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Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta

OpenAI is the original frontier lab. Its latest publicly released model, GPT-5.6, is one of the most capable and efficient on the market. Its desktop app for agentic coding and workplace tasks has seen its user base grow by about 15 million subscribers in the last two months. OpenAI has also already ...

How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?

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The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni

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Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers

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Starbase injury rates outpace rivals as SpaceX chases its Mars moonshot

July 18, 2025 • 1 min read

Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts

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Japan launches mission to bring home a piece of the Martian moon Phobos

Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and retrieve samples for return to Earth, a daring international project that could yield new insights into the formation of the Solar System. The robotic Martian Moons eXploration mission, known ...

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Companies are giving employees AI tools to make them more productive, but the tools appear to be creating new problems for their managers. More than half of senior leaders say they find it harder to evaluate employees’ work after adopting AI, according to a Nielsen survey of 1,700 directors and senior ...

AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now

October 21, 2026 • 1 min read

Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22.

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Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’

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US official: Russia’s stalker satellite sure looks like an orbital weapon

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Tesla is prepping a Cybercab onslaught

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Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock

Meta is making a big push into AI, and it’s creating a new kind of stock that could help pay for it. On Wednesday, as the company reported its third-quarter earnings, Semafor reported the company might issue non-voting stock, meaning shares that don’t give their owners a vote on company decisions, ...

October 21, 2026 • 1 min read

Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta

During Meta’s earnings call on Wednesday, the company revealed its board had approved a new class of non-voting stock, called Class C common stock. The shares give the holder an ownership stake but no vote on company decisions. This class takes effect in January. Meta says it will use the stock for capital raising, employee pay, and acquisitions — including its expensive push into AI — while maintaining the current voting structure that favors its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, who controls around 60% of the vote.

TechCrunch – Social

Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22.

NASA does not have, nor want, nuclear weapons. But when it comes to a particular metric that is part of the Artemis Program to land people on the Moon, NASA guards a particular number like they are trying to prevent outsiders from cracking nuclear codes.

arsTechnica – Space

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’

Microsoft’s AI diagnostic system correctly diagnosed complex medical cases in a simulation more than twice as often as generalist physicians, according to a study published Thursday in Science. Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI’s CEO, called the result a step toward “medical superintelligence.”

TechCrunch – Ai

US official: Russia’s stalker satellite sure looks like an orbital weapon

Four years ago, a senior official in Russia’s foreign ministry painted a bullseye on commercial satellite networks that assist Ukraine in its fight against invading Russian military forces.

arsTechnica – Space

Tesla is prepping a Cybercab onslaught

Tesla says it is preparing to launch its shiny gold Cybercab in new markets outside its home of Austin, Texas, in a bid to “literally take over every part of terrestrial transportation.”

TechCrunch – Transportation

Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock

Meta is making a big push into AI, and it’s creating a new kind of stock that could help pay for it.

TechCrunch – Social

Tesla stars Optimus robot production in California as profit falls 43%

Tesla has started production of its Optimus humanoid robot at its factory in Fremont, California, a manufacturing space once dedicated to making electric vehicles, the company announced Wednesday.

TechCrunch – Transportation

AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now

Companies are giving employees AI tools to make them more productive, but the tools appear to be creating new problems for their managers.

TechCrunch – Ai

SpaceX will attempt to reach weekly Starship launches by early 2027

In its current iteration, SpaceX is largely a data company seeking to provide enormous amounts of compute for artificial intelligence. During an earnings call on Tuesday afternoon, company officials spent much of their time discussing ambitious plans to roll out up to 10 GW of compute in 2027—on the ground.

arsTechnica – Space

SpaceX and Tesla boards form special committees to review merger

The boards of SpaceX and Tesla have each formed special committees to review a possible merger. The special committees, which consist of independent directors, were created at the request of shareholders, according to Elon Musk, CEO and the largest individual shareholder of both companies.

TechCrunch – Space