xAI Prints Money in Latest Funding Round

Big money. Bigger robots. Even bigger energy bills.

Musk just raised $10B for his AI war chest. Google locked down a fusion deal. Amazon now runs on over a million robots.

The future is getting weird fast—let’s talk about it.

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CoreWeave got ghosted last year after offering $1B to acquire Core Scientific. But like every good situationship, it's not over yet.

The GPU giant is circling back—with a bigger wallet and renewed interest—after Core Scientific’s stock surged 43% last week and its valuation hit nearly $5B.

Why now? Demand for AI compute is booming. Core Scientific runs energy-hungry Bitcoin mines that could get repurposed for AI workloads. If this gets serious, CoreWeave could go from being the AI world’s hardware darling… to its landlord.

For now, all we know is that AltIndex analysis still rates Coreweave itself as a buy →

via TechCrunch​

Elon’s AI startup just pulled in a fat $10 billion—because what else do you do after tweeting at Trump and firing off Epstein conspiracy memes?

xAI’s new war chest is going toward building:

Musk’s goal is the same as Sam Altman’s, Mark Zuckerberg’s, and whoever Anthropic’s founders are (jokes, they’re Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei): to build the number 1 AI model in the world, bar none.

🏎 See how xAI stacks up against competition in the “infinite race” of AI

via Gizmodo

The robot uprising is happening—just slower and more corporate.

Amazon hit 1 million robots deployed across its warehouses. That’s up from not 1 million just a few years ago.

Amazon has cut staffing to just 670 people per facility, the lowest figure in nearly two decades. Overall, humans still have the numbers, as the company still employs over 1.5 million people (for now). Who knows, though—it may soon be harder than ever before to get a job at Bezos’s old stomping grounds.

📦 See what this means for Amazon—and your job prospects →

via The New Money

Google has made a major move in the energy sector by signing the single largest purchase deal in history for nuclear fusion power with Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

The deal is with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and the energy is headed to Google’s massive Virginia data centers. This is a flex—and a hedge. AI needs power, and Google’s making sure it won’t run out.

Also: this means Google might beat Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta to long-term clean energy dominance. This is a major step away from nuclear dependency for Google, a long-time problem that this thread details wonderfully:

👁 Full circle: See how Palantir is bringing AI to nuclear reactors

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