Starcloud, a startup developing satellites that can perform AI inference in orbit, told TechCrunch that it has added a $250 million extension to its March…
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AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take. |
A biotech startup called Vivodyne says the AI drug-discovery industry has a data problem, and that it has built a machine to fix it. HIVE,…
Northrop's robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longer |
High above the Earth, a new generation of robots designed to keep satellites working longer is replacing its predecessor — quite literally. This week, a…
AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative? |
The new deep learning techniques behind LLMs have also given us weather simulations that can run on laptops instead of supercomputers, changing meteorology. But the…
The robot NASA hired to lift a orbital telescope tumbled out of control |
12:07 PM PDT · July 28, 2026 A Katalyst Space robot that was launched to grab on to a space telescope and raise it to…
Sam Altman is ready to decelerate |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that it may be time to “pace” AI development so the world will be ready for it. “We may have…
Science Corporation's vision-restoring chip wins EU approval |
Science Corporation, a startup developing novel brain-computer interfaces (BCI), won approval from Europe’s medical device regulator to begin selling a device that restores vision lost…
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space |
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…
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…