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It feels like short video clips from podcasts, songs, and movies are suddenly everywhere on social media right now, and that’s not an accident. Brands have realized that the format offers a highly cost-effective way to market products. Brands and marketing agencies often outsource the process of finding the most compelling 30 to 90 seconds of a video, known as “clipping,” to independent creators. But managing these gig workers and determining exactly where to distribute those videos presents a massive operational challenge. Clouted, a startup that went through a16z’s Speedrun accelerator in 2024, is building the infrastructure to automatically handle…

Elon Musk’s xAI lost $6.4 billion from operations on just $3.2 billion in revenue in 2025, according to SpaceX’s IPO filings. And the losses are poised to grow. SpaceX’s filing reveals plans to scale Grok to “multiple trillions of parameters,” a dramatic boost that will likely require significant additional compute spend. Elon Musk merged his AI company xAI — which had previously acquired his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) — with his rocket and satellite company SpaceX in February before announcing that he’d take the combined company public this year. While AI competitors OpenAI and Anthropic are also eyeing…

Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, reporting financial results for the quarter ending April 26. Over those three months, the company brought in $81.6 billion in revenue (up 20% from the previous quarter) and a record $75.2 billion in data center revenue. On the strength of that revenue, the company is authorizing $80 billion in share repurchases. “Our Blackwell architecture is everywhere, adopted and deployed by every major hyperscaler, every cloud provider, and every major model maker,” said Nvidia CFO Colette Kress. Notably, Nvidia did project a slowdown in revenue growth, forecasting $91 billion in…

Elon Musk’s xAI has gotten itself in hot water over its use of polluting generators at its data center near Memphis, Tennessee. Now it wants to buy even more of them. In SpaceX’s IPO filing, released Wednesday, the company said its xAI division will buy another $2.8 billion worth of turbines for its AI infrastructure over the next three years. One deal, worth $2 billion, is specifically for “mobile gas turbines,” the kind that it’s currently being sued over.  The NAACP filed a lawsuit against xAI last month for operating dozens of unregulated gas turbines that worsen the air quality…

One of SpaceX’s revenue streams looks very solid: Anthropic has agreed to pay Elon Musk’s company $1.25 billion a month through May 2029. Loading audio narration… The AI lab announced earlier this month that it would buy compute capacity from SpaceX’s Colossus data center in Tennessee to run tools for its growing customer base. SpaceX’s S-1, which came out Wednesday and outlines its plans for an initial public offering, says Anthropic will also get compute from its newer Colossus 2 data center.Anthropic is paying a discounted rate for May and June, the document says, and either side can terminate the agreement with…

Earlier this month, Anthropic surprised the AI world with a deal to buy 300 megawatts’ worth of compute — securing the entire output of the Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee.  Turns out, compute at that scale isn’t cheap. Anthropic will be paying xAI $1.25 billion per month through May 2029, with a discounted rate for the first two months as xAI completes its ramp-up. All told, the deal could bring xAI over $40 billion in revenue. Details of the transaction emerged from SpaceX’s S-1 filing with the SEC. The deal, the company said, “allows us to monetize unused…

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds familiar to you, it’s because this isn’t the first time OpenAI has made such a bold claim. Seven months ago, the AI giant’s former VP Kevin Weil posted on X: “GPT-5 found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems and made progress on 11 others.” It turns out, GPT-5 didn’t actually solve those problems; it just found solutions that already existed in the literature.  Taunts from rivals like…

Industry insiders say the next big thing in AI is “proactive” systems: agents that can anticipate a user’s needs — and fulfill them — before the user even knows what those needs are. One startup that’s looking to make headway in this area is IrisGo. The company, which closed a $2.8 million seed round led by Andrew Ng’s AI Fund earlier this year, is building a desktop companion for PCs that can learn about a user’s daily workflows and then automate them with limited to no human prompting. IrisGo was co-founded by Jeffrey Lai, a former Apple engineer who helped to…

In an age where extreme measures such as extended juice cleanses and multi-day fasts are often relied upon for short term weight loss, the traditional Japanese practice of hara hachi bu, which translates to “eat until you are eight parts full,” is a more sustainable, long term way of dropping fat that allows you to still eat the foods that you love. Sound good? Here’s what you need to know. What Is Hara Hachi Bu and Why Is It Trending? You’ve no doubt heard the phrase “everything in moderation.” Hara hachi bu is very much rooted in the same concept.…

A city at the heart of an AI data center boom in southern New Jersey has voted to ban them. Loading audio narration… That means one of the largest data center proposals in the state’s history is unlikely to happen.The Millville Board of Commissioners made the decision during a meeting on Tuesday evening, writing in an ordinance that “data centers are incompatible with the City’s land use planning objectives, infrastructure capacity, and community character.””The Commissioners therefore determine that the construction and operation of data centers within the City would be detrimental to the public health, safety, and welfare,” the commissioners…