Tech
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Artemis III will practice docking Orion with lunar landers in Earth orbit next year while Musk’s Starship and Bezos’ Blue Moon compete for Artemis IV
Never-before-glimpsed views of the moon’s far side. Check. Total solar eclipse gracing the lunar scene. Check. New distance record for humanity. Check. With NASA’s lunar comeback a galactic-sized smash thanks to Artemis II, the world is wondering: What’s next? And how do you top that? “To people all around the world who look up and
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These startups are racing to make AI safe for the Pentagon’s most closely guarded secrets
The relationship between AI companies and the American defense establishment burst into the open earlier this year when Anthropic found itself in a nasty public fight with the Pentagon. After Anthropic demanded assurances its AI products wouldn’t power domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons, the Pentagon barred all federal agencies and contractors from doing business with
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Man’s best friend may soon live a little longer thanks to a new pill promising to extend your pup’s lifespan
For most dog owners, the hardest part of loving a pet is knowing from the start how it ends. A San Francisco startup called Loyal wants to give you a few more precious moments with your loyal companion, and their results are promising. Loyal is developing a daily prescription pill for senior dogs that the
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AI promises to free workers from grunt work, but psychologists say those mindless tasks are exactly what our brains need to recover
As the debate over AI’s role in the workplace rages on, some experts warn that eliminating menial tasks with AI could come with a hidden cost to productivity. In a Financial Times op-ed last year, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said AI agents were helping customer service workers resolve more queries and helping programmers write more
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‘It’s 13 minutes of things that have to go right’: Artemis II splashes down despite faulty heat shield
After nearly 10 days in space, complete with a historic loop around the moon, the four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission faced their most dangerous moment yet: not in deep space, but in the final 13 minutes of their journey home. “It’s 13 minutes of things that have to go right,” said NASA’s Artemis
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Amazon is still paying Jeff Bezos an $80,000 yearly salary—but $1.6 million for travel and security
Jeff Bezos may be the world’s third-richest man, but his official salary is still less than six-figures. The 62-year-old Amazon founder is worth $254 billion, less than only Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Google cofounder Larry Page, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. Yet, during nearly his entire 25-year tenure as CEO of the top
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First they went after medtech, then Kash Patel. Iranian hackers’ next target is likely ‘low-hanging fruit’ in water, energy, and tourism, experts say
In late March, photos began appearing online from FBI Director Kash Patel’s past. One photo showed him with a cigar in his mouth. In another, he’s holding a baby. The photos were released as part of a cyberattack on Patel’s personal email that released more than 300 messages dated between 2010 and 2019, as well
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The AI that found 27-year-old vulnerabilities no human ever caught before just forced an emergency meeting with every major Wall Street CEO
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed chair Jerome Powell reportedly convened Wall Street leaders on Tuesday in an emergency meeting on concerns about Anthropic’s latest AI model, flagging concerns about a greater cybersecurity risk. Bessent and Powell assembled the group of high-powered execs at the Treasury’s headquarters to ensure banks were aware of the cyber
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Anthropic is limiting access to its latest AI model, Mythos. The real risks may already be out there
Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos,is causing a stir among cybersecurity experts and policymakers. The company says its new model is so skilled at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s too dangerous to release. Instead, it is limiting access to a small group of major technology companies whose software is the foundation for many other
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Ukraine will have the most important defense industrial base in the free world, former CIA chief predicts
The transformation of warfare since Russia invaded Ukraine four years ago is also changing how countries must adapt their defense industries, and Kyiv is leading the way, according to former CIA director and retired Gen. David Petraeus. In an interview with World at Stake earlier this week, he called Ukraine the “arsenal of democracy,” a