Formula E reveals first calendar for GEN4 with lots of real race tracks
… On the first day, the cars will race for 30 minutes with high downforce bodywork. This is a true sprint race, where the aim is just to go flat-out. …
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Ford hopes this Hypercar will be its next Le Mans winner
… The company returned to top-level endurance racing in 1982 with the C100 during the early days of the Group C regulations, but the car was uncompetitive and unreliable, and the program soon ended. …
SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion
… This is a marriage between two companies that have arguably been falling behind in the AI race. xAI-turned-SpaceX’s Grok chatbot has been riddled with controversies, but its lack of a competitive coding model or harness has also been a strategic weakness. …
Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack
… China races to match Mythos’ capabilities Anthropic’s letter positions the AI firm as intent on helping the US hold the line so that China cannot surpass US capabilities. …
Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
… Anthropic may also hope this could help its frontier models get some extra competitive edge as software developers and other users begin exploring running cheaper, smaller, or open-weight models on their own hardware or on edge devices. …
As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
… Given that spending spree and Grok’s lagging position in the AI race, the expected SpaceX IPO would provide a critical cash infusion to the company. It remains to be seen whether enough investors embrace SpaceX’s vision for the future to see it through. …
OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale
…More generally, OpenAI and its competitors are interested in custom silicon because it’s another way to potentially squeeze out more capacity amid a global compute crunch, as competing companies scramble for…
Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending
… Reports have suggested that Google is not seeing the kind of gains it needs to remain competitive with the likes of GPT 5.6 and Claude Mythos. …
Rocket Report: New launch rule may limit environmental regulations, Falcon 9 to hit Moon
… Falcon 9 steps up again … The awards were made under the competitive National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 program. “The rapid acquisition capabilities provided by our NSSL Phase 3 dual-lane approach allows us the flexibility to deliver satellites for our warfighters in an increasingly effi… …
China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it
… On the one hand, they’re competing with SpaceX, but we know that because of the way China has organized its military, its space capabilities, all under military control, that there is significant utility that their armed forces will receive from this race.” Stephen Clark is a space reporter at Ars … …