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xAI's founder exodus reportedly tied to safety concerns and frustration over Grok's failure to catch up

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Elon Musk's AI company xAI is hemorrhaging talent. Former employees describe a culture of missing safety standards, growing disillusionment, and a constant race to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic.The article xAI's founder exodus reportedly tied to safe…

#startups #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #business #governance #jobs #xai #grokai #safety

Perplexity tests new ultra-fast Gamma mode powered by Grok

19 days / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

Developer targeted by AI hit piece warns society cannot handle AI agents that decouple actions from consequences

19 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged, according to a former employee.

20 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Impressive how obvious this typo is and yet

20 days / bsky / @themckenziest.gay / themckenziest.gay

Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours

20 days / reddit / /u/gdelacalle

Is safety is ‘dead’ at xAI?

20 days / reddit / /u/Gloomy_Nebula_5138

Is safety is ‘dead’ at xAI?

20 days / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI? | Former employees say the restructuring followed tensions over safety and being “stuck in the catch-up phase.”

20 days / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

The Best Time to Leave xAI Is Before Joining. The Next Best Time is Right Now

20 days / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Elon Musk's xAI faces threat of NAACP lawsuit over air pollution from Mississippi data center

21 days / cnbc

xAI Loses Half Its Co-Founders as Musk Announces Reorganization After SpaceX Merger

21 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI

21 days / techcrunch / Theresa Loconsolo

xAI's founder exodus reportedly tied to safety concerns and frustration over Grok's failure to catch up

21 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Grok Is Gaining on ChatGPT and Gemini. How It Got There Isn’t Pretty.

21 days / bigtechnology / Alex Kantrowitz

What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI?

21 days / theverge / Hayden Field

Antitrust Policy Hangs in the Balance as Respected Top Prosecutor Departs

21 days / newcomer / Jonathan Weber

Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 1:20 pm / permalink 19137 / 16 stories in 21 days


Didero Raises $30M to Reinvent Procurement With AI

Ekemini / ventureburn - Didero is pioneering agentic AI tools, automating enterprise procurement, and has recently secured $30 million dollars in Series A funding to improve and accelerate the building of tools aimed atThe post Didero Raises $30M to Reinvent Procurement With AI …

#ai #startups #vc #automation #saas #enterprise #genai #business #supplychain #productivity

Didero Raises $30M to Reinvent Procurement With AI

21 days / ventureburn / Ekemini

Didero snaps up $30M to reinvent procurement with AI agents

21 days / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

Didero Raises $30M in Series A Funding

21 days / finsmes / FinSMEs

Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 19124 / 3 stories in 21 days


Anthropic raises $30 billion, pushing valuation to $380 billion

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Anthropic has closed a $30 billion Series G funding round, bringing the AI company's post-money valuation to $380 billion.The article Anthropic raises $30 billion, pushing valuation to $380 billion appeared first on The Decoder.


Buildout: Anthropic recruiting ex-Google staff for massive data centers

Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs

21 days / ycombinator

Anthropic recruits ex-Google data center veterans to build its own AI infrastructure empire

21 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian


Claude adoption: marketing, features, and developer ecosystem accelerating growth

Claude is leveling up against Gemini and ChatGPT with powerful free tools

21 days / digitaltrends

Spotify Says Its Best Developers Haven't Written a Line of Code Since December, Thanks To AI

21 days / slashdot / msmash

Claude Code is the New Excel

21 days / substack / John Hwang

Anthropic Fast-Tracks Next Generation of Coders Into Claude Ecosystem

21 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads mocking AI with ads helped push Claude’s app into the top 10

21 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Meet Anthropic’s AI Morality Teacher

21 days / wsj / Conor Grant

Como travar sessões do Claude com uma frase

21 days / pivot-to-ai / David Gerard


Funding frenzy: $30B round pushes Anthropic to $380B valuation

Anthropic Hit $10 Billion in Revenue, Amodei Says AI Nears 'End of the Exponential'

21 days / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

Elon Musk Slams Anthropic AI as ‘Evil’ After $380B Valuation

21 days / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Anthropic Raises $30B at $380B Valuation in Record Series G

21 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Anthropic and Databricks raise billions more. Next stop: IPOs?

21 days / siliconangle / Robert Hof

The eye-popping numbers in Anthropic's latest funding round

21 days / qz / Niamh Rowe

Anthropic Adds New Board Member as It Eyes IPO

21 days / wsj / Kate Clark

Investors shove another $30B into the Anthropic money furnace

21 days / theregister / Richard Speed

Anthropic raises $30 billion, pushing valuation to $380 billion

21 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

The $380B Claude play: Why investors bet big on Anthropic’s enterprise AI

21 days / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

Anthropic raises $30B at a $380B valuation amid bubble fears

21 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 7:20 am / permalink 19120 / 19 stories in 21 days


MiniMax Unveils M2.5: $1/HR “Full‑Stack AI Employee” Rivals Claude Opus 4.6

pandaily - MiniMax open‑sourced M2.5, a 10B‑activated‑parameter coding model scoring 80.2% on SWE‑Bench Verified, with 100 TPS inference at $1/hr — driving 10K+ Agents built in 24 hours .

#ai #startups #cloud #software #ml #genai #business #pricing #performance #developertools

Cline drops CLI 2.0 coding agent, powered by K2.5 and M2.5 for free

21 days / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

MiniMax Matched Opus at 5% of the Price. The AI Premium Is Dead.

21 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

MiniMax Unveils M2.5: $1/HR “Full‑Stack AI Employee” Rivals Claude Opus 4.6

21 days / pandaily

China’s MiniMax releases cheap AI model ‘designed for real-world productivity’

22 days / scmp

Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 3:20 am / permalink 19115 / 4 stories in 21 days


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