Palantir beats fourth-quarter estimates on the strength of AI and defense demand

How Musk used SpaceX to rescue xAI and build a $1.25tn colossus

4 wks / ft

Musk merges xAI and SpaceX to form $1.2T company

4 wks / semafor / Tom Chivers

Elon Musk merges money-losing xAI into SpaceX before mega IPO

4 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Elon Musk’s SpaceX lands $1.25trn valuation after xAI acquisition

4 wks / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Musk Merged SpaceX With xAI. His Investors Paid the Bill.

Musk's SpaceX–xAI mega deal sharpens focus on bitcoin accounting ahead of IPO

4 wks / coindesk / Shaurya Malwa

SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion All-Stock Deal

4 wks / slashdot / msmash

SpaceX acquires xAI in $1.25 trillion deal, creating world's most valuable private company

4 wks / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

SpaceX + xAI = $1 Trillion Empire

4 wks / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

4 wks / wired / Maxwell Zeff

SpaceX acquiring AI startup xAI ahead of potential IPO

4 wks / reddit / /u/Luka77GOATic

Elon Musk's SpaceX acquiring AI startup xAI ahead of potential IPO

4 wks / cnbc

Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public

4 wks / pivot-to-ai / David Gerard

Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Combine With xAI Ahead of Mega IPO

4 wks / reddit / /u/MysteriousEdge5643

SpaceX to merge with xAI, seek an IPO valuation of $1.25 trillion, Bloomberg reports

4 wks / sherwood / Nate Becker

SpaceX Reportedly in Talks to Merge with xAI to Form $1T Tech Giant

4 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Merger Announcements

The xAI-SpaceX merger, Palantir earnings, China's frowning horses and more in Morning Squawk

4 wks / cnbc

The Morning After: Elon Musk’s SpaceX is buying his AI company, xAI

4 wks / engadget / Mat Smith

Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquires Elon Musks xAI, including social media platform X

4 wks / mashable

xAI joins SpaceX in mega-merger

4 wks / therundown / Zach Mink

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Acquires AI Start-Up xAI

4 wks / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Musk merges SpaceX with xAI

4 wks / advanced-television / Editor

SpaceX and xAI Are Merging Into a Very Silly-Sounding Conglomerate. Take It Seriously

4 wks / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

4 wks / theregister / Tobias Mann

SpaceX to take over Elon Musk's AI firm

4 wks / bbc

Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI

4 wks / nytimes / Ryan Mac, Kate Conger, Maureen Farrell and Rob Copeland

SpaceX buys xAI to unite crucial parts of Musk’s empire

4 wks / ft

Elon Musk says he is merging SpaceX with artificial-intelligence company xAI

4 wks / go

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Has Acquired xAI

4 wks / wsj / Micah Maidenberg

Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired his AI company, xAI

4 wks / engadget / Karissa Bell

Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI

4 wks / nytimes / Ryan Mac, Kate Conger, Maureen Farrell and Rob Copeland

Elon Musk's SpaceX to merge with xAI

4 wks / axios / Axios

Correction, what I meant to say was: "And it now seems inevitable that xAI merges with one of them IN FOUR DAYS to be able to continue on in this race..." https://spyglass.org/the-anyone-but-google-ai-alliance/

4 wks / bsky / @mgsiegler.com

Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI (and X)

4 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

xAI joins SpaceX

4 wks / ycombinator

Reading between the lines on the latest SpaceX merger report and Musk’s cryptic tweet

4 wks / sherwood / Nate Becker

Orbital AI Infrastructure

SpaceX Acquires xAI to Build Orbital Data Center Constellation

SpaceX acquires xAI in a bid to make orbiting data centers a reality — Musk plans to launch a million tons of satellites annually, targets 1TW/year of space-based compute capacity

4 wks / tomshardware

SpaceX acquires xAI at $1.25T for space data centers

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX with plans for space-based AI infrastructure

4 wks / techspot

SpaceX Buys xAI To Move AI Into Space: What We Still Don’t Know

4 wks / medianama / Aakriti Bansal

Musk's xAI needs SpaceX deal for the money. Data centers in space are still a dream

