Rocket Report: SpaceX says no thanks to military launches; Spanish rocket nearly ready
Welcome to Edition 9.16 of the Rocket Report! Lots of SpaceX-related news this week including a couple of Thursday shockers. In one story, the company
Category: Tech
US Treasury moves to curb AI, chip and biotech deals in China and Russia
“The proposed regulations would strengthen the existing Outbound Investment Security Program to prevent our adversaries from using U.S. investment to develop critical technologies that threaten
Trump says Google’s Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean
“No, no, no. This time I’m not doing it… Oceans are different, sir.” That is what Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said when Tweety McTreason
Put Your A.I. Agents to Work with These 5 Killer Tasks
When you start using Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots for these tasks — like applying for jobs and booking hard-to-get restaurant tables — you may
Amazon settles with ex-AWS managers in kickback lawsuit, GeekWire reports
Amazon has settled its lawsuit against two former Amazon Web Services real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on data centre deals, GeekWire reported. Amazon
OpenAI checked fired researchers’ phones for Signal chats, WSJ reports
“I was told that there was a breach of trust because I interacted with a third party through unsanctioned channels,” Tomek Korbak said. Korbak is
Western Australia seeks refund from Deloitte over flawed AI-aided report
Western Australia’s government is seeking a fast refund from Deloitte over a flawed report on merging three of the state’s universities. The report contained AI-generated
Ukraine says Starlink drone speeds are back above 400 km/h
Ukraine’s Starlink and Starshield links now work for drones flying faster than 400 km/h, Defence Minister Yevhenii Khmara said on Saturday. A speed cap had
Knicks sent employees fake offer of championship rings in phishing test: Report
The New York Knicks organization sent employees a phishing email promising free championship rings in a test of its staff’s ability to detect scams, The
Everybody panic: A Valve developer said “HLX” in public
Gamers still hoping against hope for a true follow-up to Half-Life 2 (after so, so many years) may remember last year’s flurry of speculation that
Elon Musk invests about $1bn in David Ellison’s Skydance
“I would not doubt for a minute that before very long you’re going to see an announcement,” cable billionaire John Malone said on Tuesday. Two
DeepSeek and MiniMax cleared to take AI models abroad, state media says
“Since the policy was announced, two leading companies, DeepSeek and MiniMax, have successfully completed the registration process and obtained open-source and overseas licensing rights.” That
Put Your A.I. Agents to Work with These 4 Killer Tasks
When you start using Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots for these tasks — like applying for jobs and booking hard-to-get restaurant tables — you may
Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs
US chip champion Intel was so confused by the US government ban on foreign-made robots that it requested and received a waiver “out of an