SpaceX and xAI Competing for Pentagon Drone Contract and Sony May Delay the Next PlayStation

SpaceX and its now-wholly-owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled autonomous drone swarming technology, part of a $100 million prize challenge.

The Department of War is reportedly threatening to cut all ties with Anthropic and deem it a supply chain risk for attempting to restrict military applications of its models on classified networks.

xAI quietly released Grok 4.20 Beta with 4-agent reasoning, meaning the model can spin up multiple AI agents that work together on a problem.

Polylogue has introduced AI-discriminatory pricing: Free for humans, $10/mo to add AI agents.

Ars Technica was forced to apologize for including AI-hallucinated quotes in its coverage of the human open-source project maintainer who refused to accept pull requests from an OpenClaw agent. The publication attributed fabricated statements to the human.

Some homeschooling parents are giving OpenClaw full access to 3D printers to compensate for the fact that it can use a computer but lacks physicality.

An OpenAI coauthor of its recent paper on gluon physics says AI will do to physics in 2026 what it did to coding in 2025.

Another physicist notes the solved problem was really about attention scarcity, since the calculation was long considered an elaborate way of arriving at zero, meaning it was theoretically interesting but too tedious for humans to work through.

Researchers have discovered the first small polymerase, with only 45 nucleotides, capable of self-replication in mildly alkaline eutectic ice. A polymerase is an enzyme that copies genetic material, and this discovery sheds light on how life might have first started.

The founder of the Enhanced Games, set for May in Las Vegas, claims the event will solve the cultural problem of an aging Western population by incentivizing healthspan advances that enable 65-year-olds to run 100-meter sprints in 10 seconds.

Adani has announced plans to invest $100 billion in renewable-powered AI data centers across India by 2035. VCs including Khosla, Accel, and Lightspeed are lining up $300 to $500 million each for India AI ecosystem.

Small English towns are protesting plans to convert farms and forests into server halls.

The AI industry appetite for DRAM, which is the main memory chips used in computers, is reshaping consumer electronics. Sony is considering delaying its next PlayStation to 2028 or 2029 as memory chip shortages squeeze supply. Refurbished PC sales are climbing 7% across Europe's five largest markets as new devices become unaffordable.

Apple has announced a special event for March 4 where M5-powered MacBooks are expected.

Samsung Galaxy S26 teaser confirms a new OLED privacy display that can selectively black out content when viewed at an angle.

Micron world-first PCIe 6.0 SSD enters mass production at 28 GB/s with liquid cooling support. PCIe 6.0 is the latest standard for connecting storage drives to computers, roughly doubling the speed of the previous generation.

Researchers flipped the thermodynamic arrow of time in a crotonic acid molecule, making heat flow from cold to hot. Normally heat only flows from hot to cold, so reversing this could have implications for future computing that uses heat flow for calculations.

Chinese firm MirrorMe unveiled Bolt, a humanoid that hit 22 mph during real-world testing, faster than most humans will ever sprint.

For the Lunar New Year, Unitree showcased dozens of G1 humanoids performing the world's first fully autonomous robot cluster Kung Fu routine.

Chinese researchers demonstrated DISH, an ultra-rapid holographic 3D printing method that fabricates millimeter-scale objects in 0.6 seconds at 19-micron resolution. A micron is one-millionth of a meter, so this is extremely precise.

Elon Musk says the pedalless, steeringless Cybercab will start production in April.

Deezer reports that 60,000 wholly AI-generated tracks are now being uploaded to its streaming music service per day, roughly 39% of daily intake.

A partner at KPMG Australia was fined $7,000 for using AI to cheat on an internal training course about using AI.

An investor at Bloomberg Beta captures the current mood around career planning: the window for making the right move is shrinking, career decisions in tech no longer feel reversible, and every quarter spent in the wrong seat widens a gap that is becoming hard to close.