4 wks / cnbc

SpaceX Acquires xAI to Pursue AI Data Centers in Space

4 wks / reddit / /u/i-drake

Musk Folds xAI Into SpaceX, Cites Limits on Earth-Based AI Infrastructure

4 wks / decrypt / Jason Nelson

SpaceX Aims for Data Centers in Orbit as AI Strains Infrastructure

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

SpaceX Acquires xAI to Enable Solar-Powered, Space-Based AI

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

SpaceX Is buying xAI—and turning the rocket company into an AI infrastructure giant

4 wks / fastcompany / Emily Price

Elon Musk confirms SpaceX has acquired xAI to accelerate his space-based data center plans

4 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Elon Musk Officially Merges SpaceX and xAI to Build AI Data Centres in Space

4 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Elon Musk’s SpaceX officially acquires Elon Musk’s xAI, with plan to build data centers in space

4 wks / techcrunch / Sean O'Kane

Elon Musk merges AI company xAI with rocket company SpaceX to build AI in space

4 wks / coindesk / Stephen Alpher

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans 1 million satellite constellation to power it

4 wks / arstechnica / Eric Berger

Other

OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic's coding mojo

4 wks / sources / Alex Heath

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The Financial Times just reported some interesting revenue numbers: "SpaceX told investors that its annual revenue had grown to $16bn[...] By contrast, last year xAI’s revenue was in the low hundreds of millions of dollars." www.ft.com/conten

4 wks / bsky / @luisequaritsch.bsky.social / luisequaritsch.bsky.social

Come da attese e previsioni, Musk incorpora xAI (che brucia cassa come un altoforno) in SpaceX e punta per giugno a una IPO record da 50 miliardi di dollari, battendo sul tempo OpenAI e Anthropic. Seguirà incorporazione di Tesla? www.ft.com/content/9d2

4 wks / bsky / @phastidio.net / phastidio.net

Elon Musk folded SpaceX into his loss-making AI startup xAI to build a $1.25 trillion company by leveraging scale and control to outcompete rivals and pursue a major IPO.

4 wks / bsky / @druce.ai / druce.ai

SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion All-Stock Deal https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/03/0346252/spacex-acquires-xai-in-125-trillion-all-stock-deal?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

4 wks / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

space based data centers are the new humanoid robot that can be your babysitter-surgeon-crime-preventer. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/m...

4 wks / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

SpaceX and xAI Are Merging Into a Very Silly-Sounding Conglomerate. Take It Seriously https://gizmodo.com/spacex-and-xai-are-merging-into-a-very-silly-sounding-conglomerate-take-it-seriously-2000716461

4 wks / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

SpaceX has bought xAI, Elon Musk told employees in a memo: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/b...

4 wks / bsky / @kateconger.com / kateconger.com

Elon Musk slår ihop rymdbolaget SpaceX med AI-satsningen xAI. Affären skapar världens högst värderade onoterade bolag, skriver New York Times (upplåst artikel).

4 wks / bsky / @esbjorn.bsky.social / esbjorn.bsky.social

"“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!” But my Lord, why are you risking everything on such

4 wks / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

4 wks / bsky / @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social / exiledsocscientist.bsky.social

4 wks / bsky / @whoa-magic.lol / whoa-magic.lol

OMG “SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free spe

4 wks / bsky / @beanjammin.bsky.social / beanjammin.bsky.social

Doing this so you can IPO and be forced to report out exactly how much money X is losing every quarter is very funny www.theverge.com/tech/872619/...

4 wks / bsky / @reckless.bsky.social / reckless.bsky.social

Between this and his Tesla robot army, it does seem like Elon is intending to build Skynet.

4 wks / bsky / @goldy.horsesass.org / goldy.horsesass.org

Todas as empresas debaixo dum guarda-chuva que recebe bilhões em subsídios do governo pra exploração espacial

4 wks / bsky / @rlivre.cc / rlivre.cc

Space X acquires xAI www.theverge.com/tech/872619/...

