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OpenAI, Anthropic And DeepMind Push FINRA-Style AI Safety Body — Sep 19, 2026 — Three of the top frontier AI labs are quietly building an industry-run standards body modelled on Wall Street's FINRA, and Cohere's CEO is calling it...Pentagon Adds ChatGPT Mil And Grok For Government To GenAI.mil Portal — Sep 1, 2026 — The DoD folded OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government into its GenAI.mil portal, giving 3M personnel access to three frontier models.OpenAI Ends Cursor Partnership After SpaceX Acquisition, Cuts Off November 12 — Aug 31, 2026 — OpenAI will terminate Cursor's direct model access on November 12, 2026, citing a lack of confidence that Elon Musk's SpaceX will honor its terms of s...SpaceXAI Picks NVIDIA Vera CPUs For Grok, Sends Vera Rubin NVL72 To Orbit — Aug 27, 2026 — SpaceXAI will deploy standalone NVIDIA Vera CPUs to power Grok's next-generation agentic workloads and plans to launch a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack aboard...xAI Ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 With Region Editing — Aug 16, 2026 — xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026 as the new Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and Grok apps, adding region-level editing, up to fiv...xAI Ships Grok 4.6 To Match GPT-5.6 Sol Max On AA Index — Aug 14, 2026 — xAI's new Grok 4.6 flagship targets long-running agents, coding and complex visual tasks, tying GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the AA Intelligence Index at half t...Solo VC K2 Global Raises $200M For AI, Robotics And Defense Bets — Aug 11, 2026 — Ozi Amanat's K2 Global closed $200M in fresh capital commitments to keep writing concentrated checks into frontier AI, humanoid robotics, semiconducto...EU AI Act Enforcement Powers Over GPAI Providers Go Live August 2 — Aug 3, 2026 — The European Commission's enforcement powers over general-purpose AI providers activate August 2, 2026, unlocking fines of up to 3% of global turnover...xAI Opens Grok 4.5 To The Public With Cursor-Trained Coding Push — Jul 10, 2026 — xAI made its Opus-class Grok 4.5 model publicly available on July 9, trained on tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs and jointly tuned with Cursor f...Unsealed Emails Show Pentagon Called Anthropic Talks 'Very Close' As Blacklist Landed — Jul 5, 2026 — Court documents unsealed July 2 reveal Pentagon Undersecretary Emil Michael emailed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that talks were 'very close' the day af...Grok 4.5 Enters Private Beta at SpaceX and Tesla, Skipping the Public API — Jul 5, 2026 — Elon Musk's xAI placed its 1.5-trillion-parameter Grok 4.5 into internal-only testing at SpaceX and Tesla on June 28, promising monthly frontier-model...Google to Pay SpaceX $920 Million a Month for Compute at Colossus 1 — Jun 15, 2026 — Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for roughly 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs from October 2026 through June 2029, expanding the Memphis Coloss...SpaceX Sets $135 IPO Price For Record $75B Public Debut — Jun 4, 2026 — SpaceX has filed to price its IPO at $135 per share before any roadshow, targeting a record $75 billion raise at a $1.77 trillion valuation when it li...Intel Joins Elon Musk's $20B TeraFab AI Chip Manufacturing Project — Apr 7, 2026 — Intel partners with Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI on massive semiconductor facility in Austin targeting 1 TW/year compute output.