Elon Musk’s empire might be consolidating. Reports suggest SpaceX could buy AI startup xAI, a simpler move than a potential, far more complex merger with Tesla. The logic is AI, but the financial and regulatory hurdles are massive.
CNBC’s Jim Cramer says the market is set up for a bounce if heavyweight earnings deliver. The week features reports from Disney, AMD, Eli Lilly, Alphabet, and Amazon, capped by the January jobs report on Friday.
Elon Musk is reportedly considering a massive consolidation of his companies. SpaceX is said to be exploring a potential merger with Tesla, or a combination with his AI startup, xAI.
SpaceX has updated its Starlink privacy policy to permit the use of customer data for training artificial intelligence models. The change, made on January 15, comes as the company reportedly explores a merger with Elon Musk’s xAI. Privacy advocates are raising alarms about the scope and potential mi
According to a CNBC screen, Palantir and Ralph Lauren are among stocks showing strong earnings momentum ahead of their reports. Both have seen a high number of upward analyst revisions. The question is whether their upcoming results will justify the optimism.
A report suggests the chipset race is heating up. For the first time, flagship Android phones with next-gen 2nm chips could hit the market in the same September window as Apple’s new iPhone, removing a key strategic edge.
CZI is laying off staff as it consolidates its science efforts. The organization is now betting that combining AI with biology is the path to curing disease.
A federal jury convicted Linwei Ding, a former Google software engineer, on multiple counts of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. He stole thousands of pages of confidential AI chip and system designs to benefit companies in China.
The documentary ‘Ghost in the Machine’ premiering at Sundance draws a direct line from the eugenics movement to modern artificial intelligence. It argues figures like Elon Musk represent a pattern, not an anomaly, in a tech culture shaped by racism.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta’s stock surged after earnings because its AI spending is directly boosting ad revenue, while Microsoft’s more complex AI strategy disappointed investors by slowing cloud growth. Meanwhile, a new push to recycle rare earth metals from old hard drives and e-b
