08 Jul 2026
The Future Is Always Listening: OpenAI Says Its New Voice Assistant Is 'One Step Closer to a Truly Accessible AGI’
OpenAI just dropped a new AI model that’s designed to sound like an actual, human conversation partner—and the company says it marks a step closer to AGI.
@_webbwright, Webb Wright
2026
07 Jul 2026
Bitcoin Miner’s Pivot to Data Centers Pays Off as Anthropic Signs 20-Year Lease
Much of the bitcoin mining industry has expanded into AI infrastructure over the past couple of years, and now one miner’s AI pivot is paying off massively via an Anthropic deal involving datacenter capacity coming online by 2028 and potentially generating $19 billion in revenue.
@kyletorpey, Kyle Torpey
2026
07 Jul 2026
Anthropic Releases Paper About Claude’s Mental ‘Workspace.’ Don’t Read It Uncritically
A new research paper from Anthropic hypothesizes that there’s an internal “workspace” within the operations of the Claude LLM. The significance the paper is groping toward is that this so-called “J-Space” inside Claude is sort of like one leading idea about human consciousness—global workspace theory.
@Gizmodo, Mike Pearl
2026
06 Jul 2026
xAI Is Dead. Long Live SpaceXAI
In an effort to save tech bloggers from a lot of annoying typing, xAI has finally been rebranded: We are now @SpaceXAI . pic.twitter.com/ema66xDWC9 — SpaceXAI (@SpaceXAI) July 6, 2026
@Gizmodo, Mike Pearl
2026
26 Jun 2026
SpaceX Wants Its Own Gas Pipeline to Feed All the Starships
Elon Musk’s rocket company is taking one step further in controlling nearly every stage of its supply chain, building its own natural gas infrastructure to fuel upcoming Starship launches.
@Gizmodo, Passant Rabie
2026
24 Jun 2026
Betting on People’s Worst Instincts Has Kind of Always Been Mark Zuckerberg’s Thing
In an effort to get in on the massive amount of cash changing hands on Kalshi and Polymarket, Meta is allegedly working on a predictions market app, according to a report from the New York Times. The app, dubbed “Arena,” would allow users across the company’s network of social apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—to place bets on anything and everything.
@ajdell, AJ Dellinger
2026
24 Jun 2026
Researchers Identify 3 Key Drivers Behind ‘AI Psychosis’
In just a year, AI psychosis became a term the internet is all too familiar with. Though some have contested the science behind it, various reports of psychotic breaks and, at times, fatal delusions linked to intense reliance on AI have flooded timelines. Some scientists now have a hypothesis on how chatbots could be directly responsible for these incidents.
@ecedyildirim1, Ece Yildirim
2026
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.
@_webbwright, Webb Wright
2026
12 Jun 2026
Here’s How Much More Money Elon Musk Has Than Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, and You
U.S. oligarch Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire on Friday after his company SpaceX went public in the largest initial public offering ever.
Matt Novak
2026
