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Colorado's landmark AI consumer protection law takes effect June 30, but a federal lawsuit by xAI, DOJ intervention, and a replacement bill signed in May have already stripped its core protections.
Grok 4.5 is xAI's 1.5-trillion-parameter V9 model in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, with supplemental training on Cursor coding data and early evals claiming performance near Claude Opus 4.8.
Elon Musk announced Grok 4.5 is in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, claiming it rivals Claude Opus - but the only benchmarks cited are internal ones run at Musk's own companies.
SpaceX signed a merger agreement to acquire Anysphere, maker of AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in stock just four days after the company's record-breaking Nasdaq IPO.
A former xAI engineer filed a California whistleblower lawsuit claiming he was fired for warning that Grok could spread dangerous content - the day before SpaceX prices its historic $75B IPO.
A unanimous jury in Oakland dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman after less than two hours of deliberation, finding all three counts barred by the statute of limitations.
xAI operates 46 gas turbines at its Southaven data center power plant, five above its state permit, as the NAACP seeks an emergency court order over Clean Air Act violations.
Sam Altman testified that Elon Musk demanded majority control of OpenAI from the beginning, with an opening ask of 90% equity - a revelation that reframes the entire lawsuit.
Under oath in the Musk v. Altman trial, Musk said xAI 'partly' distilled OpenAI's models to train Grok - the same practice US labs have spent months calling theft when Chinese firms do it.
A federal trial over OpenAI's shift from nonprofit to for-profit opened in Oakland on April 28, with Musk seeking $134B in damages, Altman's removal, and a full corporate reversal.
XChat launched April 24 promising end-to-end encryption, but security researchers found private keys stored on X's own servers, no certificate pinning, and a four-digit PIN as the only defense.
SpaceX disclosed a deal granting it the right to buy AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion in 2026, or pay $10 billion for shared development work, deepening Elon Musk's grip on the developer toolchain.
