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On Tuesday night, Elon Musk gathered the employees of xAI for an all-hands meeting. Evidently, he wanted to talk about the future of his AI company, and specifically, how it relates to the moon. According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that will build AI satellites and fling them into space via a giant catapult. “You have to go to the moon,” he said, per the Times. The move, he explained, will help xAI harness more computing power than…

Prediction markets are hot — and about to get even hotter, says Robinhood’s CEO.On Tuesday’s earnings call, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev called prediction markets the fastest-growing business in the fintech company’s history.”We’re just at the beginning of a prediction market supercycle that could drive trillions in annual volume over time,” he said. “This year is going to be a big year. Olympics are going on right now, World Cup coming in the summer.”Supercycles refer to sustained, long-term periods of expansion spurred by high demand for a product. Companies like Kalshi, Polymarket, and, recently, Robinhood let users bet on the outcomes…

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Thousands of students left Senegal’s top public university Tuesday after authorities closed campus housing following a student’s death during protests over unpaid financial aid.Abdoulaye Ba, a second-year medical student, died during protests at Cheikh Anta Diop University in the capital Dakar, authorities said. Burned cars and broken barricades still littered the university grounds on Tuesday following clashes a day before between the police and students. A video posted on social media Monday night shows flames and smoke coming from a four-story student housing building as students try to flee, some jumping from windows.Ba died in a…

Ryan Beiermeister, who served as OpenAI’s vice president of product policy, was fired in January after a male colleague accused her of sex discrimination, the Wall Street Journal has reported. “The allegation that I discriminated against anyone is absolutely false,” Beiermeister told the Journal. TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for comment and also contacted an email that appears to be associated with Beiermeister; neither had responded at the time of publication. Per the Journal’s report, Beiermeister’s termination came after she expressed criticism of a planned ChatGPT feature dubbed “adult mode.” The new mode would introduce erotica into the chatbot user…

Monday night, xAI co-founder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu announced he was leaving the company. “It’s time for my next chapter,” Wu wrote in a late-night post on X. “It is an era with full possibilities: a small team armed with AIs can move mountains and redefine what’s possible.” Less than a day later, on Tuesday afternoon, xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba, who reported directly to Musk, said that he, too, is bouncing, posting a gracious note on X on his way out. “Enormous thanks to @elonmusk for bringing us together on this incredible journey. So proud of what the xAI team has…

Monday night, xAI co-founder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu announced he was leaving the company. “It’s time for my next chapter,” Wu wrote in a late-night post on X. “It is an era with full possibilities: a small team armed with AIs can move mountains and redefine what’s possible.” Less than a day later, on Tuesday afternoon, xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba, who reported directly to Musk, said that he, too, is bouncing, posting a gracious note on X on his way out. “Enormous thanks to @elonmusk for bringing us together on this incredible journey. So proud of what the xAI team has…

The Food and Drug Administration has refused to review Moderna’s application for its seasonal flu vaccine, the company announced Tuesday, Feb. 10, marking the latest setback for the development of mRNA-based vaccines.In a news release, Moderna said it received a “refusal-to-file” letter from the FDA that took issue with the company’s decision to compare its new vaccine to a licensed standard-dose seasonal influenza shot. The company noted that the FDA did not identify any specific safety or efficacy concerns with the vaccine.The letter from Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, specifically cited that the…

Measles cases are on the rise across California, according to the state’s Department of Public Health, which is urging residents to check their immunization status and get vaccinated against the disease.On Feb. 9, the department announced that 17 measles cases had been reported throughout California, with the state’s first outbreak since 2020 occurring in Shasta County. As of Tuesday, Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency officials had reported eight cases and identified six locations where people may have been exposed to the disease.”All of these individuals were either unvaccinated or had an unknown history of vaccination,” the California Department…

XAI cofounder Jimmy Ba said he left Elon Musk’s startup on Tuesday.”It’s time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture. 2026 is gonna be insane and likely the busiest (and most consequential) year for the future of our species,” Ba wrote on X.Ba reported directly to Musk. He ran a large portion of the company until late last year, when several of his responsibilities were split between two other cofounders, Tony Wu and Guodong Zhang, people with knowledge of the move told Business Insider.Ba also previously ran the team that oversaw more than a thousand AI tutors, according to…

Lyft is down.The ride-hailing company’s stock dipped 16% in after-hours trading on Tuesday after it reported fourth-quarter earnings and a 2026 outlook that fell short of expectations.Lyft’s revenue rose 3% to $1.59 billion during the quarter, below the $1.76 billion that analysts expected. Its guidance for the first quarter also missed the mark as it said it expects adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, a measure of profit, of between $120 million and $140 million.The company also reported a surprise operating loss of $188.4 million for 2025.Lyft saw an “unexpected” increase in competitors’ price promotions that weighed on…