BestAITools
BestAITools
8,000+ AI tools already listed
8K+Tools
190K+/moViews
70K+/moVisitors

Discover

Resources

Sign in

AI NewsThe internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

6:50 AM IST · September 30, 2026

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

On Tuesday, OpenAI launched a new productcalled Dots, an always-on AI agentwith a bubbly, blobby avatar. While the colorful avatar might evoke a smile, the biggest laugh from the launch is (we imagine) being had by Elon Musk, the former OpenAI founder who left, launched competitor Grok, and unsuccessfully sued. That’s because the domain “dot.com” belongs to Musk’s xAI, and it currently redirects to the download page for xAI’s Grok chatbot app. According to the Whois domain owner registry, that domain name was just transferred in July. It is entirely possible that xAI bought the domain for normal domain-buying reasons. “Dot” could be a typo of “bot,” so it nabbed it to grab mistyped searches. We’ve reached out to xAI and asked. But xAI doesn’t own the “bot.com” name, nor does it own other obvious typo domains like “vot.com,” which is listed for sale. The internet’s theory is far funnier: that Musk (or his team) pulled off a prank, getting wind of OpenAI’s new product and its name and buying the domain name. In fact, anonymous X user and xAI watcher@birdabo(this person calls themselves “chief shitposting officer@SpaceXAI“) was first to spot the domain name in a now-viral post. Whatever the motivation, the circumstance is funny. And as for the “dots.com” domain, a more direct fit to the product name, it currently belongs to a long-defunct company. So if a petty revenge prank was really the motivation, grabbing that name, too, would be next level. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NO WAY.> OpenAI just announced Dots.> SpaceXAI boughthttps://t.co/WdFqpl07IQit redirects straight to the Grok Bot download page. based lmao.pic.twitter.com/HF95hLF0T9

read more

Latest AI News

View All News →
OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation

OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation

OpenAI is in talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in a pre-IPO funding round at a valuation of roughly $1.4 trillion,Bloombergreported on Tuesday. Investors are eager to pour more funds into the ChatGPT maker ahead of its anticipated public market debut next year. While Anthropic momentarily outpaced OpenAI at the start of the year, recent strategic refocus on key areas like coding has fueled a 70% jump in run-rate revenue since July, reaching $40 billion in August, according to the report. The company previously raised $122 billion in March at an $852 billion valuation. That funding round was supposed to be its last private raise before an IPO, which had been, until recently, expected to take place this year. However, CEO Sam Altman has now ruled out a public debut in 2026 to prioritize AI safety first. “I think it is unacceptable to be taking like a 10% chance of killing everybody by the end of the decade,” he recently told Fortune, in response to warnings from safety researchers about AI posing an existential risk to humanity. The new fundraising, if it transpires, will serve as a bridge round to the IPO, according to Bloomberg. OpenAI didn’t respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.

2 hours ago

View

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

On Tuesday, OpenAI launched a new productcalled Dots, an always-on AI agentwith a bubbly, blobby avatar. While the colorful avatar might evoke a smile, the biggest laugh from the launch is (we imagine) being had by Elon Musk, the former OpenAI founder who left, launched competitor Grok, and unsuccessfully sued. That’s because the domain “dot.com” belongs to Musk’s xAI, and it currently redirects to the download page for xAI’s Grok chatbot app. According to the Whois domain owner registry, that domain name was just transferred in July. It is entirely possible that xAI bought the domain for normal domain-buying reasons. “Dot” could be a typo of “bot,” so it nabbed it to grab mistyped searches. We’ve reached out to xAI and asked. But xAI doesn’t own the “bot.com” name, nor does it own other obvious typo domains like “vot.com,” which is listed for sale. The internet’s theory is far funnier: that Musk (or his team) pulled off a prank, getting wind of OpenAI’s new product and its name and buying the domain name. In fact, anonymous X user and xAI watcher@birdabo(this person calls themselves “chief shitposting officer@SpaceXAI“) was first to spot the domain name in a now-viral post. Whatever the motivation, the circumstance is funny. And as for the “dots.com” domain, a more direct fit to the product name, it currently belongs to a long-defunct company. So if a petty revenge prank was really the motivation, grabbing that name, too, would be next level. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NO WAY.> OpenAI just announced Dots.> SpaceXAI boughthttps://t.co/WdFqpl07IQit redirects straight to the Grok Bot download page. based lmao.pic.twitter.com/HF95hLF0T9

