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Musk and Altman’s AI rivalry reaches boiling point as IPO race heats up
As SpaceX and OpenAI race toward IPOs, a tiny circle of tech leaders tightens its grip on AI’s future Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. Let’s recap a whirlwind five days that may determine the future of AI. SpaceX reveals plan for $1.75tn stock market debut that could make Musk a trillionaire Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors The main takeaways from Elon Musk’s plans for $1.75tn SpaceX flotation Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’ Nvidia’s revenue blows past Wall Street expectations as AI boom accelerates Incoming Ofcom chair vows to take on ‘tech bros’ OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem Meta settles major social media addiction lawsuit with school district Tesla Cybertruck pulled from Texas lake after attem
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Musk and Altman’s AI rivalry reaches boiling point as IPO race heats up, As SpaceX and OpenAI race toward IPOs, a tiny circle of tech leaders tightens its grip on AI’s future Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. Let’s recap a whirlwind five days that may determine the future of AI. SpaceX reveals plan for $1.75tn stock market debut that could make Musk a trillionaire Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors The main takeaways from Elon Musk’s plans for $1.75tn SpaceX flotation Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’ Nvidia’s revenue blows past Wall Street expectations as AI boom accelerates Incoming Ofcom chair vows to take on ‘tech bros’ OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem Meta settles major social media addiction lawsuit with school district Tesla Cybertruck pulled from Texas lake after attem
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