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Elon Musk's empire is bundling its services in a way that should raise eyebrows. SpaceXSI is combining X Premium, Grok, Grok Bot, and the AI coding tool Cursor into a single monthly subscription. That's a notable move — tying a social platform to a coding assistant suggests Musk is building something closer to a closed ecosystem than a simple social network.
Meanwhile, Intel is facing some uncomfortable questions about its Connectivity Performance Suite software. Users discovered the tool was quietly interfering with IPv6 networking on affected machines — Samsung Galaxy Book owners among them. Intel has stayed silent on the issue, which is its own kind of answer. When an optimization makes things worse, it stops being an optimization.
And on the more playful end of things, CMF by Nothing — the budget sub-brand behind some genuinely inventive hardware — has launched two portable speakers shaped like milk cartons. The Speaker S and the larger Speaker M both support Bluetooth six point zero and dual device connection. Perhaps most interestingly, the panels are detachable and designed for three D printing, so you can customize the look yourself.
That's the shape of things today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
