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…
Author: Tim Fernholz
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,”…
'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…