The Petersburg Post

Saturday, Mar 14th, 2026 - Staff complain that the constant upheaval is destroying morale. Elon Musk has ordered another round of job cuts at xAI after growing frustrated with the poor performance of its coding product, forcing out several more cofounders and parachuting in "fixers" from SpaceX and Tesla to audit the startup. The latest overhaul of the 2-year-old startup follows the success of Anthropic and OpenAI, whose AI coding tools have ...

Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 - SpaceX has started commissioning a second launch pad at the company's Starbase facility in Texas. Welcome to Edition 8.33 of the Rocket Report! NASA officials seem optimistic about launching the Artemis II mission next month, so confident that they will forgo another fueling test on the Space Launch System rocket to check the integrity of fickle seals in a liquid hydrogen loading line. The rocket will return to the ...

Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 - Massive AI startup funding raged on this week with a couple of billion-dollar-plus rounds for Yann Lecun's and Mira Murati's startups, plus multiple multi-hundred-million rounds for vertical startups and tool providers — I mean, look at the AI and Data Money Matters section down there, it's nuts — plus big funding for data centers too. Cybersecurity funding got a boost as well, with Kevin Mandia's ...

Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 - Amazon on Friday announced Prime Video Ultra, a subscription that replaces its existing ad-free offering in the US, starting on April 10. The subscription is $5 per month and removes commercials for customers who have the default, ad-supported version of Prime Video through a standalone subscription or Prime membership. Existing ad-free customers who  pay an extra  $3 per month to stream without ads will ...