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Trump bought up to $50,000 of SpaceX shares two weeks after its IPO. The stock has already slipped.
A financial disclosure shows the president bought SpaceX shares at around $150 each. They now trade at $135, roughly where they started when the company went public.

Geoffrey Hinton puts the odds of human extinction at 50%. Should we believe him?
AI's own intellectual godfather thinks there's a coin-flip chance we don't survive what we're building. Here's what the smartest people in the room are actually saying.

SpaceX Tried to Buy AI Coding Startup Cognition. Its CEO Says That's Not True.
Bloomberg reported a takeover approach. Cognition's CEO shot it down publicly within hours. What we actually know, and what it tells us about how much money is flowing into AI coding tools.

Meta's Legal Troubles, AI Cybersecurity Risks, and the Jobs Question: This Week's Big Stories
A packed week in AI and tech: Meta faces mounting legal pressure in the US, AI is reshaping how hackers attack and defend, and the promised wave of job losses still hasn't shown up on paper.

America's Air Traffic System Is Broken. A $12.5 Billion Fix May Mostly Enrich One Company.
Flight delays hit a decade-long high in 2025. Radar went dark over nine states. A military helicopter carrying the president nearly triggered a near-miss. Now billions in repair funding look set to flow to Palantir, a data company with deep government ties and no experience running air traffic control.

Woman says her stepfather used Grok to turn her childhood photo into explicit images
A new plaintiff has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk's AI company xAI, alleging the chatbot Grok was used to generate thousands of explicit images of her from a single photo taken when she was 11.

SpaceX has officially bought Cursor, the AI coding assistant
The $60 billion deal is done. Cursor's AI coding tool now sits inside Elon Musk's rocket company, which wants to put its massive computing power to work for everyday software developers.

xAI Launches Grok Bot: AI Agents That Log Into Your Apps and Do Your Work
Elon Musk's AI company is rolling out always-on software agents that can handle workplace tasks inside the tools you already use, from sales outreach to bug fixes, without you having to watch over them.

Asimov Wrote the Rulebook for Robots. Can His Ideas Fix AI?
Governments are starting to regulate artificial intelligence, but critics say the rules don't go nearly far enough. A new proposal dusts off a sci-fi legend's famous laws to ask what AI should actually want.

Elon Musk's AI Wikipedia Rival Grokipedia Hasn't Updated in Three Months
xAI launched Grokipedia with six million articles and big promises. Now it appears frozen, with no accepted edits since late April.

SpaceX Is Really a Satellite Firm That Rents Out Computer Power. The Rockets Are Almost a Side Note.
The company's first public earnings report shows Starlink internet and data centre leasing dwarfing actual space business, and Elon Musk's grand orbital plans look a lot like wishful thinking.

SpaceX Reports Record Revenue but Shocks Investors With $16 Billion AI Spending Bill
The rocket company beat earnings expectations by a wide margin, then watched its share price drop 10 percent after revealing it spent nearly $16 billion on AI infrastructure in a single quarter.

A journalist says Silicon Valley billionaires have declared war on democracy. Here is his case.
Gil Durán's new book argues that big tech's richest owners have stopped being innovators and started acting like rulers. His ban from X, for two words, made the point for him.

SpaceX Has Spent $329 Million on Tesla Batteries This Year. Here's Why.
The rocket company is buying industrial-scale battery storage at a pace that shows just how tightly Elon Musk's businesses are wired together, and what that means for the AI data centers powering it all.

Elon Musk now spends half his Tesla earnings calls talking about AI and robots
A seven-year analysis of Tesla earnings transcripts shows Musk's words have drifted far from cars, and his executives are struggling to keep up.