BitcoinWorld SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year SpaceX has ramped up purchases of Tesla Megapack, spending $295 million on the battery storage devices in the second quarter and $329 million so far this year, according to the company’s earnings report released on Tuesday. The purchase illustrates just how interconnected …
BitcoinWorld Wrinkles app uses AI to reveal the hidden stories behind the places around you Wrinkles, a new AI-powered app available on iOS and Android, uses your location to automatically surface stories about the places around you, turning your surroundings into an interactive audio tour guide. The app, founded by longtime friends David Stemler and …
BitcoinWorld Open-Weight AI Narrows the Capability Gap, But the Safety Divide Widens A new report from AI safety nonprofit SaferAI reveals that GLM-5.2, an open-weight model from China’s Z.ai, has nearly closed the capability gap with leading frontier systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, yet it exhibits a stark absence of safety …
BitcoinWorld Anthropic commits $10B to AI cloud startup Volta for six-year compute deal Anthropic has signed a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta to secure cloud compute capacity over a six-year period, as first reported by Bloomberg. The agreement, confirmed by anonymous sources familiar with the matter, will see Volta provide the Claude …
BitcoinWorld Palantir CEO Alex Karp Calls AI Industry ‘Marxist’ Despite Record Quarter Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday used the company’s quarterly shareholder letter to accuse leading AI labs of harboring ‘Marxist’ tendencies, warning that enterprises risk losing control of their data and intellectual property to these powerful model builders. The remarks came as Palantir …
BitcoinWorld AWS and Superblocks: Bringing Vibe Coding to the Enterprise Private Cloud AWS has signed a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Superblocks, a vibe-coding startup, to embed its development tool within the private clouds of AWS customers. The deal, announced this week, enables enterprises to offer vibe coding to business users while keeping all data …
BitcoinWorld DesignArena raises $7.9M to scale human feedback for AI models DesignArena, an AI-powered platform that uses crowdsourced human preferences to evaluate and improve AI-generated media, has raised $7.9 million in seed funding, the company announced Monday. The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Conviction, A*, Valkyrie, and others. The company, operating …
BitcoinWorld OpenAI’s First Luxury Influencer Trip Draws Backlash Over AI Ethics and Data Center Impact OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip, a luxury retreat in upstate New York dubbed “Summer Club,” has sparked significant online backlash as tensions over AI’s societal and environmental impact continue to escalate. The weekend event, which took place over the past …
BitcoinWorld Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic? Apple has finally delivered a functional, context-aware Siri AI in the consumer beta of iOS 27, launched in July, but the release arrives with a sense of anticlimax after years of delays and a rapidly advancing AI landscape. The assistant now handles natural conversations, …
BitcoinWorld Sam Altman’s ‘Deceleration’ Call: A Turning Point for AI Safety or Just Talk? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently suggested it may be time to “pace the rate of AI development” so society can “harden around some of these new capability levels,” sparking fresh debate about the future trajectory of artificial intelligence. His comments, made …
