Venture Capital

• Epstein files show Elon Musk apparently discussed plans to visit sex offender's island, host him at SpaceX - Elon Musk corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein in 2012 and 2013, according to newly released files, and sought to visit Epstein's island and host him at SpaceX.
• Tesla tops estimates for quarter, but wraps up first annual revenue drop on record - Tesla's earnings report comes weeks after Elon Musk's automaker reported another decline in vehicle deliveries.
• Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raises $750 million to expand into robotaxis - Khosla Ventures, G2 Venture Partners, Uber, Nvidia and Volvo are all investing in Toronto-based, driverless tech startup Waabi.
• Elon Musk says Tesla taking safety supervisors out of some Robotaxi vehicles in Austin - Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on X that his EV company has removed human safety monitors from some of its Robotaxi vehicles in Austin.
• OpenEvidence, the 'ChatGPT for doctors,' doubles valuation to $12 billion - OpenEvidence, based in Massachusetts, has topped a $12 billion valuation in a funding round led by Thrive and DST.
• The founders of billion-dollar AI startups are getting younger — here’s why - Experimenting in the age of AI "counts as more important than traditional corporate experience," Antler's co-founder Fridjtof Berge told CNBC Make It.
• Elon Musk's xAI faces tougher road building out data centers after EPA rule update - An updated rule from the EPA closed a loophole that allowed xAI to build its Memphis data center quickly using air-polluting turbines as a power source.
• Elon Musk's xAI probed by California DOJ over Grok's deepfake explicit images - Musk's Grok AI chatbot faces investigations from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Ireland, Australia, the UK and France as well.
• Elon Musk's xAI raises $20 billion from investors including Nvidia, Cisco, Fidelity - Elon Musk's AI said it raised $20 billion in new funding after CNBC reported in November that a financing round would value the company at about $230 billion.
• Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children - Regulators in Europe, India and Malaysia are scrutinizing X after exploitative images created with the Grok chatbot went viral on Elon Musk's social network.