NASA has selected a payload to fly on a commercial Mars orbiter being developed by a rocket company that has yet to reach orbit, marking a new approach to interplanetary exploration by leveraging priv…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos proposed moving polluting industries to the Moon to protect Earth and accelerate economic growth, starting with data centers for artificial intelligence. Bezos believes AI wi…
SpaceX stock surged nearly 60% above its IPO price following last week's record-breaking public offering, giving the company a market capitalization of over $2.6 trillion. Despite $18.7 billion in 202…
Scientists speculate that if aliens arrived on Earth, their diet would depend on their biology, with energy needs estimated based on body mass and metabolism, though no evidence of extraterrestrial li…
Foothill Elementary School in Saratoga unveiled a neon galaxy display in its makerspace, created by students across all grades under the guidance of makerspace aide Joselito Robles. The project, inspi…
General Motors is cutting its vehicle development cycles in half by using AI and simulation, aiming to match the two-year pace of Chinese automakers like BYD. The effort is led by Sterling Anderson, a…
The US has delayed blacklisting Chinese AI developer DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT, and over 100 other firms to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing amid ongoing trade negotiations. The Commerce D…
OpalAI has secured two NASA contracts to develop artificial intelligence systems for wildfire intelligence, leveraging its expertise in satellite and SAR imagery analysis. The company's technology, ba…
A user on Hacker News criticizes Anthropic for restricting access to its Mythos/Fable AI tool, arguing that open access would help expose and fix vulnerabilities rather than hiding them through obscur…
Voyager Technologies opened a 140,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Long Beach, California, in March 2026, using agentic AI to compress defense electronics production from years to weeks. The …
China is cutting university degrees in artificial intelligence and other tech fields to streamline education, while a Miss Hong Kong contestant sparked debate over Cantonese fluency. Other weekend sto…
Josh Giegel, an early SpaceX employee, used his equity to pay off student loans, buy a home, and fund career changes. The 41-year-old AI startup cofounder says regular buybacks over the past decade pr…
A developer built KundliAI, India's first AI-powered Vedic Astrology platform, in 42 days. The platform uses Groq/Llama to generate personalized readings in Hindi or English and Swiss Ephemeris for ac…
SpaceX went public on the Nasdaq at $135 per share, closing at $160.95, valuing the company at nearly $1.8 trillion and making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire on paper. The company's valuatio…
New legislation introduced in Congress aims to standardize DHS communications, leverage nuclear power for space exploration, and require data centers to report environmental impacts. Rep. Shri Thaneda…
Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code at Anthropic, said he has not written a line of code by hand in eight months, relying entirely on the AI tool he helped build. Cherny made the remark during a fir…
Tesla's full self-driving software, the first large-scale deployment of end-to-end AI in a physical system, has demonstrated that the probabilistic, data-driven engineering approach carries inherent r…
ESA researchers David O'Ryan and Pablo Gómez used an AI tool called AnomalyMatch to scan nearly 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive, identifying roughly 1,400 anomalous objects in…
A new collection in PLOS Computational Biology, introduced by Alber, Smith, Laubenbacher, and Merks on June 4, 2026, surveys the use of digital twins and multi-scale modeling in predictive biology and…
TED2026 in Vancouver featured an interstitial program of short films and performances curated by producers CC Hutten and Grace Poppe that alternated between human connection themes and machine-centere…