A senior U.S. State Department official indicated that Washington could take retaliatory steps if British regulators move forward with a potential ban on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has filed a federal lawsuit accusing former employee Xuechen Li of stealing proprietary technology before defecting to OpenAI. The suit, filed Thursday, identifies Li as a “Chinese national” and alleges he copied confidential data from his xAI-issued laptop shortly before resigning and joining the rival AI company.
Bluesky, the social media site embraced by leftists fleeing platforms like X and Threads, is facing a flood of bots and impersonation accounts as President Donald Trump returns to office. The platform, once billed as a “decentralized alternative” for those disillusioned with Musk’s X, is now struggling with the unintended consequences of its rapid growth.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is co-founding Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup positioned to compete directly with Elon Musk’s Neuralink. According to The Financial Times, the company plans to raise $250 million at an $850 million valuation, with a large portion of its funding expected from OpenAI’s ventures arm.
In June, Elon Musk contributed $15 million to President Donald Trump and key Republican super PACs, even as tensions flared over a major spending package dubbed the "One Big Beautiful Bill."
