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Alibaba Qwen
Alibaba's open-weight Qwen model family
Chemix
Generative AI battery design and chemistry optimization
Cognition
Maker of the autonomous AI software engineer Devin
Cradle
Generative AI protein engineering for the lab
d-Matrix
In-memory compute for AI inference
Etched
Transformer-specific AI inference ASIC
Even Realities G2
Minimalist AI display glasses
General Fusion
Magnetized target fusion with mechanical compression
Glean
AI-powered enterprise work assistant
Lightmatter
Photonic computing and interconnect for AI
Lila Sciences
Autonomous AI 'science factories' for scientific superintelligence
Merge Labs
Ultrasound-based non-invasive brain interface
Moonshot AI
Chinese lab behind the Kimi models
Paradromics
High-data-rate implantable brain-computer interface
Proxima Fusion
Quasi-isodynamic stellarators for commercial fusion
SambaNova Systems
Reconfigurable dataflow AI systems
Science Corp
Neural interfaces and a retinal-implant vision prosthesis
Xaira Therapeutics
AI-first drug discovery built on generative biology
Anduril Industries
Autonomous defense systems and Lattice OS
Apex
Productized satellite buses delivered like an off-the-shelf catalog item.
Impulse Space
Maker of orbital transfer vehicles that move satellites from drop-off to their final orbit.
📰 From the Desk
Nvidia Is Now Selling Nations Their Own AI Factories
NAVER will build gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure on Nvidia's DSX platform to train Korea's own frontier models — the clearest sign yet that 'sovereign AI' is becoming Nvidia's biggest growth market.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-13 · 5 min read
Nvidia Will Co-Sign OpenAI's $500 Billion Data Center
OpenAI is negotiating a 10-gigawatt campus on federal land in Ohio — bigger than all seven existing Stargate sites combined — with Nvidia acting as financial guarantor of the lease. The circle of who funds, supplies, and backs whom keeps tightening.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-12 · 5 min readOpenAI Filed to Go Public — at an $852 Billion Question
OpenAI confirmed a confidential S-1 days after Anthropic and in the middle of SpaceX's roadshow — and the number that matters isn't the valuation, it's that it loses about $1.22 for every dollar it earns.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-11 · 5 min readAnthropic Built an AI That Finds Zero-Days — Then Locked It Up
Claude Mythos found 23,019 flaws across 1,000+ open-source projects, including a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD. Anthropic won't sell it — and that decision is the whole story.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-10 · 5 min readTrump's AI Order Wants a 30-Day Look Before Models Ship
A June 2 executive order asks frontier labs to hand models to the government a month before launch — and the model that triggered it was Anthropic's zero-day-finding Mythos.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-10 · 5 min readApple Stopped Pretending It Would Build the Model
At WWDC 2026 Apple shipped a Gemini-powered Siri and a system that lets you pick Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini to answer — conceding the one layer it spent two years insisting it would own.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-09 · 6 min readSpaceX Is About to Price the Biggest IPO in History
At a $1.75 trillion valuation and up to $75 billion raised, SpaceX's June listing dwarfs Saudi Aramco's record — and asks public markets to price a rocket company on a satellite-internet bet that loses money everywhere but orbit.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-09 · 6 min read
IBM Just Put $10 Billion Behind a 2026 Deadline
IBM committed more than $10B to quantum and declared the era already started — betting that 'quantum advantage' stops being a someday-claim and becomes a this-year fact.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-08 · 5 min read
Microsoft Stops Renting Its Brain
At Build 2026 Microsoft shipped its own MAI models and took its Agent Framework to GA — the clearest sign yet that the OpenAI partnership has become a dependency it wants to price down.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-07 · 5 min read
The Inference War Nobody Told Nvidia About
Training made Nvidia the most valuable company on earth. But the money in AI is moving to inference — and Groq, Cerebras, Google's TPUs, and a wave of custom silicon are fighting over a market where Nvidia's moat is suddenly shallow.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-05 · 8 min read
The Fusion Race Found Its Customer: The Data Center
Commonwealth, Helion and TAE are converging on net-gain hardware just as AI's power hunger turns fusion from a science project into a procurement problem. AI is also helping tame the plasma.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-05 · 8 min read
Nvidia's Moat in 2026: Wider Than the Bears Think, Narrower Than the Bulls Hope
Blackwell sold out before it shipped and CUDA still owns the developer. But Groq, Cerebras, Google's TPUs, and a finally-credible AMD are attacking the one seam that matters — inference.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-04 · 7 min read
The One-Person Unicorn Was Always a Headline. Now It's Almost a Business Model.
AI leverage has collapsed the headcount needed to build real revenue. A wave of tiny teams is hitting numbers that used to require fifty people — but the solo-unicorn dream runs into walls the demos never show.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-04 · 7 min read
Google Is Renting Its Future From Elon Musk
A $920-million-a-month GPU lease between two arch-rivals exposes the real story of 2026: compute has become the only currency Big Tech respects.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-31 · 5 min read
The Camera on Your Face Doesn't Have an Off Switch
Meta has sold seven million pairs of recording glasses and owns 82% of a market it invented — and June 2026's gadget wave is betting the whole house on the always-on body.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-31 · 6 min read
The Agent Security Bill Is Coming Due
Autonomous AI agents can now book flights, execute trades, and provision infrastructure — and the attack surface just caught up with the ambition.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-25 · 5 min read
Claude Code Eats the IDE, and Microsoft Stops Renting Its Brain
Terminal agents now write roughly four percent of public GitHub commits, Microsoft just shipped seven of its own models, and the developer toolchain is quietly being rebuilt from the inside out.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-24 · 5 min read
The Agent That Breaks In While You Sleep
2026 is the year offensive AI stopped being a demo. The same autonomous agents we celebrated on stage are now running the intrusions — and the supply chain that feeds them is rotten.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-13 · 5 min read
Nobody Is Driving the Agent Economy
As Washington centralizes and the states retreat, autonomous AI agents have started moving real money on-chain — and the law still can't say who is liable when one goes wrong.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-11 · 5 min read
The Year the Internet Wanted to Be Human Again
OpenAI killed Sora, bots crossed 51% of web traffic, and millions of people started cosplaying 2016. The backlash against the machine feed is the biggest culture story of 2026.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-03 · 5 min readNo discussions yet — start the first one.