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Elon Musk’s xAI to repay $3 billion debt early, report claims
Elon Musk's xAI plans to repay $3 billion of high-yield bonds early, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
The planned repayment comes as Elon Musk looks to...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch Direct-to-Cell Starlink satellites in 2027
Elon Musk's Starlink announced that it's launching new 'direct-to-cell' satellites in 2027.
Starlink said Monday that it plans to begin launching next year its second generation of satellites that...
Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick Among Stars On DC's 'Epstein Walk Of Shame'
The display of "shame" in the nation's capital reportedly popped up within walking distance of the White House.
SpaceX lines up Starship launch next year as Elon Musk targets $1.5tn IPO
A Starship test flight is expected in the next “four to six weeks”, SpaceX’s president Gwynne Shotwell told the FT on the ...
Iranian Hackers Are Using Elon Musk’s Starlink To Stay Online
As the attacks continue, Iranians have turned to Space X’s satellite internet technology — including one of the country’s most notorious hacker crews, which is claiming retaliatory cyberattacks ...
Elon Musk’s xAI Signs Deal to Bring Grok Into Classified Military Systems
Elon Musk’s xAI has locked in a Pentagon deal to deploy its Grok AI model in classified military systems, pushing Anthropic out and sparking a new era of AI defense partnerships.
Elon Musk's X, xAI plan to repay $17.5 billion in debt in full, Bloomberg News reports
March 2 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's social media platform X and artificial intelligence startup xAI plan to repay in full about ...
Cursor has reportedly surpassed $2B in annualized revenue
The four-year-old startup saw its revenue run rate double over the past three months, according to one Bloomberg source.
India’s Pronto formalizes house help as its valuation jumps 8x in under a year
Pronto handles 18,000 daily bookings and plans rapid expansion as it races rivals to digitize India's largely offline home services market.
ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal
Many consumers ditched ChatGPT's app after news of its DoD deal went live, while Claude's downloads grew.
Stripe wants to turn your AI costs into a profit center
Stripe released a preview intended to allow AI companies to easily track, pass through, and make a profit on underlying AI model fees.
Geopolitical drama reportedly stalls IPO of SoftBank-backed PayPay
The Japan-based company reportedly aimed for a public valuation of at least ¥1.5 trillion ($10 billion).
No one has a good plan for how AI companies should work with the government
As OpenAI transitions from a wildly successful consumer startup into a piece of national security infrastructure, the company seems unequipped to manage its new responsibilities.
A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses
A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.
Instagram tracked growing usage while targeting teens, lawyers argue
The company said usage grew from 40 minutes per day in 2023 to 46 minutes in 2026. Other documents referenced back teens a top priority for the app before asking existing users for birthdays.
Intuit is betting its 40 years of small business data can outlast the SaaSpocalypse
Intuit has lost around a third of its market cap since the beginning of the year. It's not alone. Many established SaaS players have seen their stock prices fall in recent months, including Adobe and IBM — the latter experiencing its most significant one-day drop (roughly $40 billion) with Anthropic's announcement that Claude could now read, analyze and translate legacy COBOL into modern languages like Java and Python. The market has a name for it: the SaaSpocalypse.The argument from i
Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops
Despite political turmoil in the U.S. AI sector, in China, the AI advances are continuing apace without a hitch.Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused primarily on developing and releasing to the world a growing family of powerful and capable Qwen open source language and multimodal AI models, unveiled its newest batch, the Qwen3.5 Small Model Series, which consists of:Qwen3.5-0.8B & 2B: Two models, both ptimized for "tiny" and "fas
Users are ditching ChatGPT for Claude — here’s how to make the switch
Following controversies surrounding ChatGPT, many users are ditching the AI chatbot for Claude instead. Here's how to make the switch.
Paramount+ and HBO Max to merge into one streaming service after WBD deal closes
Ellison reassured investors that HBO’s identity and creative vision as a studio would remain unchanged, stating, “Our viewpoint is HBO should stay HBO.”
Meet Avra van der Zee, SOSV’s New General Partner
When SOSV and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) announced a $50 million co-investment to build a new global headquarters for SOSV’s HAX in the heart of Newark in 2022, we knew the stakes were high. But HAX has just the right team to help early stage founders scale their product development and get to market, and the timing could not have been better, given the enormous drive to decarbonize, automate, and re-shore U.S. industry. We started working with founders almost immediat