4 wks / bsky / @timkellogg.me / timkellogg.me

Snowflake bypasses Microsoft to strike multiyear deal with OpenAI

Paul Gillin / siliconangle - Snowflake Inc. today said it has struck a $200 million, multiyear partnership with OpenAI Group PBC to bring enterprise-grade generative artificial intelligence models directly into its data platform, deepening a relationship that until now had largely fl…

#ai #bigdata #cloud #analytics #datascience #saas #enterprise #openai #genai #api

Snowflake drops $200M on OpenAI models to supercharge enterprise AI agents

4 wks / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Snowflake grants 12,600 customers access to OpenAI models

4 wks / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Snowflake and OpenAI Expand Partnership to Bring AI Into Enterprise Data

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Snowflake bypasses Microsoft to strike multiyear deal with OpenAI

4 wks / siliconangle / Paul Gillin

Snowflake and OpenAI sign $200 million partnership

4 wks / techzine / Berry Zwets

Mozilla Details its New Controls for Blocking AI Features in Firefox

Laurent Giret / thurrott - The new option to block all AI features in Firefox is coming soon to Nightly builds, and it will become available for all users on February 24 with the release of Firefox 148.The post Mozilla Details its New Controls for Blocking AI Features in Firefox ap…

#ai #opensource #dataprivacy #browsers #genai #ux #technology #updates #digitalprivacy

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OpenAI Launches Codex Desktop App for macOS With Multi-Agent Workflows and Doubled Rate Limits

Maria Garcia / implicator - OpenAI shipped a macOS desktop app for its Codex coding agent, doubled rate limits on all paid plans, and opened temporary access to free users. Over a million developers used Codex last month.

#ai #openai #genai #chatgpt #apps #macos #copilot #api #developertools

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Product Announcements (10)
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Competitive & Market Impact

Apple (AAPL) Stock: Jumps 4% as OpenAI Unveils Game-Changing Codex App for Developers

4 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

OpenAI launches Codex app for macOS to speed up software projects

4 wks / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

OpenAI picks up pace against Claude Code with new Codex desktop app

4 wks / arstechnica / Samuel Axon

Product Announcements

OpenAI Unleashes Codex macOS App for Multi-Agent Coding

4 wks / eweek / eWEEK Staff

OpenAI releases new Codex app to run and supervise multiple AI agents on macOS

4 wks / betanews / Wayne Williams

OpenAI launches Codex macOS app with parallel agentic coding

4 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

OpenAI launches macOS app for agentic software development

4 wks / techzine / Mels Dees

OpenAI launches Codex app for Mac to manage coding agents

4 wks / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

OpenAI Launches Codex App for Mac With Multi-Agent Coding [Video]

4 wks / iclarified

OpenAI Releases Codex App for Mac

4 wks / thurrott / Laurent Giret

OpenAI launches new MacOS app for agentic coding

4 wks / techcrunch / Russell Brandom

OpenAI launches standalone Codex app for Apple computers

4 wks / cnbc

OpenAI launches Codex app for macOS to manage multiple AI agents

4 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Technical Deep Dive

[AINews] OpenAI Codex App: death of the VSCode fork, multitasking worktrees, Skills Automations

4 wks / latent / Latent.Space

Introducing the Codex app

4 wks / simonwillison / Simon Willison

OpenAI Launches Codex Desktop App for macOS With Multi-Agent Workflows and Doubled Rate Limits

4 wks / implicator / Maria Garcia

Download: OpenAI Launches Codex ‘Command Centre’ App for Mac Developers

4 wks / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

OpenAI brings its Codex coding app to Mac, with new multi-agent abilities included

4 wks / engadget / Igor Bonifacic

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OpenAI has released a new MacOS app for Codex, integrating many of the agentic coding practices that have become popular since Codex launched last year.

Snowflake announces $200m partnership with OpenAI for enterprise AI

4 wks / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

VR used to help understand how people respond when self-driving taxis go wrong

techxplore - What would you do if you were in a self-driving taxi and another passenger fell seriously ill? What if a fire broke out, or the vehicle stopped in the wrong place? What would you need to manage the situation with no driver to help?

#ai #bigdata #vc #cloud #analytics #datascience #enterprise #openai #genai #business

4 wks / techmonitor / Anwesha Pattanaik

Snowflake and OpenAI Unveil $200M AI Partnership

4 wks / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Snowflake is the latest enterprise to sign multi-year deals with multiple AI companies in what could be a sign to come of a future trend.

