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SpaceX is going all in on AI data centers in space — and the company kicked off its IPO week with a sneak peek.In an interview with a SpaceX employee uploaded onto X on Monday, Elon Musk revealed the most detailed look yet at the AI satellite the company is planning to launch into space in droves.According to the specs shared by SpaceX, the AI data center will be 20 meters tall and have a wingspan of 70 meters, making it the largest satellite the rocket firm has launched to date. A rendering of SpaceX’s orbital data center. SpaceX Musk…
The robot-training gold rush is coming for gig work.Instawork, best known for matching hourly staff with shifts at hotels, warehouses, and stadiums, is launching a wearable camera system that helps gig workers collect real-world data for training machines.Business Insider got the first look at the new system, called Instacore. It includes five cameras mounted on the head, chest, and wrists, connected to a compute backpack built to last an eight-hour shift.The goal is to have Instawork workers, known as Pros, record themselves doing tasks on the job, from chopping vegetables in a commercial kitchen to stocking shelves in a grocery…
SEATTLE (AP) — Bengie Santos was a dancer and choreographer for 30 years before reaching an age when most artists hang up their dancing shoes and take a seat in the audience. But she wasn’t ready to sit back and enjoy the show. So Santos began her third act as an exercise instructor.Now 72 and in her 14th year teaching at the YMCA of Greater Seattle, Santos has an almost cult-like following of older adults — many in their 80s and 90s — who come to stretch, dance and lift weights multiple times a week.From Doris Day singalongs to hip-hop…
While most college kids spent December cramming for finals, 19-year-old Zach Yadegari was selling his multimillion-dollar nutrition app.MyFitnessPal acquired Cal AI, an AI-powered calorie-tracking app that Yadegari cofounded while he was in high school, late last year. The app officially launched in May 2024, amassing 10 million users and $30 million in annual revenue. While there are many reasons to sell an app — money, partnerships, shifting consumer trends — Yadegari said honest conversations between the founders solidified their decision.”Ultimately, it came down to us discussing everyone’s priorities and goals in life. That framework really helped us come to a…
Perplexity is keeping its 2028 IPO plans intact as OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX lead a wave of high-profile offerings that could put investor appetite to the test.Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of the AI-powered search and answer engine startup, told CNBC that the company’s timeline remains unchanged by the market reception to upcoming debuts from peers OpenAI and Anthropic.”Agnostic of these two companies, we were planning for something in 2028, so that still remains the case,” Srinivas told the network in an interview that aired on Tuesday.His comments come as the AI industry moves toward what could be one of the…
For years, Apple has been accused of being one of the biggest stragglers in the AI arms race. Doubters have argued that Apple’s lack of a clear AI strategy have cost it its edge, and Wall Street analysts have worried that the gap could start hurting iPhone sales. Now, the company has unveiled what it is billing as its biggest AI launch to date: Siri AI, which embeds new automated capabilities (fueled by a partnership with Google Gemini) into the very spine of its software. Is it enough to get people to stop saying that Apple is “losing” the AI…
In recent days, founders and founders-turned-investors took to X to share horror stories about being mistreated by VCs. Their complaints ranged from VCs falling asleep during pitch meetings to investors suggesting a founder fire a co-founder. Brendan Foody, co-founder of the AI talent platform Mercor, which was last valued at $10 billion, went so far as to call out Sequoia, arguably one of the most elite VC firms in the world. “The “sequoia scam” is worse than a single horror story,” Foody wrote on X. “in the last 6 [months] ive seen a half dozen rounds where sequoia invests in…
MALMÖ, Sweden (AP) — Long championed as a leader in adopting digital technology, Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools beginning in the fall for the next academic year as part of a broad, international reversal on the use of screens in classrooms.Since 2023, the Scandinavian country’s center-right coalition government has pursued a policy prioritizing more reading time and less screen time, particularly among preschool students, by favoring books and other traditional learning tools. Lawmaker Joar Forsell, chairperson of the Swedish parliament’s education committee, said officials have seen a decline in the general ability to read and write…
OpenAI announced on Monday that it confidentially filed for an IPO, marking what could become one of the defining public offerings of the decade. And then there’s OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s other company, Tools for Humanity, which is reportedly conducting layoffs, according to Business Insider. TechCrunch has reached out to the company for confirmation. You might know Tools for Humanity better through its verification project known as World — and its related device, a creepy silver orb that wants to scan your eyeballs. The idea is that the company will be able to verify people’s identities using unique iris scans,…
The vibe of Apple’s 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference felt like a spouse proudly listing all the items on a honey-do-list they’d finally completed. Rather than showcase something exciting and new, Apple launched the keynote detailing fixes to last year’s “Liquid Glass” design; an overhaul of its awful search function; improvements to its Playground feature; and so on. Perhaps most importantly, two years after promising but failing to launch a smarter Siri, Apple finally showed off an overhauled version of its AI-powered voice assistant. But the most telling detail wasn’t what Apple announced. It was how it chose to show some…