The U.S. Air Force will buy data collected by WindBorne Systems‘ fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a new contract that could be worth nearly…
Author: Tim Fernholz
OpenAI's math solutions aren't meeting the field's standards yet |
When OpenAI released hundreds of claimed solutions to some of the world’s hardest math problems this week, the frontier lab said that it had consulted…
Xona's commercial GPS alternative is about to go live |
The first precision commercial alternative to GPS is preparing to go live when six satellites designed by the startup Xona Space Systems launch into orbit…
Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy |
From Muse to Instinct to Dots, tech firms are hunting for the user experience that will make an AI personal assistant a must-have product. Hark,…
Can Safeworld convince people that GenAI robots won't hurt them? |
The big trend in robots is handing the keys over to a generative AI model, but that brings with it a problem: that architecture isn’t…
Google thinks SpaceX's Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground |
Google’s prototype of its orbital compute satellite took off today onboard a SpaceX rocket launched from California — the first time the tech giant has…
Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web |
Amazon Web Services released an open source decision model inspired by TypeSafe’s Jev, with AI developers increasingly seeking intelligence that is more suited to computer…
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion |
1:39 PM PDT · September 28, 2026 AMD is acquiring World Labs, one of the leading developers of deep learning models intended to understand physical…
A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers |
ChatGPT broke Diogo Almeida’s heart. Almeida was an OpenAI researcher who helped build the chatbot and then invent reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), the…
Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you |
Anthropic’s latest report about agentic misbehavior offers plenty to be concerned about — its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized access to the internet and uploaded…