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As SpaceX acquires xAI, all of Elon’s companies under one umbrella is pretty much an inevitability isn’t it? What is with this weird game of chicken that Nvidia and OpenAI and now Oracle are all engaging in all of the sudden. And self-driving cars are about to be ubiquitous, indication number 37.


Musk’s SpaceX Combines With xAI at $1.25 Trillion Valuation (Bloomberg)


SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it (ArsTechnica)


OpenAI's Codex just got its own Mac app - and anyone can try it for free now (ZDNet)


Exclusive: OpenAI is unsatisfied with some Nvidia chips and looking for alternatives, sources say (Reuters)


Waymo Raises $16 Billion From Alphabet and Others to Expand (Bloomberg)

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Is Nvidia going through with their massive OpenAI investment or not? Does Apple have what it takes to win in the AI era or not? Is Elon the only one who can make datacenters in space happen or not? And a roundup of the continued fascination with Moltbook.


The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice (WSJ)


Nvidia CEO Says New OpenAI Investment May Be Largest Yet (Bloomberg)


Apple’s Historic Quarter Doesn’t Change the Need for AI Reckoning (Bloomberg)


SpaceX seeks FCC nod for solar-powered satellite data centers for AI (Reuters)


How often do AI chatbots lead users down a harmful path? (ArsTechnica)


Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now (Simon Willison)

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Apple does a big acquisition. OpenAI is racing to IPO. Elon
might just merge all his companies into one. Google’s Project Genie is the
latest thing that will make you say, gee, AI can do that?! And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.


Apple buys Israeli start-up Q.AI for close to $2bn in race to build AI devices (FT)


OpenAI Plans Fourth-Quarter IPO in Race to Beat Anthropic to Market (WSJ)


SpaceX in merger talks with other Musk companies ahead of IPO (Reuters)


Elon Musk’s SpaceX Said to Consider Merger With Tesla or xAI (Bloomberg)


Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs (The Verge)


Moltbot Gets Another New Name, OpenClaw, And Triggers Security Fears And Scams (Forbes)

Weekend Longread:


To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students are turning to AI (NBCNews)

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Meta earnings good. The street like the AI spending. Microsoft earnings bad. Why is growth in their cloud business not as robust all of the sudden? Elon is following through on taking Tesla all in on robots and AI. The AI inspired layoffs are NOT just for the tech industry. And are you actually technical enough to run that Clawdbot?


Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI rollout in 2026 (TechCrunch)


Microsoft stock drops 7% on slowing cloud growth, light margin guidance (CNBC)


Tesla scraps models in pivot to AI as annual revenue falls for first time (FT)


Dow to Cut 4,500 Employees in AI Overhaul (WSJ)


Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (TechCrunch)


Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama (TechCrunch)


Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues (The Register)

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The Amazon layoffs showed up on schedule. Is Tether behind the rise in the price of gold? A new type of privacy screen tech from Samsung. Elon wants to IPO on his birthday. Anthropic raises more ahead of its IPO. And AI is finding weird stuff in Space.


Amazon says it is laying off 16,000 employees (TechCrunch)


Tether Is Shaking Up the Gold Market With Massive Metal Hoard (Bloomberg)


Samsung confirms Galaxy S26's insane 'pixel level' privacy feature (SamMobile)


SpaceX weighs June IPO timed to planetary alignment and Elon Musk’s birthday (FT)


Anthropic doubles VC fundraising to $20bn on surging investor demand (FT)


Anthropic Hikes 2026 Revenue Forecast 20% but Delays When It Will Go Cash Flow Positive (The Information)


Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives (The Verge)

RideHomeFund News: CrowdStrike buys identity security startup SGNL for $740 million in latest deal push

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