SpaceX Starship spirals out of control in second straight test flight failure

SpaceX Starship spirals out of control in second straight test flight failure

During a test flight on Thursday, SpaceX’s Starship went into orbit and spun out of control, the second time in a row that the vehicle has encountered a deadly issue en route to orbit. Due to concerns about “space launch debris,” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) temporarily stopped flights into major Florida airports and seems …

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Darwinbox, the HR upstart from India, raises $140M to take on Deel and Rippling

Darwinbox, the HR upstart from India, raises $140M to take on Deel and Rippling

As it looks to grow globally, particularly in the United States, Darwinbox, an Indian startup developing a SaaS platform for hiring, onboarding, and personnel administration, has secured $140 million to compete with companies like Rippling and Deel. A number of anonymous investors are selling off portions of their holdings in the fundraising, which is being …

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Dutch startup QuantWare seeks to fast-track quantum computing

Dutch startup QuantWare seeks to fast-track quantum computing

With the introduction of Ocelot by Amazon Web Services, Majorana by Microsoft, and Willow by Google, major IT corporations are not sleeping on quantum chips. Despite the fact that any of these can be regarded as innovations, quantum entrepreneurs frequently concentrate on more useful developments, and they are making headway. One such these is the …

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Mark Cuban offers to fund government tech unit that was cut in the middle of the night

Mark Cuban offers to fund government tech unit that was cut in the middle of the night

On Saturday, billionaire investor Mark Cuban entered the most recent government technology upheaval by unexpectedly offering assistance to recently laid-off federal employees on the social media platform Bluesky. His message, which spread swiftly, exhorted the engineers and designers who had been uprooted to take advantage of the disruption. Cuban wrote, “If you were fired from …

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Tether backs stablecoin liquidity provider Mansa in $10M seed round

Tether backs stablecoin liquidity provider Mansa in $10M seed round

Some entrepreneurs are capitalizing on the current trend by offering liquidity through a revolving line of credit in stablecoins, while payment providers investigate stablecoins for real-time settlement and cross-border payments more and more. One of these is Mansa, a company established in Dubai with an emphasis on Africa, whose product enables payment businesses to rapidly …

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Did xAI lie about Grok 3’s benchmarks?

Did xAI lie about Grok 3's benchmarks?

Discussions about AI benchmarks and how AI laboratories publish them are becoming more widely visible. Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, was accused this week by an OpenAI employee of disseminating false benchmark results for its most recent AI model, Grok 3. Igor Babushkin, one of xAI’s co-founders, maintained that the business was correct. In the …

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1,000 artists release ‘silent’ album to protest UK copyright sell-out to AI

1,000 artists release 'silent' album to protest UK copyright sell-out to AI

By altering copyright laws, the U.K. government is moving forward with ambitions to draw more AI companies to the area. Unless creators voluntarily “opt out,” the proposed amendments will permit companies to train AI models on artists’ online content without their consent or payment. However, not everyone is following the same path. A group of …

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Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia takes wraps off his first assignment for DOGE

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia takes wraps off his first assignment for DOGE

Joe Gebbia, a co-founder of Airbnb, explained his role on Thursday on X, nearly two weeks after The New York Times revealed that he had joined Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency.” Gebbia said that, as a first step, he will be using his design experience to improve the government’s infamously cumbersome, paper-heavy retirement process. …

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Rivian inches closer to profitability but warns ‘changes to government policies’ could hurt

Rivian inches closer to profitability but warns 'changes to government policies' could hurt

Rivian’s cost-cutting efforts have brought the company much closer to profitability, but it is cautioning that 2025 may still be a difficult year, particularly given the uncertainties surrounding the Trump administration. The company published plans to produce between 46,000 and 51,000 EVs by 2025 along with its financial results for the fourth quarter and full …

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