Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax breaks, an analysis found. The payments date back more than two decades. In 2008, shortly after Musk became CEO of Tesla, he campaigned for a low-interest loan from the U.S. Department of Energy. (Washington Post) (Kim Ten)
Musk and the xAI team said at the Grok3 launch that Grok3 introduced the AI search engine DeepSearch, which xAI described as an early version of an agent-like capability. Musk said the voice mode is still a bit unstable and could be available in about a week, but it's great. xAI engineers say Deepsearch is our first generation of broad proxy tools that not only help engineers, researchers, and scientists write code, but actually help everyone answer questions they encounter on a daily basis.
The attorneys general of 14 US states have filed a lawsuit challenging that the "broad powers" of Mr. Musk and his Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) violate the US Constitution. According to the relevant lawsuit documents, the state attorneys general believe that the president cannot grant such vast powers to an unelected individual who has not been confirmed by the Senate. Under the US Constitution, generally speaking, any official considered important in the US government needs to ...