Robinhood’s billionaire cofounder wants to set up hundreds of solar panels in space
Aetherflux, founded by Baiju Bhatt, plans to build a constellation of satellites that can beam renewable energy to the surface using lasers.
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Apple sells privacy to consumers. But it’s quietly helping police use iPhones for surveillance.
At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit, cops from 7 countries learned how to use Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing.
OpenAI seeks dismissal of Elon Musk’s lawsuit—calls it a ‘blusterous’ harassment campaign
OpenAI alleged Musk’s suit was an attempt to gain a competitive advantage for his own artificial intelligence startup, xAI.
Notion and Stripe trust this year-old startup to make sure their AI tools work
Ankur Goyal’s year-old startup is popular with Airtable, Brex, Notion, Stripe and others building AI products. The LLM Ops startup offers evaluations, logging and more.
Australian quantum company sets q-tech funding record with $168 million Series B
Q-CTRL received a further US$59 million (AU$88 million) capital injection, bolstering its latest funding round led by late-stage venture capital firm, GP Bullhound.
Elon Musk’s X loses fight against Australia’s eSafety Commission, forced to pay $610k fine
The Australian Federal Court has ruled that X Corp is obliged to respond to a request addressing the proliferation of child sexual exploitation material on its platform. The Judge has also ordered X to pay eSafety’s legal fees.
Father horrified by an AI Chatbot that mimicked his murdered daughter
Drew Crecente’s daughter was brutally murdered 18 years ago. Someone made a chatbot on unicorn startup Character AI’s platform using her name and yearbook photo.
OpenAI valued at $157 billion after closing $6.6 billion funding round
The artificial intelligence firm was valued around $80 billion at the start of the year.
Melbourne biotech Cartherics raises $15m for ovarian cancer stem cell trial
The funds will also advance Cartherics to target stem cell therapy programs for pancreatic, gastric, liver, kidney, and prostate cancers.
‘Alexa, hook up my brain’: Synchron hits major ‘medical milestone’
Australian brain-computer interface start-up Synchron has hit another target ahead of its Elon-Musk-led rival with a successful trial in six American patients – one of whom had his brain hooked up to Alexa.