If you have been following the billionaire exodus from California with confusion, here is what is actually driving the nervousness. The concern is not simply about a proposed one-time 5% tax on fortunes over $1 billion. Instead, the core issue…
In October, at a tech conference in Italy, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos predicted that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of decades” and “mostly,” he’d said, “because they want to,” because…
The Trump administration faced significant legal setbacks this week as judges allowed work to restart on several offshore wind farms under construction along the East Coast. The Department of the Interior had ordered a halt to five projects totaling 6…
Anahita Laverack was set on becoming an aerospace engineer, but her career took a different turn after a realization at an autonomous robotics challenge. That moment inspired her to launch Oshen, a company that builds fleets of robots to collect…
Elon Musk is seeking between 79 billion and 134 billion dollars in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft. He claims the artificial intelligence company defrauded him by abandoning its original nonprofit mission. This figure was first reported by Bloomberg. The staggering…
Earlier this week, the California attorney general’s office announced it was investigating xAI over reports that the startup’s chatbot, Grok, was being used to create nonconsensual sexual imagery of women and minors. On Friday, the government followed up by sending…
Runpod, an AI app hosting platform launched four years ago, has reached a $120 million annual revenue run rate. Founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh shared their startup journey, a story that shows how building a solid product at the…
ClickHouse, a provider of database software, has secured $400 million in new funding at a valuation of $15 billion. This represents a significant increase, roughly two and a half times its $6.35 billion valuation from May of last year. The…
A hacker posted the personal data of several victims on his Instagram account, @ihackthegovernment, according to court documents. Last week, 24-year-old Nicholas Moore of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to repeatedly hacking into the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic document filing system.…
Drug discovery, the art of identifying new molecules to develop pharmaceuticals, is a notoriously time-consuming and difficult process. Traditional techniques, like high-throughput screening, offer an expensive scattershot approach that is not often successful. However, a new breed of biotech companies…
