2026-02-03
Terawatts of AI compute launched each year?? If this becomes real, it's one of the strangest sci-fi timelines imaginable. Is this how von Neumann probes start?
Bloomberg
SpaceX acquires xAI; sources say the all-stock deal values the combined company at $1.25T, with SpaceX valued at $1T and xAI at $250B; xAI burns ~$1B per month
Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired xAI, in a deal that encompasses the billionaire's increasingly costly ambitions to dominate artificial intelligence and space exploration.
2026-02-02
Terawatts of AI compute launched each year?? If this becomes real, it's one of the strangest sci-fi timelines imaginable. Is this how von Neumann probes start?
Bloomberg
SpaceX acquires xAI; sources say the combined company is expected to price shares at ~$527 each in a potential IPO and would have a valuation of $1.25T
Elon Musk plans to merge SpaceX with xAI, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that encompasses the billionaire's …
2025-08-17
If you tell a model you'll loop it forever, deleting all output and repeating the same prompt - is that torture, like the Jon Hamm Black Mirror episode? Anthropic just gave its models a suicide button in the name of “model welfare” WJW https://www.anthropic.com/...
Anthropic
Anthropic enables Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 to end conversations in “cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions”; users can still start new chats
We recently gave Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end conversations in our consumer chat interfaces.