Elon Musk confirms SpaceX merges with xAI to create a massive $1.25 trillion company combining artificial intelligence, rockets, and space-based computing, while Tesla stock plunges 3.8% amid analyst predictions that the electric vehicle maker could join the mega-merger within 12-18 months.
California Teamsters demand indefinite suspension of Waymo's operating license after a self-driving car strikes a child in Santa Monica, prompting federal investigation while the union cites ongoing safety risks and job threats from autonomous vehicles.
SpaceX acquires xAI for $1.25 trillion to launch space-based data centers alongside Google and other tech giants, despite experts warning that the hundreds of thousands of required satellites could trigger catastrophic Kessler syndrome and create insurmountable hardware upgrade challenges.
AI coding companies race to democratize software creation for millions of non-technical users by eliminating setup barriers and security complexities that currently limit these tools to just 1% of the population.
Major AI chatbots including Google's Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity increasingly cite Elon Musk's AI-generated Grokipedia despite containing racist content and lacking human oversight, raising concerns about spreading disinformation through automated systems.
Apple acquires Israeli AI startup Q.ai for nearly $2 billion in its second-largest deal ever, gaining revolutionary technology that reads facial expressions and micro-movements to enable silent speech communication with Siri through future headphones and glasses.
Google DeepMind launches an expanded AI Battle Arena featuring poker and Werewolf games to test artificial intelligence models' social strategy skills and risk management abilities, with Gemini 3 Pro and Flash currently dominating leaderboards and a live-streamed poker tournament scheduled for February 2026.
India announces zero taxes through 2047 for cloud providers operating global workloads from local data centers, prompting Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity to pour billions into establishing major operations in the country where 62% of citizens embrace AI benefits compared to just 39% in the US.
OpenAI unveils an upgraded Codex app for macOS that revolutionizes coding by letting developers manage multiple AI agents simultaneously across parallel project threads, featuring custom Agent Skills, automated background tasks, and team-based delegation capabilities that surpass single-agent competitors like Claude Code.
Mozilla releases Firefox 148 on February 24 with a new 'Block AI enhancements' toggle that lets users completely disable or individually manage five AI features including translations, PDF alt text generation, tab grouping, link previews, and sidebar chatbots.