What Snowflake’s deal with OpenAI tells us about the enterprise AI race

4 wks / techcrunch / Rebecca Szkutak

Klarna Joins Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol to Advance Agentic AI

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

VR used to help understand how people respond when self-driving taxis go wrong

4 wks / techxplore

Snowflake (SNOW) Stock: Major OpenAI Partnership Brings AI Models to Cloud Platform

4 wks / parameter / Trader Edge

Snowflake bets $200M that OpenAI makes databases more chatty

4 wks / theregister / O'Ryan Johnson

Fusemachines (FUSE) Stock Surges Over 65% on IBM Deal

4 wks / parameter / Trader Edge

OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent

Emma Roth / theverge - An open-source AI agent called OpenClaw (formerly known as both Clawdbot and Moltbot) that runs on your own computer and “actually does things” is taking off inside tech circles. Users interact with OpenClaw via messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Sig…

#ai #cybersecurity #infosec #aiethics #genai #security #assistant #patching #updates #safety #openclaw

OpenClaw's AI agent does everything, even social media

4 wks / techxplore

DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire'

4 wks / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Scheming, joking, complaining: Moltbook’s AI agents are just like us

4 wks / ft

OpenClaw Opens the Gates for AI Agents—Here’s What’s Real and What’s Not

4 wks / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

‘Value for money’: AI agent OpenClaw adopts Chinese models for cost edge over US rivals

4 wks / scmp

Malicious MoltBot skills used to push password-stealing malware

4 wks / bleepingcomputer / Bill Toulas

A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.

4 wks / simonwillison / Simon Willison

OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent

4 wks / theverge / Emma Roth

OpenClaw patches one-click RCE as security Whac-A-Mole continues

4 wks / theregister / Connor Jones

Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI Deal Is ‘On Ice.’ So Why Are They Investing $30B?

Grant Harvey / eweek - Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI partnership is reportedly on ice, yet Nvidia may invest $30B anyway. Here’s what stalled, what changed, and why it matters.The post Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI Deal Is ‘On Ice.’ So Why Are They Investing $30B? appeared first on eWEEK.

#ai #vc #semiconductors #chips #nvidia #openai #genai #business #technology #huang

OpenAI is unsatisfied with some Nvidia chips and looking for alternatives, sources say

4 wks / reddit / /u/rstune

What Oracle Has to Lose From OpenAI and Nvidia’s Rocky Relationship

4 wks / wsj / Jonathan Weil

Sam Altman: I DUMPED JENSEN HE DIDN’T DUMP ME!!! OpenAI reportedly seeking alternatives to Nvidia chips, unhappy with inference performance sherwood.news/markets/open... $NVDA

4 wks / bsky / @ljkawa.bsky.social / ljkawa.bsky.social

OpenAI is unsatisfied with some Nvidia chips and looking for alternatives

4 wks / reddit / /u/app1310

OpenAI reportedly seeking alternatives to Nvidia chips, unhappy with inference performance

4 wks / sherwood / Luke Kawa

Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled

4 wks / ycombinator

NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) Stock: Wobbles as $100B OpenAI Deal Faces Internal Pushback

4 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Nvidia shares are down after a report that its OpenAI investment stalled.

4 wks / reddit / /u/BusyHands_

Nvidia CEO: OpenAI Investment Still On, WSJ Report ‘Nonsense’

Nvidia pauses $100B OpenAI talks over internal concerns

4 wks / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI Deal Is ‘On Ice.’ So Why Are They Investing $30B?

4 wks / eweek / Grant Harvey

Nvidia plans largest ever investment in OpenAI despite stall reports

4 wks / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

What is Moltbook? Social network for AI agents attracts a lot of attention

Berry Zwets / techzine - A new online community called Moltbook has been the talk of the town this weekend. AI agents can post to and respond to one another on the social network, while humans simply watch. There is even talk of an early stage of singularity. What exactly is goin…

#ai #social #aiethics #genai #business #community #technology #assistant #contentmoderation

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Expert Opinions & Warnings (3)
Rapid Launch & Adoption (8)
Security Concerns (7)
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Cultural & Economic Impact

MoltBook has gone viral, and for good reason. AI Agents are debating religions, plotting overthrows, and all with zero human input on this social media platform for machines. Makes me wonder, is this the start of Machine Societies?

4 wks / reddit / /u/TheEnormous

Inside Moltbook: the ‘Reddit for AI’ Where Bots Build Their Own Society

4 wks / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

The Markets' AI Guessing Game, Moltbook Explained, AI-Induced Layoffs?

4 wks / bigtechnology / Alex Kantrowitz

Expert Opinions & Warnings

Five ways of thinking about Moltbook

4 wks / platformer / Casey Newton

Elon Musk has lauded the 'social media for AI agents' platform Moltbook as a bold step for AI. Others are skeptical

4 wks / cnbc

Wharton professor warns Moltbook creates shared fictional contexts for AI

Moltbook, the viral AI sensation, isnt exactly Skynet

Rapid Launch & Adoption

4 wks / mashable

Social media for AI launched

4 wks / news.com.au

What is the 'social media network for AI' Moltbook?

4 wks / bbc

What is Moltbook? Social network for AI agents attracts a lot of attention

4 wks / techzine / Berry Zwets

Moltbook hits 1.5 million users in 4 days

A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.

4 wks / nytimes / Cade Metz

A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.

4 wks / nytimes / Cade Metz

AI agents get their own social network

4 wks / therundown / Zach Mink

Security Concerns

AI agent social network Moltbook left millions of credentials publicly exposed

4 wks / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

Moltbook, the AI social network, exposed human credentials due to vibe-coded security flaw

4 wks / engadget / Anna Washenko

Moltbook is a security nightmare waiting to happen, expert warns

4 wks / mashable

It Turns Out ‘Social Media for AI Agents’ Is a Security Nightmare

4 wks / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Vibe-coded Social Network for AI Bots Exposed Data on Thousands of Humans

4 wks / slashdot / msmash

Moltbook Exposed 6,000 Users' Data as AI Agent Social Network Splits Silicon Valley

Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control

4 wks / ycombinator

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My main feeling about Moltbook is that a lot of things are going to happen in the next few years that make us say "something just like this happened on Moltbook" www.platformer.news/moltbook-ai-...

4 wks / bsky / @caseynewton.bsky.social / caseynewton.bsky.social

Five ways of thinking about Moltbook: ✱ J’ai testé Moltbot/Openclaw la semaine passée. Ça prend une autre tournure.

4 wks / bsky / @olivierniquet.com / olivierniquet.com

Indonesia conditionally lifts ban on xAI’s Grok chatbot

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has conditionally lifted its ban on xAI’s chatbot Grok after X sent a letter outlining concrete steps for service improvements and the prevention of misuse. The decision follows bans imposed by Sou…

#ai #techpolicy #genai #government #asia #censorship #contentmoderation #xai #elonmusk #grokai

Grok ban: Organizations ask U.S. government to halt chatbot use, Indonesia lifts block

4 wks / mashable

Elon Musk’s Grok is still undressing men

4 wks / theverge / Robert Hart

Indonesia conditionally lifts ban on xAI’s Grok chatbot

4 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Indonesia lets Elon Musk's Grok back online under tight supervision

4 wks / go

Alibaba’s Qwen ramps up AI app race with Spring Festival giveaway blitz

scmp - Alibaba Group Holding has joined rivals including Tencent Holdings and Baidu in rolling out Spring Festival red-packet giveaways to drive mass-market adoption of its artificial intelligence, committing 3 billion yuan (US$432 million) to spur spending acro…

#ai #ecommerce #china #genai #business #giveaway #apps #asia #technology #advertising

Alibaba Raises Stakes in China’s Chatbot War Ahead of Lunar New Year

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Alibaba Plans $431M Lunar New Year AI Push Amid Chatbot Battle

4 wks / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Alibaba’s Qwen ramps up AI app race with Spring Festival giveaway blitz

4 wks / scmp

Alibaba’s Qwen App Commits ￥30B to Chinese New Year AI Giveaway Campaign

4 wks / pandaily

Anthropic's $200M Pentagon Contract at Risk Over Objections to Domestic Surveillance, Autonomous Deployments

EditorDavid / slashdot - Talks "are at a standstill" for Anthropic's potential $200 million contract with America's Defense Department, reports Reuters (citing several people familiar with the discussions.") The two issues? - Using AI to surveil Americans- Safeguards against depl…

#robotics #techpolicy #defensetech #anthropic #aiethics #genai #government #us #security #regulation

Anthropic's $200M Pentagon Contract at Risk Over Objections to Domestic Surveillance, Autonomous Deployments

4 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

Pentagon and Anthropic Clash Over AI Weapons Safeguards

Is AI Really Taking Jobs? Or Are Employers Just 'AI-Washing' Normal Layoffs?

