Musk weighs tech mega-merger across SpaceX, Tesla and xAI, reports say
Published on 30/01/2026 – 12:30 GMT+1 Elon Musk is exploring potential mergers involving SpaceX, Tesla, and artificial intelligence…
Meta lost $19.1 billion on VR last year despite the mother of all pivots to AI including plans for AI-generated gaming
A bottomless pit of money. This, as far as one can tell, appears to be the situation at…
Microsoft is reportedly backing down on its AI-first plan after people made their voices heard
Summary Microsoft pushed an agentic Windows 11 with Copilot, but user backlash reportedly forced a rethink. Copilot integrations…
Deepfake job seeker applied to work for an AI security firm • The Register
Nearly every company, from tech giants like Amazon to small startups, has first-hand experience with fake IT workers…
‘Coffee is just the excuse’: the deaf-run cafe where hearing people sign to order | Deafness and hearing loss
Wesley Hartwell raised his fists to the barista and shook them next to his ears. He then lowered…
Artificial intelligence researchers hit by flood of ‘slop’
Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with a problem core to their field: how to stop so-called “AI slop”…
Microsoft Excel Agent Mode: Features, Models, and Availability
Microsoft Excel has a new AI tool for productivity. Agent Mode in Excel, which is part of Microsoft…
Why Apple paid billions for a company with no revenue
Q.ai’s technology and talent explain the logic behind the deal. Apple acquired the Israeli company Q.ai on Thursday…
AI is ‘a big regurgitator of stuff someone has done’ • DEVCLASS
TypeScript inventor Anders Hejlsberg: AI is ‘a big regurgitator of stuff someone has done’ •…
Moltbot briefly becomes the internet’s favorite AI chatbot after chaotic rebrand
Moltbot is the recently rebranded open-source AI assistant ClawdbotMoltbot operates inside messaging apps to perform tasksThe rebrand followed…
NASA taps Claude to conjure Mars rover’s travel plan • The Register
Anthropic’s Claude machine learning model has boldly planned what no Claude has planned before – a path across…
xAI is hiring the world’s most overqualified “AI writing” babysitters
Great news for all those authors with major publishing deals, screenwriters with multiple movies made out of their…