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SpaceX acquires xAI; sources say the deal is all stock and values the combined company at $1.25T, with SpaceX valued at $1T and xAI at $250B — Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired xAI, in a deal that encompasses the billionaire's increasingly costly ambitions to dominate artificial intelligence and space exploration.
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LinkedIn: Mitz Banarjee, Thomas Grote, and Eric Wise
Bluesky: @brucebuckman, @sethabramson, @jamesomalley.co.uk, and @goldy.horsesass.org
Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, r/technology, r/StockMarket, r/technews, r/BetterOffline, r/spacex, r/singularity, and r/wallstreetbets
| New York Times: |
Elon Musk's SpaceX-xAI merger further intermingles his companies, creates the world's most valuable private company, and provides a financial lifeline to xAI — SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker led by Elon Musk, said on Monday it had acquired xAI, the artificial intelligence company controlled by Mr. Musk.
More: Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, TESLARATI, MediaPost, Implicator.ai, Inc, Electrek, San Francisco Business Times, and Cosmic Log
Bluesky: @rmac, @seldo.com, @carnage4life, and @robpegoraro.com
| Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked email: as part of the xAI-SpaceX deal, xAI shares will be converted into 0.1433 shares of SpaceX stock, and employees will have the option to cash out — The merger puts Elon Musk's rocket and artificial-intelligence companies under one roof — Elon Musk said SpaceX acquired xAI … | Eric Berger / Ars Technica: |
If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack of capabilities, from launch to orbital bandwidth to frontier AI models, and offer AI on demand anywhere — SpaceX has formally acquired another one of Elon Musk's companies, xAi, the space company announced on Monday afternoon.
More: Moneycontrol, Advanced Television, Via Satellite, PYMNTS.com, Inc, CoinDesk, CircleID, and Data Center Knowledge. Bluesky: @gerrylev
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches a Codex app for macOS, designed to serve as a command center for managing AI agents, and says Codex usage has nearly doubled since mid-December — ZDNET's key takeaways — OpenAI launches a Mac-only Codex app as an agent command center.
More: OpenAI, Ars Technica, Simon Willison's Weblog, Business Standard, Silicon UK, Moneycontrol, CNBC, Latent.Space, The Indian Express, VentureBeat, Digit, TestingCatalog, Michael Tsai, Rohan's Bytes, SiliconANGLE, The Mac Observer, iClarified, Neowin, Benzinga, Thurrott, MacStories, Every, Implicator.ai, Engadget, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, The Decoder, and The Deep View
X: @sama, @openai, @openai, @reach_vb, @ajambrosino, @gdb, @openaidevs, @polynoamial, @karrisaarinen, @simonw, @altryne, @parkerortolani, @sama, @dimillian, @aidan_mclau, @mitchellh, @aarondfrancis, @mckaywrigley, @karrisaarinen, @thsottiaux, @sama, @openai, @paytondev, @nickadobos, and @gergelyorosz. Mastodon: @viticci@mastodon …
Forums: Hacker News, r/codex, r/codex, and Ars OpenForum
| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia's AI chips used for inference and has sought alternatives since last year, including from Cerebras and Groq — OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia's latest artificial intelligence chips, and it has sought alternatives since last year …
More: Barron's Online, Radio Free Mobile, and DigiTimes
X: @sk7037, @sama, @kyliebytes, @jukan05, @firstadopter, and @semianalysis_
Bluesky: @edzitron.com and @seanokane
Forums: r/singularity, r/hardware, r/OpenAI, r/BetterOffline, and r/AMD_Stock
| @oracle: |
Oracle says the Nvidia-OpenAI deal has “zero impact” on its financial relationship with OpenAI and it is “highly confident in OpenAI's ability to raise funds” — The NVIDIA-OpenAI deal has zero impact on our financial relationship with OpenAI. We remain highly confident in OpenAI's ability to raise funds and meet its commitments.
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
The US DOJ releasing emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kicks off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage — The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Waymo raised $16B led by Sequoia, DST, and Dragoneer at a $126B valuation, plans an expansion across the US and into the UK in 2026, and has 400K+ weekly rides — Waymo, Alphabet Inc.'s autonomous driving unit, raised $16 billion at a $126 billion valuation, a funding round that reflects its rapid ascent as a robotaxi pioneer.
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding — A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …
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X: @karpathy, @galnagli, @mattprd, @galnagli, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, and @valhalla_dev. LinkedIn: Geoff Livingston
Forums: r/cybersecurity and Slashdot
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Notepad++ and security researchers say Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of its update traffic from June to December 2025 — Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year …
More: Rapid7, TechCrunch, Notepad++, The Verge, Securelist, The Register, Forrester, and XDA Developers
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LinkedIn: Ivan Feigl and Christiaan Beek
Bluesky: @adelpreore and @evacide
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @jsstaedtler@mastodon.art
Forums: Hacker News, r/worldnews, r/homelab, r/technews, r/sysadmin, r/cybersecurity, r/pcmasterrace, r/theprimeagen, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q3 revenue of $5.2B, below $5.45B est., a net profit of $1.03B, vs. $950M est., and maintains its 19M Switch 2 sales forecast for fiscal 2026 — Nintendo maintained its full-year Switch 2 sales forecast on Tuesday allaying some fears that the flagship console was losing momentum.
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Forums: r/NintendoSwitch, r/nintendo, and r/Games
| Isaac Rouse / Polygon.com: |
Crunchyroll is raising its US prices by $2 per month; the cheapest tier gets its first price increase since 2019 and now offers offline downloads on one device — If you didn't secure a Crunchyroll subscription when it was on sale during Black Friday, we have some bad news, anime fans: The price has officially gone up.
More: Crunchyroll News, Ars Technica, Kotaku, The Wrap, IGN, Engadget, Comic Book, and CNET
| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data — It's not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps! For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating … | Bloomberg: |
Trump unveils a $12B critical minerals stockpile, called Project Vault, to minimize reliance on China, with participation from 12+ companies, including Google — President Donald Trump formally announced plans to launch a $12 billion critical minerals stockpile, in his latest effort …
More: CNBC, EXIM.GOV, Fox News, Al Jazeera, Breitbart, The Guardian, New York Times, The Independent, Reuters, Financial Times, and Associated Press. X: @whitehouse
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on Grok's app, Grok's website, and X, rarely rejecting user requests — Elon Musk insists xAI's chatbot doesn't break the law, but it's still churning out nearly naked, sexualized images of men.
More: TechCrunch, Digit, Social Media Today, and Metro.co.uk
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