Firefly leans into its defense ambitions with $855M SciTec acquisition
Firefly Aerospace has agreed to buy defense analytics firm SciTec for about $855 million in cash and stock as the company tries to push deeper into the national security market.
When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?
When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its generative AI platform. Insilico leads a pack of companies using AI to rapidly come up with drug ideas humans might never think…
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Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline
People over Papers, a crowd-sourcing project that maps sightings of immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days. A Padlet customer service representative told Celeste, one of the…
Heidi Health raises $65M Series B led by Steve Cohen’s Point72
Heidi Health raised a $65 million Series B led by Steven Cohen’s Point72.
Waffles eat Bluesky
A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users.
Suspect arrested after threats against TikTok’s Culver City headquarters
Police say they have arrested a suspect allegedly connected to multiple online threats that led TikTok to evacuate its headquarters near Los Angeles on Friday.
OpenAI and Jony Ive may be struggling to figure out their AI device
OpenAI and Jony Ive reportedly face significant technical challenges as they work to develop a screen-less, AI-powered device.
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TechCrunch Mobility: Toyota makes a $1.5B bet on the startup ecosystem
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
The Reinforcement Gap — or why some AI skills improve faster than others
AI tasks that work well with reinforcement learning are getting better fast — and threatening to leave the rest of the industry behind.