Trump cheers Gwynne Shotwell as Elon Musk’s SpaceX No. 2 gives $325 million in stock to Trump accounts
The SpaceX stock gift joins the Dells' $6.25 billion contribution to the investment accounts for children as Elon Musk hasn’t ...
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Elon Musk will pay just $1.5 million in settlement over his acquisition of Twitter and even the judge isn't happy about it
When Elon Musk agreed in May to pay a civil penalty of just $1.5 million over questions about his purchase of Twitter, it ...
Texas Democrat vows to investigate Musk’s SpaceX if elected attorney general
Nathan Johnson, the Democratic nominee for attorney general, said he wants to determine whether SpaceX is unfairly getting ...
Elon Musk Buries Beef With Frenemy, Calls Rival Obvious AI Leader
Elon Musk seems to be burying his hatchet with Anthropic after bashing them repeatedly through the past year.
Even Moneybags Mitt Romney Is Side-Eyeing Elon Musk's Trillionaire Status
The Republican, himself worth over $200 million, put Musk's whopping 13-digit fortune in context during a new podcast.
Elon Musk has reversed course on Anthropic
In recent weeks, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shared kinder words for Anthropic, not long after repeatedly disparaging the ...
Elon Musk to pay SEC $1.5 million settlement, judge signs off despite 'serious misgivings'
A U.S. judge approved a settlement that will see Elon Musk pay $1.5 million to the SEC for late disclosure of his Twitter stock purchases.
Elon Musk’s plans to colonize space launches this year, and Tesla robots will be the first residents
Trillionaire Elon Musk aims to have rockets blast off from Earth before the end of 2026, sending the first materials to the ...
Special delivery: Italy’s postal service joins the AI infrastructure race
Italy’s postal service has spent a century and a half moving letters, parcels and pension payments around the country. Now it wants to move data. Poste Italiane, which still hands out state pensions through roughly 12,600 branches, has cast itself as an unlikely contender in Europe’s scramble to build the infrastructure behind AI. The bet […]This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI is killing its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch
OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered web browser, less than a year after launching it. The company is targeting 9 August for deprecation, The Verge reports. Atlas only arrived in October 2025, pitched as a browser that could carry out tasks on a user’s behalf. Nine months later, it is being retired. The move […]This story continues at The Next Web
After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV
Vivo's joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in India.
OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
Don’t want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude him
The new exchanged-traded funds exclude companies that are founded, controlled, or led by Elon Musk. That means no SpaceX or Tesla.
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role
OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market.
OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
OpenAI's latest family of models promises improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.
An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.
Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.
Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?
The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.
Shared API keys expose AI agents at 69% of enterprises, new VentureBeat research finds
Share one API key across five AI agents, and a single compromised agent inherits the reach of all five. The attacker immediately benefits from the accumulated permissions of every workflow that the key touches. The forensic trail goes cold at the credential level because five agents on one account leave no record of which agent did what.Sixty-nine percent of enterprises run agents with credential sharing somewhere in their deployments, according to VentureBeat’s June 2026 Pulse Research wave of