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SpaceX, Reflection AI Sign $150M Monthly Compute Deal
Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee.
Groq Raises $650M, Hires Execs After Nvidia Deal
What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.
Nvidia's New Cooling System Reduces Data Center Water Use
Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.
Tesla Autopilot Investigation: What Happened in Texas Crash?
Whether the Autopilot system was truly active, overridden, or malfunctioning likely won't be resolved until investigators finish combing through the vehicle's data logs.
SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60B in Stock to Boost AI Division
The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.
Foundation Alloy's AI-Driven Metals for Drones, Watches, and Knives
Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.
Machine0: Persistent NixOS VMs via CLI
Machine0: Persistent NixOS Virtual Machines via Command Line Machine0 is a revolutionary tool that allows users to create and manage persistent NixOS virtual ma…
AI-Powered Geothermal Energy Startup Secures $54M Funding
SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd is betting the ocean has vast amounts of untapped geothermal energy.
Oracle Security Bug Exploited in Mass-Hacking Campaign
The tech giant warned of a security flaw that a cybercrime gang said it's exploiting as part of a mass-hacking campaign. Google said it notified more than 100 organizations that had potentially vulnerable servers.
Starlink's India Hurdles May Impact SpaceX IPO
Problems with Starlink's India expansion could challenge SpaceX's IPO growth story.
Top AI Firms Spend $7,500 Monthly on AI per Employee
The most AI-obsessed firms are spending roughly $7,500 monthly per employee on AI, per Ramp AI Index. That's not more than an engineer's salary — yet.
Amazon Borrows $17.5B for AI Spending Amid Debt Surge
Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing.
xAI Engineer Sues Over Alleged AI Safety Firing
A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic IPO.
Nucleus: Nix-Native Container Runtime for Enhanced Security
Nucleus: Nix Native Container Runtime for Enhanced Security Nucleus is a cutting edge container runtime built on top of Nix, designed to elevate the security po…
HelixDB: Graph Database on Object Storage
HelixDB: Revolutionizing Data Management with a Graph Database on Object Storage What is HelixDB? HelixDB is an advanced graph database solution built on object…
Apple's Swift-Powered Tool for Linux Containers on Mac
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.
Sriram Krishnan Exits White House AI Advisor Role for New Venture
Krishnan is reportedly starting a new institution to continue shaping Trump's AI policy.
Kyushu: Self-Hostable WASM Sandbox for JavaScript Workers
Kyushu: Self Hostable WASM Sandbox for JavaScript Workers Kyushu is a cutting edge WebAssembly (WASM) sandbox specifically designed for JavaScript workers. This…
Microsoft's New PostgreSQL AI Infrastructure: Durable Execution
PostgreSQL in-database durable execution
TurboVec: Rust-Based Vector Index for AI Infrastructure
A vector index built on TurboQuant, written in Rust with Python bindings
Supabase Doubles Valuation to $10B in 8 Months, Boosted by AI
Supabase, an example of an open source project becoming a fast-growing company, has greatly benefited from AI tools like Claude, Codex, and other vibe-coding platforms.
Google's $920M Monthly AI Compute Deal with SpaceX
In a statement, a Google representative described the deal as a result of unexpected demand for its recently launched AI products.
IBM Whistleblower Accuses Company of Covering Up Data Breaches
IBM and two of its subsidiary companies were allegedly breached during the mid-2010s — a lawsuit filed by a former cybersecurity executive accuses IBM of not disclosing and actively covering it up.
Microsoft's MXC: AI Infrastructure for Secure Isolation
Policy-driven, layered isolation and containment
NGINX Open Source: AI Infrastructure on GitHub
The official NGINX Open Source repository.
Waymo Repurposes Robotaxi Batteries for Grid Storage
The company announced a deal with B2U Storage Solutions to repurpose the battery packs as Waymo pulls them off the road.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky to Launch New AI Lab
The Airbnb CEO said last year it hasn't struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren't quite ready.
AirTrunk Plans $30B AI Data Center Expansion in India
The Australian data center operator plans to set up 5GW of capacity in India.
Embedding 685M Public Texts in 32 Minutes with AI
Revolutionizing Text Embedding: Processing 685M Public Texts in 32 Minutes with AI In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, efficiently handling large volumes…
GitLab Reduces Workforce by 14% to Scale AI Infrastructure
The company is reducing its workforce as it exits 22 countries, reduces management layers, and invests in its infrastructure to scale its platform.
Lovable Boosts AI Infrastructure with Google Cloud Expansion
Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable's footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude.
SpaceX's IPO Faces Water Access Challenges for AI Infrastructure
The company says it needs "significant" water resources to cool its data centers, and that access to abundant, affordable water is a challenge.
Alphabet Seeks $80B for AI Expansion
"The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply," Alphabet said in its statement.
XCENA Raises $135M for AI Memory Innovation
South Korean chip startup XCENA is betting that AI's real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
Groq Aims to Raise $650M for AI Inference Focus After Nvidia Deal
Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios.
SpaceX Secures $6.45B in Space Force Contracts Before IPO
SpaceX already generated one-fifth of its 2025 revenue from government contracts, the company revealed in its IPO filing.
Train Your LLM from Scratch: A Step-by-Step Guide
A straightforward method for training your LLM, from downloading data to generating text.
Thea Energy Raises $100M for Fusion Power Breakthrough
Thea Energy's pixel-inspired magnets could give its power plant plans a boost. The fusion startup hopes to get a commercial reactor working by 2034.
General Compute Bets on SambaNova for Next AI Chip Breakout
General Compute is betting SambaNova will be the next breakout chipmaker.
Databricks Co-Founder on Enterprise AI Safety at TechCrunch Disrupt 20
Enterprise AI is entering a different phase now, one where enterprises are no longer evaluating whether AI is exciting. They are evaluating whether it is safe to deploy broadly.
SpaceX's Starlink Secures American Airlines Deal
American Airlines said Tuesday it plans to install Starlink on more than 500 Airbus aircraft, the latest carrier win for IPO-bound SpaceX.
Trump Administration Approves Volvo's Connected Car Sales
Volvo, which is majority owned by China's Geely Holdings, said it can now move forward with its expansion plans for its U.S. factory.
NeuroFlow Accelerates Vision Transformers in PyTorch 55.8x
NeuroFlow Accelerates Vision Transformers in PyTorch by 55.8x In the realm of machine learning, the efficiency and speed of transforming vision models are param…
Trump Delays AI Security Executive Order Due to Language Concerns
President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the order's language.
Waymo Pauses Freeway Rides and Atlanta, San Antonio Services
The service suspension comes as Waymo has also paused operations in Atlanta and San Antonio after its robotaxis drove into flooded streets.
Waymo Pauses Robotaxis in Four Cities Due to Flooding Issues
Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.
KVBoost Speeds Up HuggingFace Models with Efficient Cache Reuse
KVBoost: Enhancing HuggingFace Models with Effective Cache Management KVBoost emerges as a pioneering solution tailored to bolster the performance of HuggingFac…
Tesla's Full Self-Driving Expands to Europe
First came the Netherlands, now it's Lithuania. And more European countries appear to be in the queue for Tesla's driver-assistance system.
Anthropic to Pay xAI $1.25B Monthly for Compute
Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.
Elon Musk's xAI to Buy $2.8B in Natural Gas Turbines for Data Centers
Elon Musk's xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion worth of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX's IPO filing.