Tesla’s Elon Musk is having a generational melting down
Tesla’s Elon Musk is having a generational melting down

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spent 2026 turning his X feed into a problem no investor relations team can fix. His posts have escalated from trolling into open white nationalism, and this week his AI company sued the state of Minnesota to block a law targeti…

Tesla’s Summer Update adds smarter Grok, personalized navigation, and Caraoke scoring

Tesla’s 2026 summer update brings a phone calling Grok, scored caraoke sessions, smarter navigation, self-driving stats in the app, and custom wraps sent right from your phone.

Tesla’s 2026 Summer Update: auto navigation, Grok phone calls, Caraoke scoring, and more
Tesla’s 2026 Summer Update: auto navigation, Grok phone calls, Caraoke scoring, and more

Tesla started rolling out its 2026 Summer Update, and the automaker published the full release notes on X.
The headline additions: Grok can finally control more of the car, Caraoke now keeps score, navigation learns your routine, and several features m…

Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok
Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok

Elon Musk has quietly bought APR Energy, a Jacksonville-based company that operates a fleet of mobile gas and diesel turbines totaling more than 1 GW of generation capacity.
The self-styled champion of a “solar electric economy” now owns a fossil fuel …

X is teaching its AI algorithm something social networks once understood

X is boosting posts among mutual followers after finding that relationship data was missing from its algorithm, exposing the gap between predicting engagement and creating conversations people actually want.

Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok — a model he admits is worse
Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok — a model he admits is worse

Elon Musk told Tesla staff to move to using Grok, the AI model from his own xAI (now folded into SpaceX), according to a memo sent to employees on Friday.
The push comes days after Tesla capped employee spending on third-party AI tools — and it lands e…

SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’

Elon Musk’s tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.

Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200/week except for Grok
Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200/week except for Grok

Tesla told staff it will impose a $200-per-week limit on employee AI spending starting July 6, according to an internal memo reported by The Information (paywall).
The cap lands just months after Tesla pushed employees to use AI more aggressively, a si…

Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows

Although Wall Street loves AI, every day Americans are significantly less optimistic about the industry, a new report from Pew Research shows.

Trump’s DOJ intervenes to keep Musk’s xAI gas turbines polluting Memphis
Trump’s DOJ intervenes to keep Musk’s xAI gas turbines polluting Memphis

The US Department of Justice has asked a federal court to throw out a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI, arguing that the company’s unpermitted gas turbines near Memphis are a matter of “national, economic, and energy security.”
The move pu…