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SpaceX acquires xAI in a mega-merger → Elon Musk has folded xAI into SpaceX in the largest private transaction on record, uniting Grok’s AI stack and X.com with Starlink, rockets, and Mars ambitions to build next-generation space-AI infrastructure. The combined entity is valued at $1.25 trillion, with SpaceX at around $1 trillion and xAI at $250 billion ahead of a potential mega-IPO later this year. Read more here →
Anthropic upgrades Claude to Opus 4.6 with 1M token context window → Claude Opus 4.6 now handles a 1 million token context window in beta, enabling much longer conversations, massive codebases, and complex multi-step agent tasks without losing track. The model shows big gains in planning, self-correction, agentic coding, and oder reasoning benchmarks. Read more here →
OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex as new coding SOTA → GPT-5.3-Codex hits 56.8% on SWE-Bench Pro, leads in agentic tasks, terminal use, OS interactions, and cybersecurity, while running 25% faster. It helped create itself by assisting the Codex team with debugging and deployment. Capabilities now span full software lifecycles and 44 professional workflows. Read more here →
OpenAI ships Codex app as multi-agent command center → The new desktop app lets users run several AI agents simultaneously, each with its own personality, long-term memory, custom skills (including direct Vercel deploys), and automated workflows. It starts on macOS with Windows support arriving soon. Read more here →
How Elon plans to launch a terawatt of GPUs into space:
The First End-to-End Autonomous Science System Cut Protein Costs 40%:
Kling 3.0 shares a Hollywood level AI movie trailer:
Impressive new vector bending feature by Figma:
So much stuff around Agents like OpenClaw/Clawdbot and coding with AI lately… this post sums up the current situation well:
Google crushes Q4 earnings with $400B annual revenue milestone → Alphabet reports 17% year-over-year growth in Search, 750M monthly active users for Gemini app, $70B Google Cloud run-rate up 48%, and 325M paid consumer subscriptions. Read more here →
ElevenLabs raises $500M at $11B valuation → Round led by Sequoia fuels voice agents for enterprises like Revolut; hit $330M ARR in 2025 with focus on empathy and dubbing. Read more here →
OpenAI speeds up GPT-5.2 by 40% → Inference optimizations cut latency for flagship models and Codex without altering weights. Read more here →
Kling AI unveils 3.0 model for multimodal creation → Boosts consistency, 15-second video control, multi-language audio, and 4K images; early access for Ultra subscribers. Read more here →
Google AI decodes endangered animal genomes in days → Partners sequence 150 species like zebras to aid conservation, slashing time and cost from billions and years. Read more here →
xAI ships Grok Imagine API for video-audio generation → Tops benchmarks in quality, speed, and instruction following; enables text-to-video, editing, and animations via SDKs. Read more here →
Anthropic integrates Claude into Apple's Xcode → SDK brings AI coding agent to developers building for iPhone, Mac, and Vision Pro platforms. Read more here →
