AI safety researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and nonprofit organizations are speaking out publicly against the “reckless” and “completely irresponsible” safety culture at xAI, the billion-dollar AI startup owned by Elon Musk. The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company’s technological advances.

Elon Musk's strategy to leverage resources across his business empire, including Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), SpaceX, and xAI, has sparked investor concerns, particularly after a recent controversy involving chatbot Grok.

Elon Musk said on Monday that he has no intention of combining Tesla with his artificial intelligence company xAI, after a Tesla investor on X asked if they’d support a merger between the two. Elon gave a one-word answer: “No.

The money behind Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar empire is increasingly flowing in one direction: toward artificial intelligence.

Investors familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that the rocket company SpaceX has agreed to invest a whopping $2 billion in xAI, the Musk-led firm behind the controversial large language model Grok. This investment makes up almost half of the $5 billion of equity that the AI company raised last month.

Tesla, the electric car company, may soon ask its shareholders to vote on a major investment in a company called xAI. This announcement comes after reports surfaced that another one of the billionaire CEO’s companies,

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya sparked speculations regarding a potential megamerger between Elon Musk's biggest ventures, xAI, SpaceX, and, of course, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA).