LLMs, nationalism & open source
The release of Inkling, an open-source LLM by an American firm, sparked nationalist reactions among American developers who cheered it as the 'smartest American open source LLM,' contrasting with a pe…
The release of Inkling, an open-source LLM by an American firm, sparked nationalist reactions among American developers who cheered it as the 'smartest American open source LLM,' contrasting with a pe…
President Donald Trump promoted at least 20 companies on Truth Social after his investment portfolio acquired stakes in them, a CNN investigation found, raising conflict-of-interest concerns. In one i…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released preliminary findings confirming that a Tesla driver who blamed a fatal crash on Autopilot had manually pressed the accelerator to 100 percent, …
Elon Musk spent roughly $1 billion to acquire APR Energy, a mobile gas and diesel turbine company, securing his own power supply for xAI's data centers because the U.S. grid cannot keep up with demand…
The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed that a Tesla involved in a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, had its accelerator pedal pressed to 100% and was traveling over 70 mph when it struck a home,…
Elon Musk quietly acquired a $1 billion gas turbine company to power his Grok AI, while a Tesla Model S Signature sedan is being flipped for $260,000 — a $100,000+ markup. Lucid's stock was halted and…
Elon Musk quietly acquired APR Energy, a Jacksonville-based mobile gas and diesel turbine company with over 1 GW of generation capacity, for over $1 billion, according to an FTC early termination noti…
Dan Ives left Wedbush Securities on July 1 and launched Yorkville Ives & Co. on July 15, a merchant bank focused on AI dealmaking that combines equity research, strategic advisory, capital raising, an…
Barclays strategists warn that Big Tech capital expenditures as a share of sales are expected to hit an all-time peak in Q3 2026, signaling aggressive AI spending is yielding limited impact on revenue…
ASML, the world's leading supplier of chip manufacturing equipment, raised its 2026 financial forecasts and announced production expansion plans after reporting better-than-expected second-quarter ear…
Fin-Analyst, an AI trading agent, achieved a 13.51% return on Tesla (TSLA), outperforming the Buy-and-Hold strategy by 28.33 percentage points, according to its developers. The agent uses an eight-spe…
George Hotz, founder of tinygrad and comma.ai, published a July 12th blog post arguing that AI doom rhetoric is being used to justify high valuations for frontier AI labs, while the actual progress of…
Meta Platforms Inc. stock has climbed 23% off its late-June lows, driven by improved sentiment around its AI strategy and signs of an AI product cycle, according to JPMorgan analyst Doug Anmuth. The r…
Seventy-one percent of organizations say AI has access to core business systems, but only 16% govern that access effectively, according to the 2026 CISO AI Risk Report. AI incidents surged 56.4% from …
Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki method uses Obsidian and Claude Code to build an AI-maintained knowledge base, turning passive notes into a living document that a language model can read, update, and reaso…
Samsung Electronics is preparing to produce Tesla's next-generation AI chip, AI5, using 2-nanometer technology at its factory in Taylor, Texas. The chip, which has completed tape-out, will power Tesla…
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk clashed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on X over the weekend, with Musk posting 'Scam Altman strikes again.' Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley reported the exchange…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are accusing each other of scamming investors as SpaceX and OpenAI compete to lead the AI revolution. Musk called Altman "Scam Altman" after Apple sued OpenAI, while Altman re…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman reignited their feud over the weekend after Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets, with Musk posting on X calling Altman 'Scam Altman' and Altman retaliating …
Star tech investor Gavin Baker, managing partner of Atreides Management, said Michael Burry's bearish Substack commentary on the AI boom is a 'godsend' because it provides credible warnings that help …