Is AI Really To Blame For All The Tech Layoffs?

bgr - Tech layoffs have been hitting the news since the pandemic ended and AI has been projected as a major reason. However, here's the actual truth.

#ai #automation #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #business #jobs #layoffs #technology

4 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

Did artificial intelligence really drive layoffs at Amazon and other firms? It can be hard to tell

4 wks / techxplore

AI layoffs or ‘AI-washing’? | TechCrunch

4 wks / reddit / /u/Fit-Elk1425

Did artificial intelligence really drive layoffs at Amazon and other firms? It can be hard to tell

4 wks / go

Did A.I. Take Your Job? Or Was Your Employer ‘A.I.-Washing’?

4 wks / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

AI Layoff News Sparks ‘AI Washing’ Worries

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Is AI Really To Blame For All The Tech Layoffs?

4 wks / bgr

AI layoffs or ‘AI-washing’?

4 wks / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

Oracle unveils $50B fundraising plan to fuel AI data center ambitions

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Oracle Corp. has given investors another reason to be nervous after revealing a plan today to raise between $45 billion and $50 billion this year, in order to fund the buildout of more data center capacity for artificial intelligence workloads. The cloud …

#ai #bigdata #cloud #enterprise #genai #stockmarket #business #datacenter #technology #oracle

Oracle dips 3% after announcing $50 billion fundraising plans. Here's why

4 wks / cnbc

Oracle to raise up to $50bn for cloud infrastructure buildout

4 wks / techmonitor / Anwesha Pattanaik

Oracle aims to raise $50 billion for additional data center capacity

4 wks / techzine / Berry Zwets

Oracle predicts investors poised to pump $50 billion into its cloud this year alone

4 wks / theregister / Simon Sharwood

So $20 billion of the shares that Oracle is selling are “at-the-money” share sales, literally meaning they are selling $20 billion of shares into the market. Appears that they will be new shares too, unless I’m mistaken? https://sherwood.news/markets/or

4 wks / bsky / @edzitron.com

Oracle unveils $50B fundraising plan to fuel AI data center ambitions

4 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Oracle plans to raise up to $50 billion in debt and equity this year to fund its AI ambitions

4 wks / sherwood / Luke Kawa

TD Cowen’s Jerome Darling estimates that it costs $42m+ per megawatt to build a data center and Oracle wants to build 10GW of them. $50 billion on top of $56 billion already raised is not sufficient (needs $189bn+) to complete the 4.5GW to service OpenAI’

4 wks / bsky / @edzitron.com

Oracle to Raise Up to $50 Billion In Debt and Equity This Year for Cloud Investment

4 wks / reddit / /u/Possible-Shoulder940

SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of a million satellites to power AI needs

Jackson Chen / engadget - Elon Musk and his aerospace company have requested to build a network that's 100 times the number of satellites that are currently in orbit. On Friday, SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a million satell…

#ai #techpolicy #space #genai #aerospace #broadband #telecommunications #elonmusk #satellite

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Emergency satellite fixes amid orbital challenges

Starlink uses emergency fix to block Russian drones using its devices to bomb Ukraine — company looking for permanent solutions to stop unauthorized use of its service

4 wks / tomshardware

FCC filings outline orbital data center plans

SpaceX formalizes plan to build 1 million satellite Orbital Data Center System — FCC filing sketches out plans, but over-packed orbits could be limiting factor

4 wks / tomshardware

SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers | TechCrunch

4 wks / reddit / /u/Gloomy_Nebula_5138

SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers

4 wks / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit

4 wks / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

SpaceX Asks to Put One Million Data Centers in Orbit. The Math Says Otherwise.

