Ten of xAI's twelve original co-founders have now departed, including Guodong Zhang, who led Grok Code and Grok Imagine. Elon Musk has publicly admitted the company "was not built right first time around" and is rebuilding from the ground up, weeks after SpaceX acquired xAI in the largest M&A deal in history.
A federal judge blocked Perplexity's Comet agent from Amazon's site on March 10. Two days later, the company unveiled Personal Computer, a persistent AI agent running locally on a Mac mini. The two events are not coincidental - they define the strategic dilemma at the center of the agentic web.
Jensen Huang's keynote on Monday is expected to formalize a strategic pivot that goes far beyond new silicon. With the Groq licensing deal, the NemoClaw agent platform, and the Rubin architecture arriving together, NVIDIA is making its clearest bid yet to own the full AI infrastructure stack.
OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security startup whose tools are used by more than a quarter of Fortune 500 companies to test and red-team AI agents. The deal brings Promptfoo's team and technology inside OpenAI's Frontier platform for AI coworkers, signaling that enterprise AI security is becoming a first-party product feature rather than a third-party add-on.