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- ‘SpaceX is his new baby at the expense of Tesla’: Elon Musk’s IPO could be bad news for his EV maker, investors warns
SpaceX will reportedly allocate 30% of shares to retail investors, betting on the CEO’s loyal base of investors—and putting Tesla under more scrutiny.
- Cloudflare posted record revenue, then cut 20% of its workforce. CEO Matthew Prince says AI has made an entire category of workers obsolete
Prince said in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed that the company would cut “measurers” while prioritizing hiring of “builders” and “sellers.”
- Stars Commemorate Stephen Colbert’s Last Show With First Amendment Video
A group of Hollywood celebrities release a video thanking Stephen Colbert for his bravery in standing up to power.
- Prakash Arunkundrum, HP’s first-ever chief strategy and transformation officer, bets edge AI will ‘bring the token cost down’
AI PCs are helping to drive HP's sales, even as higher memory costs are starting to erode margins.
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- As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
SpaceX IPO filing pitches orbital data centers as Grok lags rival AI services.
- AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network
AT&T asks a court and the FCC to block California phone requirements.
- Roundtables: Can AI Learn to Understand the World?
Listen to the session or watch below AI companies want to build systems that understand the external world and overcome the limitations of LLMs. Recent developments have brought world models to the forefront of the AI discussion. Watch a conversation with editor in chief Mat Honan, senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven, and AI reporter…
- JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away
The differences seen here could be throwing off how we study planetary atmospheres.
- Scaling creativity in the age of AI
Storytelling is core to humanity’s DNA, stemming from our impulse to express ideals, warnings, hopes, and experiences. Technology has always been woven through the medium and the distribution: from early humans’ innovation of natural pigments and charcoals for cave paintings to literal representation by the camera. The landscape of storytelling continues to shift under our…
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