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SpaceX and Tesla are in early talks over a potential merger, and the numbers involved are staggering. Independent committees on both sides are evaluating a tie-up that would consolidate more than thirty thousand bitcoin under one corporate roof. Strong SpaceX earnings have already lifted Tesla shares ahead of its upcoming results, suggesting investors aren't entirely cold on the idea.
Shifting to a quieter but significant security concern, a private key compromise affecting eMudhra intermediate certificates has surfaced in Mozilla's bug tracker. Certificate authority incidents like this matter because they sit at the foundation of trusted web connections. When intermediate certificates are compromised, the chain of trust browsers rely on every day becomes vulnerable, and the scope is still being assessed.
And from Oxford, an argument that artificial intelligence should be measured not just by productivity or profit, but by human happiness. Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute are pushing EU policymakers to establish what they call a happiness dividend, ensuring that citizens whose data and public funding help build these systems actually see a measurable benefit to their wellbeing. It's a provocative reframe of how we define AI success.
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