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Elon Musk and OpenAI posture over pizza as the AI talent war heats up

The rivalry between xAI and OpenAI is heating up again — this time, over wood-fired pizza.Over the weekend, Elon Musk and an OpenAI engineer jockeyed on X about wood-fired crusts, dough fermentation, and campus chefs.On its face, it was a lighthearted back-and-forth about free pizza for lunch. Underneath, it encapsulates…

Inside the Startup Rush for Europe’s New War Chest

Kelluu began, as startups often do, in an old shed.The small Finnish company makes airships — think van-sized blimps — originally designed to watch over power lines with cameras.When I met the firm’s CEO, Janne Hietala, last fall, he arrived at our restaurant in Joensuu with news. Kelluu, a seven-year-old…