SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket successfully lifted off on its tenth test flight Tuesday evening. The mission achieved two long-sought milestones and ended a recent string of failures. The 403-foot vehicle launched from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility and recently incorporated city,…
Alphabet’s life sciences division, Verily, laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program on Monday. CEO Stephen Gillett announced this difficult decision to wind down the program in a staff memo, as reported by Business Insider. Gillett wrote that…
Protesters stormed Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters on Monday. They entered president Brad Smith’s office in Building 34, which forced a temporary lockdown of the facility. The group, calling themselves “No Azure for Apartheid,” live-streamed their sit-in on Twitch. They hoisted banners,…
Anthropic has launched a research preview of a browser-based AI agent powered by its Claude AI models. The new agent, Claude for Chrome, is initially rolling out to a group of 1,000 subscribers on Anthropic’s Max plan, which costs between…
Meta plans to launch a super PAC to support California candidates who favor a light-touch approach to artificial intelligence regulation, according to a report from Politico. This development coincides with other major Silicon Valley players, including Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI’s…
The popular library e-book and audiobook app Libby is adding AI, much to the disappointment of some readers and librarians who would prefer not to have AI inserted into their favorite apps. The new feature, called Inspire Me, allows users…
The Trump administration made an unprecedented and confusing move last week when it announced plans to convert money Intel was supposed to receive through government grant programs from the Joe Biden era into a 10% equity stake. While it remains…
Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of fiction and nonfiction authors. The settlement was announced in a filing on Tuesday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. This development comes after Anthropic had won a partial…
Thanks to an unexpected surge in popularity on TikTok, Radiohead now has its fourth-ever song on the Billboard Hot 100: the morosely gorgeous track “Let Down” from the 1997 album “OK Computer.” “Let Down” never broke through to mainstream attention…
A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server. This action put the personal information of most…
