Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise | | | Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The Musk empire just underwent a major restructuring — with xAI acquiring social platform X in a $113B deal that officially creates a unified AI-social media powerhouse. | With both companies' futures now officially "intertwined" and resources being pooled across data, models, and talent, is this the strategic move that finally puts Grok on equal footing with industry leaders? | | In today's AI rundown: | Musk merges X and xAI in $113B deal New book details OpenAI's boardroom drama How to build web apps without any setup Apple developing AI doctor for Health app 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities
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| The Rundown: Elon Musk just announced that his AI startup xAI has acquired social media platform X in an all-stock transaction, combining two of his most prominent companies into a new entity called xAI Holdings valued at over $100B. | The details: | The deal values xAI at $80B and X at $33B, with an additional $12B in debt, bringing X's enterprise value to $45B. The merger formalizes the existing relationship, with xAI's Grok chatbot already integrated into the social network and using X's vast user data for training. Musk said the two companies' futures are "intertwined," with the deal "blending xAI's advanced AI capability and expertise with X's massive reach." The CEO also said that the new XAI Holdings Corp. will merge resources, planning to "combine the data, models, compute, distribution, and talent."
| Why it matters: xAI and X have never really felt like very separate entities, but this move officially consolidates power under one umbrella. Since Elon bought Twitter in 2022, X's trajectory has been bumpy — but its value as both a goldmine of training data and a distribution network for Grok is undoubtedly massive. |
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| | OPENAI | |  | Image source: Getty Images |
| The Rundown: A new excerpt from the upcoming book "The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future" by Keach Hagey just detailed the firing and rehiring of Altman in 2023, including internal conflicts, safety, and management issues. | The details: | The then-CTO Mira Murati and co-founder Ilya Sutskever reportedly gathered evidence documenting instances of Altman's toxic behavior and dishonesty. Board members also discovered Altman personally owned OpenAI's Startup Fund despite public statements that it was "managed" by the company. Sutskever presented the evidence to independent board members, leading to the removal of Altman and the appointment of Murati as interim CEO. Peter Thiel allegedly warned Altman about growing tensions with AI safety advocates within OAI during a private dinner, just weeks before the crisis. However, the move backfired when employees mass resigned, leading to Altman's reinstatement—and the eventual departure of Murati and Sutskever.
| Why it matters: Just when you thought the Nov. 2023 drama was behind OpenAI, a new book is almost here with a BTS look at one of the wildest corporate sagas ever. Will the new details (the full book releases in May) change perceptions, or are Sama and OpenAI far enough removed to keep pushing towards the future and not the past? |
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| | APPLE | |  | Image source: GPT-4o / The Rundown |
| The Rundown: Apple is reportedly planning a revamped Health app codenamed "Project Mulberry" that will feature an AI-powered health coach — hoping to take the company's health offerings from basic tracking to personalized medical guidance. | The details: | The revamp will introduce an AI health assistant that delivers personalized medical recommendations based on health data collected from Apple devices. Apple is building a new facility to produce educational content, recruiting specialists in sleep, nutrition, physical therapy, mental health, and more. The upgraded app will also introduce food tracking capabilities and use iPhone cameras to analyze workout form, with potential integration into Apple Fitness+. The service, internally called "Health+," is scheduled for release with iOS 19.4 in spring or summer of 2026.
| Why it matters: Apple's initial AI rollout has been a disaster, making it hard to trust any timelines or expectations for future integrations. But if they redeem themselves, this upgrade could finally deliver on Tim Cook's vision of revolutionizing healthcare — and equip its wearables with proactive features more in line with AI's powerful abilities. |
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| | | Google made its new Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental model available to all users, giving free access to the No.1 ranked model on LMArena's leaderboard. | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to a post on X hinting that the company may be developing a computer, saying they are going to make a "really cute one." | Users reported seeing a new 'thinking' slider in ChatGPT, giving the option to automatically adapt to each prompt, think a little, or think harder for deeper research. | Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp. scored a 130 on Mensa Norway's IQ test, the highest of any model and well surpassing the average human score of 100. | Baidu's ERNIE 4.5 competed in Chinese chess against OpenAI's GPT-4.5, with ERNIE winning all matches and even "taking it easy" during portions of the lopsided victories. | Extropic AI revealed more about its probabilistic computer chips that achieve efficiency gains up to 10,000x against conventional hardware, aiming to take on Nvidia. |
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