26 Jun 2026
Why SpaceX is the McDonald’s of AI
Have you seen “ The Founder ”? It’s the story of McDonald’s and how Ray Kroc (played by Michael Keaton) transformed the company from a local burger joint to a global landlord.
25 Jun 2026
Anthropic Urges Congress to Crack Down on AI Distillation By Chinese Rivals
Anthropic is calling on Congress to strengthen protections against AI model distillation after claiming that Alibaba-affiliated operators carried out the largest known effort to extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot.
24 Jun 2026
SpaceX’s IPO: Enriching the Few, Harming the Many
On June 12, Elon Musk’s company SpaceX went public. The company was the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history, hitting a public market valuation of $2.1 trillion and becoming the sixth-most valuable US firm overnight, later rising even higher to fourth.
23 Jun 2026
SpaceX raises $25 billion in debt sale less than two weeks after IPO
SpaceX employees go to work at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne on the day of their company's IPO, in Hawthorne, California, June 12, 2026. Mike Blake | Reuters Less than two weeks after its record IPO, SpaceX has raised $25 billion in a debt sale, CNBC has confirmed.
22 Jun 2026
Forget Mars, SpaceX Is Becoming a Data Center Company
For all its talk of lunar colonies, missions to Mars, and data centers orbiting Earth, SpaceX’s real focus has been much more grounded.
20 Jun 2026
Elon Musk Says Tesla Owners Will Soon Be Able To Talk To Grok Like A Chauffeur
Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk has teased an update for the Full Self-Driving (FSD) system that would let owners converse with xAI 's Grok like they would with a chauffeur.
19 Jun 2026
Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
Life moves pretty fast. It is Monday lunchtime when Jennifer Siebel Newsom drops into the Guardian’s office in Washington, just a couple of blocks from the White House, for an interview to promote her new film.
17 Jun 2026
Welcome to June 17, 2026
The Singularity has gone open source, and it speaks Mandarin. Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 packs 744 billion parameters (40B active) into MIT-licensed, 1M-context weights built for agentic coding, and Artificial Analysis crowned it the leading open model at 51, past MiniMax-M3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro at 44.
17 Jun 2026
'A neoliberal nightmare': my ride on the Vegas Loop – Elon Musk's answer to traffic jams
It’s another blindingly bright day in Las Vegas but I’m 30ft underground and strapped in for a rocket ride to the future. Actually, it’s a Tesla ride to the future, and not a self-driving one. And it’s pretty slow – my driver tells me the speed limit down here is 30mph. It’s also pretty short: the journey is over in a matter of minutes.
