Musk’s Xs Merge, Apple Acquires Q AI, Google’s Record Haul, ElevenLabs Nabs $500 Million, $100 Million For Abovitz’ AI

X Merges X AI And Space X, Apple Acquires Q AI, Synthbee, Raises $100 billion, Amazon Invests in OpenAI, Amazon invests in OpenAI, And The Super Bowl of AI Commercials.

How Micro-Voting Could Give Politics A Needed Upgrade

Democracy was designed for a world of carrier pigeons. Micro-voting, biometric identity and decoupled governance could finally upgrade the signal-to-noise ratio.

OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own

The new model is build to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week.

Cerebras Pockets $1 Billion To Challenge Nvidia In AI With ‘20X Faster’ Chip

Hello Nvidia. Here comes Cerebras, the new darling of AI compute, with a $10 billion OpenAI contract and a new $1 billion in a series H funding round.

Elon Musk’s Orbital Data Centers Face Huge Challenges

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the new inductees to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 3D-printed housing and more.

MLB Players Association Partners With Genies To Turn All Baseball Players Into AI Companions

MLB Players Association teams up with Genies to launch AI-powered player avatars, letting fans hold ongoing one-to- one conversations with Major League Baseball players.

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.

Super Bowl LX ads: all AI everything
Super Bowl LX ads: all AI everything

Super Bowl LX is nearly here, with the Seattle Seahawks taking on the New England Patriots. While Bad Bunny will be the star of the halftime show, AI could be the star of the commercial breaks, much like crypto was a few years ago. Last year’s Super Bowl featured a Google Gemini ad that fumbled […]

OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents

OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform designed for enterprises to build and deploy agents while treating them like human employees.

Anthropic debuts new model with hopes to corner the market beyond coding
Anthropic debuts new model with hopes to corner the market beyond coding

Anthropic’s “smartest model” is getting a major boost, the company said in a blog post announcing Claude Opus 4.6. It called the new model a “direct upgrade” from its predecessor in a release, noting that it can better take on complex, multi-step tasks and get “much closer to production-ready quality on the first try than […]