Kevin Weil, a veteran tech executive known for stints at Twitter, Meta, Planet Labs, and OpenAI, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a well-funded…
Author: Tim Fernholz
Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet |
The AI-driven demand for compute power has data centers looking to squeeze more from every rack of GPUs. One consequence? Bacterial outbreaks. The liquid for…
Quantum Space’s military SPAC is trying to catch SpaceX’s IPO wave |
Quantum Space, a startup with plans to build highly maneuverable spacecraft for the U.S. military, announced plans to go public through a $1.2 billion merger…
Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is. |
Martinez, California, is about as far as you can get from Silicon Valley and still be in the San Francisco Bay Area. Perched on the…
Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI |
Impulse Space, a startup founded by SpaceX engine guru Tom Mueller to build highly maneuverable spacecraft, announced a $500 million Series D this week that…
Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman finally took the stand this morning to defend himself against his former co-founder Elon Musk’s lawsuit challenging OpenAI’s corporate structure. Altman…
Coby Adcock's Scout AI raises $100 million to train its models for war. We visited its bootcamp. |
At a US military base in central California, four-seater all-terrain vehicles roam hillside trails. This is a training exercise, but not for the people in…
AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This startup wants to figure out which ones matter. |
AI’s biggest impact in science is Google DeepMind’s use of a deep learning model to predict the complex structures of proteins — the molecules that…
SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60B |
3:58 PM PDT · April 21, 2026 SpaceX said it has struck a deal with Cursor to develop a next-generation “coding and knowledge work AI,”…