Sources: X let go of 20+ staffers in nontechnical roles ahead of a SpaceX IPO; X staff have been told to focus on growing revenue since xAI brought on a CRO
Redundant roles have been removed as the social-media company tries to boost profit and integrate with Musk's space-exploration company
xAI hires senior Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg; Elon Musk said he expects xAI to “catch up and exceed our competitors” in coding by mid-2026
and Musk says he's rebuildingVictor Tangermann /Futurism:Elon Musk Orders Sweeping Layoffs as xAI Fails to Catch UpMichael Kan /PCMag:Grok, Is This True? Musk Says xAI Needs to Be ‘Rebuilt’ As Co-Foun...
A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is building a “new category of work”; Mercor hit a $500M ARR in September and pays contractors ~$1.5M/day
Plus, perimenopause apps, Musk's mammoth pay package … X: Kevin V. Nguyen / @kevinnguyen_89 : There are a lot of young people in their early 20s running around in San Francisco rn making fortunes and ...
Sources: Elon Musk's Tesla and xAI have had a wave of senior departures over the past year, driven by burnout, disillusionment with Musk's politics, and more
Churn at Tesla and xAI comes amid disillusionment with billionaire's activism, strategic pivots and mass lay-offs
Inside xAI's chaotic summer: Musk reorganized xAI on the fly, researchers left because xAI abandoned science in favor of attention-grabbing products, and more
Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI. The result was chaos.
Sources: several xAI execs left after clashing with two of Musk's closest advisers over concerns about unrealistic financial projections and xAI's management
Some who left say they were concerned about the artificial intelligence company's financial projections
Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish
Inside the former social media CEO's tumultuous partnership with the world's richest man — Hannah Murphy in San Francisco …
In an hour-long Q&A with reporters, Elon Musk talked DOGE, including acknowledging its shortcomings, leaving the US government, working with Trump, and more
though not always as much as he'd like — and said he still Shelby Talcott / @shelbytalcott : “DOGE is a way of life, like Buddhism,” Elon Musk said at one point. He's shifting his focus back to his co...
Sources: Sam Altman and OpenAI's board weigh governance changes, including special voting rights for its nonprofit board, to deter hostile bids like Musk's
OpenAI is considering granting special voting rights to its non-profit board in order to preserve the power of its directors …
OpenAI's board unanimously rejects the $97.4B bid by Elon Musk and a consortium of investors, calling it “Mr. Musk's latest attempt to disrupt his competition”
Bret Taylor, the chairman of OpenAI's board, said the artificial intelligence company was “not for sale.”