SpaceX S-1: xAI had a $6.4B operating loss on $3.2B in revenue in 2025; Grok and X had 550M MAUs combined as of March 2026, and 117M used Grok's AI features (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/xai-
Einen wunderschönen guten Morgen aus der Nähe von #Hodenhagen
Heute Nacht hat es gewittert, aber nur leicht geregnet. Das war eine richtig schöne Übernachtung.
Ich befinde mich jetzt gerade im #AllerLeineTal und heute geht es durch Bad
After a lot of work, some great inspiration feedback, and help, I can finally present to you
27 o'clock!
This album describes the feelings of the all-nighters I had to go through
The cover art was done by rockybird, huge thanks for the help!
If you download the album from Bandcamp, you will be able to see the bonus cover art included.
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Bit into a chocolate truffle from a local candy shop that was a kind of hemispherical shape, perhaps made from a flat chocolate base that had a blob of filling put on it and then encapsulated in more chocolate.
And as I'm looking at the seam between the two segments the first thing that comes to mind is... Wouldn't it be cool to freeze one of these in LN2, cross section, polish, maybe ion mill, then do like SEM/EBSD to look at the cocoa butter grain structure around the weld li…
One of the nice things about not having ads or any kind of revenue from my site is that I no longer get the diamond-pressure bum-hole puckering feeling I used to get when I had a hosting company and a site would go down. I don’t even have monitoring set up and it’s freeing.
But go kick an LLM in the dick for stealing so much of my shit that you can’t read it except in some inaccessible pay-for-wrongness shitty chat venue.
Filing: SpaceX set aside $530M for potential litigation losses, including lawsuits involving Grok's "Spicy" mode, which it described as a "heightened risk" (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-ipo-grok-spicy-mode-risks/
Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article
John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation (Liv McMahon/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eyq7rnn22o
SpaceX S-1: Starlink had 10.3M subscribers in Q1 2026, a 105% increase YoY; SpaceX's "Connectivity" business, which is primarily Starlink, made $11.3B in 2025 (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-ipo-filing-off…