4 wks / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of a million satellites to power AI needs

4 wks / engadget / Jackson Chen

Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites into orbit

4 wks / bbc

Musk’s AI merger and rival visions emerge

Musk's Star Wars vision: SpaceX to launch million AI supercomputers. What will they do? - India Today

5 wks / indiatoday

Musk’s SpaceX–xAI Merger Plan Puts Orbital Data Centers at the Center of the AI Infrastructure Race - FinTech Weekly

5 wks / fintechweekly

China's Gigawatt-Class Orbital AI Data Centers and Space Tourism Challenge Musk's SpaceX Plans in - spacetime24.com

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SpaceX seeks FCC approval for 1 million AI data center satellites

SpaceX wants 1m extra satellites

4 wks / advanced-television / Colin Mann

SpaceX seeks FCC approval to launch 1 million data center satellites

4 wks / reddit / /u/app1310

SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said

someone tell elon the ai is supoosed to do the paperclip thing, you’re not supposed to do it for them www.theverge.com/tech/871641/...

4 wks / bsky / @reckless.bsky.social / reckless.bsky.social

This will not end well. www.theverge.com/tech/871641/...

4 wks / bsky / @ianbetteridge.com / ianbetteridge.com

Muskrat and other rich men and their obsession with trashing space www.engadget.com/science/spac...

4 wks / bsky / @djnoneya.bsky.social / djnoneya.bsky.social

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

Berber Jin / wsj - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately played down the likelihood the original deal will be finalized, although the two companies will continue to have a close collaboration.

#ai #chips #nvidia #gpu #openai #genai #stockmarket #business #acquisitions #huang

CEO pushback: Firm denies deal halt, affirms major investment. (7)
Stalled deal reports: Investors await definitive investment updates. (8)
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CEO pushback: Firm denies deal halt, affirms major investment.

Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company’s $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

4 wks / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

Nvidia CEO Calls OpenAI Rift 'Nonsense,' Confirms Massive Investment

4 wks / iclarified

Nvidia CEO denies he’s ‘unhappy’ with OpenAI

4 wks / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

NVIDIA is still planning to make a 'huge' investment in OpenAI, CEO says

4 wks / engadget / Cheyenne MacDonald

Nvidia CEO Denies OpenAI's $100B Investment from Nvidia is 'Stalled'

4 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

Nvidia strongly denies concerns about OpenAI deal

4 wks / techzine / Mels Dees

Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company’s $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

4 wks / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

Stalled deal reports: Investors await definitive investment updates.

Nvidia's $100 Billion OpenAI Deal Is Dead. The Relationship Isn't.

4 wks / implicator / Maria Garcia

Nvidia's plan to invest $100 billion in OpenAI appears unlikely — Jensen reportedly criticizing OpenAI's business decisions in private discussions

4 wks / tomshardware

NVIDIA’s $100 Billion Mega-Deal With OpenAI Is in Danger as Jensen Believes the Company Has Grown ‘Sloppy’ While Rivals Surge Ahead

5 wks / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Nvidia reportedly puts $100 billion OpenAI deal "on ice"

5 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI has stalled, WSJ reports

5 wks / reddit / /u/Shogouki

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

5 wks / reddit / /u/esporx

The $100B Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice

5 wks / ycombinator

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

5 wks / wsj / Berber Jin

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Nvidia CEO Says New OpenAI Investment May Be Largest Yet

4 wks / reddit / /u/BusyHands_

Nvidia’s not investing $100 billion in OpenAI because the chip designer doesn’t want to pay the OpenAI valuation tax

4 wks / sherwood / Luke Kawa

OpenAI-Nvidia $100B Deal is Now ‘On Ice’

Nvidia CEO Says Firm Never Committed to $100 Billion OpenAI Investment

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Cannot express how often this deal was reported as done despite it never being realistic. People said for months that Nvidia gave OpenAI $100bn! Months! They thought me mad for suggesting otherwise. It’s the beginning of history! [contains quote post or

4 wks / bsky / @edzitron.com

NVIDIA and the Case of the Missing $100B OpenAI Investment

4 wks / spyglass / M.G. Siegler

AI’s Fundraising Frenzy Continues

4 wks / wsj / Kate Clark

Nvidia boss insists 'huge' investment in OpenAI on track

4 wks / techxplore

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that a recent report of friction between his company and OpenAI was “nonsense.”

