Details from the SpaceX IPO registration statement are leaking out and 200 million super-voting restricted shares are on the line for Musk, if he can hit certain milestones.
A recent social media post claimed Elon Musk is acquiring Spirit Airlines amid reports of the company shutting down its operations. According to Hoops Crave's X post on May 2, Musk is planning to ...
A $725bn hyperscaler capex ramp and a 20% HBM price rise have made the South Korean chipmaker the second-most valuable company on the KOSPI. The harder question is when supply catches demand. There is a small joke in semiconductor circles about which part of an AI server is most expensive. The graphics processor used to […]This story continues at The Next Web
A joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic will sell Claude into the buyout firms’ portfolio companies. OpenAI’s DeployCo arrived first; this one is bigger. There is a kind of business school question that has been quietly answered over the past month, without anyone formally asking it. The question is: […]This story continues at The Next Web
A bench trial in Santa Fe could force algorithm changes, age verification, and a $3.7bn mental health fund. Meta has threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from the state instead. In March, a New Mexico jury reached a verdict that no American jury had reached before. Meta, the company once known as Facebook, had violated […]This story continues at The Next Web
Won-Jin Lee, a marketing veteran, takes over the Visual Display business after a quarter of declining TV profits. His predecessor moves to AI and robotics. Samsung Electronics has changed the head of its television business for the first time in more than two years, an unusually direct admission that something is not quite right at […]This story continues at The Next Web
Two years after a Beijing engineer started building dexterous hands inspired by a Japanese cartoon, his company holds 80% of the global market and is doubling its valuation in months. Robotic hands are not, conventionally, the part of a humanoid robot that investors get excited about. The legs walk, the arms lift, and the head, […]This story continues at The Next Web
Within hours he'd thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 "founding patrons" had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.
The European Union treats data as a privacy right. The United States treats it as a corporate asset. China treats it as a factor of production, a national economic resource on par with land, labour, capital, and technology. That distinction, which sounds like an abstraction, is producing a data governance framework that is structurally different […]This story continues at The Next Web
Skydio, the largest American drone manufacturer, announced in late April that it would invest $3.5 billion over five years to expand US drone production, open a factory five times larger than its current facility, create more than 2,000 direct jobs and 3,000 supplier jobs, and build a domestic component supply chain through an initiative it […]This story continues at The Next Web
Sam Altman posted on X at 2:33 a.m. on 2 May: “you can sign in to openclaw with your chatgpt account now and use your subscription there! happy lobstering.” The announcement, delivered with the casual register of a founder pushing a minor product update, is anything but minor. OpenAI has made its ChatGPT subscription […]This story continues at The Next Web
The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."
Tesla is now selling Chinese-made Model 3 sedans in Canada at the lowest price the car has ever been offered in the country. The Model 3 Premium RWD, manufactured at Giga Shanghai, starts at C$39,490, roughly US$29,000. Two months ago, the cheapest Model 3 available in Canada was the Long Range AWD built at Tesla’s […]This story continues at The Next Web
Apple has discontinued the 256 gigabyte Mac Mini worldwide. The company’s cheapest desktop computer, the M4 Mac Mini with 16 gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of storage, was available for $599 until last week. It is gone. The Mac Mini now starts at $799 with 512 gigabytes of storage. The 256 gigabyte configuration has […]This story continues at The Next Web
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced new eligibility rules on 2 May for the 99th Academy Awards, and the two that matter most are about seven words each. Acting nominations will be limited to roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent.” Screenplays must be “human-authored.” Producers will be required to sign […]This story continues at The Next Web
The Grok iOS app now contains a placeholder that reads “Grok Voice mode coming soon to CarPlay.” It is a single line of interface text, and it means that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot is about to follow ChatGPT and Perplexity onto the car dashboards of every iPhone user in the world. The car, it turns […]This story continues at The Next Web
At 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time on 3 May, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying 45 satellites, three of which belonged to Planet Labs. Pelicans 7, 8, and 9 are the latest additions to Planet’s next-generation constellation of high-resolution Earth observation satellites, bringing the Pelican fleet to nine spacecraft. Each […]This story continues at The Next Web
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.
On the morning of 1 May, staff at DJI’s flagship retail store in Beijing’s Guomao business district began clearing drones from the shelves. The Neo, the Mavic, the Mini, every model that had made DJI the most dominant consumer electronics brand in its category, all of it pulled from display. The store was not closing. […]This story continues at The Next Web
Kennan Frost dropped out of college, worked as an engineer at Pinterest, had a panic attack, quit, applied to Y Combinator in 2020, and by his own account failed his way through the programme until a pivot to subscription payments changed everything. Five years later, on 30 April 2026, the company he built, Skio, was […]This story continues at The Next Web