Amazon is making a new smartphone more than a decade after its Fire Phone flop

According to the report, the numbers reflect the combined finances of SpaceX and xAI, which it acquired in February.

After acquiring xAI, SpaceX’s successful space launch and satellite business may have been dragged down by xAI’s massive data center spending. Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that xAI had burned through $8 billion in the first nine months of 2025.

According to the report, the numbers reflect the combined finances of SpaceX and xAI, which it acquired in February.

After acquiring xAI, SpaceX’s successful space launch and satellite business may have been dragged down by xAI’s massive data center spending. Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that xAI had burned through $8 billion in the first nine months of 2025.

Business Insider is reporting that Amazon’s Project Houdini seeks to slash labor costs and installation time by building modular “data halls” — the rows of racks of servers that make up the heart of data centers — in factories, and then shipping them fully assembled on trailers to data center sites.

According to the report, the modular plan would save weeks of construction time and tens of thousands of hours of labor costs.

This week in Amazon’s letter to shareholders, CEO Andy Jassy wrote that the company is planning $200 billion in capital expenditure this year, and that it is embracing its tradition of taking big bets on experiments like Project Houdini:

“You need to invent and experiment like crazy. Many of these experiments will fail, and it might feel like you’re getting nowhere. But, your culture must possess the tenacity to keep at it.”

Business Insider is reporting that Amazon’s Project Houdini seeks to slash labor costs and installation time by building modular “data halls” — the rows of racks of servers that make up the heart of data centers — in factories, and then shipping them fully assembled on trailers to data center sites.

According to the report, the modular plan would save weeks of construction time and tens of thousands of hours of labor costs.

This week in Amazon’s letter to shareholders, CEO Andy Jassy wrote that the company is planning $200 billion in capital expenditure this year, and that it is embracing its tradition of taking big bets on experiments like Project Houdini:

“You need to invent and experiment like crazy. Many of these experiments will fail, and it might feel like you’re getting nowhere. But, your culture must possess the tenacity to keep at it.”

HappyHorse beat out the popular Seedance model from rival ByteDance in blind human evaluations to claim the top spot on the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard.

While OpenAI has announced it is shuttering its text-to-video Sora app, the category continues to see intense competition as a flurry of video models improve with more realistic physics and cinematic effects.

Axios wrote that OpenAI is allowing a small group of partners to test its new AI tool, which has “advanced cybersecurity capabilities.”

The realization that we have arrived at an era of powerful new AI models that could overwhelm current cybersecurity defenses is spooking investors, with cybersecurity stocks like Cloudflare, Zscaler, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks all down sharply this morning.

Axios wrote that OpenAI is allowing a small group of partners to test its new AI tool, which has “advanced cybersecurity capabilities.”

The realization that we have arrived at an era of powerful new AI models that could overwhelm current cybersecurity defenses is spooking investors, with cybersecurity stocks like Cloudflare, Zscaler, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks all down sharply this morning.

Bloomberg reports that the company is “pausing” the Stargate UK project, citing high energy costs and regulatory obstacles.

Last month, the company and its partner Oracle scrapped its planned expansion of the Stargate I data center site in Abilene, Texas.

In a statement to Bloomberg, the company said:

“AI compute is foundational to that goal — we continue to explore Stargate UK and will move forward when the right conditions such as regulation and the cost of energy enable long-term infrastructure investment.”

Stargate UK was announced in September, including a partnership with Nvidia and Nscale that would scale up to 31,000 GPUs.