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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin grounds New Glenn rocket after a bad engine put a satellite in the wrong orbit
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, blamed a bad engine Monday for a failed weekend launch that left a satellite in the wrong orbit, dooming it. Launches of the huge New Glenn rocket are grounded until Blue Origin and the Federal Aviation Administration complete their investigation. The rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force
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Meet John Ternus, the 51-year-old former swimming champ who will succeed Tim Cook as Apple CEO
Apple has officially announced its most significant leadership transition in more than a decade. John Ternus, the company’s 51-year-old senior vice president of hardware engineering, has been named as CEO Tim Cook’s successor, effective Sept. 1. Cook will become executive chairman of the board, and he will remain CEO through the summer working on the
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Half of all new electricity demand in the U.S. last year came from data centers—just as public opinion of them plummets
The U.S. just had one of its most energy-hungry years in recent memory, and the largest single driver of demand happens to be a lightning rod. Energy demand in the U.S. grew 2% in 2025, according to a report on the global state of energy published Monday by the International Energy Agency (IEA), a watchdog
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The hidden ROI of AI: What leaders should actually measure
The promise of AI seems almost unlimited. Organizations worldwide are expanding access, investing heavily, and launching pilots at speed. Despite this optimism, the reality is more complex: the hardest work is moving AI pilots into production and measuring success beyond immediate financial returns. Deloitte has seen this dynamic first-hand: broad access is necessary, but the
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Exclusive: Your delivery robot will now offer the blind real-time, on-the-ground eyes around sidewalk hazards
The delivery robots rolling down your sidewalk have cameras, sensors, and a constant need to dodge whatever is in their path. Think fallen e-scooters, construction zones, and tricky curbs. That data gets stored so that other robots know what lies ahead of them—and it’s now going to the world’s most widely used GPS app for
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Humanoid robot runs faster than any person ever has in a half marathon during all-bot race in China
A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a show of China’s technological leaps. The winner from Honor, a Chinese smartphone maker, completed the 21-kilometer (13-mile) race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, according to a WeChat post by the Beijing
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Blue Origin launches New Glenn, suffers issue deploying craft
Blue Origin’s flagship New Glenn rocket launched to space on its third flight, reusing a booster for the first time but failing to correctly place the satellite it was carrying into its intended orbit. The rocket took off from the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida at approximately 7:25 a.m. local time, and its reusable first
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Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago
In 1987, economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow made a stark observation about the stalling evolution of the Information Age: Following the advent of transistors, microprocessors, integrated circuits, and memory chips of the 1960s, economists and companies expected these new technologies to disrupt workplaces and result in a surge of productivity. Instead, productivity growth slowed,
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The economist who was terrified of AI just found a rare reason for hope
Alex Imas didn’t arrive at optimism easily. The University of Chicago economist economist occupies an unusual space in being one of the leading researchers on AI’s labor market impact, but also one of its most avid adopters. Unlike many of his peers, he is taking the doomsday scenarios, perhaps best exemplified by Citrini Research’s viral
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This founder was an AI layoff 9 months ago. Then he built an instantly profitable company with 2 partners and 12 agents
Nine months ago, Sam Brown was out of a job. The reason, he’ll tell you without a sense of bitterness, was artificial intelligence. The company he’d spent years building a career inside decided it needed fewer people, and he was one of them. “I got laid off nine months ago, and it was AI-related,” said