Claim · 2025-08-05 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Robert Keele posted on X on 5 August 2025 that he was leaving xAI; TechCrunch reported that he had stepped down as xAI's head of legal.

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What it connects

Robert Keele → had departure announced from → xAI

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Claim and evidence

Robert Keelehad departure announced from ↓xAI

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary + secondary · 2 sources

Date: 2025-08-05 · event Records dated 2025 →
Role: head of legal

Scope and limitsFirst-person post; the role comes from TechCrunch's report of 7 August 2025. The record does not establish his last working day. A personal reason given in the post is not recorded.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Post by Rob Keele (@keelelaw_io)

X · 2025-08-05

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Paraphrase

Keele writes that he is leaving xAI.

Location in source Post, first line

How it was read Post text read through X’s syndication endpoint, which can truncate long notes

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Robert Keele
Version: Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 0646f11df43154d2161e0e4ef002882a501b172597446ceae16fabf3ae8eb869) through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Robert Keele, “Post by Rob Keele (@keelelaw_io)”, 2025-08-05.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “I'm leaving xAI.” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. No human editorial review.

secondary sourceSupports the claim

xAI's legal chief steps down after whirlwind year

TechCrunch · 2025-08-07

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Source excerpt

“Robert Keele said this week that he has stepped down as xAI’s head of legal after just over a year”

Location in source Paragraph 1

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Connie Loizos
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 c1f4edb27d73e4119983751cabdf8b11e1df56bdfef87c24971a932266a2adf1) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Connie Loizos, “xAI's legal chief steps down after whirlwind year”, 2025-08-07.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (20 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A source announced this person’s departure from a specified role. The event date is the announcement, not an inferred final working day or end of every association.

Date. UTC timestamp of the post (23:53 on 5 August 2025).

Record ID lg2-xa-keele-xai-departure-2025