Finnish e-motor startup Donut Lab raised €25 million ($29.2 million) in a seed funding round led by Risto Siilasmaa, the founder of cybersecurity company WithSecure (formerly F-Secure). Risto has also joined Donut Lab’s board.

Just a day after the xAI team issued a comprehensive apology and explanation about why its chatbot was spreading antisemitic rhetoric, Tesla updated its software for its cars to include the supposedly fixed Grok.

Explore GROK 4, Elon Musk’s groundbreaking AI model, and its impact on Tesla, defense, and the future of ethical AI innovation.

Usually, when you try to mess with an AI chatbot, you have to be pretty clever to get past its guardrails. But Bad Rudy basically has no guardrails, which is its whole point. Getting Bad Rudy to suggest that you burn a school is as easy as getting Ani to fall in love with you.

Cathie Wood and Ark Invest scooped up nearly 60,000 shares of TeslaTSLA in Friday's stock market as CEO Elon Musk seeks further cooperation between his businesses with SpaceX and potentially Tesla investing in his artificial intelligence company,

Tesla stock rose Monday morning after CEO Elon Musk said Tesla should be able to invest in his xAI startup pending a shareholder vote. This would be another instance of the “Muskonomy” at play, where Musk’s companies become more financially intertwined,

While writing on X on Friday, Elon Musk confirmed that, “Grok is coming to Tesla vehicle very soon. Next week at the latest.” Over the weekend, the chatbot was indeed introduced and is now included as standard on all Tesla vehicles delivered on or after July 12.

The deal is part of the Trump administration's push for more aggressive adoption of artificial intelligence in the government.