Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman, AI Job Loss, and OpenAI’s $852B Valuation | MOONSHOTS

As the Musk-vs-Altman fight is becoming pay-per-view TV, xAI is rebuilding, Anthropic is surging, and the economics of intelligence are starting to break old models, all while OpenAI sits on a $852B war chest.

– xAI admits it “was not built right the first time,” and Colossus 2 is now reportedly training 7 models at once. 

– Software engineering roles are up 67,000, while roughly 80,000 layoffs hit other white-collar functions in Q1.

– Anthropic is making the biggest product pivot in AI from systems that answer questions to managed agents that actually do the work.

– South Korea is mandating 40% solar rooftops, while the DOE is backing $800M in microreactors.