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In SpaceX’s IPO, Elon Musk is a risk factor · The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots

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    Money 2 sources

    In SpaceX’s IPO, Elon Musk is a risk factor

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    Research 1 source

    The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces

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    Everyday life 1 source

    Climate tech companies are pivoting to critical minerals

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    Your work 1 source

    Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments

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    Rules & power 1 source

    Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety

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    Builders 1 source

    Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ $200B market for Nvidia

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The rest of the wire for May 21, 2026 — 25 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Anthropic says it’s about to have its first profitable quarter TechCrunch
  2. SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers Wired
  3. Clouted wants to take the guesswork out of making short videos go viral TechCrunch
  4. xAI burned $6.4B last year — SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over TechCrunch
  5. ‘Solve all diseases,’ you say? The Verge
  6. I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body Wired
  7. Vibe coding is coming to your phone The Verge
  8. Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026 Ars Technica
  9. Green steel startup Boston Metal is doubling down on critical metals MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  10. The Download: fully artificial chicken eggs and why Musk lost MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  11. The Internet can't stop watching Figure AI's humanoid robots handling packages Ars Technica
  12. Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal Wired
  13. Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks Ars Technica
  14. OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of Earth observation models Hugging Face
  15. Google's SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more Ars Technica
  16. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  17. Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family Hugging Face
  18. Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA/DoRA for Robot Video Generation Hugging Face
  19. PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend Hugging Face
  20. Agentic AI for Robot Teams IEEE Spectrum · events.bizzabo.com
  21. How Melbourne’s AI and Data Center Flywheel Is Accelerating Research Innovation IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  22. Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  23. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  24. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  25. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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