In Brief Posted: 3:12 PM PDT · April 1, 2026 Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying…
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Nomadic raises $8.4 million to wrangle the data pouring off autonomous vehicles |
To build the autonomous machines of the future, sometimes your model needs a model. Companies developing self-driving cars, robots manipulating the physical environment, or autonomous…
Starcloud raises $170 million Series Ato build data centers in space |
Starcloud’s latest funding round values the space compute company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups to reach unicorn status after graduating…
Aetherflux reportedly raising Series B at $2 billion valuation |
In Brief Posted: 10:05 AM PDT · March 27, 2026 Aetherflux, the space solar power startup launched by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, is in talks…
Arinna raises $4M seed round to solve the space power problem |
The space ambitions of nation states and billionaires alike demand better sources of power, and a new startup founded by two Stanford PhDs may have…
K2 to launch its first high-powered satellite for space compute |
An ambitious satellite builder will launch one of the highest-powered spacecraft ever built in the weeks ahead to demonstrate technology that will be required to…
Niv-AI exits stealth to wring more power performance out of GPUs |
6:00 AM PDT · March 17, 2026 Electricity is a key raw material for artificial intelligence, but new processing techniques outstrip the ability of data…
Elon Musk's xAI faces child porn lawsuit from minors Grok allegedly undressed |
12:18 PM PDT · March 16, 2026 Elon Musk’s company xAI should be held accountable for allowing its AI models to produce abusive sexual images…
OpenAI acquires Promptfoo to secure its AI agents |
In Brief Posted: 10:49 AM PDT · March 9, 2026 OpenAI announced Monday it has acquired Promptfoo, an AI security startup founded in 2024 to…
Perplexity's new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models |
Starting this week, Perplexity subscribers will have a new agentic tool at their disposal. Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability…