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Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to discuss a possible merger, Elon Musk said during the latter's third quarter earnings call Tuesday. Musk, who serves as CEO of both companies, said the special committees have not reached agreement on the terms of any transaction - and that there's no guarantee that they will. That said, he called the possibility of a Tesla-SpaceX merger a "good idea." "I think it.

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Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. Anthropic is having trouble securing enough cloud capacity from AWS, Google, and Microsoft, which increasingly see the Claude-maker as a competitor rather.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company would attempt to catch Starship and its booster next month, with the goal of recovering the entire orbital launch system for the first time. If successful, Musk said, the attempt would mark the first time in history an orbital launch vehicle has been fully recovered. "This is a profound technology milestone in the history of civilization consciousness," he said during the company's third.

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SpaceX hit profitably in the third-quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. SpaceX’s data centers and Grok agents have been more profitable than investors expected in second quarter of the year, as the company leaves its roots as a space company behind to focus on artificial intelligence, which.

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OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. OpenAI on Tuesday acquired a four-year-old AI biotech software startup called Orchestra Bio, the.

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Snap has a new brand ambassador for its Specs AR glasses: Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. The company has brought on Downey as Specs' "Chief Customer Experience Officer" and has published several videos featuring Downey showcasing the capabilities of the new glasses, including as a tool to get help with a putt, practice art, and watch a private video of an MMA match in bed. In one video, he.