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Is Elon Musk building the AI Avengers?

As the internet digests the SpaceX-Cursor deal, we've got the scoop on another startup Musk explored a partnership with.

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's phone locations, researchers say

The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.

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xAI

xAI builds Grok, an AI chatbot with voice chat, image and video generation, real-time search, and advanced reasoning. Try Grok at grok.com.

Vibe Check: GPT-5.5 Has It All

OpenAI’s new model is a top-end senior engineer—and easy to talk to

Elon Musk admits millions of Tesla owners need upgrades for true 'Full Self-Driving'

The admission could open Tesla to legal challenges after it spent years promising customers they were just one software update away from owning fully autonomous cars.

Google DeepMind partners with global consultancies to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.

Google DeepMind is partnering with leading consultancies to bridge the AI adoption gap and drive agentic transformation with frontier models and expert research.

Exa Highlights

Exa Highlights extracts dense, query-specific excerpts from web pages so agents can reason over less context with higher accuracy.

You’re the Bread in the AI Sandwich

Plus: Trust batteries, and how many agents we’ll have in the future

Anthropic and Amazon expand collaboration for up to 5 gigawatts of new compute

We have signed a new agreement with Amazon that will deepen our existing partnership and secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of capacity for training and deploying Claude, including new Trainium2 capacity coming online in the first half of this year and nearly 1GW total of Trainium2 and Trainium3 capacity coming online by the end of 2026.

Anthropic’s Transparency Hub

The following are summaries of key safety evaluations from our Claude Sonnet 4.6 system card. Additional evaluations were conducted as part of our safety process; for our complete publicly reported evaluation results, please refer to the full system card.

OpenAI's Existential Questions

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss OpenAI's latest acquisitions and whether they address "two big existential problems" for the company.