Very cool approach, they systematically tested old folk recopies it sounds like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou#Malaria

Are you genuinely having more fun now than with good games from 10years ago? Even 15years ago??

On the contrary, I'm still playing those games sometimes. At the moment it's Need for Speed: Most Wanted from 2005.

And recently indie games are growing in popularity, those are often quite simple visually, or go for a retro style. Megabonk for example, or Mewgenics or Slay the Spire 2.

For Masayoshi Son, the Boston Dynamics exit looks small beside SoftBank's current AI infrastructure campaign. The Wall Street Journal reported in April that SoftBank is forming Roze AI, a new venture meant to use artificial intelligence and robotics to build physical infrastructure, including data centers. Tom's Hardware, citing the Financial Times, reported that Son is aiming for a $100 billion valuation for Roze and a public listing as soon as this year. That puts the $325 million Boston Dynamics proceeds in perspective. SoftBank is not walking away from robotics as an idea. It is moving toward robots as part of the AI buildout, tied to data centers, energy, land and construction.

To me that sounds like it might really be their plan. But it also seems like a shit plan.

They are already on the hook for such an insane amount of datacenter debt, now they sink even more debt into robots under the theory those might help with the first batch of debt? The timeline will never work out. Until autonomous robots are helpful on chaotic construction sites, maybe in 5 years at the soonest, the LLM craze will have gone bust.

This is brilliant, assuming a deity who doesn't mind outsourcing of prayers, and grants buffs!

Nice!

By that logic he's not a trillionaire at all. They only sold 4% of the company for some 68 billion USD. A trillion dollars was never liquidated.

Edit: 4.3% and 75 billion are the correct numbers.

I would like to see his face and know his thoughts when he received the report that the readiness of an entire base was impacted this much by his changes.

Yeah sure I also think that he is a trillionare at the moment. I was just trying to show that it's absurd to say he has the money even if the stock price falls because he's already liquidated it.

Different idea, how about we get the cars out of the way of the children again, and also shun LLMs?

Ed's article where he released those numbers: https://www.wheresyoured.at/...

I just read about that site! The datacenter is in Tennessee: https://maps.app.goo.gl/shpHnsqrQkz8g4cWA. And the power generation is one mile south, over the state border in Mississippi: https://maps.app.goo.gl/wR1e4YkqrhVcUJTi6. They built the datacenter (Colossus-2) in the building of a previous warehouse and the power plant on the site of a previous gas plant. Apparently they rent the gas turbines, that's how they got them in place so quickly.

They are doing the same shitty trick as with Colossus-1 again, "those turbines are totally temporary and mobile, so we don't need permits for a year".

MDEQ staff confirmed xAI's 2875 Stanton Road power plant has 46 unpermitted turbines.

Which column is infrastructure under?

I don't think they have any of that. They rent computation capacity, which should partially be under cost of revenue and partially under R&D.

They entered into an agreement to buy Cursor, with an expected time for the merger in Q3. It's an all stock transaction, the number of shares that will depend on the SpaceX share price, to make up the 60 billion USD. Also they will pay in Class A shares (so the shitty ones with nearly no voting power)

a picture of a screwdriver on one and a picture of a wrench on the other

Something that screws and something that sounds like wench. I would think huh fun little riddle and then go in. The idea that it was supposed to be ungendered wouldn't even occur.

Kenya AA…

I kept waiting for Kenyian alcoholic's anonymous to feature in the story. I might be stupid

Is there a term for "lying by imprecise wording likely to be interpreted in a more serious way that what is actually the supportable message"? Because this headline is such a prime example.

When you read this it sounds like Grok fired missiles in some way. But the actually supportable message is that it was used in target selection, and its speed enabled the missile attack to reach such a scale in a short time frame.

Edit: Not that I think that's good or anything, don't get me wrong. I'm just railing against the shoddy journalism, despite the horrifying content.

It "was" not anything, as it is still upcoming.

They will take a volume weighted average closing price of the seven previous days:

At the effective time (the “Effective Time”) of the Merger, each share of Cursor’s common stock and each share of Cursor’s preferred stock outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time of the Merger will be automatically converted into the right to receive shares of the Company’s Class A common stock based on an implied equity value of Cursor of $60.0 billion and the price of the Company’s Class A common stock equal to the volume-weighted average closing price thereof over the seven consecutive trading days immediately preceding the closing of the Merger (the “Merger Consideration”).

They are also claiming to be training their own new model on SpaceX's infrastructure. I don't particularly trust them, but I'll give the citation anyway just for additional info.

Together with SpaceXAI, we're training a significantly larger model from scratch, using 10x more total compute. With Colossus 2's million H100-equivalents and our combined data and training techniques, we expect this to be a major leap in model capability.

I guess the earliest would be in July, because they also stated in the same document I linked:

The Company currently expects the Merger to close during the third quarter of 2026.

Original post, on archival website: https://xcancel.com/...

Also cool, this follow-up: