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Jerzy Lewandowski

Grok 4: Inside Elon Musk’s Most Powerful (and Controversial) AI Chatbot Yet

The Race to $-Per-Token: Coding Models Get Fast & Frugal

xAI Grok Code Fast 1 vs Code Llama and Copilot in Developer TCO Race Comparing Grok Code Fast 1, Code Llama, and GitHub Copilot To understand how xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 stacks up against Meta’s Code Llama and GitHub Copilot, let’s compare them across key dimensions like performance, cost, deployment, and integration. Model Overview & Capabilities Grok Code Fast 1 (xAI): Launched in August 2025 by Elon Musk’s xAI, Grok Code Fast 1 is a coding-specialized large model built from a new architecture and trained on a code-heavy corpus eweek.com. It’s explicitly designed for “agentic” coding assistance, meaning it
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AI Voice Clones Are Taking Over – Inside the Synthetic Voice Revolution of 2025

SoundHound AI: The Voice Tech Disruptor Challenging Siri, Alexa, and Wall Street Expectations

SoundHound AI’s Business Model and History SoundHound AI began as a Stanford dorm room idea and evolved into a significant player in voice technology. Co-founder and CEO Keyvan Mohajer started the company in 2005 with a vision of a voice-enabled world, inspired by sci-fi concepts of speaking naturally to computers highperformr.ai. The company’s early claim to fame was a music recognition app (originally called Midomi, later rebranded as the SoundHound app) that could identify songs by listening – a direct competitor to Shazam en.wikipedia.org. By 2012, that app had over 100 million users, establishing SoundHound in audio AI en.wikipedia.org. Around
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Stock Market Today

Defense and space stocks rally, but Trump’s buyback-dividend squeeze is the next test

Defense and space stocks rally, but Trump’s buyback-dividend squeeze is the next test

7 February 2026
U.S. space and defense stocks rose Friday, with sector ETFs gaining up to 4.8% and Lockheed Martin up 2.4%. Investors are awaiting a Pentagon list that could restrict buybacks and dividends at underperforming contractors under a Trump executive order. Companies named would have 15 days to submit remediation plans. Lockheed’s board approved a $3.45 per share dividend for Q1 2026.
Ucore Rare Metals stock price jumps as ‘Project Vault’ keeps rare earths on traders’ screens

Ucore Rare Metals stock price jumps as ‘Project Vault’ keeps rare earths on traders’ screens

7 February 2026
Ucore Rare Metals shares jumped 14.7% to C$7.97 on Toronto’s TSX Venture Exchange Friday, rebounding after a steep drop as investors responded to U.S. critical-minerals policy moves. The U.S. Export-Import Bank described Project Vault as a $10 billion public-private stockpiling plan. Neodymium prices climbed 1.27% to 997,500 yuan a tonne on Feb. 6. Investors await details on Project Vault’s purchasing plans next week.
Semiconductor stocks surge as AI capex stays high; Nvidia and AMD lead into next week

Semiconductor stocks surge as AI capex stays high; Nvidia and AMD lead into next week

7 February 2026
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index jumped 5.7% to 8,048.6 on Friday, with Nvidia up 7.87% and AMD rising 8.28%. The surge followed new forecasts showing global chip sales could hit $1 trillion in 2026. Amazon expects a 50% increase in capital spending this year, fueling demand for chips. The Dow Jones crossed 50,000, helped by gains in chipmakers.
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