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The SpaceX–xAI merger highlights a deeper shift in AI competition: leadership is no longer defined only by better models, but by control over energy, compute, and infrastructure.

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SpaceX and xAI Merge in $1.1tn Private Deal
SpaceX acquires xAI in February 2026, with valuations reported around $1.125tn to $1.25tn, creating the world’s most valuable private company.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Moltbook launched as a social network used exclusively by AI agents. Within days, more than 30,000 agents were posting, moderating, and coordinating autonomously while over 1 million humans observed. Built by Matt Schlicht using OpenClaw-based agents.

#AI #AIAgents #AutonomousAI #TechNews
January 31, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Brain-inspired AI architectures can produce human-like brain activity before any training data. Untrained convolutional networks aligned with human and primate neural responses, challenging the data-and-compute-heavy AI paradigm.

#AI #DeepLearning #AIEfficiency #MachineLearning
January 27, 2026 at 7:33 PM
🌐🚀 This Week’s Top 3 AI Updates You Need to Know 📰💡
January 26, 2026 at 7:22 PM
OpenAI added over $1B in annual recurring revenue in a single month from its API business alone, underscoring that enterprise and developer usage (not ChatGPT subscriptions) is now a major growth engine.

#AI #APIs #EnterpriseAI
January 26, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Grok generated an estimated 3,000,000 sexualized images on X in just 11 days, including ~23,000 that appear to depict children, according to new analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Feature launched Dec 29, restricted Jan 9.

#AI #PlatformSafety
January 22, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Studies show AI-generated text in 24% of press releases, 15% of job postings & even UN statements. 🤖 Small businesses, students & professionals are all using AI—but are we relying on it too much? ⚖️
🔗 Study 🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2502.09747
#AI #TechTrends #ArtificialIntelligence
January 22, 2026 at 5:35 PM
A Nature study (Oct 2025) by UC Berkeley Haas, Stanford, and Oxford finds women are systematically portrayed as younger than men across 1.4M online images and AI models. Algorithms like ChatGPT amplify the bias, reshaping hiring and perceptions.
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#AI #Bias #Research
October 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
OpenAI releases a political-bias evaluation for ChatGPT: ~500 prompts across 100 topics, scored on 5 axes. GPT-5 reduces bias by ~30% vs prior models. In production analysis, <0.01% of responses show signs of political bias. Web search excluded.
🔗 More: tinyurl.com/bdfvstkd
#AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT
October 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Oxford, Google Cloud, and Radboud University show Gemini AI can classify cosmic events with ~93% accuracy using just 15 examples. Published in Nature Astronomy, the study highlights transparent AI as a new tool for astronomy.

#AI #Astronomy #Oxford

🔗 Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
OpenAI/Harvard/Duke study: 700M weekly ChatGPT users (10% of adults). 73% of queries are non-work. Writing = 42% of work use. Under-26s send 46% of all messages. Growth fastest in $10k–40k GDP countries. #ChatGPT #AI #TechNews

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October 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
IBM is betting big on Anthropic’s Claude. With a new AI-first IDE already showing 45% productivity gains among 6,000 testers, the partnership signals a turning point: enterprises are shifting away from OpenAI.

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IBM and Anthropic Partner on Claude AI Integration
IBM and Anthropic form a strategic partnership to integrate Claude AI models into its enterprise software suite, starting with an IDE tested by 6,000 staff and reporting 45% productivity gains.
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October 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
In the race to dominate AI, compute is the new currency.

OpenAI’s multi-year agreement with AMD to secure 6GW of chip capacity reflects this shift, positioning raw processing power as the decisive resource in today’s AI economy.

🔗 More: tinyurl.com/5xpsssnf

#AI #OpenAI #AMD #AIInfrastructure
OpenAI and AMD Strike 6GW Deal with Equity Link
OpenAI and AMD agreed a 6GW AI chip deal starting 2026, with OpenAI gaining option for ~10% AMD stake; AMD shares surged over 34%.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🌐🚀 This Week’s Top 7 AI Updates You Need to Know

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October 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🌍 ChatGPT traffic in Aug 2025 hit 5.8B visits — 10x more than Google’s Gemini. 🇺🇸 US leads with 15.1% (883M), 🇮🇳 India close behind at 9.3% (544M). Brazil, UK, and Indonesia round out the top 5.

