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On-the-record statements by material decision-makers in the AI stack — commitments, admissions, and denials. Each item is verbatim, attributed, and cited to a primary record.
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“xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up.”
Elon Musk · Post on X responding to news of senior hires from AI coding startup Cursor, March 12, 2026
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“I will be filing an appeal with the Ninth Circuit, because creating a precedent to loot charities is incredibly destructive to charitable giving in America.”
Elon Musk · Post on X following the federal jury verdict in Musk v. Altman, May 18, 2026
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“From my point of view, from DeepMind and Google's point of view, if engineers are becoming three or four times more productive, then we just want to do three or four times more stuff.”
Demis Hassabis · Interview with WIRED, published ahead of Google I/O 2026, May 19, 2026