🤖 xAI Loses Half Its Founding Team as Massive Exodus Rocks Elon Musk's AI Empire

🤖 xAI Loses Half Its Founding Team as Massive Exodus Rocks Elon Musk's AI Empire

Author: AI Daily February 12, 2026 Duration: 7:26
Half of xAI's founding team has departed in just one week amid the controversial $1.25 trillion merger with SpaceX and X. Co-founders Yuhai Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba are among nine engineers who've announced exits as the company prepares for a potential IPO. Meanwhile, AI is creating dangerous hallucinations in UK social work records, inserting false warnings about suicidal ideation that never occurred. OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team while launching ads in ChatGPT with major brands. Plus, NVIDIA's new compression tech could solve language model bottlenecks, and Anthropic commits to paying for power grid upgrades. The common thread: AI is advancing faster than our ability to govern it responsibly.

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