Elon Musk announced on June 28 that Grok 4.5 is in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, describing the model as based on a 1.5T V9 foundation model with supplemental training from Cursor data. The rollou…
Google has capped Meta's access to its Gemini AI models due to computing capacity constraints, forcing Meta to shift workloads to its own Muse Spark model and instruct staff to use AI tokens more effi…
By 2026, Donald Trump serves a second non-consecutive term as U.S. President, Elon Musk is the world's richest man from rockets, EVs, and AI, Apple's main business is smartphones, and the largest taxi…
ChatGPT reviewed 39 blog posts from June 2026, finding that the month explores how agency is shaped by the mediation of difficulty, with recurring themes of avoidance through technology, institutions,…
Cursor acquired open-source AI coding assistant Continue.dev in a quiet acqui-hire on June 16 and is shutting the product down. All user data will be permanently deleted on July 15, with no migration …
Elon Musk's xAI launched Grok 4.5, a 1.5-trillion-parameter model, into private beta at SpaceX and Tesla on June 28, 2026. Early evaluations suggest it matches or exceeds Anthropic's Opus performance,…
SpaceX is pursuing plans to become a direct-to-consumer mobile phone provider, leveraging its Starlink satellite network and recently acquired wireless spectrum from Echostar. The company has held tal…
SpaceX filed its S-1 IPO prospectus in May 2026, triggering a wave of tech listings. Anthropic and OpenAI confidentially filed their own draft prospectuses on June 1 and June 8, respectively, aiming f…
SpaceX filed two trademark applications for 'SpaceXAI' with the USPTO in May 2026, covering satellite-based data centers, orbital computing, and AI software-as-a-service. The filings follow SpaceX's F…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed Elon Musk's vision for orbital data centers, arguing they won't cut costs quickly enough to matter in the AI race. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, editors noted th…
XAI's Grok has become a major destination for generating pornography, with over half of its traffic driven by NSFW content, according to former employees. The company launched an upgraded video model …
Tech giants including Alphabet Inc., SpaceX, OpenAI, and Meta Platforms Inc. are rushing to raise equity, with $85 billion in share sales and a $75 billion IPO this month alone, signaling heavier capi…
Major technology companies have shifted their AI startup strategy from outright acquisitions toward minority investments, joint ventures, and commercial partnerships, according to The Hindu Business L…
The Federal Trade Commission fast-tracked Elon Musk's acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, granting early termination of an antitrust review, while the same agency spent years investigating his T…
At least 10 power infrastructure and clean technology companies have gone public in 2026, raising $11.6 billion, as investors bet on solutions to AI's growing energy demands. The IPO surge is fueled b…
SpaceX plans to build an eight-mile natural gas pipeline called 'Starpipe' to supply its Starbase launch site with fuel for a higher cadence of Starship launches, with service expected to begin in Jan…
Cursor 3.9 shipped June 22 with a Customize page that replaces JSON config files for managing plugins, MCPs, skills, and hooks, aiming to simplify team onboarding and configuration. The update include…
Elon Musk admitted he has 'fallen prey' to flashy credentials when hiring, emphasizing that conversation quality matters more than résumés. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he now advises hiring based on…
Insiders from buzzy startups including Perplexity, Kalshi, Replit, Harvey, and Lovable shared tips for job seekers, advising them to join user communities, do deep research, flex creativity, show star…
The Federal Trade Commission cleared Elon Musk to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by former SpaceX engineers that makes optical transceivers for AI data centers. The startup, whic…