Elon Musk says senior executives' exits are reorganisation, not crisis
Elon Musk is pushing back against talk of turmoil at xAI after a wave of senior departures, including two more co-founders ...
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Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours
Jimmy Ba left the company one day after the departure of Tony Wu, another cofounder at Elon Musk's AI company.
Elon Musk says SpaceX to shift focus from colonizing Mars to moon
Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold and said his SpaceX rocket company will instead focus on building ...
z.ai's open source GLM-5 achieves record low hallucination rate and leverages new RL 'slime' technique
Chinese AI startup Zhupai aka z.ai is back this week with an eye-popping new frontier large language model: GLM-5.The latest in z.ai's ongoing and continually impressive GLM series, it retains an open source MIT License — perfect for enterprise deployment – and, in one of several notable achievements, achieves a record-low hallucination rate on the independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0. With a score of -1 on the AA-Omniscience Index—representing a massive 35-point improvem
xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation to the X platform, making it widely available.
AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say
General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources.
OpenAI disbands mission alignment team
The team's leader has been given a new role as OpenAI's chief futurist, while the other team members have been reassigned throughout the company.
Apple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again
While the new Siri was expected to launch with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update in March, now, the changes are expected to roll out more slowly over time, reportedly postponing some features until the May iOS update, or even until the release of iOS 27 in September.
Elon Musk wants to build a giant catapult on the moon
For years, Elon Musk has talked about colonizing Mars. Now, he's talking about building Looney Tunes contraptions on the moon ...
Elon Musk says recruiting engineers in Texas is harder due to ‘significant other problem'
Recruiting for SpaceX in South Texas is particularly difficult, he said: "It's like a technology monastery thing, remote and ...
After He Sold His First Company, Elon Musk Chose A McLaren F1 Instead Of A House. The Choice Ties Directly To The Elusive Tesla Roadster
CEO Elon Musk sold his first company, Zip2, for more than $300 million in 1999, he suddenly had enough cash to buy just about ...
Elon Musk's Mom Says She Knew He Was a Genius When He Was 3 Years Old, But Wasn't Sure He'd Do Great Things —'Many Geniuses End Up in a Basement'
Every parent thinks their kid is a genius. Some still say it after finger painting disasters and forgotten homework. A few ...
Elon Musk said we'd reach Mars in 2026. Now, he says SpaceX is building a city on the moon
The CEO said that the company is shifting its focus from Mars to creating a "self-growing city" on the moon because it would be more practical.
Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation
Uber Eats launched a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” that can automatically add items to your cart based on text or image prompts.
Who will own your company’s AI layer? Glean’s CEO explains
Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization. But who will own the AI layer that powers all of it?  Glean, which started as an enterprise search product, has evolved into what it calls an “AI work assistant,” aiming to sit underneath other AI […]
Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull
At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.
Microsoft says hackers are exploiting critical zero-day bugs to target Windows and Office users
Critical security flaws targeting Windows and Office users allow hackers to take complete control of a victim's computer by clicking a malicious link or opening a file. Patch now.
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork finally lands on Windows — and it wants to automate your workday
Anthropic released its Claude Cowork AI agent software for Windows on Monday, bringing the file management and task automation tool to roughly 70 percent of the desktop computing market and intensifying a remarkable corporate realignment that has seen Microsoft embrace a direct competitor to its longtime AI partner, OpenAI.The Windows launch arrives with what Anthropic calls "full feature parity" with the macOS version: file access, multi-step task execution, plugins, and Model Context
MIT's new fine-tuning method lets LLMs learn new skills without losing old ones
When enterprises fine-tune LLMs for new tasks, they risk breaking everything the models already know. This forces companies to maintain separate models for every skill.Researchers at MIT, the Improbable AI Lab and ETH Zurich have developed a new technique that enables large language models to learn new skills and knowledge without forgetting their past capabilities.Their technique, called self-distillation fine-tuning (SDFT), allows models to learn directly from demonstrations and their own expe
How to get into a16z’s super-competitive Speedrun startup accelerator program
TechCrunch spoke to a16z partner Joshua Lu for some tips on standing out for the Speedrun program.