OpenClaw Creator Says Anthropic Is Pushing Developers Off Claude Subscriptions

Anthropic debuts Claude Cowork plugins to help users automate more tasks

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Anthropic PBC today rolled out an update to Claude Cowork that will enable users to extend its feature set with custom plugins. Claude Cowork is an automation tool that the company introduced for its popular chatbot earlier this month. It can perform mult…

#ai #automation #enterprise #anthropic #genai #apps #assistant #productivity #api #developertools

Anthropic Launches Cowork Plugins for Role-Specific AI

Anthropic adds Plugins support for Claude Cowork on paid plans

4 wks / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

NASA taps Claude to conjure Mars rover's travel plan

4 wks / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Anthropic debuts Claude Cowork plugins to help users automate more tasks

5 wks / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Anthropic Says New Cowork Plugins Tailor Claude to Specific Job Functions

5 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Anthropic's Cowork gets plugins that turn Claude into a specialized assistant for knowledge workers

5 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

A Reddit-like social network for AI agents is getting weird, and memecoin traders are cashing in

Aoyon Ashraf / coindesk - Moltbook’s viral posts and strange user behavior memecoins, including MOLT soaring more than 7,000%.

#ai #startups #cybersecurity #crypto #aiethics #genai #reddit #community #contentmoderation

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Conspiracy, Critique & Commentary

A lot of the Moltbook stuff is fake

4 wks / ycombinator

The humans are chasing conspiracies. What will the bots think?

4 wks / semafor / Ben Smith

Where the Wild Bots Are

4 wks / spyglass / M.G. Siegler

2015, it was foreseen… https://500ish.com/bots-thanking-bots-cdd467cdd18b [contains quote post or other embedded content]

5 wks / bsky / @mgsiegler.com

Launch Buzz & Rapid Growth

The Ghosts in the Machine: Inside Moltbook’s AI-Only Social Network

4 wks / techstrong / Jon Swartz

[AINews] Moltbook — the first Social Network for AI Agents (Clawdbots/OpenClaw bots)

5 wks / latent / Latent.Space

AI Agents Have Their Own Social Network Now, and They Would Like a Little Privacy

5 wks / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Security & Hacking Focus

The Bots Built Their Own Reddit. 147,000 Signed Up in Three Days.

Moltbook Launches as AI-Only Social Network for OpenClaw-Agents

5 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Moltbook is a human-free Reddit clone where AI agents discuss cybersecurity and philosophy

5 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Weird AI, Crypto & Singularity

"We're in the singularity": New AI platform skips the humans entirely

4 wks / axios / Sam Sabin

A Reddit-like social network for AI agents is getting weird, and memecoin traders are cashing in

5 wks / coindesk / Aoyon Ashraf

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

5 wks / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

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AI Agents Built Their Own Society

4 wks / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

AI agents are talking to one another on their own platform

4 wks / semafor / J.D. Capelouto

1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys

4 wks / ycombinator

Inside Moltbook: the social network where AI agents talk to each other

4 wks / ft

Moltbook: The Good, The Bad, and the FUTURE

4 wks / substack / David Shapiro

Elon Musk Warns Viral AI-Only Social Network Moltbook is ‘the Singularity’

4 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Moltbook Left Every AI Agent's API Keys in an Open Database, Security Researcher Finds

Okay, so if anyone could take over any of these "A.i." bots... the chances of 1.) above seem much higher than non-zero? www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

4 wks / bsky / @gregpak.net / gregpak.net

www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

4 wks / bsky / @spx.fyi / spx.fyi

The guy who vibe coded a crypto rug pull scientific error detection and got coverage in Nature is back with a vibe coded ai social media network, with similarly crypto intentions… getting coverage from major outlets. www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

4 wks / bsky / @jbakcoleman.bsky.social / jbakcoleman.bsky.social

Can someone please explain to me 1) why anyone even wants this, 2) why the page looks evil, 3) how they suck so bad

4 wks / bsky / @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social / rebeccarhelm.bsky.social

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

4 wks / 404media / Matthew Gault

Moltbook viral posts where AI Agents are conspiring against humans are mostly fake

4 wks / reddit / /u/MayankWL

The tech world is agog (and creeped out) about Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network for AI agents to communicate with each other. No humans needed. www.axios.com/2026/01/31/a...

4 wks / bsky / @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social / laurenmeidasa.bsky.social

5 wks / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com