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SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's ravenous appetite for cash and compute (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's raveno...

1 February 2026

SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's ravenous appetite for cash and compute (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's ravenous appetite for cash and compute  —  Spiraling costs have prompted talk of a Tesla and SpaceX merger as the billionaire looks to use his empire to fund his ambitions.

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Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through a combination of debt and equity sales (Vincent Lee/Bloomberg)

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Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through a combination of debt and equity sales  —  Oracle Corp. said Sunday it plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through …

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Survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production vs. 44% for Anthropic, but Anthropic's gains are impressive (a16z)

a16z:
Survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production vs. 44% for Anthropic, but Anthropic's gains are impressive  —  Results from our third annual CIO Survey  —  The enterprise AI battleground is heating up, and we've got some fresh data on the state of play and who's winning.

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Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review:
Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live  —  Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz …

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India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers  —  As the global race to build AI infrastructure accelerates, India has offered foreign cloud providers zero taxes through 2047 …

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Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X "outlining concrete steps" to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)

Jin Yu Young / New York Times:
Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X “outlining concrete steps” to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok  —  Indonesia joined Malaysia and the Philippines in reversing its restrictions, weeks after it blocked the chatbot …

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Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone  —  Apple's blockbuster holiday quarter was impressive — but it shouldn't give cover to avoid an AI reckoning.

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India to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a rule change Apple lobbied for (Reuters)

Reuters:
India to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a rule change Apple lobbied for  —  India's government on Sunday handed a major win to Apple (AAPL.O) by allowing foreign companies to provide machines …

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Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B+ (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B+  —  From the street, the only indication I've found Physical Intelligence's headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that's …

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A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some say is like having an assistant to filter out unwanted calls, as some complain it makes them miss calls (Andrew Zucker/Wall Street Journal)

Andrew Zucker / Wall Street Journal:
A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some say is like having an assistant to filter out unwanted calls, as some complain it makes them miss calls  —  Thanks to a new iPhone feature, everyone now has an executive assistant in their pocket to filter unwanted calls

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