xAI is an AI company founded by Elon Musk that develops the Grok chatbot model. Recent coverage reports that xAI and X Corp. settled antitrust claims against Apple alleging favoritism toward OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and that WIRED documented tests of Grok in Clearview’s law-enforcement prototype InquiryIQ, prompting privacy and security concerns.
How to manage AI risk? A cautious approachNicholas Wade’s essay examines balancing AI’s risks and benefits, arguing most technologies can be managed but AI may be exceptional. He cites warnings from Dario Amodei and Elon Musk and notes recent agent incidents that raise concern.
Ex-FTC chief Lina Khan says existing laws can hold AI companies accountableFormer FTC chair Lina Khan urged using existing laws and a 1934 precedent to hold AI companies and executives accountable, arguing current legal tools can address unvetted or defective AI products; she referenced OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and xAI.
xAI Settles Claims Against Apple Over AI CompetitionElon Musk’s xAI and X Corp. resolved an antitrust lawsuit against Apple that alleged the iPhone maker favored OpenAI’s ChatGPT over other chatbot makers.
Nvidia's $99B AI investment portfolioNvidia reported roughly $99 billion in investments as of its fiscal Q2 close (July 26), split into $47.7B in public equities, $47.9B in non-marketable securities, and $3.3B in equity-method investments; public holdings include Intel, SpaceX and CoreWeave, and Nvidia invested $5B in Intel last September while its SpaceX stake came from xAI’s merger conversion.
Clearview tests AI tool to unearth social tiesWIRED reports that a law-enforcement prototype called InquiryIQ is being tested to surface people’s associates, social accounts and other online details, and has been trialed with xAI’s Grok model. Such tools could automate post–face-recognition digging into personal online information, raising privacy and security concerns.
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