Elon Musk’s SpaceX Holdings Revealed. (Hint: It’s A Lot.)
The CEO controls 6.4 billion SpaceX shares, almost half of the stock outstanding.
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Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises
Dario Amodei wrote on X that the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that they have not yet delivered on their promises, and that only genuine breakthroughs will win public trust. It lands as Anthropic prepares a listing th...
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
Cutting RAG inference costs 6x starts with deciding what never reaches the LLM
Most teams building retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems for high stakes classification make the same architectural bet: Route every ambiguous case straight to the language model and trust the retrieved context to sort it out. This works fine...
Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future
On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
TechCrunch Mobility: The shifting flight path of electric air taxis
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Maye Musk Backs Elon's 'China Is Awesome' Take: Here's Why She Enjoys Going There
Maye Musk has once again made her fondness for China clear, jumping in to support her son Elon Musk after he encouraged his ...
Elon Musk has said he wants 25% voting control of Tesla to feel comfortable leading its AI push. Here's what that threshold means for shareholders.
Musk wants more control, and shareholders could soon face a decision.
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text
OpenAI has launched Computer History, a ChatGPT feature that records clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts and app switches on macOS to build a searchable memory. The memory files are stored locally as unencrypted plain text, and the feature is not...
DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge
DeepSeek's V4 Flash has topped model leaderboards and been hailed by developers as a "total monster" since its rollout. But in real-world testing, it completed just 53.8% of a batch of complex agent tasks. Composio ran the model throug...
Cards Against Humanity has a $10 plan to annoy Elon Musk
After a dispute with SpaceX over its Texas property, the game maker is recruiting fans to help design a monument aimed ...
X to identify governments seeking post takedowns as Elon Musk pushes censorship disclosures
The platform intends to identify the government department or agency that submitted the request, along with the legal ...
Mastercard took down payments across Australia with a scheduled update
Mastercard transactions were declined across Australia on Saturday afternoon after what the company describes as a scheduled system update, with more than 1,900 outage reports logged by mid-afternoon. Mastercard says the problem is resolved and all s...
Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says
Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen this year, and 151,448 derivatives against Alibaba’...
Harvard makes massive $2.2B SpaceX bet on Elon Musk's rocket company
Harvard Management Company revealed a $2.2 billion SpaceX stake as university endowments benefit from early investments in ...
Elon Musk Made 2.5 Million Times More Than the Average Tesla Worker
Musk only needs 4.23 seconds to earn an average Tesla employee's yearly salary.
Elon Musk announces new X move, vows to make government censorship requests more visible to users
Elon Musk announced that X will enhance visibility of government requests for content removal. This initiative reportedly ...
Elon Musk and the return of the American industrialist
Musk inspired a new generation of hard-tech companies. Here’s what they’re building.
Elon Musk Announces X Will Name Governments Censoring Content
Elon Musk has announced that social media platform X will systematically name government agencies and reveal legal ...