Jeff Bezos has found his next climate-focused philanthropy target: nuclear power. The billionaire’s Bezos Earth Fund, which aims to distribute $10 billion to fight climate change by the end of the decade, is granting $3.5 million to a new initiative to streamline nuclear reactor construction across the country. The funds will support the Nuclear Scaling…
Job seekers often have to jump through hoops throughout the recruitment process. At Anduril, they’ll have to fly through courses—drone courses, to be exact. The defense tech company is offering engineers the opportunity to secure a job interview and compete for a cash prize of $500,000 in the AI Grand Prix, a new racing competition…
Microsoft this week (Jan. 26) unveiled its latest in-house A.I. chip, Maia 200, calling it “the most efficient inference system” the company has ever built. Microsoft claims the chip outperforms rival Big Tech processors such as Amazon’s Trainium 3 and Google’s TPU v7 on key benchmarks, while delivering 30 percent better performance per dollar than…
Self-driving startup Waabi has spent the past five years becoming a dominant force in the world of autonomous trucking. Now, armed with $1 billion in new funding, it’s gearing up to take on a new challenge: the robotaxi market. The Toronto-based venture raised $750 million in an oversubscribed Series C round co-led by Khosla Ventures…
At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, artificial intelligence was no longer framed as an emerging technology. It was treated as infrastructure. Across panels, private dinners and side conversations, the debate had clearly shifted: the question is not whether A.I. will transform economies and institutions, but who can operationalize it at scale under tightening…
On Jan. 28, 1986, the world stood still. Seventy-three seconds after liftoff, Space Shuttle Challenger was lost, along with its seven-member crew: Francis “Dick” Scobee, Michael Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe. The tragedy unfolded live on television, imprinting itself on a generation and forever changing the trajectory of…
Anthropic is known for its stringent safety standards, which it has used to differentiate itself from rivals like OpenAI and xAI. Those hard-line policies include guardrails that prevent users from turning to Claude to produce bioweapons—a threat that CEO Dario Amodei described as one of A.I.’s most pressing risks in a new 20,000-word essay. “Humanity…
As A.I.’s capabilities grow, the technology is creeping into workplaces, schools, homes and possibly dentists’ chairs soon. Dentio, a Swedish startup betting on dental clinics as a prime use case for A.I. assistants, has just secured $2.3 million in fresh financing to support its ambitions. Andreessen Horowitz led the startup’s pre-seed funding round, with other…
Synthesia, a U.K.-based startup making lifelike digital avatars for enterprise communications, just raised a $200 million series E at a $4 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable A.I. startups in Britain. The round was led by Alphabet’s venture capital arm. Other participants included Nvidia’s venture capital arm, Evantic, Accel, Kleiner Perkins and…
Ryanair will eventually equip its planes with in-flight wifi, according to CEO Michael O’Leary—but only when installation and consumer costs drop to a sufficient level. The admission comes after a heated back-and-forth between O’Leary and Elon Musk over the budget airline’s refusal to install Starlink on its fleet of roughly 650 aircraft. The feud was…
