Heron Power raises $140M to ramp production of grid-altering tech
Tesla alumni Drew Baglino raises a large round to build a giga-scale factory, this time at his own startup.
Inside Chicago’s surveillance panopticon
Early on the morning of September 2, 2024, a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train was the scene of a random and horrific mass shooting. Four people were shot and killed on a westbound train as it approached the suburb of Forest Park. The police swiftly activated a digital dragnet—a surveillance network that connects thousands…
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Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open-source AI
The new lineup includes 30-billion and 105-billion parameter models; a text-to-speech model; a speech-to-text model; and a vision model to parse documents.
DG Matrix raises $60M to make data center power smarter
The startup is making solid-state transformers capable of intelligently aggregating power from a number of different sources before sending it to data center racks.
The robots who predict the future
To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience or the logic of cause and effect, has helped us hunt, avoid being hunted, plant crops, forge social bonds, and in general survive in a world that does not…
Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream
“We’re out of airspace now. We can do whatever we want,” Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen tells me from the pilot’s seat of his Aston Martin helicopter. As we fly over suburbs outside Melbourne, Australia, it’s becoming clear that doing whatever he wants is Thorbjornsen’s MO. Upper-middle-class homes give way to vineyards, and Thorbjornsen points out our landing…
U.S. court bars OpenAI from using ‘Cameo’
OpenAI has renamed its feature in Sora from “Cameo” to “Characters.”
Tesla dodges 30-day suspension in California after removing Autopilot
The decision comes a month after Tesla discontinued Autopilot, its basic driver-assistance system.
Intellexa’s Predator spyware used to hack iPhone of journalist in Angola, research says
Amnesty International says it found evidence that a government customer of Intellexa, a sanctioned surveillance vendor, used its Predator spyware against a prominent journalist in Angola.
Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP
Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he would be joining the firm as a general partner.
Ford turns to F1 and bounties to build a $30,000 electric truck
The team, led by Tesla veteran Alan Clarke, is obsessed with efficiency.