In this episode, we explore the turmoil inside Elon Musk’s xAI, where the departure of co-founders Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba marks five major exits in under a year—just as the company merges with SpaceX. We dig into the details of Musk’s ambitious plan to put data centers in space, examining the economic and physical challenges of launching servers into orbit.
We also unpack a new Harvard Business Review study that contradicts the productivity narrative, finding that AI tools are actually expanding employee workloads and blurring the lines between work and rest.
Plus, we cover the week’s biggest headlines:
• Runway’s $315M raise to build "world models."
• OpenAI’s decision to delay its first hardware device until 2027 and retire a popular model due to safety concerns.
• Claude Opus 4.6 arriving with new coding capabilities and "Insights."
• Nothing’s new AI-powered builder that lets you generate personalized apps with a simple prompt.
