Musk says xAI, the thing that was valued at $250b in the SpaceX merger, was 'not built right' and needs to be rebuilt - Electrek

Musk orders xAI layoffs and restructuring - Futurism

Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval - Ars Technica

The guy leading Superintelligence at xAI - Mashable India

Judge says jury can hear Musk's $134b damages claim even though calculation sounds unpersuasive, can hear about Burning man, can't hear about ketamine use. - Bloomberg

How data centers are reshaping their communities. In Memphis, you smell it bfore you see it … "Finally, I saw it—a white-walled hangar, bigger than a dozen football fields, where Elon Musk intends to build a god." - The Atlantic

in this house we don’t do woke or guardrails, we do ketamine and more compute and we build AGI dammit

OpenAI is developing a ChatGPT feature that will access users' bank and credit-card transaction data to provide personal financial advice, enabling budgeting and investment recommendations while raising privacy, security and regulatory concerns. - The Sun

Sam Altman predicts AI will shift the labor-capital balance - Yahoo

1m-token context now standard for Sonnet and Opus - Claude

can handle your entire code base, or generational trauma

Within 3-6 months there will be a big crackdown on the max plan subscriptions as claws and Claude Code go mainstream.

Currently, you can use the OpenAI monthly subscriptions with OpenCode and OpenClaw, which is a penetration strategy, future rug-pull/bait-and-switch. Unsustainable with the tokens they consume.

Little blue f as in f-u: Meta plans 16,000 layoffs to fund $600 billion AI infrastructure push - Business Insider

Dylan Patel on Dwarkesh: ASML Supply Constraints Projected to Become Primary AI Compute Bottleneck by 2030 - Dwarkesh

US scraps proposal for AI chip permits. - Bloomberg

China's Moonshot AI hits $18 billion valuation in new funding round - Bloomberg

Apollo moonshots only cost $26b, although 10x in current dollars. Kimi is basically tied with GLM , but currently does structured outputs for agents a lot better. been using it for this newsletter recently. stuff that would cost $20 in Claude API is like 20¢ (I guess I could use claude subscription with claude -p > file), apologies in advance for any Xi Jinping thought that slips in.

Ran this code-quality improver loop for like an hour - GitHub

found lots of cruft, uncalled functions and stuff, hopefully didn’t introduce any bugs

China gives commercial go-ahead for an AI brain implant. - Scientific American

not mandatory for all citizens yet

Give your little agents a sandbox to play in: NanoClaw isolates AI agents in Docker sandboxes for macOS and Windows - The Register

Amazon launched Health AI in the US, an assistant that can access medical records, give symptom guidance and recommend Amazon Pharmacy items, and Amazon says protected health information will be anonymized and used to train future models. - TechRadar

they already know everything I read and everything I buy, why not give them my medical history, what could go wrong

A survey of 1,692 U.S. physicians found professional AI use rose to 81% in 2026, with medical research summarization and clinical documentation most common, and over 75% saying AI improves patient care. - American Medical Association

Brain rot as a service: Bookings analysis of 400+ studies across 50 countries finds AI risks overshadow benefits in children's education - Fortune

Republicans release AI deepfake of James Talarico as phony videos proliferate in midterm races - CNN

lying about Iran stealing a Tomahawk and bombing their own school wasn’t brazen enough

Your smart TV is snitching on you: The backlash against always-on surveillance and the panopticon - The Wall Street Journal

AI firms are flouting existing creative-rights laws while framing their conduct as inevitable progress. - Financial Times

Moravec lives: Despite advances in deep-learning controllers, actuators and VLA models, experts say humanoid robots like Boston Dynamics' Atlas still cannot reliably handle everyday tasks such as stairs and doorways, and researchers urge force-aware control, tactile sensing and compliant hands. - Quanta Magazine

computers crush humans at chess and math which are considered tasks for brainiacs, struggle at shuffling cards. terminator killer robots still foiled by revolving doors.

Instawork hires Californians to wear head- and wrist-mounted cameras and narrate 2–15 minute tasks, paying up to $80 for two hours, to produce first-person footage used by robotics firms (e.g., Scale AI's 100,000 hours) to train physical AI and humanoid robots. - California Post

learning how you can move so it can kill you later

Lucid demonstrated a pre-release in-vehicle AI assistant that uses third-party LLMs, offers context-aware features and three personalities, will roll out on Air and Gravity in late 2026, and is expected to be subscription-based, with services potentially accounting for about half company revenue. - Autonocion

upselling you while you are stuck in traffic

Survey says 70% disapprove of robotaxis - San Diego Union-Tribune

FlightStory paused AI-generated LinkedIn posts after tests found human-written posts—kept deliberately imperfect—yielded higher engagement, so Steven Bartlett's team will retain human editors for emotional pacing while continuing internal AI use. - Business Insider

Embark Studios says it re-recorded most Arc Raiders in-game voice lines with human actors post-launch, paying performers for booth time, while retaining AI for prototyping and lower-impact lines, CEO Patrick Söderlund said. - Kotaku

Digg relaunch pauses operations after AI bot spam overwhelms platform. - The Verge

Goldman has "AI winners" and "AI losers" indexes - The Economist

Bret Taylor on John Collison, says its hard to let go of coding. - Cheeky Pint

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