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Musk's staff reaches out to suppliers for Terafab project, Bloomberg News reports

April 15 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's staff have reached out to chip industry suppliers for his Terafab AI chip complex project ...

Elon Musk Hits Out At 'Tesla Killers' As EV Giant Outsells Rivals GM, Ford, Rivian In US

Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk hit back at critics on Monday as the EV giant outsold all of its rivals in the U.S. domestic market during the first quarter of 2026. Tesla’s Q1 U.S. Sales In a post on the social media platform X on Monday, influencer Sawyer Merritt shared sales figures for almost all EVs available in the U.S. market, citing Cox Automotive data. The post shared how Tesla’s Model Y and Model 3 remained at the top of the sales charts with over 101,000 sales combined in the first quarter.

Elon Musk Once Called Instagram A 'Thirst Trap,' Deleted His Account: Billionaire Could Be Back To Promote SpaceX IPO

Billionaire Elon Musk has shared a distaste for social media platforms from Meta Platforms over the years. Meta-owned Instagram and rival social media platform TikTok, which is now owned by a group of American companies, may have attracted Musk to use platforms outside his X platform owned by xAI/SpaceX ahead of a highly anticipated IPO. Elon Musk on Instagram, TikTok? For years, Musk has shared his hatred for platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta Platfo

Elizabeth Warren slams Elon Musk over X Money’s rumored crypto feature

US Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers regarding a forthcoming payments feature on X. "Consumers, our national security, and the stability of the financial system may be at risk,” she wrote in a letter addressed to owner Elon Musk. Warren expressed concern that X could take advantage of a "suspicious carveout" in the Genius Act.

Tesla stock adds nearly 8% as Elon Musk touts chip progress

UBS analysts changed their previously bearish rating on shares of Tesla this week.

Democratic Senator slams X Money in blistering letter to Elon Musk

Elon Musk wants to turn X into an "everything app." ...

Elon Musk's father reveals Tesla CEO's personal Bitcoin holdings

Errol Musk, father of Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, has revealed that his two sons hold a considerable ...

Elon Musk promised ‘random’ $1M giveaways. Now he’s fighting to avoid testifying.

Federal suits in Austin allege the Tesla and SpaceX CEO misled voters. Their attorneys seek his testimony and documents ...

Amazon-backed X-energy files to raise up to $800M in IPO

Nuclear startup X-energy hit the road today to sell prospective investors on its initial public offering.

Ford EV and tech chief leaving automaker

Doug Field had stints at Apple and Tesla before joining Ford in 2021.

Wait, could they still actually break up Live Nation?

A federal jury found that Live Nation has acted illegally as a monopoly -- but the company just came to a tentative settlement with the DOJ last month.

Monarch Tractor’s collapse ends with an acquisition by Caterpillar

The startup had faced mounting pressure from dealers, farmers, and a co-founder who complained that Monarch's tech didn't work properly.

Microsoft patched a Copilot Studio prompt injection. The data exfiltrated anyway.

Microsoft assigned CVE-2026-21520, a CVSS 7.5 indirect prompt injection vulnerability, to Copilot Studio. Capsule Security discovered the flaw, coordinated disclosure with Microsoft, and the patch was deployed on January 15. Public disclosure went live on Wednesday.That CVE matters less for what it fixes and more for what it signals. Capsule’s research calls Microsoft’s decision to assign a CVE to a prompt injection vulnerability in an agentic platform “highly unusual.” Microsoft previously assi

Frontier models are failing one in three production attempts — and getting harder to audit

AI agents are now embedded in real enterprise workflows, and they're still failing roughly one in three attempts on structured benchmarks. That gap between capability and reliability is the defining operational challenge for IT leaders in 2026, according to Stanford HAI's ninth annual AI Index report.This uneven, unpredictable performance is what the AI Index calls the "jagged frontier," a term coined by AI researcher Ethan Mollick to describe the boundary where AI excels and

Meta researchers introduce 'hyperagents' to unlock self-improving AI for non-coding tasks

Creating self-improving AI systems is an important step toward deploying agents in dynamic environments, especially in enterprise production environments, where tasks are not always predictable, nor consistent. Current self-improving AI systems face severe limitations because they rely on fixed, handcrafted improvement mechanisms that only work under strict conditions such as software engineering.To overcome this practical challenge, researchers at Meta and several universities introduced “hyper

OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents

OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its agent-building toolkit, as agentic AI continues to grow in popularity.

Hightouch reaches $100M ARR fueled by marketing tools powered by AI

The startup says it grew its ARR by $70 million in just 20 months after launching an AI agent platform for marketers.

LinkedIn data shows AI isn’t to blame for hiring decline… yet

LinkedIn says hiring is down 20% since 2022, but blames higher interest rates — not AI — for the slowdown.

Feds will require data centers to show their power bills

In a first, the U.S. Energy Information Agency said it will require data centers to disclose details of their energy use.

We tested Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Code desktop app and 'Routines' — here's what enterprises should know

The transition from AI as a chatbot to AI as a workforce is no longer a theoretical projection; it has become the primary design philosophy for the modern developer's toolkit. On April 14, 2026, Anthropic signaled this shift with a dual release: a complete redesign of the Claude Code desktop app (for Mac and Windows) and the launch of "Routines" in research preview. These updates suggest that for the modern enterprise, the developer's role is shifting from a solo practitioner