18 Jun 2026
NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX
Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars.
17 Jun 2026
Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.
Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest AI labs are racing to teach machines to operate in the physical world. But building capable robots requires something the AI industry doesn’t yet have, which is the training data to match that used for language models. That gap is creating a new kind of infrastructure…
17 Jun 2026
SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
Few energy sources can top geothermal’s potential, with at least 42 terawatts of capacity available worldwide, according to the IEA, more than twice the world’s energy use last year. The technology is shaping up to be the energy world’s dark horse, even though investment in the tech pales in comparison to startups in advanced nuclear fission and fusion power.
16 Jun 2026
Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Anthropic is having a month. The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just revealed.
16 Jun 2026
SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO
SpaceX has captured the attention of media, investors, and the public for years now — interest propelled by the company’s reusable rocket launches, the rise of its Starlink satellite network, and of course, for its founder and CEO Elon Musk. But in its 24-year history, nothing quite compared to its initial public offering. Everyone seemed interested — perhaps because of the sheer size of the IPO.…
15 Jun 2026
A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here’s what that means
For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has found what it was looking for — on its own, without human analysts on the ground. The milestone, which occurred in April, marks the first reported use of a vision-language model in orbit, and offers a glimpse of how AI could fundamentally change what space-based sensors are capable of — and how much they’re worth.
14 Jun 2026
As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?
SpaceX went public this week in the largest IPO ever , making CEO Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire . Despite its name, SpaceX has been emphasizing the potential of its costly AI business , and competitors OpenAI and Anthropic may soon follow with their own public market debuts.
13 Jun 2026
Anthropic's safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI
The U.S. government on Friday ordered Anthropic to immediately shut off access to two of its most powerful AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — citing national security concerns.
11 Jun 2026
Coinbase’s new tool can help agents trade and pay for premium research
As AI agent traffic surpasses human traffic on the internet, companies working in commerce and finance are building tools that allow agents to take action on behalf of users at a rapid pace.
