[[{“value”:” SpaceX’s Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight on Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehicle has run into a fatal problem on its way to orbit. The company launched Starship using its Super Heavy booster and things looked normal for the first eight minutes of the […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google co-founder Larry Page reportedly has a new AI startup
[[{“value”:” Google co-founder Larry Page is building a new company called Dynatomics that’s focused on applying AI to product manufacturing, according to The Information. Page is reportedly working with a small group of engineers on AI that can create “highly optimized” designs for objects and then have a factory build them, per The Information. Chris Anderson, […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
A second Intuitive Machines spacecraft just landed on the moon — and probably tipped over
[[{“value”:” Intuitive Machines has landed a second spacecraft on the moon, just one year after accomplishing the feat for the first time ever. Unfortunately, much like that first attempt, it seems the company’s spacecraft may have tipped on its side. The lunar lander, called Athena, touched down on the moon’s surface at around 12:30 p.m. ET […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Anthropic’s Claude Code tool had a bug that ‘bricked’ some systems
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Scale AI is being investigated by the US Department of Labor
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ChatGPT doubled its weekly active users in under 6 months, thanks to new releases
[[{“value”:” OpenAI’s flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, returned to solid growth in the latter half of 2024, according to a new report published on Thursday by VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). While it took ChatGPT nine months to grow from 100 million weekly active users in November 2023 to 200 million in August 2024, it’s now taken […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Hacked health firm HCRG demanded journalist ‘take down’ data breach reporting, citing UK court order
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Hugging Face’s chief science officer worries AI is becoming ‘yes-men on servers’
[[{“value”:” AI company founders have a reputation for making bold claims about the technology’s potential to reshape fields, particularly the sciences. But Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face’s co-founder and chief science officer, has a more measured take. In an essay published to X on Thursday, Wolf said that he feared AI becoming “yes-men on servers” absent a […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Shield AI raises $240 million at a $5.3 billion valuation to commercialize its AI drone tech
[[{“value”:” Shield AI is now one of the U.S.’s biggest defense tech startups by valuation, raising $240 million at a $5.3 billion valuation in its latest round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Russian crypto exchange Garantex seized by law enforcement operation
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