Rising gas prices have been a recurring headline since the Trump administration started its war against Iran in late February, but it’s not the only commodity affected by the conflict. Around 10% of the world’s aluminum is made in the Gulf region, so prices of the metal have reached levels not seen in the last several decades.
Even before the war in Iran, the U.S. government had…
xAI burned $6.4B last year — SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over
May 21, 2026
Elon Musk’s xAI lost $6.4 billion from operations on just $3.2 billion in revenue in 2025, according to SpaceX’s IPO filings. And the losses are poised to grow. SpaceX’s filing reveals plans to scale Grok to “multiple trillions of parameters,” a…
IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed
May 21, 2026
Industry insiders say the next big thing in AI is “proactive” systems: agents that can anticipate a user’s needs – and fulfill them – before the user even knows what those needs are.
One startup that’s looking to make headway in this area…
NanoCo, the company behind security-focused OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised an oversubscribed $12 million seed round following a viral launch, its founders tell TechCrunch.
The funding was led by Valley Capital Partners and saw participation from Docker, Vercel, Monday.com, Slow Ventures, and angels like Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face.
In a matter of weeks, NanoClaw creator Gavriel…
At its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday, Google announced that the Gemini app is getting a series of new updates, including a “Daily Brief” feature, a redesigned interface, access to a new AI video model called Gemini Omni, and new personal AI agent called…
The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday at Google IO 2026, the company announced new native Android app creation capabilities in its web-based Google AI Studio, shrinking a process that takes weeks of setup and coding down to…
Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic.
“I’ve joined Anthropic,” Karpathy posted on X Tuesday. “I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D.”
Personal update: I’ve…
Drug discovery is one of the most expensive pursuits in modern industry. Finding a single viable molecule can take a decade and cost billions, and most candidates still don’t make it. A generation of AI startups has promised to fix that – most have made the…
Elon Musk’s claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI co-founders failed after nine California jurors returned a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.
Musk accused Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft of “stealing a…
Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn. No phone, no dashboard. Just your helmet, and a lens the size of a thumbnail.
This is not a concept video. It’s heading to European roads as early as this year. And it’s one early glimpse of where smart glasses are heading.
Over the…
