Elon Musk has spent years selling Mars as the endgame for SpaceX. The latest glimpse into its finances tells a different story. The company is pouring billions into artificial intelligence, turning what was once a rocket business into an AI […]

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Canadian AI lab Cohere said Friday it plans to acquire German AI company Aleph Alpha, a move to accelerate its expansion across Europe’s growing sovereign AI market. The acquisition, still subject to regulatory approval, comes alongside a planned $600 million […]

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Tokenized real-world assets continue to gain traction, and the race is shifting from hype to infrastructure. REAL and RWA Inc. have just signed on to work together, aiming to close the gap between asset issuance and on-chain investor access. REAL, […]

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DeepSeek is back, and it’s not easing into the spotlight. A year after its earlier model rattled Silicon Valley and forced a rethink on how much it really costs to build advanced AI, the Hangzhou-based startup has introduced a new flagship […]

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A Texas private school already under scrutiny for replacing traditional classrooms with AI-powered learning is now making one of the boldest promises yet in education: make $1 million by graduation, or get your tuition back. Alpha School, founded in 2014 […]

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Anthropic kept its most sensitive AI system behind closed doors, warning it was too risky for public release. Days later, it was reportedly running inside a private Discord group. That’s the claim at the center of a new report from […]

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Sony just put a robot across the table—and it didn’t blink. In a series of live matchups that feel closer to science fiction than a lab demo, Sony AI’s table tennis robot, Ace, has beaten elite human players under official International […]

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Enterprises are being flooded with code—and much of it isn’t written by humans anymore. That shift is driving fresh urgency around one problem many teams can’t ignore: how to control, verify, and secure the software generated by AI coding tools. Cloudsmith, […]

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Yesterday, we wrote about how SpaceX secured a $60 billion option to acquire Cursor later this year, or pay $10 billion to continue their AI collaboration. Now, a new report from CNBC adds a twist to the story—and it points […]

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Patients are getting prescribed life-changing drugs—and then getting lost in the system. Delays in insurance approvals, disconnected support teams, and fragmented data often turn treatment into a slow, frustrating process. For biopharma companies, the breakdown doesn’t happen in the lab. It […]

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SpaceX is moving deeper into artificial intelligence with a high-stakes arrangement that puts a fast-rising coding startup at the center of its plans. The company said it has struck a deal with AI startup Cursor that gives it the right […]

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Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek as the AI startup pursues its first outside funding round at a valuation north of $20 billion, according to a report by The Information. The company is seeking to raise […]

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Meta is preparing to track how its employees use their computers, capturing keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen activity to train its AI models, according to an exclusive Reuters report. Internal memos reviewed by the news outlet show the company plans […]

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AI’s growth has exposed a simple truth: the biggest bottleneck in modern data centers isn’t always compute—it’s heat. As chips get denser and workloads intensify, keeping systems cool has turned into a high-stakes problem. That shift is now putting companies […]

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