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Following its acquisition by Elon’s other company, xAI is now being referred to as SpaceXAI. Presumably this is only the start of the brand synergy to come.

Behind the Curtain: Intelligence Explosion

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Axios: "What I'm looking at is a technological trend where, if anything, the speed will accelerate further."

Testing Ads in ChatGPT

Ads that support free access and don’t change ChatGPT answers.

Work with Codex from anywhere

Codex is coming to your phone. Now in preview in the ChatGPT mobile app.

A 26-year-old UX designer shares how she pivoted into AI communications

Sajani Lokuge says she built a LinkedIn following by posting about AI and careers before she was approached for the role.

Target built a trend-spotting tool that's speeding up the time it takes to get new fashions to store shelves

As fashion gets faster, Target is working to maintain its leading position with a new AI tool that spots trends on catwalks and social feeds.

How Elon grew to love Anthropic

Business imperatives turned Musk's AI rival into a partner.

Engineers burn 10x more AI tokens for just 2x more output. Welcome to the backlash against tokenmaxxing.

Jellyfish data shows that while AI "tokenmaxxing" boosts coding output, extreme token use delivers diminishing returns for companies.

Oracle Ditches Its Project Jupiter Gas Plant After a Wave of Data Center Backlash

Oracle cancels a New Mexico natural gas plant for its Project Jupiter data center site amid community concerns.

Scale AI wins $500m Pentagon contract, five times its previous deal

The agreement was signed with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, the procurement vehicle driving the bulk of US military AI integration spending in 2025 and 2026. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google signed parallel classified-network deals the same week.

Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.

DoorDash's CEO: AI is helping engineers, but that isn't the only priority

DoorDash's CEO said close to two-thirds of the company's code is written by AI.