Cloudflare, AI in Government, & Baby Grok

1/ Cloudflare Launches AI Pay-Per-Crawl

Cloudflare just dropped something big for creators: Pay-per-crawl mode. This flips the script—giving you the control. Instead of AI bots freely scraping your site and using your content without compensation, now you can actually charge them.

It’s the first real move toward an AI-native economy where content creators are finally back in the driver's seat.

2/ FDA Deploys Elsa: AI for the Government Workforce

The FDA is now rolling out Elsa, an AI assistant to help its internal teams. That’s right—one of the most bureaucratic organizations in America is going full AI mode.

This is a major green flag for anyone building in govtech or AI infra for public systems. If the FDA is doing it, expect others to follow.

3/ Elon Musk Is All-In on AGI

For years, Elon’s sounded the alarm about AI doom. But now? He’s in the ring.
He’s building xAI at breakneck speed, going head-to-head with OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.

And now xAI is releasing a kid-friendly alternative to Grok called- baby Grok! Similar to how movies have different rating levels, AI’s may eventually have this system as well.

4/ Mariana Minerals Raises to Tackle Discovery with AI

AI is going deep underground. Mariana Minerals just announced a fundraise to build an AI-driven mineral exploration platform.

This is part of a broader trend—startups using AI to solve real-world physical problems: mining, logistics, manufacturing, climate.
Forget yet another text summary app. This is where the next trillion-dollar companies get born.