Innovation

A buildup of dust means the rover, which spent months exploring Mars, may never be able to wake up.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship—which plans to one day take passengers to the moon and Mars—attempted to launch into space Thursday but experienced “a rapid unscheduled disassembly,” exploding before the rocket could make it to space, just days after its first highly anticipated launch was scrapped due to a pressurization problem.

Cortical Labs, an Australian startup developing a new type of artificial intelligence that combines lab-grown human brain cells with computer chips, has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Horizons Ventures, the private investment arm of Hong Kong’s richest person, Li Ka-shing.

The company says it has delivered more than 5 billion DVDs since 1998.

Nvidia held its GTC 2023 event for developers this past week, with a range of announcements in quantum computing, the metaverse, large language models, robotics, automotive and more.

Teixeira allegedly shared records with an online group, largely made up of teenagers, who were supposed to keep things secret.

Nima Momeni of Emeryville, who was arrested Thursday on murder charges, is the owner and founder of Expand IT.

Amazon’s new AI service is focused on offering AI tools to businesses, including two large language models designed by the technology giant.

The test, capable of detecting Parkinson’s before the onset of symptoms, “launches a new, biological era in Parkinson’s research” and could pave the way for a cure, said researcher Kenneth Marek.

Alexandr Wang briefly became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at 24 by supplying artificial intelligence companies with the one thing they all need: humans. Hundreds of thousands of them. Now his $7.3 billion startup Scale AI is primed to cash in on the biggest AI boom yet—unless someone else can do it better or cheaper. […]