Elon Musk says he's building a chip fab in Austin because the AI boom needs more chips, and apparently running six companies means you should also vertically integrate into one of the hardest manufacturing problems on earth.
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The frictionless AI future everyone's building toward might be the thing that breaks us. University of Toronto psychologists argue in Communications Psychology that AI making tasks too easy strips out the cognitive struggle that actually makes us smarter and gives work meaning.
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Nvidia is about to show us where the AI money is really moving: from teaching models to running them at scale. Nvidia will unveil new AI inference chips at GTC next week, targeting the shift in enterprise spending from model training to deployment
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Amazon just showed the world its $50 billion poker hand, and it's not about the models—it's about the silicon underneath them. Amazon opened its Trainium chip lab to press days after announcing a $50B investment in OpenAI, revealing the infrastructure play behind the partnership.
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Elon Musk just announced he's building his own chip fab in Austin, shared across Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, because when you need compute at planetary scale, you can't wait for TSMC's production queue.
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Musk is building a chip factory for robots, AI, and satellites—and he's doing it without asking permission from Nvidia.
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People fear AI lying to them more than AI taking their jobs, and that should change how we build agents. Anthropic surveyed 80,000 Claude users and found hallucinations rank as their top concern, above job displacement
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Elon Musk just admitted xAI wasn't built right the first time, and most of the founding team is gone. Musk announced on X that xAI is being rebuilt from scratch after the vast majority of founding staff departed
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Bitcoin miners are shutting off rigs at a pace not seen since the 2022 collapse, and this time they're not coming back. Bitcoin mining difficulty dropped 7.8% in the latest adjustment, now sitting nearly 10% below January levels despite a brief February rebound
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Travis Kalanick is back in autonomous vehicles, and Uber is writing the check. Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is launching a new robotics and self-driving company with backing from Uber itself, his former employer that he was forced out of in 2017.
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The Pentagon just made AI decision-making systems a battlefield requirement, not a nice-to-have. Pentagon memo mandates AI-enabled decision-making as core infrastructure for linking sensors to shooters in combat operations
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Satya Nadella just put himself in the room where Copilot happens. Microsoft is restructuring AI leadership to give CEO Satya Nadella direct control over Copilot engineering teams, collapsing the distance between strategy and execution.
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A judge just ruled Musk's ketamine use is inadmissible in his fraud case against OpenAI, which means the real fight stays where it belongs: on whether Sam Altman broke promises about building AGI for humanity.
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Nvidia threw a party, and Wall Street left early. Nvidia's latest conference failed to move investors despite the industry shrugging off AI bubble fears The disconnect: builders are bullish, capital allocators are hesitant
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Elon Musk just offered to personally bankroll TSA salaries during a government shutdown while Trump floated replacing them with ICE agents, and that's not even the weirdest part of how airports might work in 2026.
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OpenAI is doubling its headcount to 8,000 by year-end while pulling back from new initiatives to focus on ChatGPT and coding tools. OpenAI plans to grow from 4,500 to roughly 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, an 78% increase in nine months.
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OpenAI is selling ads it can't measure, and advertisers are paying for vibes. OpenAI's first ChatGPT advertisers say they can't prove the ads work, with agency execs reporting zero measurable business outcomes from early campaigns.
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A filmmaker went looking for creative tools and found a eugenics fan club instead. Director Valerie Veatch dove into OpenAI's Sora community in 2024 expecting to find artists, found casual racism and sexism baked into the outputs and normalized by the users
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The gap between AI's believers and everyone else just became measurable in martinis and Nazi analogies.
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While AI companies cry poverty over compute costs, they're dropping five figures on backwards menus and caviar. Vercel threw a private dinner at an unopened SF restaurant featuring caviar, lobster, and mirrors required to read the menu, right after tripling valuation to $9 billion
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