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The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total addressable market, a pay package tied to establishing a Mars colony, and a valuation target that would make it the largest IPO in American history.  Watch as Equity podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into what the filing actually says, what it leaves out, and whether any of this math connects to reality. The team also covers NanoCo turning down a $20M buyout to raise a $12M seed for its secure Nano Claw…

UC Berkeley Law School’s stricter AI policy forbids students from using it for things like brainstorming, but a professor who helped write the new rules says the school doesn’t want to outright ban the tech.”Our policy is about developing students with the fundamental skills required for AI lawyering,” UC Berkeley Law School professor Chris Hoofnagle told Business Insider.Hoofnagle said the school recognized that its 2023 AI use policy was “too liberal” in allowing students to use AI, especially given advancements in generative AI models since then.”It can, in effect, write a research paper soup to nuts,” Hoofnagle said. “So, the…

POLITICO has obtained a draft of the executive order on artificial intelligence that President Donald Trump had been expected to sign Thursday afternoon, only to abruptly postpone the event.The document — available here — was meant to address concerns that advanced AI products from companies such as Anthropic could unleash devastating cyberattacks and wreak other havoc if they fell into the wrong hands. It called for creating a voluntary oversight system in which developers of advanced AI models could submit their products to a review by federal agencies as much as 90 days before releasing them, POLITICO previously reported.Among other…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court on Friday declined to reconsider a decision that put the government a step closer to deporting him, the pro-Palestinian activist’s lawyers said.Judges on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia voted 6-5 against having the court’s full complement of judges review the ruling. In January, a three-judge 3rd Circuit panel found that a federal judge in New Jersey who had sided with Khalil and ordered his release last year from immigration detention didn’t have…

For small, product-based businesses, managing inventory well is a matter of survival. Order too much, and you’re drowning in carrying costs. Order too little and you lose sales, tank your rankings, and frustrate loyal customers.At the same time, understanding the ins and outs of inventory management is also a heavy lift, especially when you’re a solopreneur running a business on your own.”As a company, we’re selling through our website, through Amazon, through QuickBooks to manage our wholesale accounts, we drop ship on Nordstrom: We’ve got all these different channels that we’re trying to manage,” Jen Podany, the founder of the…

Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI summaries and kicking the traditional “ten blue links” far down the page. But the sheer scale of Google Search means there are lots of edge cases that the company doesn’t seem to have considered. For instance, this is what you’ll now get if you type the word “disregard” into Google Search. ScreenshotImage Credits:Screenshot Google has been catching some flack on social media for this, and it’s easy to see why. As you’ll notice, the Merriam-Webster link is still in there, but you have to scroll past a…

AppLovin lost its bid to buy TikTok, and now it is taking its social media aspirations into its own hands.The adtech firm quietly released a new app this month called Gist that feels a bit like a hybrid of TikTok, its sister app Lemon8, and the Chinese app RedNote. Gist’s feed, which requires a referral code to access, features photo carousels, videos, and mini-games.”Welcome to Gist,” the app tells users upon joining, describing itself as a “handbook for the curious, the grounded, and the real.”Users can select content categories they’re interested in, such as travel, relationships, or career advice. There…

Anthropic wants a good writer — and has the cash to back it up.The AI lab is hiring a copy lead to “help define how Anthropic speaks to enterprise audiences.” The role requires writing skills across long-form, scripts, events, and social copy.The job requires 10 years of experience and is expected to pay between $255,000 and $320,000.It’s not the only high-paying writing job on Anthropic’s hiring docket. The company is also hiring a head of copy and content, with a salary range of $320,000 to $400,000.AI companies are trying hard to communicate their products — which can often be technical — to…

At the Google I/O developer conference this week, we had the opportunity for a brief hands-on with Google’s upcoming AI-powered glasses — not the audio-only glasses that the company said will begin shipping this fall but rather the glasses that offer a combined audio and visual experience. First announced at last year’s event, these Android XR glasses offer an in-lens display that puts helpful information in front of you, overlaid on top of the real world. This includes widgets that could display things like the weather, walking directions, Uber pickup details, live translation, and more — even widgets you designed…

SpaceX’s Starship was meant to fly, and Nicki Minaj had a front row seat.The launch, which was testing a new version of SpaceX’s most powerful rocket, was scrubbed on Thursday due to technical issues.”The hydraulic pin holding the tower arm in place did not retract,” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X.”Starships” singer Minaj made a surprise appearance at the company’s Starbase Texas launch site wearing a SpaceX Starship T-shirt.”Major shout-out to Elon,” Minaj said on the SpaceX livestream during the countdown. “Elon, thank you for everything that you’re doing for humanity.”She added: “This is historic. This…