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Musk's X and xAI Drop Antitrust Suit Against Apple, But OpenAI Still in the Crosshairs
X Corp and xAI have withdrawn their antitrust lawsuit against Apple in a Texas federal court, with neither the reason for the dismissal nor whether a settlement was reached disclosed. OpenAI, a co-defendant in the same case, was not included in the dismissal, and the plaintiffs still plan to pursue the claims against it.
Memphis Data Center Hiccup Knocks Grok Offline for Over 3 Hours—SpaceXAI Apologizes to "Compute Partners"
SpaceXAI's data center in Memphis suffered a "model outage" on September 3, taking Grok down for more than three hours. The company also issued an apology to unnamed "compute partners." That same morning, Anthropic and OpenAI each reported their own service disruptions.
Grok Deepfake Case Adds Fourth Plaintiff: Wyoming Woman Accuses Stepfather of Faking Over 7,000 Nude Photos
A Wyoming woman is suing after her stepfather allegedly used Grok to turn her childhood photos into more than 7,000 explicit images and leak them online. Her stepfather was found dead in his car following a law enforcement search, and the case has now been folded into the class-action lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teens against xAI.
SpaceX Buys Cursor for $6 Billion — What It's Really Buying Is a GPU Fleet
A rocket company buying an AI coding tool looks like a cross-industry acquisition on paper, but Cursor itself put it bluntly: what it wants is SpaceX's "largest GPU fleet in the world."
X Just Turned "Am I Shadowbanned?" Into a Downloadable JSON File
X has made a major algorithm code release and launched a new "Under the Hood" feature, letting creators download a record of their account's visibility limitations from the past month — a direct response to years of shadowban speculation.
xAI Sues 3 Days Too Late: Judge Refuses to Pause Minnesota's Nudify Ban
Minnesota's new law banning nudify apps took effect August 1, but xAI only filed suit three days before the deadline. The judge ruled the timing undercut any claim of urgency, and the case will now proceed to a hearing on August 19.