2 hours ago

View

America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

The U.S. government on Tuesday launched its very own AI chatbot — or do we have to call it anSI chatbotnow? Regardless, the engineers who worked on the chatbot would undoubtedly know that as a government-hosted, public-facing AI tool, the internet was going to red team the heck out of this thing. The government partnered withGoogleandSpaceXAIto help build theAmerica.govchatbot, which has proved difficult for people to jailbreak so far. (It’s worth nothing, however, that the chatbot says that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a fact that President Donald Trumpstill denies.) But when you try to talk to America.gov about Minecraft, the chatbot appears to have some sort of existential crisis or awakening. Here’s how its roughly 1,800-word long monologue begins: I see the constituent you mean. ((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))? Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations. That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot. I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways. It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov. That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit. If, like me, you have never played Minecraft, this response may seem like a cause for concern. But the America.gov chatbot is not having a meltdown. This is a rewriting of the Minecraft “End Poem,” written by Julian Gough, which appears after you beat the game. We don’t know exactly who is responsible for the Minecraft reference, but Trump said in a speech that 20-year-old programmer Edward Coristine was a lead engineer on the project. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, you might remember him for his nickname “Big Balls,” or his involvement in Elon Musk’s DOGE. It feels wrong that a government chatbot has Minecraft easter eggs, but for the sake of national security, it’s a relief that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it’s penning lengthy poetry. It’s also a relief that this is an easter egg because the poem that the AI spits out is actually really good, in my opinion. If it were actual AI slop, it would have shattered my existing beliefs. I have looked teenage creative writing students dead in the eye and told them that I don’t think an LLM will ever be able to write something “good,” since it is probabilistic and inherently unoriginal. You have to admit this kinda slaps, though! Doesn’t this feel like some sort of postmodern take on the futility of government bureaucracy in the face of existential anxiety? and the republic said I see you and the republic said you have filed the game well and the republic said everything you need is within you, and also onUSA.gov and the republic said you are stronger than you know, and your case number is still valid and the republic said you are the daylight and the republic said you are the night, and the office is closed, please try again during business hours and the republic said the darkness you fight is within you, and also a missing wet signature and the republic said the light you seek is within you, and in the pamphlet and the republic said you are not alone and the republic said you are not separate from every other filer and the republic said you are the public tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own Code and the republic said I love you because you are the reason we have a ZIP code at all. It reassures my faith in the enduring power of human creativity over AI slop to know that this oddly good poem has a real poet’s DNA all over it. So, there you have it. The government’s first public-facing AI has not yet posed a threat to humanity or poetry, at least as far as we know. Now I’m just left wondering how much Trump knows about video games.

2 hours ago

View

AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience

AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience

Wabi, the AI startup that allowed anyone touse prompts to build apps, is undergoing a slight pivot as demand for AI agents, like Meta’sMuseandInstinct, takes off. The companyannouncedthis week that Wabi is now becoming an AI messenger of sorts — but one that’s still capable of making apps to help you get things done. The startup’s founder Eugenia Kuyda, who previously founded the AI companion startup Replika, described Wabi 2.0, as the new experience is called, as a “personal agent that does stuff for you and builds the interface you need in the moment.” Introducing Wabi 2.0: a new kind of messenger that makes apps and gets things done for you and your friends.We’re building the OS for the agentic era – software that adapts to your life, gets things done, and makes more room for the people and things that matter.Invite-only…pic.twitter.com/x9UlzrJSXs It’s a similar value proposition to that offered by the original version of Wabi — but one that users will interact with in a different way. Instead of positioning itself up against other vibe-coding tools, Wabi 2.0 aims to compete more directly with AI agents that combine both conversations and productivity tasks in a single interface. It also comes as companies like OpenAI and others are thinking about how apps will work inside their more generalized chatbot user interfaces; for instance, OpenAI today announced at its Dev Day an update to ChatGPT’s plugins, which will allow apps to offer interactive experiences within ChatGPT, and where the app’s name gets pinned in a more visible spot on ChatGPT’s sidebar. Ina post on X, Kudya explained how Wabi’s new experience will make more sense for consumers, who want to do more than just type to an agent. “The more you use a chat-only agent, the worse the experience gets. Your history and ongoing tasks end up buried in one endless scroll. People don’t just want to type-type-type; They want to tap-tap-tap, scroll, and look. They love what agents can do, but they also like software,” she wrote. “The most powerful agent will be the one that combines both.” The idea is that as a user asks the agent to perform a task, it could create a user interface on demand to help complete whatever the request may be. For instance, Kudya suggested users could build things like a calorie tracker, a weightlifting log, and a weight tracker, which would be accessible in her thread about health-related topics. In another thread focused on family, users could create a calendar of the kids’ activities, a language learning app, an app that keeps up with local kid-friendly events, and other things that relate to parenting, household management, or the kids’ interests. “So far, personal agents have been one person, one chat, a stream of one-off tasks. We think the future is your agent, your apps, and your people in one place, running the parts of life that matter most, together,” wrote Kudya. The new Wabi 2.0 app is currently only available by invite code, which are beingdoled out on X,too.

6 hours ago

View

BestAITools.online is an AI Tools Directory helping individuals, businesses, and creators discover the best AI tools for writing, coding, design, productivity, and more.

ContactPromoteTerms of ServiceRefund PolicyPrivacy Policy
Submit AI Tools – The ultimate platform to discover, submit, and explore the best AI tools across various categories.Listed on codetrendy.com

© 2026 BestAITools.online, Product of 011BQ. All rights reserved.

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch