Carpenter – Construction
About the job
- A high school diploma or equivalency certificate is required.
- At least 3 years of commercial, industrial, or heavy-civil carpentry experience building formwork, platforms, railings, framing, or related structures is required.
- Ability to read construction drawings, details, elevations, and work packages is required.
- Proficiency with construction hand and power tools and layout tools, including a tape, level, square, and laser, is required.
- Working knowledge of construction safety, fall protection, and personal protective equipment requirements is required.
- Ability to lift more than 50 pounds, work at heights and in confined spaces, and work outdoors in all weather is required.
- Willingness to work nights, weekends, and extended shifts during construction is required.
- Ability to perform duties involving standing, kneeling, crouching, twisting the upper body, working in cramped positions, climbing, lifting up to 50 pounds, and working on ladders or lifts at elevated heights is required.
- Ability to work in environments with fumes, odors, noise, heat, cold, and rain is required.
- Ability to rapidly change roles and responsibilities in a fast-paced work environment is required.
- Build, set, and strip concrete formwork, bulkheads, blockouts, embeds, and related forming for foundations, pads, walls, piers, and equipment bases in support of civil and concrete work.
- Construct work platforms, stairs, ladders, railings, toe boards, and access structures so civil, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and related crews can work safely at height and around equipment.
- Frame, hang, and finish wood and light-gauge structures, including blocking, backing, partitions, door and window bucks, and equipment pads according to issued-for-construction drawings.
- Lay out from control, measure, cut, and assemble lumber, plywood, engineered wood, and related materials to drawings, specifications, and site standards.
- Build and maintain temporary facilities, weather protection, enclosures, and safety structures that support other trades through all construction phases.
- Read and interpret construction drawings, details, elevations, and work orders, and produce as-built markups.
- Follow fall protection, lockout/tagout (LOTO), personal protective equipment (PPE), hot-work, and permit requirements on an active construction site.
- Operate hand and power tools, including saws, drills, nailers, lasers, and levels; climb structures; and stage, protect, and store materials.
- Coordinate with civil, concrete, plumbing, electrical, and other trades so forms, openings, embeds, and platforms are correctly positioned for the next installation.
- Support punch-list closeout and turnover with engineers, contractors, and vendors.
- Document work performed and as-built markups.
- Operate company vehicles and specialized equipment; inspect and store personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Perform similar or less skilled incidental duties as assigned.
- Journey-level carpenter experience, union or non-union, and/or completion of a carpenter apprenticeship.
- Industrial, manufacturing, or data center construction experience building forms, platforms, and access structures that support other trades.
- Experience on large-scale industrial or mission-critical projects, including work supporting civil, concrete, plumbing, or electrical crews.
- OSHA 30 or equivalent construction safety training; fall-protection competent person qualification.
- Knowledge of print reading for architectural, structural, and civil drawings.
About the company
xAI builds Grok, a generative AI chatbot with a Hitchhiker's Guide-inspired persona that uses real-time data from X to produce current, culturally aware responses. Grok is accessible to premium subscribers on X, via a standalone website, mobile apps, and through an API for developers. The company also develops large-scale AI infrastructure, such as the Colossus supercomputer, to train and run its models. Its goal is to pursue truth-seeking AGI research and grow a capital-intensive platform that could support a major public offering in the future.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Series E
Total Funding
$42.1B
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2023
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What believers are saying
- On October 2, 2026, the Eighth Circuit paused Minnesota's anti-nudification law.
- Grok 4.7 reached Cursor, Grok Build, and the Grok API on September 21.
- January 2026's $20 billion round and public SpaceXAI listing funded massive expansion.
What critics are saying
- The NAACP and SELC keep suing over unpermitted Colossus turbines and toxic emissions.
- A June 2026 lawsuit alleges xAI fired engineer Devin Kim for safety complaints.
- Colossus 2 depends on giant power, networking, and chip deliveries; delays starve Grok.
What makes xAI unique
- Grok plugs into X's live feed, giving real-time social context competitors still lack.
- Musk's October 2026 Colossus 2 buildout targets 1.21 million Nvidia GPUs by year-end.
- xAI ships rapidly: Grok 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7 all landed in 2026.
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X unveils AI tool that turns web links into ad campaigns. X has launched X Lift, an artificial intelligence tool that lets a business turn its website address into a ready-to-review advertising campaign in a few clicks. The company unveiled the product recently at Advertising Week New York, a major US industry gathering. Under the system, an advertiser enters a business web address, and X's AI generates a range of ad options, including images and written copy. The advertiser picks the ones to use. The tool can also build the rest of the campaign, including who the ads should reach, leaving the advertiser to set a budget. X said the product is meant to cut down the manual steps involved in setting up ads on its platform. In a post announcing it, the company said X Lift brings together three core strengths: speed, scale and intelligence. Mohit Bhatia, X's lead engineer for ads product, described X Lift as the company's first major product to combine those three areas in one offering, while speaking on a panel at the event. The product (X Lift) is reportedly aimed mainly at new advertisers. The company also reports that the number of active self-serve advertisers on its platform rose 50 per cent in the third quarter of 2026, compared with the same period of 2025. The launch follows X's April 2026 announcement that it had begun a phased rollout of a rebuilt, AI-powered advertising platform. X merged with xAI last year, and has been working to rebuild its advertising business since its 2022 takeover by Elon Musk. X was not the only platform to unveil AI advertising tools at the event. Meta announced an upgraded AI business assistant and an expansion of its creative tools for brands. It also plans to widen access to its Ads Creative Studio, a tool that uses performance data to guide new video ad ideas.
SpaceX seeks $40B in debt to buy Nvidia chips as Iran escalates Hormuz attacks. SpaceX is in talks to borrow $40 billion to purchase Nvidia chips as Iran steps up tanker attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. Energy scarcity and monetary expansion are compounding at the same time. Two pressure fronts converging on the same scarce resource: energy. Key takeaways * SpaceX is in early-stage talks to raise $40 billion in debt financing, structured as roughly $10 billion in bank loans and $30 billion in investment-grade bonds, led by Apollo Global Management, to purchase Nvidia chips for its AI buildout. * Iran has sharply intensified tanker attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, with nine incidents reported in the first days of October 2026 alone, roughly half the total reported for all of September, sending Brent crude near $102.60 and tanker rates to extraordinary levels. * A contested energy chokepoint and a $40 billion AI-chip debt binge are not separate stories. Together they signal that energy scarcity and credit expansion are compounding simultaneously, the exact pressure environment Bitcoin's fixed supply and mining economics are positioned to benefit from. SpaceX is seeking to borrow $40 billion to purchase Nvidia chips for its AI infrastructure, first reported by the Financial Times, as Iran simultaneously ramps up attacks on oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Apollo Global Management is leading the financing effort, with PIMCO among the institutional lenders in early discussions. The deal is structured as approximately $10 billion in bank loans and $30 billion in investment-grade debt, with a close expected in 2027. Talks are at an early stage and could end without a deal, per people familiar cited by Bloomberg. On the energy front, Bloomberg reported nine tanker incidents in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf in just the first days of October, per UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO). Named vessels disabled or struck include the LIPSI, an LR2 tanker left adrift after an engine room strike on October 4; the KAZIMAH III, a Kuwait-flagged VLCC struck October 1 with crew evacuated; and the UHUD, an oil products tanker struck October 2 with fire and blackout reported. Brent crude was trading near $102.60 as of October 5. Iran's parliament speaker has stated publicly that the strait will not fully reopen until Iran's seven conditions under the June 2026 Islamabad Memorandum are met. A $40 billion bet the AI revenue comes before the bill does. SpaceX, which went public on Nasdaq in June 2026, is in full-scale AI infrastructure buildout mode following its February 2026 acquisition of xAI, now operating as SpaceXAI. Musk has said SpaceX will use Nvidia hardware exclusively across its data centers. The Colossus 2 facility was described as potentially more than doubling its Nvidia chip count by December. The financing structure mirrors how major infrastructure projects get capitalized, not how technology companies typically raise. Apollo is already one of six firms, alongside BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR, participating in Nvidia-linked financing platforms targeting AI infrastructure buildout. The AI capex fragility embedded in these