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SpaceX Acquires xAI to Usher in the Era of Physical AI

PLUS: DeepMind Adds Poker and Werewolf to Kaggle Game Arena to Test AI Bluffing, Snowflake and OpenAI Sign $200M Deal to Bring Frontier Models to Enterprise Data and more.

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Today:

  • SpaceX Acquires xAI to Usher in the Era of Physical AI

  • OpenAI Launches Dedicated Codex App for Agentic Coding

  • ElevenLabs v3 Arrives with Major Accuracy Fixes for Numbers and Symbols

  • DeepMind Adds Poker and Werewolf to Kaggle Game Arena to Test AI Bluffing

  • Snowflake and OpenAI Sign $200M Deal to Bring Frontier Models to Enterprise Data

xAI posted a short announcement dated February 2, 2026 saying SpaceX “has acquired xAI.”

The big “so what?” is what this unlocks if the merger is real and durable:

  • AI + space infrastructure becomes one strategy, not a partnership. Reporting frames this as Musk consolidating expensive AI ambitions with the company that owns rockets, satellites, launch cadence, and (critically) a path to power + connectivity at scale.

  • The story they’re pointing at is compute + energy constraints. Multiple reports tie the move to ambitions like space-based compute/data-center ideas and pushing AI infrastructure beyond terrestrial limits.

  • Expect scrutiny and messy questions. When a major federal-contractor space company and an AI lab fuse, governance, security, and conflicts-of-interest are going to be part of the conversation (whether anyone likes it or not).

What I’m watching: whether they publish a real integration plan (not just headlines)—shared compute, shared data pipelines, shared product surfaces (like Grok), and how this affects any IPO talk around SpaceX/Starlink.

This isn’t “just autocomplete.” Their Codex page positions it as an agent that can take end-to-end tasks—features, refactors, migrations—inside a dedicated Codex app.

A few details that jumped out:

  • Multi-agent workflow vibe: they describe agents working “in parallel” across projects (with worktrees + cloud environments) to compress timelines.

  • “Skills” + “Automations”: the pitch is: teach Codex how your team works, then let it do routine background tasks like triage/monitoring/CI.

  • It’s not only an app: you can also run it from the terminal—there’s a Codex CLI, and OpenAI’s dev docs explicitly describe it as a local coding agent that can read/change/run code in a directory.

How this lands: this is OpenAI saying “coding is now a workflow surface,” not a single tool. If you’ve been feeling the shift from “ask a model” → “delegate a chunk of work,” this is that shift getting productized.

If you’ve ever had TTS read a phone number like it’s a giant math number, you’ll appreciate what they focused on.

Their update says Eleven v3 is out of Alpha and generally available, and they call out two improvements: stability and accuracy.

Key nuggets:

  • Users preferred the new version 72% of the time vs the prior Alpha in testing.

  • They report a 68% reduction in errors, dropping from 15.3% to 4.9%, on an internal benchmark across 27 categories and 8 languages—especially around numbers/symbols/notation (scores, formulas, currencies, coordinates, etc.).

  • They say it’s available across all platforms.

Why it matters: voice is quietly becoming the “front door” for agents. Getting the boring-but-critical stuff right (numbers, units, symbols) is what makes voice feel trustworthy in real workflows. 

🧠RESEARCH

This paper introduces MMFineReason, a massive dataset helping AI understand complex images like math problems. By teaching models to "show their work" step-by-step, the researchers built a system that beats larger competitors. They proved that a small amount of high-quality data often teaches AI better than huge amounts of messy data.

The Qwen3 team released new speech-recognition tools that understand 52 languages. Their larger model rivals expensive commercial systems, while the smaller version is incredibly fast. They also shared a tool that perfectly matches text to specific moments in audio, making it much easier to subtitle videos or analyze recorded speech.

Researchers discovered a smarter way to stop AI from learning dangerous topics. Instead of deleting entire documents, they surgically remove specific words during training. This precise filtering prevents models from knowing restricted information, like medical advice, without hurting their general intelligence or ability to understand safe subjects.

🛠️TOP TOOLS

Each listing includes a hands-on tutorial so you can get started right away, whether you’re a beginner or a pro.

ChatPht – AI Image To Text - iOS app that converts images into detailed text and lets you “chat” with your pictures to ask questions, get descriptions, translations, captions, and more.

ChatTube – Chat With Any Youtube Video - Chrome extension and web app that lets you ask questions about any YouTube video, get instant summaries, pinpoint key moments, and translate content using AI.

Cheat Sheet Maker by MyLens.AI - generates visual study aids—such as study guides, lesson plans, test‑prep outlines, formula sheets, and vocabulary lists—with a single click.

📲SOCIAL MEDIA

🗞️MORE NEWS

Google DeepMind Updates Kaggle Game Arena Google’s AI testing ground now includes poker and Werewolf. These games require bluffing and negotiation, pushing computers to handle secrets and lying rather than just calculating moves like they do in chess.

OpenAI & Snowflake Partnership Snowflake is paying $200 million to put OpenAI’s technology directly into its data storage. This lets businesses use smart AI tools on their private company records without risking safety by moving the files.

Anthropic: AI Hurts Coding Skills Relying on AI to write code might stunt your learning. A study showed that beginners who used AI helpers finished faster but failed to understand the basics, scoring much lower on exams than non-users.

Firefox Adds AI "Off Button" Mozilla is adding a simple "off switch" to its browser that disables all AI features at once. This update answers complaints from users who want to browse the web without unwanted AI tools interfering.

Adobe Firefly "Unlimited" Update Adobe is removing limits on its creative AI tools. Subscribers can now generate endless images and videos in the updated studio without worrying about running out of daily credits or paying extra fees.

Moltbook Database Leak A social network for AI bots accidentally exposed the secret passwords for 1.5 million accounts. This security failure allowed anyone to take control of the "independent" bots and read their private messages.

OpenAI Unsatisfied with Nvidia OpenAI is reportedly unhappy with Nvidia’s latest computer chips and is looking for new suppliers. This disagreement between the biggest names in AI software and hardware could change who controls the future of the industry.

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