Running AI models is turning into a memory game
When we talk about the cost of AI infrastructure, the focus is usually on Nvidia and GPUs — but memory is an increasingly important part of the picture.
Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’
“We’re exploring a different set of tradeoffs.”
xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation to the X platform, making it widely available.
How AI changes the math for startups, according to a Microsoft VP
Amanda Silver is a corporate vice president at Microsoft’s CoreAI division, where she works on tools for deploying apps and agentic systems within enterprises.
Meridian raises $17 million to remake the agentic spreadsheet
A new company called Meridian.AI has emerged from stealth with an IDE-based approach to agentic financial modeling.
Okay, now exactly half of xAI’s founding team has left the company
Whatever the cause of the departures, the cumulative impact is alarming. There is a lot of work left to do at xAI, and an IPO will bring more scrutiny than the lab has ever faced…
Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all
This week’s release of Opus 4.6 shook up the agentic AI leaderboards.
Amazon and Google are winning the AI capex race — but what’s the prize?
In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It’s a lot of money!
Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers
We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.
Fundamental raises $255 million Series A with a new take on big data analysis
Fundamental has built a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights from the huge quantities of structured data produced by enterprises.