structures is real: the debt works only if AI revenue materializes at scale before refinancing pressure arrives. The credit expansion dimension is the part that gets skipped. A $40 billion debt issuance placed with Apollo and PIMCO is money that does not exist yet, conjured into existence to buy chips. Multiply that by every hyperscaler and sovereign AI program running the same playbook. PwC projects $31.6 trillion in AI data center capex through 2050. That $31.6 trillion is credit, not investment from saved capital, and credit at scale dilutes the units it is denominated in. Lyn Alden's framing applies directly: AI may produce deflationary outputs while the financing behind it produces monetary inflation. Bitcoin's 21 million cap cannot be debt-financed into existence. What Hormuz makes clear about the energy calculus. The Hormuz situation has been building since U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran beginning February 28, 2026. The October acceleration is a policy, not a spike. Iran has structured the chokepoint as a pressure mechanism, and the Islamabad Memorandum has not changed the incentive. The Congressional Research Service estimates the strait carries roughly 20% of global oil consumption. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited approximately 13 million barrels per day transiting Hormuz currently, down from pre-war levels of roughly 20 million barrels per day. The same barrel of oil that cannot move without a U.S. Navy escort is now being competed for by AI datacenters that require massive, reliable power at scale. These are not separate markets. Grid electricity prices are set at the margin by natural gas. Natural gas trades with oil. Oil prices are now partly set by Iranian foreign policy and U.S. carrier deployment schedules. Bitcoin miners with secured access to stranded, flared, or off-grid power are insulated from this dynamic and actively benefit from it. When grid electricity costs rise, marginal miners exit. Hash rate supply compresses. Well-capitalized miners with low-cost dispatchable power hold a widening advantage that no debt deal and no tanker attack can reach. What to watch. The SpaceX deal closing hinges on whether Apollo can place $30 billion in investment-grade debt with institutions comfortable underwriting AI revenue projections years out. If credit conditions tighten, or AI revenue timelines slip, the deal stalls. On Hormuz, watch whether Iran's seven conditions become a negotiating framework or a permanent blockade rationale. A clean resolution of the strait, with full pre-war flow resuming and insurance markets normalizing, would ease the energy scarcity pressure that underpins this entire analysis. Neither outcome looks imminent. Sources. Frequently asked questions. What is Iran's stated condition for reopening the Strait of Hormuz? Why is SpaceX borrowing $40 billion rather than using equity or cash? How does a Hormuz disruption affect Bitcoin mining economics?
Elon Musk loses $21 billion in A morning as SpaceX shares slip. Oct 07, 2026, 11:44am EDT Topline. Elon Musk lost around $21 billion on Wednesday morning after reports that SpaceX is in talks with banks and investors to raise $40 billion for Nvidia chips caused the company's stock to fall around 2%, bringing his net worth down days after he regained his trillionaire status. Key facts. Elon Musk's net worth was down over $21 billion as of 11:35 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, bringing his current worth to $1.03 trillion - a 2.04% drop coming just two days after he became a trillionaire again. SpaceX shares were down around 2% on Wednesday, trading at $168.86 as of 11:35 a.m. EDT after the Financial Times first reported that the company plans to borrow $40 billion to buy AI chips from Nvidia, citing people familiar with the matter. SpaceX reportedly plans to raise $30 billion in investment-grade debt and $10 billion in bank loans, led by asset manager Apollo Global Management with Pacific Investment Management Co. reportedly also involved. The reports say the deal is in an early stage and could ultimately not be completed, but currently plans to close in 2027. Nvidia stock dropped less than 1%, trading at $237 as of 11:35 a.m. Tesla shares were down around 1.5% as of 11:15 a.m. EDT, trading at $375.38, also contributing to Musk's morning losses given he owns nearly 11% of the company. Key background. Wednesday morning's losses come after SpaceX and Tesla shares rose on Monday, pushing Musk's net worth up over $30 billion and giving him the trillionaire title once again. SpaceX stock had risen over 5% on Monday morning after Morgan Stanley analysts called the stock "cheap." Musk also suggested on Sunday that he will change the SpaceXAI name to "SpaceXSI," in line with President Donald Trump's belief that artificial intelligence should be called "super intelligence." FORBES valuation. Musk's $1.03 trillion net worth puts him firmly in first place on Forbes' Real Time Billionaires list, with Jeff Bezos in second place with an estimated net worth of $374 billion. Further reading. Zeta Global BRANDVOICE Paid Program Competitive advantage is moving away from what brands can create and toward how well they can understand and respond to their customers. Brand Contributor FORBES' VIDEO WILL PLAY AFTER THIS AD FORBES' FEATURED Video Less than $2/week.
New York City Council to hold AI hearing with tech leaders. Joe Fisher Mon, October 5, 2026 at 9:32 AM PDT Oct. 5 (UPI) - The New York City Council is holding a hearing on Monday over artificial intelligence safety with representatives from leading developers of the technology set to testify. Representatives from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Google will speak before the city council as it weighs several proposals for guardrails. The hearing follows weeks of professionals in the tech industry sounding the alarm about the dangerous potential of AI. "One of the biggest concerns is that there has been no guardrails created," said Oswald Feliz, council member and chair of the council's Public Safety Committee. "Recently, we heard from the federal government, they basically stated that they created a committee of about 10 individuals so that they can self-regulate." Julie Menin, city council speaker, said the federal government's proposal that AI will self-regulate "defies all reason." She said the council will "urgently examine the risks posed by artificial intelligence." Of the five companies called to testify before the council, only one declined to attend: Elon Musk's SpaceXAI. Menin said the council is planning to go to the courts, alleging that SpaceXAI is in "direct violation of the subpoena." Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher who posted on social media about his former employer and OpenAI fast tracking AI development despite the risks, will be in attendance on Monday. Coxon wrote in a series of social media posts that AI poses a risk to human lives, warning that "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." The posts sparked a larger conversation, including among AI developers, about the speed at which the technology is being developed. Logan Graham, head of Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, Morgan Dwyer, OpenAI's head of policy development and operations, Alice Friend, Google's director of AI and emerging tech policy, and Shane Cahill, Meta's AI policy director for legislation, are set to testify. "Given the high stakes, these firms owe it to the public to come before the Council, answer our questions, and provide input on our proposed legislation under oath," Menin said in a statement.
Endor Labs + SpaceXAI: Securing every stage of agentic software delivery. Endor Labs and SpaceXAI are partnering to secure every stage of agentic software delivery on Grok Build, from the first tool call to merged pull requests. Published on October 5, 2026 Updated on October 5, 2026 Summarize with AI AI coding agents now write a large share of production code. Across 22,000 developers, the Faros AI Engineering Report 2026 found the share of AI-generated code accepted into codebases rose from 20% to 60%. More code also means more dependencies and more attack surface. The same Faros report found bugs per developer up 54% as AI adoption scales. The stakes are highest for enterprises in regulated industries - banks, insurers, healthcare providers - where enterprise security controls aren't optional. Legacy security tooling wasn't built for this. It was designed to act as a gate at the end of the pipeline, where it slows builds and adds delays. That model breaks when agents ship code all day. That's why Endor Labs works with SpaceXAI to secure every stage of the agentic software development lifecycle on Grok Build. Endor Labs checks code and dependencies as the agent produces them, and fixes issues before they leave the session. Why this partnership matters now. SpaceXAI's mission is to accelerate human scientific discovery, building AI that extends what people can achieve. For software teams, that work shows up in Grok Build, SpaceXAI's platform for end-to-end software development lifecycle support. On Grok Build, agents plan work, write code, pull in dependencies, and run tasks across the lifecycle. When agents handle that much of delivery, every line they generate needs to be governable, traceable, and defensible. That bar is highest for regulated enterprises that want agentic development at scale. Endor Labs and SpaceXAI share a design principle: the best security is something developers never have to think about. Grok Build makes agentic development feel effortless. Endor Labs keeps the guardrails that enforce your policies just as invisible. AURI by Endor Labs is the security harness for agentic coding. It gives security teams visibility into agent activity, enforces policy as code, helps agents generate secure code by default, and blocks vulnerable and malicious dependencies before they reach your codebase. Security leaders get audit-ready evidence they can defend to the board, even as code volume keeps climbing. Building a collaboration. The team behind Grok Build (formerly Cursor) chose Endor Labs to secure its own codebase before Endor Labs started building together. Their security team needed to separate real vulnerabilities from noise. "Over 97% of vulnerabilities flagged by our previous tool weren't reachable in our application. AURI by Endor Labs shows the few impactful vulnerabilities, so we can patch quickly, focusing on what matters." Travis McPeak, Security, SpaceXAI That customer relationship became the foundation for the integration. Endor Labs started with a free MCP server that checks for code security risks, exposed secrets, and vulnerable dependencies. In December 2025, Endor Labs added a hooks integration that scans every package an agent installs. In May 2026, Endor Labs added Coding Agent Governance, and in June Endor Labs added the Endor Labs Agent Kit that brings specialized remediation agents directly into Grok Build. How it works. Grok Build does the work of software development. Endor Labs secures each step, so security issues are found, triaged, and fixed inside the session instead of piling up after it ends. From inside the same session, you can ask Endor Labs to check that everything the agent touched is secure. This includes: * The AI tools you use. With Endor Labs Coding Agent Governance, hooks record every MCP tool call, shell command, and file operation, and enforce your policies before each action runs. Hooks are deterministic, so enforcement never depends on a model's judgment. Security teams see which agents, MCP servers, models, and skills developers use, and can block the ones they haven't approved. Endor Scores rate each MCP server and skill for trust, mapped to the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications. * The code you write. Endor Labs AI SAST scans first-party code for security flaws and traces the data flow that shows how untrusted input reaches a vulnerable call. Exposed secrets get flagged before they are committed. * The dependencies you pull in. Endor Labs SCA checks direct and transitive dependencies against vulnerability data from public and proprietary sources. Reachability analysis and risk scoring show which vulnerable dependencies your application actually calls, cutting SCA findings by up to 92%. Coding Agent Governance hooks also block confirmed malicious packages at install time, and teams that route installs through Endor Labs Package Firewall get the same protection at the registry level. Fix what it finds. Finding a flaw is half the job. The AURI agents in the Endor Labs Agent Kit are specialized security agents that pull findings, context, and remediation data from Endor Labs scans and prioritize what to fix first. The Endor Labs AI SAST Remediation agent, for example, works with Grok Build to propose a fix for the most critical code flaws, along with a test plan. Once the developer approves, Grok Build applies the patch and runs the tests. With approval, the agent can also open a pull request for the fix. The SCA Remediation agent can do the same for dependencies. It queries the scan results, checks how each package is used in the project, and weighs the Endor Labs evidence. Grok Build applies the upgrade, adds tests, catches the break, and writes a workaround. It then rescans with Endor Labs to confirm the fix and check that no new vulnerabilities came in. Depending on what is safest, a fix can be a package upgrade, a code change, or an Endor Patch. What you get. Every change the remediation agents make sits behind its own approval gate, so developers decide what lands. Code leaves a Grok Build session scanned, fixed, tested, and rescanned, with the evidence behind each fix. The same Agent Kit workflows can also run outside the IDE, in CI or cloud runs, through the Grok Build SDK. Get started. Install the Endor Labs Agent Kit for Grok Build from the marketplace (or type /add-plugin endorlabs in the agent chat), then ask Grok Build to scan your project. The kit walks you through setup. Enterprise teams can book a demo to see how Endor Labs and Grok Build secure agentic software development end to end. What's next? When you're ready to take the next step in securing your software supply chain, here are 3 ways Endor Labs can help: