Musk’s xAI faces threat of NAACP lawsuit over pollution in Mississippi

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Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI, which merged with SpaceX last week, is facing increased pressure from environmental and civil rights groups over pollution concerns, this time at the company’s facility in Southaven, Mississippi. On Friday, the Southern Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, on behalf of the NAACP, sent a notice […]


Musk’s xAI needs SpaceX for money. Data centers in space are a dream

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Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk said a primary reason for merging SpaceX with his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is to more effectively build “orbital data centers.” […]


Musk’s xAI faces tougher road expanding Memphis area after EPA update

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Elon musk and the xAI logo. Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency closed a loophole this week that Elon Musk’s xAI had exploited to rapidly stand up its first data center in Memphis, Tennessee. Musk’s artificial intelligence startup created a kind of off-grid power plant for its Colossus facility by […]


Elon Musk’s xAI in talks to raise $15B at $230B valuation: report

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Elon Musk’s firm, xAI, is reportedly in advanced talks to raise $15 billion in new equity – after the billionaire last week slammed a CNBC report about the funding round as “false.” The deal would hike xAI’s valuation to $230 billion, people familiar with the plans told the Wall Street Journal. That’s a strong jump […]


SpaceX to invest $2 billion in Musk’s xAI startup, WSJ reports

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SpaceX has committed $2 billion to xAI as part of a $5 billion equity round, deepening the ties between tech billionaire Elon Musk’s ventures as his artificial intelligence startup races to compete with rival OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Musk said in a post on X that an investment by SpaceX into xAI “would be […]


Elon Musk’s xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity

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Elon Musk announced his new company xAI, which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images XAI, the artificial intelligence startup run by Elon Musk, has raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley said. Half of that sum was […]


Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings in talks to raise $20 billion

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The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings is in discussions with investors to raise about $20 billion, Bloomberg News reported Friday, citing […]


Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X, in deal valuing X at $33 billion

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Elon Musk said on Friday that his startup xAI has merged with X, his social network, in an all-stock transaction that values the artificial intelligence company at $80 billion and the social media company at $33 billion. “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined,” Musk, the world’s richest person, wrote in a post on X. “Today, […]