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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.
Grok 4.3 slashes prices by up to 83%, adds native video input and voice cloning, and carves out a credible position as the most cost-efficient frontier model - with real caveats on coding and latency.
xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is the #1-ranked image-to-video model on Artificial Analysis, generating 720p clips with native audio at $0.14/s - 86% cheaper than Sora 2 Pro.
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.
xAI ships an open plugin marketplace for Grok Build with six launch partners including MongoDB, Vercel, and Sentry, backed by SHA-pinned supply chain security and an open GitHub catalog.
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.
Verified June 8: Ministral 3B cheapest at $0.04/MTok, DeepSeek V4 Flash best value at $0.14, Claude Opus 4.8 Fast Mode cut to $10/$50, Mistral Large 3 corrected to $0.50/$1.50.
Grok Build 0.1 is xAI's first model built specifically for agentic coding workflows, with a 256K context window, native MCP support, and always-on reasoning at $1/M input tokens.
Senator Bernie Sanders proposes seizing 50% of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI stock to fund a federal sovereign wealth fund with government board seats.
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs at Colossus 1, citing unexpected demand for its Gemini Enterprise agent platform.