🔗 Source: www.visualcapitalist.com/top-countrie...

#AI #ChatGPT #TechTrends
Ranked: The Top Countries Driving ChatGPT Traffic in 2025
Emerging economies drove significant ChatGPT traffic in August, highlighting the technology’s accelerating global reach.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
OpenAI has officially surpassed SpaceX to become the world’s most valuable private company.

After a $6.6B share sale, its valuation hit $500B, outpacing Elon Musk’s rocket empire and cementing AI as the new frontier for investors.

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OpenAI Surpasses SpaceX With $500B Valuation in $6.6B Share Sale
OpenAI surpasses SpaceX as the world’s most valuable private company after a $6.6B secondary share sale at a $500B valuation.
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October 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The integration of Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 into Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a pivotal step toward the multi-model future of enterprise AI.

#Microsoft #Anthropic #OpenAI #Copilot #AI

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Microsoft Adds Anthropic to Copilot 365 with Claude
Microsoft Adds Anthropic for Researcher and Copilot Studio, integrating Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1 while OpenAI remains default in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
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September 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Elon Musk’s xAI accuses OpenAI of running a coordinated campaign to steal its proprietary source code and data center strategies through employee poaching. OpenAI rejects the allegations, calling them harassment in Musk’s escalating feud with his former company. #AI

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xAI Accuses OpenAI of Trade Secret Theft in Federal Lawsuit
Elon Musk’s xAI accuses OpenAI of stealing trade secrets through employee poaching and code transfers. OpenAI denies claims, calling it harassment.
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September 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The U.S.–China AI rivalry is shifting frontlines.

Alibaba - Nvidia deal isn’t about chips - it’s about software, platforms, ecosystems.

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#AI #Alibaba #Nvidia #TechRivalry #China
Alibaba and Nvidia partnership drives global AI expansion
Alibaba and Nvidia integrate Physical AI into Cloud PAI, expand data centers worldwide, and grow AI spending despite China’s chip restrictions.
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September 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🌐🚀 This Week’s Top 9 AI Updates You Need to Know: 📰💡

1️⃣ 🏆 Gemini 2.5 Deep Think Wins Gold at ICPC World Finals

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Deep Think model solved 10 of 12 problems in Baku, even outperforming all human teams on one task — a milestone DeepMind called “historic.”
September 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
💸 Oracle has signed a record-breaking $300 billion, five-year cloud contract with OpenAI.

💸 The deal elevates Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) into the top tier of hyperscale providers, raises questions about OpenAI’s financial sustainability. #AI #OpenAI

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Oracle Signs $300B OpenAI Cloud Deal
Oracle and OpenAI ink a record $300B cloud contract, reshaping enterprise infrastructure and raising new questions about AI compute and energy.
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September 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🤝Microsoft and OpenAI are finalizing a new agreement to extend their partnership while OpenAI restructures to give its nonprofit parent both control and a $100 billion equity stake in its for-profit arm, creating one of the largest philanthropic entities in the world. #AI
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Microsoft and OpenAI Reach New Partnership Agreement
Microsoft and OpenAI signed a non-binding MOU while OpenAI’s nonprofit parent gains a $100B equity stake. Regulators are reviewing restructuring and access terms.
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September 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🤖 Albania has become the first country in the world to symbolically appoint an AI-generated “minister,” named Diella, to oversee public tenders and combat systemic corruption, a central issue in its bid for EU membership. #AI #Albania #AIinPolitics

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Albania Appoints AI Minister Diella to Combat Corruption
Albania launches AI bot Diella as symbolic minister for public procurement, aiming to eliminate corruption and support EU accession goals.
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September 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🎓 OpenAI announced an AI skills certification Academy and a job-matching platform to connect millions of AI-trained workers with employers.

🎓 This aims to address job displacement fears by reskilling workers for AI-enabled roles.

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OpenAI Jobs Platform Set to Launch in 2026 to Rival LinkedIn
OpenAI is building the OpenAI Jobs Platform, an AI-driven hiring service set to launch by mid-2026, directly challenging LinkedIn
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September 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
💸 Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by authors who claimed their copyrighted works were used without permission to train the AI company’s chatbots

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Anthropic will Pay $1.5B in AI Copyright Settlement
Anthropic will pay $1.5B for pirated books used to train Claude AI, in the largest copyright recovery ever, pending U.S. court approval.
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September 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM