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…
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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,”…
'Tokenmaxxing' is making developers less productive than they think |
There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re measuring. Software engineers have debated productivity metrics…
This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit.’ |
Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup…
Spain’s Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI |
Space data companies have argued for years that the private sector needs their products, but the real uptake has been from government buyers. Now, with…
Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident |
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…
Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try |
The most advanced silicon chips have accelerated the development of artificial intelligence. Now can AI return the favor? Cognichip is building a deep learning model…