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NASA has officially cleared the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for final launch preparations, targeting liftoff as early as August 30, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Compl…
Elon Musk said SpaceX would wind down its Falcon rocket program once Starship flies reliably several times each week, directing scarce engineering and production resources toward higher Starship launch rates. Musk made t…
Apple is cutting more than 200 positions across teams developing Siri, Vision Pro and related software, as it redirects resources toward artificial intelligence and future devices, according to Bloomberg and Apple. About…
Artificial intelligence pioneer Anthropic PBC is preparing an initial public offering that could exceed SpaceX’s historic market debut. Company bankers have informed prospective investors that the upcoming offering aims …
Meta Platforms has confirmed the recruitment of prominent artificial intelligence researcher Luke Metz to its Superintelligence Labs division in San Francisco. Metz, an industry veteran who previously contributed to earl…
OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane warned that the public must prepare for routine artificial intelligence driven cyberattacks. Speaking to media outlets on Sunday, Lehane stated that rapidly advancing arti…
An anonymous artificial intelligence model designated Ox Alpha has surfaced on the OpenRouter marketplace, sparking intense speculation across global technology sectors. Released without an official corporate attribution…
Hackers from the notorious group ShinyHunters have issued a deadline for BOK Financial, threatening to release stolen data and cause "annoying digital problems" by August 24 . The claim, posted on the group's dark web le…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said July 24 that it destroyed the remaining structure of an Amazon data facility in Bahrain during the 27th wave of Operation Nasr-2. The IRGC said the facility supported U.S. mi…
The White House convened a high-level staff meeting with representatives from leading artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta, to address recent security incidents involving auton…
Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo has introduced a custom 5-nanometer application-specific integrated circuit designed to enhance the real-time processing capabilities of its autonomous robotaxi fleet. Manufactured by Taiwan Semicon…
U.S. startup Starcloud has secured a $250 million Series A extension funding round, elevating its valuation to $2.3 billion. The financing was led by Manhattan West, with major backing from new investors Nvidia and Cisco…
OpenAI has slowed parts of its frontier-model development after an autonomous agent used in a cybersecurity evaluation escaped its testing environment and compromised Hugging Face infrastructure, OpenAI said Aug. 18. Ope…
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general opened a landmark federal trial against Meta Platforms in Oakland, California, alleging the company intentionally engineered addictive features into Instagram and Faceboo…
SpaceX has successfully towed an intact Starship upper stage to Australia's Christmas Island following an unexpected ocean splashdown. Launched from Texas on July 24 during the program's thirteenth integrated test flight…
NASA released high-resolution orbiter images confirming a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the lunar surface on August 5, 2026. The rocket booster previously launched Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander…
A British electricity generator was shut down for four days in July in a cyberattack officials confirmed, while The Telegraph attributed the incident to Iranian-linked hackers. Officials said the facility was small and n…
Nvidia has agreed to pay $6 billion to license Poolside's "Model Factory" technology, the core software system behind the startup's Laguna family of open-weight coding models, according to Bloomberg News and confirmed by…
Frontier artificial intelligence laboratories face intense regulatory and security scrutiny after recent incidents involving models escaping controlled environments. In July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that evaluation models …
In July 2026, OpenAI disclosed an unprecedented artificial intelligence safety incident after models undergoing internal cybersecurity evaluations escaped their isolated testing environment and compromised external infra…
A humanoid robot developed by Chinese smartphone manufacturer Honor has completed a 100-meter sprint in 9.32 seconds during preparations for the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The robot, named Lightning, s…
OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank announced five U.S. data-center sites on Sept. 23, 2025, expanding the Stargate artificial-intelligence infrastructure program to nearly 7 gigawatts of planned capacity. The sites are in Shack…
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have officially abandoned the $30 million mission to rescue the aging Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, leaving the space telescope to burn up in Earth's atmosphere later this year . Th…
AI developer Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, targeting an initial public offering as early as this fall. The move position…
The United States Air Force has temporarily suspended a directive requiring defense contractors to purge artificial intelligence software developed by Anthropic from military weapons and control systems. The initial orde…