SpaceX And xAI Power A $1.77 Trillion Bet On AI Infrastructure

SpaceX is targeting a $1.77 trillion IPO on June 12, the largest in history. The real bet is on who owns the AI economy’s rails, from Starlink to its xAI merger.

How AI Is Driving Wearable Tech As The Future Of Personal Computing

Smartphones are the go-to devices for personal computing today. However, that could soon change with AI and wearable devices such as smart and augmented reality glasses.

Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says

Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable’s footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude.

AI Agents Put Creative Control Back On The Table

The use of AI in the creative industry is becoming less a fight over AI taking over creative roles and more over wrangling AI to enable repeatable and predictable outputs that realize creative individual taste.

Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

If Alphabet’s record-breaking, $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see that investors are ready to chow.

Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated “stories” culled from the personal data in your Google account.

Amazon’s search bar now generates AI product images while you type your query

Amazon has updated its search bar to generate AI product images in real time as you type, while also adding a Shop by Style feature with shoppable AI outfit collages.

7 Ways New Engineers Can Flourish in the Age of AI
7 Ways New Engineers Can Flourish in the Age of AI

New graduates’ careers are unfolding in an era when AI is not optional. The most successful engineers treat artificial intelligence as leverage, not competition.Here are seven tips to help keep young professionals in demand no matter how quickly the f…

As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise
As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise

This week we’ve got tandem hands-ons with Google’s new Gemini AI agent – Spark – from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. Their takeaways are similar: It’s so effective that it’s scary. Spark knew that David’s dog is named Frida and knew the first name of Jay’s wife, even though neither of them explicitly […]

Instagram is alerting users who were targeted by hackers during AI chatbot attacks

Hackers appeared to take over victims’ accounts even after Meta said it fixed its AI-powered support chatbot, which granted hackers access to victims’ accounts.