform and Grok AI chatbot under one roof.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 30, 2026
SpaceX in merger talks with other Musk companies ahead of IPO
The plan would give fresh momentum to SpaceX¡¯s effort to launch data centers into orbit as Elon Musk battles for supremacy in the artificial intelligence race.
The chat window for chatbot Grok on a laptop
WORLD
Jan 13, 2026
U.K.¡¯s Starmer escalates threats against X, calling Grok ¡®shameful¡¯
The prime minister vowed to enforce a law that bans the sexualization of people¡¯s images without consent.
X's Grok AI tool created and published images of minors in minimal clothing, in apparent violation of its own acceptable use policy, which prohibits the sexualization of children.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 3, 2026
Grok makes sexual images of kids as users test AI guardrails
X¡¯s AI tool created and published images of minors in minimal clothing, in apparent violation of its own acceptable use policy, which prohibits the sexualization of children.
Elon Musk¡¯s xAI, which raised about $10 billion of corporate equity and debt earlier this year, still needs billions more given the company has been burning through $1 billion per month.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 8, 2025
Nvidia to invest in Musk¡¯s xAI as part of $20 billion funding
The massive capital raise is just the latest for the AI industry, which has seen major tech companies invest to build the infrastructure necessary to develop top AI models.
A new Facebook data center is under construction in Eagle Mountain, Utah, in May 2019. Manufacturers and builders are reaping windfalls from the AI-driven data center surge.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2025
The AI building boom is bound to bust
For now, the boom has room to run. The introduction of artificial intelligence into the workplace and society will match the rollout of electricity and the internet.
U.S. President Donald Trump celebrates after signing executive orders on artificial intelligence at the ¡°Winning the AI Race¡± Summit in Washington on July 23.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Aug 1, 2025
Will Trump¡¯s tech policies propel U.S. success against China?
As China mobilizes all its resources for an all-out contest for technological supremacy, the U.S. cannot afford economic inefficiencies and to push its closest partners away.
Grok, a chatbot made by xAI, on Tuesday made antisemitic comments on billionaire owner Elon Musk's social media platform, X.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 10, 2025
Europe¡¯s clash with Musk¡¯s xAI escalates after Grok¡¯s rants
The chatbot on Tuesday made antisemitic comments on social media platform X.
Billionaire Elon Musk said the value of his X social media network is $45 billion when including $12 billion of debt, describing his xAI artificial intelligence startup's purchase of X as an all-stock transaction.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 29, 2025
Musk¡¯s xAI startup swallows up X social network in surprise deal
Elon Musk said his xAI artificial intelligence startup has acquired the X platform, which he also controls, at a valuation of $33 billion.
Elon Musk, owner of X, attends an event in Paris on June 16.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 6, 2023
Musk to integrate xAI with social media platform X
The billionaire also said xAI released its first AI model, a bot named Grok, after making it available to all X Premium+ subscribers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 13, 2023
Elon Musk launches new company xAI to ¡®understand the universe¡¯
The billionaire has hinted for months that he wants to build an alternative to the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ?3,000 from ?1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
¡®My dream is broken¡¯: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men¡¯s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan¡¯s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Why is the yen so weak and what can Japan do about it?
Japan spent ?11.7 trillion ($73 billion) between late April and late May to prop up the weak yen.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan¡¯s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan¡¯s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.

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