21 May 2026
SpaceX hires engineers and physicists for SpaceXAI initiative
SpaceX is assembling a dedicated AI software engineering group, and the job requirements read like an open invitation to anyone who’s good at math. The company is actively recruiting engineers and physicists for what’s being called SpaceXAI, with one notable caveat: prior AI experience is not required. Neither is aerospace experience, for that matter. SpaceX is casting a wide net across computer…
@crypto_briefing
2026
21 May 2026
Microsoft lost its way in the AI race. Can Copilot get it back on course?
Redmond, Washington, mid-January 2026. The weather, cold and gray. It’s the kind of morning the snooze button was built for. But the team of engineers camped out in Building 92 on Microsoft’s sprawling campus got here early. They are in a race. And they are behind.
Jeremy Kahn
2026
21 May 2026
Sheryl Sandberg tells Gen Z the 10-year career plan is dead as AI wipes out entry-level jobs
For generations, graduates have been advised to map out their careers: Pick a job, plot the promotions, and know exactly where you want to be in 10 years. But ex-Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg thinks that advice is dangerously outdated. “Don’t script your career when the future is uncertain,” the former chief operating officer of Meta just told graduates at Brandeis University. “You don’t need a…
Orianna Rosa Royle
2026
21 May 2026
Singtel logs higher annual profit, flags risks from Iran war
Penang police bust vape drug syndicate, seize RM88,725 worth of drugs 21 May 2026, 1:45pm This is generated by AI, we welcome feedback. Police crippled a drug...
News Desk
2026
20 May 2026
SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers
Elon Musk’s SpaceX committed to spending over $2.8 billion in recent months to buy gas turbines to power data centers for its artificial intelligence unit, the company revealed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.
@wired, Paresh Dave
2026
20 May 2026
SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
Anthropic has agreed to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through May of 2029 for access to cloud computing infrastructure, a long-awaited US regulatory filing revealed on Wednesday. In other words, Anthropic will be sending a rival artificial intelligence lab roughly $15 billion a year, an extraordinary sum that demonstrates how access to compute has become one of the defining bottlenecks in…
@wired
2026
20 May 2026
SpaceX confirms plans for an IPO that could make Elon Musk a trillionaire
SpaceX confirmed plans to sell shares of its stock to the public for the first time, according to a securities filing Wednesday outlining the company’s fundamentals. The initial public offering (IPO) could make CEO Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, a milestone that underscores the extraordinary wealth the tech industry has amassed over three decades.
David Ingram, NBCNews
2026
20 May 2026
The 5 Google I/O Announcements That Actually Matter
AI was front and center in nearly every announcement at Google I/O, but some features are more useful than others.
@CNET, Joe Supan
2026
20 May 2026
Meta begins to lay off 10% of its workforce as AI investments surge
Notices started going out to employees on Wednesday morning as Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of its workforce, while pouring billions of dollars into AI.
KOMO News Staff, The National News Desk
2026
