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Tesla caps staff AI spending at $200 per week after engineers ramped up token consumption. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tesla-caps-employee-ai-spend-200-per-week-adoption-push?offer=rtsu-engagement-25%2Crtsu-featured-articles-pro&utm_campaign=RTSU%3A+Tesla+Caps+Emp&utm_content=14026&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=9719&rc=gzsl71

The loss was sort of a technicality: The jury found that Musk didn’t file the claim in time. That means the jurors didn’t make a decision on the core of his arguments, as Musk pointed out, adding that he would appeal. So this battle may not be over. Why is he wasting his time on this suit, even as he reaches for the stars with SpaceX and tries to remake Tesla into a robotaxi and robot company? Well, it probably doesn’t take much of his own time—aside from appearing in court or for depositions every now and then. Musk has the money to pay the lawyers and the desire for revenge, so he probably thinks, “Why not?” Also, some might say the less involved he is in SpaceX, the better, given his very capable No. 2, Gwynne Shotwell, and his not always helpful management style. For OpenAI, this decision is good news. Even with the possibility of an appeal, the uncertainty of the case has now largely been removed. Of course, OpenAI is beset by so many dramas—lately it has been fighting with Apple—that the real impact of this win may not last long. Sam Altman and friends should savor the victory while they can. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2056474896641782077?s=20&utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-17144&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

All the talk of “SaaSpocalypses” starts with a core assumption: very soon, “vibecoding” will be able to replace the kinds of sophisticated software solutions on which enterprises once invested millions each year. But is any of this actually TRUE? Consulting firm Bain & Company is reportedly trying to find out. Financial Times reports that B&C are attempting to vibecode their own versions of products from hundreds of potential acquisition targets, to determine both the companies’ long-term value and how their offerings might evolve in the future. The project started with a small team of software engineers in 2023 but has now reportedly exploded, and involves a large number of the firm’s consultants and associates. According to FT, this has already moved out of the theoretical space, and Bain’s vibecoded alternatives are influencing acquisition and investment decisions in real-time. One private equity exec told the paper that they’ve slowed their deal making in light of Bain’s results, and are applying additional scrutiny to any and all SaaS ventures, while an other investor said that they dropped out of the bidding for an analytics company after seeing Bain’s vibecoded mock-up. But not everyone is convinced that the strategy is entirely sound. On X, Chamath Palihapitiya suggested that vibecoding a mock-up of a powerful piece of software doesn’t necessarily give Bain or its clients a deeper or more nuanced understanding of the underlying business or technology. He asks “Do you think vibing the UI of Google search would even scratch the surface of helping you understand the complexity that sits behind it?” Ultimately, Chamath dismisses the initiative as “busy work,” and another example of the already-outdated push for AI “tokenmaxxing.” https://www.ft.com/content/e5bac4d1-b1f8-43a4-bd54-b182d5357af0?_bhlid=1136a3aaa633ea45fdaa15eab9f79128d5ff2ad8

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After years of relying on powerful third-party AI models from labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, the tech giant will try to keep a lid on compute costs by swapping in some of its homegrown options. Across myriad applications, from Excel spreadsheets to Outlook emails, Microsoft will power up its internally-built theoretically capable enough MAI models for straight-forward, everyday tasks. As “pretty good but cheap” options continue edging out “the MOST massive and powerful” models across enterprises, Bloomberg reports that this is part of an overall effort by Microsoft’s AI model lead Mustafa Suleyman to cut costs by developing alternatives to costly options like Opus 4.8. Not just across its consumer apps but eventually also for the workplace and coding assistant, Copilot. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-07/microsoft-replaces-openai-anthropic-with-own-ai-in-some-apps?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MzQ0MjM2NSwiZXhwIjoxNzg0MDQ3MTY1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSEkzR1FLSkg2VjcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEQ0FGMjNFM0YyMkE0Qzk5OTM0RUMyRDEwNkM0ODc0NyJ9.o3G1Rc0_tcYioF4Awm8U44FDwiFRIsbSW630u65OvbQ&_bhlid=58edf6a4e47ccf2ff1a7124d436b48bd2022b93b&leadSource=uverify%20wall

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney wrote, “Thanks for keeping us safe Claude Fable 5!” posting the following conversation: #Artificial Intelligence #DANK MEMES

Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi, who emceed the keynote, went out of his way to take a shot at other tech companies’ aggressive approach to AI. “Some appear to be racing forward, seemingly pursuing AI for the sake of AI, without clear regard for the people—all of us—that it’s ultimately meant to serve,” he said (who could he be talking about?). That’s not Apple’s way, he added. Federighi was long a skeptic of AI. While he has supposedly found religion regarding the technology, his continuing caution is somewhat refreshing. Aside from the unproven nature of many new AI services, there’s plenty of evidence that ordinary people are wary about its benefits and risks. Other big tech firms, such as Google and Amazon, have moved carefully to overhaul their core services for AI, presumably not wanting to upset their hundreds of millions of users with too-rapid shifts. Still, for all of Apple’s caution, it’s following a familiar playbook—ensuring that those customers who do want AI will have to spend money to get it. The new Siri AI features will require the iPhone 15 Pro or later, so that shuts out anyone with a phone more than three years old. More egregiously, buried in the footnotes of one of Apple’s press releases was the revelation that the iPhone 17 Pro or iPhone Air or later will be needed for “Apple’s most powerful on-device model and the features it enables, like expressive voices and more advanced dictation.” (Hat tip to 9to5Mac for pointing that out.) Some AI features also will have “daily usage limits” that will require iCloud subscriptions to get past. You might think Apple is banking on these features to drive an upgrade cycle. But given how tentatively it is dipping its toes into the AI waters, it’s doubtful the company expects AI to do anything for it in the near term. #Gadgets https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/08/ios-27s-most-powerful-on-device-ai-requires-iphone-17-pro-iphone-air/?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-17254&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

How is running an AI firm like running for Congress? In either case, you have to spend half your time raising money! Take Google’s surprising announcement on Monday afternoon that it plans to raise a total of $80 billion in equity “as part of its plan to fund investments” in #Artificial Intelligence . That’s in addition to the $85 billion it has already borrowed in the past year. #The Most Important Thing Repeatedly raising tens of billions is par for the course for AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic, whose businesses don’t turn a profit. But Google’s businesses printed $164.7 billion in cash before capital expenditures in 2025, making it one of the biggest cash machines in the world. The fact that Google has to find innovative ways to raise money is a reminder that AI development is as much a financing challenge as it is a technological one. Google, for instance, has said its capital expenditures will be between $180 billion and $190 billion this year and significantly higher next year. While Google has plenty of borrowing capacity, the company presumably doesn’t want to push things too far with the debt markets. Hence it is both raising equity and taking steps to preserve cash. One example of that cash preservation effort was the joint venture it announced last month with Blackstone, in which the private equity firm will put in $5 billion to build new data center capacity using Google’s AI chips. Another example is an element of the equity fundraisings unveiled on Monday: $30 billion of the funds will go to meet tax obligations incurred when employees’ equity awards vest. Google has always paid those taxes for employees, but in the past it has paid out of existing cash. Now it will sell stock to raise the cash. Shares of Google fell 2% in after-hours trading on news of the fundraising. That’s not surprising given that $10 billion of the funds are coming from a private placement of stock to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway at a discount to Alphabet’s current price. Still, Google stock is up 20% this year, so investors can afford the hit. It might be harder for another big tech firm like Microsoft, whose stock is down for the year, to follow suit with a big equity-raising. https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/alphabet-announces-80b-capital-raise-including-10b-berkshire-hathaway-investment/

China’s 618 shopping festival began in 2004 as a sales event for JD. It has since expanded into a month-long industry-wide promotion and is now China’s second-largest annual commerce event after Double 11. #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 This year, a second contest is running in parallel to the GMV race. Four major platforms have deployed AI shopping assistants in the months leading into 618, each betting that the next structural shift in Chinese e-commerce runs through conversational AI. The timing reflects two converging forces. Foundation model capability crossed a practical threshold in late 2025. China’s Interim Measures for Generative AI Services, effective August 2023, provided enough regulatory clarity for platforms to commit to agentic transaction features at scale. https://www.ciw.news/p/chinas-618-ai-shopping-war?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4095562&post_id=200448246&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=fu3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Bloomberg reports the company’s long-awaited debut hardware device will be a “mobile, screen-free smart speaker,” designed to function as an “AI companion” that chats with users and controls other smart systems around the home. (It sounds a bit like the next generation upgrade for Amazon’s Alexa devices?) The yet-to-be-named device interacts with smart appliances, plays media, answers questions, and consults ChatGPT on your behalf, as needed. OpenAI suggests that, as your device gains a deeper understanding of its owner and their needs, it will become increasingly personalized and proactive, and will even develop a distinct “personality.” Of course, OpenAI is now involved in a very public legal dispute with Apple over these self-same hardware plans. Cupertino claims that OpenAI has been poaching employees and encouraging them to share confidential information and trade secrets, giving their nascent consumer electronics division an early boost. #Gadgets https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-14/openai-s-first-device-will-be-moveable-screenless-speaker-built-as-ai-companion?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NDA2MjAxMywiZXhwIjoxNzg0NjY2ODEzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSTYwSllUOU5KTFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.DfRN0afk0TFIaHFw9zEKYjehnfMsZfKC7gPoVos8WPI&_bhlid=9664933178806d3f09c93cab5f840ca7357a28e9

Elon Musk’s AI company, SpaceXAI, and Cursor released Grok 4.5, an AI model focused on coding and agentic work, on Wednesday. The Information was the first to report on the release date, which Musk confirmed on Tuesday night. The model is the first joint AI model that SpaceXAI and Cursor have developed through their partnership. #SpaceX 🚀 agreed to acquire Cursor last month in a deal that values the coding startup at $60 billion. SpaceXAI said in a blog post that the model was “trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math” and is geared towards engineering tasks, as well as basic office work. In a post on X, Musk described the model as an “Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost,” referencing Anthropic’s flagship product. #(Cool) Dev https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-tells-ai-rivals-grok-45-cheaper-good-enough