Elon raised $10B for this?

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Elon just raised $10B for xAI 💰

Amazon’s warehouses now run on 1M robots 🤖

AI bots fact-checking tweets on X 🧠

US Senate kills Big Tech’s AI loophole 🇺🇸

Genesis AI is training robots using fake physics 🦾

xAI raises $10B 💰

• Elon’s xAI just secured $10B, split between $5B in debt and $5B in equity. Total funding now stands at $17B.

• The debt move isn't random. It lowers their capital cost and opens access to new backers. This is Musk using financial engineering as leverage.

• The funds are going into two things: the Grok platform and what they claim will be one of the largest data centers in the world.

• Backers include Nvidia, AMD, Sequoia, and Saudi money. This isn't a startup play. It's a geopolitical asset wearing a product skin.

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‍X experiments with AI fact-checking 🧠

• X is testing a system where AI models, including Grok and third-party bots, can write Community Notes.

• AI-written notes go through the same vetting process as human ones. In theory, this maintains quality. In reality, LLMs hallucinate and human moderators are already overloaded.

• Even X's internal research says humans need to stay in the loop. But adding AI-generated content increases volume, not necessarily truth.

• This feels less like innovation and more like trying to scale moderation without paying for it.

Amazon deploys 1 millionth robot 🤖

• Amazon now has 1 million robots operating in its warehouses. Around 75 percent of global deliveries involve robot assistance.

• They just rolled out DeepFleet, a generative AI model trained on internal logistics data using SageMaker. It's designed to improve route planning and speed by 10 percent.

• Also meet Vulcan, their latest robot with two arms and a sense of touch. One arm moves inventory, the other grabs items with a suction cam.

• Amazon is quietly building robotic infrastructure that’s light years ahead of anyone else.

Senate shuts down AI moratorium 🇺🇸

• The US Senate voted 99 to 1 to strike down a proposed 10-year ban on state-level AI regulation.

• The provision came from Ted Cruz and was backed by OpenAI, a16z, and others who argued national regulation would prevent chaos.

• But opposition came from both parties. Lawmakers saw it as overreach that would give too much freedom to Big Tech.

• Now states are back in the game. AI oversight won't be one-size-fits-all.

Genesis AI raises $105M to train robots in simulation 🦾

• Genesis AI emerged from stealth with a $105M seed round, led by Eclipse and Khosla.

• Their mission is to build a foundational model for robots using synthetic data, not real-world footage. The secret sauce is a proprietary physics engine developed from academic research across 18 universities.

• Real-world data is slow and expensive. Their simulation approach is faster, cheaper, and more scalable.

• If it works, it unlocks general-purpose robotics. If it doesn't, it’s a high-burn experiment with elite researchers.

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