Intro

What happened with Cloudflare this morning. Grok’s new model wants to be creative. Catching you up on the bloodbath in crypto if you were unaware. Databricks is 12 years old but it seems to be one of the big AI winners. And debt continues to pile in to the AI buildout.

• A massive Cloudflare outage brought down X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector (The Verge)
• Grok 4.1 has arrived — and it's bringing the fight to ChatGPT with these new features (Tom's Guide)
• Crypto market sheds $1.2tn as traders shun speculative assets (Financial Times)
• Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality' (BBC)
• Amazon Raises $15 Billion in First US Bond Sale in Three Years (Bloomberg)
• Databricks in Talks to Raise Capital at a Valuation Above $130 Billion (The Information)
• Roblox will require age estimation to chat starting next year (The Verge)

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices