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War rooms, group chats, and video games: Inside Elon Musk’s AI startup

At xAI’s Palo Alto headquarters, engineers cheered.It was February 2, and they’d just received a memo from Elon Musk, informing them the AI startup would be acquired by his rocket company, SpaceX. In a Slack channel for the team that trains the company’s chatbot Grok, memes flowed, and a few…

Elon Musk and OpenAI posture over pizza as the AI talent war heats up

The rivalry between xAI and OpenAI is heating up again — this time, over wood-fired pizza.Over the weekend, Elon Musk and an OpenAI engineer jockeyed on X about wood-fired crusts, dough fermentation, and campus chefs.On its face, it was a lighthearted back-and-forth about free pizza for lunch. Underneath, it encapsulates…