Tesla invested $2B in Elon Musk’s xAI
Elon Musk's AI company xAI disclosed earlier this month it had raised $20 billion.
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Elon Musk teases a new image-labeling system for X… we think?
Elon Musk says X will begin identifying "manipulated media" but doesn't share details.
SpaceX is coming to the public markets, and secondaries are already on fire
paceX is reportedly lining up four major Wall Street banks for a 2026 IPO that could provide the reset the market needs.  The company just completed a tender offer at an $800 billion valuation, and secondary market demand is through the roof. If SpaceX goes public anywhere near its rumored $1.5 trillion valuation, it could trigger an IPO cascade for other late-stage unicorns like OpenAI, Stripe, and Databri
AI security startup Outtake raises $40M from Iconiq, Satya Nadella, Bill Ackman, and other big names
Outtake makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to help enterprises detect identity fraud. Its angel investors read like a who's who of tech industry names.
Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025
The company's sales fell for a second year in a row, as Tesla looks to AI and robotics, including a new $2 billion investment in CEO Elon Musk's company xAI.
ServiceNow inks another AI partnership, this time with Anthropic
ServiceNow partners with Anthropic just a week after announcing a partnership with OpenAI as the company takes a multi-model approach.
Luminar sale approved despite last-minute mystery bid
An unidentified bidder submitted a Hail Mary offer that was "substantially higher" than the winning bid at auction. Founder Austin Russell has been circling a bid, but it's not clear he was behind it.
WhatsApp will now charge AI chatbots to operate in Italy
WhatsApp plans to charge developers of AI chatbots per message.
Jennifer Garner’s Once Upon a Farm resumes IPO plans
The organic kids' snack food company may debut as soon as next week. It has issued a price range for shares, an SEC filing shows.
AI data labeler Handshake buys Cleanlab, an acquisition target of multiple others
The deal’s purpose is primarily to acquire talent, aka an acqui-hire, adding nine key Cleanlab employees to Handshake’s research organization.
2026 Climate Hard Tech Predictions From Po Bronson: Circularity & Manufacturing Bets that Matter
What does SOSV General Partner Po Bronson see when he looks into Climate Hard Tech’s 2026 Crystal Ball? He recently broke down some thoughts for ClimateHack:Reshoring Stall: The reshoring boom will stall in 2026 as renewed steel tariffs make U.S. manufacturing prohibitively expensive. Projects once hailed as symbols of industrial revival will be delayed or canceled, forcing companies to maintain or even expand production in China rather than bring it home. Critical Resource Innovation
Factbox-Elon Musk's Grok faces global scrutiny for sexualised AI deepfakes
Jan 26 (Reuters) - Governments and regulators around the world are cracking down on sexually explicit content generated by ...
SpaceX weighs June IPO timed to planetary alignment and Elon Musk’s birthday
Celestial calendar meets high finance, as billionaire’s personal impulses shape plans to raise $50bn in record listing ...
Elon Musk floats mid-June SpaceX IPO to coincide with his birthday — and planetary alignment: report
Elon Musk reportedly wants to time SpaceX’s likely record-setting initial public offering to coincide with a rare planetary alignment and his own birthday in June.
Breaking down Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI
The case, which focuses on Musk’s early financial support for OpenAI and its nonprofit status, is expected to go to trial in ...
Tesla Stock Investors Just Got Good News From CEO Elon Musk About Robotaxis and Robots
CEO Elon Musk recently provided encouraging updates on Tesla's autonomous driving and humanoid robotics technology.
Factify wants to move past PDFs and .docx by giving digital documents their own brain
Tel Aviv-based startup Factify emerged from stealth today with a $73 million seed round for an ambitious, yet quixotic mission: to bring digital documents beyond the standard formats most businesses use — .PDF, .docx, collaborative cloud files like Google Docs — and into the intelligence era.For Matan Gavish, Factify’s Founder and CEO, this isn't just a software upgrade—it is an inevitability he has been obsessed with for years."The PDF was developed when I was in elementary school,&qu
Founder Q&A: ReefStarter
Founder Q&A: ReefStarter, An Ecological Breakwater SystemIn the United States alone, an estimated $40 billion is spent every year to protect and restore coastlines, with the average beachfront resort spending one to two million every year. It’s a giant market that we’ve always been attracted to – because the current solutions like concrete seawalls don’t help marine life thrive, in fact they only harm it. After years of looking for the single best company in the world to take advantage of th
Adaptive6 emerges from stealth to reduce enterprise cloud waste (and it's already optimizing Ticketmaster)
The generative AI era has sped everything up for most enterprises we talk to, especially development cycles (thanks to "vibe coding" and "agentic swarming").But even as they seek to leverage the power of new AI-assisted programming tools and coding agents like Claude Code to generate code, enterprises must contend with a looming concern — no, not safety (although that's another one!): cloud spend. According to Gartner, public cloud spend will rise 21.3% in 2026 and yet,
Airtable's Superagent maintains full execution visibility to solve multi-agent context problem
Airtable is applying its data-first design philosophy to AI agents with the debut of Superagent on Tuesday. It's a standalone research agent that deploys teams of specialized AI agents working in parallel to complete research tasks.The technical innovation lies in how Superagent's orchestrator maintains context. Earlier agent systems used simple model routing where an intermediary filtered information between models. Airtable's orchestrator maintains full visibility over the entir