The head of infrastructure at Elon Musk's xAI has departed. Uday Ruddarraju spent a little over a year at the company, which also includes social media platform X. Update: Ruddarraju has joined OpenAI. "After an unforgettable ride, I’ve decided to move on from xAI and yesterday was my last day," Ruddarraju said on LinkedIn.

Elon Musk's plans to ship an overseas power plant to Memphis for an xAI supercomputer raise both interest and environmental concerns.

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Grok, the generative AI chatbot integrated into Elon Musk’s social media platform X, has gone on an anti-Semitic tirade after having its software altered.

After months of backlash over alleged pollution concerns, xAI has finally secured an air permit covering some of the methane gas turbines powering its Colossus supercomputer data center in Memphis, Tennessee.

Greater Memphis Chamber on xAi 15 gas turbines approval

Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, was updated over the weekend with instructions to “assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased” and “not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect” — part of Musk’s ongoing attempt to shape the bot’s point of view.

Grok's Nazi-sympathizing responses sparked backlash this week, but the fix reveals how a single prompt instruction can shape an AI's entire political worldview.

The ordinance comes months after Memphis Mayor Paul Memphis Mayor Paouln Young proposed dedicating some revenue to areas closest to the supercomputer.

Tesla bull Dan Ives on Tuesday proposed a merger even more colorful than his clothes, when he sketched out a scenario whereby the carmaker could buy xAI. Why it matters: This could create a viable rival to OpenAI and Big Tech incumbents like Meta and Microsoft,

Elon Musk’s xAI gas turbines get official approval, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations.