On Tuesday night, Elon Musk gathered the employees of xAI for an all-hands meeting. Evidently, he wanted to talk about the future of his AI company and, specifically, how it relates to the moon.
According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that will build AI satellites and fling…
Okay, now exactly half of xAI’s founding team has left the company
February 12, 2026
Monday night, xAI co-founder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu announced he was leaving the company. “It’s time for my next chapter,” Wu wrote in a late-night post on X. “It is an era with full possibilities: a small team armed with AIs can move mountains and redefine…
Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store all of it in one place before they can detect threats – a slow and costly process that’s increasingly breaking down in cloud environments…
Hauler Hero collects $16M for its AI waste management software
February 11, 2026
Hauler Hero has picked up fresh funds as demand for its AI-powered waste management software continues to pile up.
The New York-based startup raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Frontier Growth with participation from K5 Global and Somersault Ventures, among others, TechCrunch has learned. Hauler Hero has raised more than $27 million in venture capital, to date.
Hauler Hero has developed…
The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn’t that AI will take your job. It’s that AI will save you from it.
That’s the version the industry has spent the last three years selling to millions of nervous people who are eager to buy…
On Monday, Databricks announced it reached a $5.4 billion revenue run rate, growing 65% year-over-year, of which more than $1.4 billion was from its AI products.
Co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi wanted to share these growth numbers because there’s so much talk about how…
ChatGPT rolls out ads
February 10, 2026
OpenAI on Monday announced it’s beginning to test ads in the U.S. for users on its Free and Go subscription tiers.
The newer Go plan is a low-cost subscription at $8 per month in the U.S. and was introduced globally in mid-January.
Subscribers to OpenAI’s paid plans, including its Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education tiers, will not see ads, the company said.
OpenAI sought to…
Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data
February 10, 2026
Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless hours of production footage, most of it just sits unused on servers, unwatched and unanalyzed. This is dark data: a massive, untapped resource that…
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a pricey but pretty e-ink color tablet with AI features
February 9, 2026
If you primarily want a tablet device to mark up, highlight, and annotate your e-books and documents, and perhaps sometimes scribble some notes, Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft could be worth the hefty investment. For everyone else, it’s probably going to be…
Modern biotech has the tools to edit genes and design drugs, yet thousands of rare diseases remain untreated. According to executives from Insilico Medicine and GenEditBio, the missing ingredient for years has been finding enough smart people to continue the work. AI, they say, is becoming the force multiplier that lets scientists take on problems the industry has long left untouched.
Speaking…
