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President Trump hosted a White House meeting with leading AI executives, including Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai and Anthropic's Dario Amodei. The gathering highlighted differing policy priorities across the industry, from Amodei's calls for stronger AI safeguards to Elon Musk's push for federal adoption of Grok.
Machine learning engineer Matt Hardy posted a joke about sandboxing AI agents by giving them Delta Airlines WiFi, which drew about 11,000 likes and a laughing-emoji reply from Elon Musk. A day later Musk posted a near-identical version of the joke on X, which gathered roughly 155,000 likes and drew accusations in the replies that he had lifted the line without attribution.
Time magazine reports that in December, weeks before U.S. forces invaded Venezuela and captured Nicolás Maduro, President Trump met privately with Elon Musk and spent hours questioning Musk's Grok chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to Maduro's removal. Grok reportedly told Trump that Maduro was an unpopular dictator whose fall would be celebrated, a prediction a source says Trump saw as vindicated once celebrations followed the January 3 invasion.
A year after Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's fourth 'Master Plan' promising an era of 'amazing abundance' through robots, robotaxis and AI, the company still hasn't offered concrete details on what that abundance actually entails. Musk has made sweeping statements—everyone getting a penthouse, robots performing surgery, people having 'anything they can think of'—but has not addressed practical questions like housing supply or implementation. Tesla and Musk did not respond to requests for comment.
Google has disclosed Project Suncatcher, an effort to launch AI computing hardware into space, according to the report. Researchers involved acknowledge significant technical challenges but argue the long-term economics could eventually justify orbital data centers.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Project Meridian during a 'State of the Force' address, tapping Elon Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to co-lead a study on future warfare technology under CTO Emil Michael. The team has 120 days to recommend technologies for the military to develop, test, and field, and Hegseth also unveiled a new Autonomous Warfare Command to accelerate drone and autonomous systems deployment.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has selected Newt Gingrich, Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk to contribute to a report examining the future of warfare. The exact scope, timeline and format of their involvement were not detailed.
The Department of Defense has launched Project Meridian, an initiative described by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a study of future battlefields meant to identify weapons and technologies the military will need and propose ways to develop and field them. The effort will be led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich, none of whom have served in the US military.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Project Meridian, a 120-day Pentagon initiative to identify future warfare capabilities and technologies. Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will serve as co-leads under Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael, drawing on experts from government, industry, academia and policy circles. Hegseth said the project aims to determine which military domains and capabilities the U.S. must master, not to set new strategy or policy.
SpaceXAI's Grokipedia, an AI-generated rival to Wikipedia, released a v0.3 update that overhauls its homepage with featured and most-read article sections, a redesigned live edits tracker, and a new logo. Article pages also received minor formatting tweaks, including cleaner fact tables and tighter text spacing. The update follows a period in which the site reportedly made no content changes for months after its late-October 2025 launch.
During a press scrum following a meeting with tech executives including Jeff Bezos, Dario Amodei and Elon Musk, a reporter asked President Trump why he has called AI safety concerns a 'hoax.' White House staffers quickly ended the event and moved to clear reporters from the room as the question was asked.
OpenAI launched a new AI agent called Dots on Tuesday, featuring a colorful blob-like avatar. Social media users quickly noticed that the domain 'dot.com' is owned by Elon Musk's xAI and redirects visitors to the download page for its Grok chatbot app, with Whois records showing the domain was transferred in July. OpenAI has not commented, and xAI has not responded to requests for clarification on why it acquired the domain.