Sources: 50+ researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML — Call it the SpaceXAI exodus. — More than 50 researchers and engineers working on xAI's Grok models have left …
Ford stock jumped as much as 25% in two days after the launch of Ford Energy, a new subsidiary providing battery storage capacity to AI data centers — New subsidiary pivots to energy storage batteries for AI after disastrous electric vehicle writedown — Shares in Detroit auto giant Ford surged …
Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is shopping for artificial-intelligence startups as the software company prepares for a future independent of its once-vital partner OpenAI …
Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $15.84B, vs. $15.56B est., forecasts Q4 revenue above est., and is cutting almost 4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps 17%+ after hours — Cisco shares soared 15% in extended trading on Wednesday after the networking company issued results and guidance that topped Wall Street's projections.
Mythos Preview is the first AI model to complete both of AISI's cyber ranges, which measure models' cyberattack capabilities; GPT-5.5 solved only one of them — In February 2026, we internally estimated that the length of cyber tasks AI models could complete had doubled every 4.7 months since late 2024 …
Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the “cone of uncertainty” in AI, allocating compute, returns to frontier intelligence, platform vs. application, and more — In this episode of Invest Like The Best, Patrick O'Shaughnessy sits down with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao …
The US FCC approves EchoStar's sale of approximately 65MHz of spectrum to SpaceX and 50MHz to AT&T — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Space Bureau approved EchoStar's sale of approximately 65 megahertz of spectrum to SpaceX and 50 megahertz to AT&T …