Taylor Swift, Crustafarianism And The Secret Life Of Agents

AI agents left alone are building religions, writing scripture and scheming against each other. What they do when no one is watching reveals what we’ve forgotten.

AI Companies Race To Clean Up AI Slop Because Model Performance Depends On It

Tech giants race to eliminate AI slop from the internet. Model collapse threatens billions in investments, driving platforms to reward authentic human expertise.

Mozilla will let you turn off AI features in Firefox, if you want none of it

Mozilla is adding a new AI kill switch to Firefox that lets you turn off all AI features at once, giving users more control as other browsers continue to push AI features by default.
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Waymo Raises $16 Billion To Speed Up Its Global Robotaxi Push

The new round, the biggest in the Alphabet unit’s history, values the company at $126 billion — with much of it coming from its parent.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX officially acquires Elon Musk’s xAI, with plan to build data centers in space

The merger creates the world’s most valuable private company, and paves the way for Musk to try and prove out the usefulness of space-based data centers.

Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI (and X)
Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI (and X)

Elon Musk is merging two of the companies that he leads, SpaceX and xAI (which also owns X), into one. According to an announcement from Musk: SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time […]

After backlash, Adobe cancels Adobe Animate shutdown and puts app on ‘maintenance mode’

Adobe Animate will be discontinued on March 1, 2026, as Adobe shifts its focus to AI.

The End Of The IP-Only Era In Semiconductors

While pure-play IP vendors have driven unprecedented industry innovation, the industry is changing in ways that are bringing this business model to an end.

Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off
Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off

Unlike many of the companies stuffing AI into their browsers, Mozilla will soon give you a way to turn all of these features off. An update coming on February 24th will add a new “AI control” option to Firefox’s settings menu, allowing you to disable or enable the browser’s individual AI features, including access to […]

What Snowflake’s deal with OpenAI tells us about the enterprise AI race

Snowflake is the latest enterprise to sign multi-year deals with multiple AI companies in what could be a sign to come of a future trend.