Elon Musk believes the best way to solve the difficulties of building AI data centers on earth is to move them into outer space. His merger this week of his rocket company SpaceX with his artificial intelligence company xAI could help get them there.

Elon Musk is bringing the same revolutionary thinking that helped him upend the car industry to the data center business with promises this week to put up to a million new satellites in the sky.

SpaceX, a leader in rocket launches and satellite internet, will now also house Musk’s ventures in artificial intelligence and social media.

As with SpaceX, then, Mr Musk is gambling Tesla’s future on AI, and his belief that he can harness his existing businesses to dominate the technology. Plenty of doubters have scoffed at his grand ambitions before. But never has Mr Musk put so much on the line. ■

By Raphael Satter and Sam Tabahriti NEW YORK, NY, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent,

Elon Musk calls ChatGPT 'diabolical' after lawsuit claims AI convinced mentally ill man to kill his mother. Billionaire renews push for regulation.

Indonesia has permitted the artificial intelligence tool Grok to resume service after Elon Musk’s X provided assurances to the government following its ban for producing sexualized content.

A federal judge signaled she may dismiss a ‍lawsuit by Elon Musk's ‍startup xAI ‍accusing Sam Altman's rival OpenAI of stealing trade secrets.