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Homebuilder sentiment is at a 14-year low

All signs point to housing affordability getting worse.

Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX have set up committees to explore a merger

Elon Musk, who is CEO of both companies and owns billions in stock, said he can't be a part of those merger discussions.

Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy

Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.

Axios Live: AI Shopping Takes Off as Trust Concerns Linger

Digital agents are researching and purchasing products for consumers, but questions remain around security, authorization and liability

SpaceX says its capex could double this quarter as AI spending grows

SpaceX's AI spending was lower than Wall Street expected but higher than the company spent the quarter before.

Claude AI Powers First AI-Planned Mars Rover Drive

The first AI-assisted drive on another planet. Claude by Anthropic helped NASA's Perseverance rover travel four hundred meters on Mars.

Scenarios for our Economic Future

The Anthropic Economics Team models the effects of AI on the economy of 2030.

Project Deal: our Claude-run marketplace experiment

We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues’ behalf.

SpaceX's AI business is beating expectations

SpaceX hit profitably in the third-quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.

OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio to beef up its biotech business

OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.

Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash

Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.

Gemini's Personal Intelligence is coming to cars

Google kicked off 2026 with the addition of Personal Intelligence to Gemini, allowing its AI to pull in more of your data to formulate answers. It started as a paid feature but eventually came to all Gemini users. However, this feature wasn’t available in the car until now. Google is rolling out Personal Intelligence to Android Auto and Google Built-in, and it is still, thankfully, an optional feature.