Ouster’s new color lidar is coming to replace cameras
A sensor that can simultaneously capture depth and image data has long been a "holy grail," Ouster CEO Angus Pacala told TechCrunch.
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SpaceX will pay Elon Musk a bonus if he gets at least 1 million people to live on Mars — here's the plan
Details from the SpaceX IPO registration statement are leaking out and 200 million super-voting restricted shares are on the line for Musk, if he can hit certain milestones.
Is Elon Musk buying Spirit Airlines? Viral tweet claim of 'completely reinventing air travel' debunked in wake of shutdown
A recent social media post claimed Elon Musk is acquiring Spirit Airlines amid reports of the company shutting down its operations. According to Hoops Crave's X post on May 2, Musk is planning to ...
SK Hynix jumps 12% as Big Tech doubles down on AI memory
A $725bn hyperscaler capex ramp and a 20% HBM price rise have made the South Korean chipmaker the second-most valuable company on the KOSPI. The harder question is when supply catches demand. There is a small joke in semiconductor circles about which part of an AI server is most expensive. The graphics processor used to […]This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic and Wall Street are building a $1.5bn pipeline into private equity
A joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic will sell Claude into the buyout firms’ portfolio companies. OpenAI’s DeployCo arrived first; this one is bigger. There is a kind of business school question that has been quietly answered over the past month, without anyone formally asking it. The question is: […]This story continues at The Next Web
Meta would rather leave New Mexico than rebuild its apps for kids
A bench trial in Santa Fe could force algorithm changes, age verification, and a $3.7bn mental health fund. Meta has threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from the state instead. In March, a New Mexico jury reached a verdict that no American jury had reached before. Meta, the company once known as Facebook, had violated […]This story continues at The Next Web
Samsung swaps its TV chief for the first time in two years as TCL closes in
Won-Jin Lee, a marketing veteran, takes over the Visual Display business after a quarter of declining TV profits. His predecessor moves to AI and robotics. Samsung Electronics has changed the head of its television business for the first time in more than two years, an unusually direct admission that something is not quite right at […]This story continues at The Next Web
Nicolas Sauvage is betting on the boring parts of AI
The portfolio he has assembled since 2019 is dotted with technologies that have become more widely interesting to VCs over the last year:
China’s robot-hand unicorn Linkerbot is hunting a $6bn valuation
Two years after a Beijing engineer started building dexterous hands inspired by a Japanese cartoon, his company holds 80% of the global market and is doubling its valuation in months. Robotic hands are not, conventionally, the part of a humanoid robot that investors get excited about. The legs walk, the arms lift, and the head, […]This story continues at The Next Web
We’ll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse
Within hours he'd thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 "founding patrons" had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.
The next satisfactory standard for data governance may not come from Brussels. It may come from Beijing.
The European Union treats data as a privacy right. The United States treats it as a corporate asset. China treats it as a factor of production, a national economic resource on par with land, labour, capital, and technology. That distinction, which sounds like an abstraction, is producing a data governance framework that is structurally different […]This story continues at The Next Web
The US has banned the world’s best drones. It has not figured out how to make them.
Skydio, the largest American drone manufacturer, announced in late April that it would invest $3.5 billion over five years to expand US drone production, open a factory five times larger than its current facility, create more than 2,000 direct jobs and 3,000 supplier jobs, and build a domestic component supply chain through an initiative it […]This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI just turned ChatGPT into the backend for the most popular open-source project in history. Anthropic banned it.
Sam Altman posted on X at 2:33 a.m. on 2 May: “you can sign in to openclaw with your chatgpt account now and use your subscription there! happy lobstering.” The announcement, delivered with the casual register of a founder pushing a minor product update, is anything but minor. OpenAI has made its ChatGPT subscription […]This story continues at The Next Web
‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art
The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."
Tesla is selling Chinese-made cars in Canada to escape the tariffs that both China and America imposed on it
Tesla is now selling Chinese-made Model 3 sedans in Canada at the lowest price the car has ever been offered in the country. The Model 3 Premium RWD, manufactured at Giga Shanghai, starts at C$39,490, roughly US$29,000. Two months ago, the cheapest Model 3 available in Canada was the Long Range AWD built at Tesla’s […]This story continues at The Next Web
The $599 Mac Mini is dead. AI data centres killed it.
Apple has discontinued the 256 gigabyte Mac Mini worldwide. The company’s cheapest desktop computer, the M4 Mac Mini with 16 gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of storage, was available for $599 until last week. It is gone. The Mac Mini now starts at $799 with 512 gigabytes of storage. The 256 gigabyte configuration has […]This story continues at The Next Web
The Academy has not banned AI from the Oscars. It has defined what it means to be the author of a film.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced new eligibility rules on 2 May for the 99th Academy Awards, and the two that matter most are about seven words each. Acting nominations will be limited to roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent.” Screenplays must be “human-authored.” Producers will be required to sign […]This story continues at The Next Web
Every AI company now wants to ride shotgun. The car dashboard is becoming the last screen that matters.
The Grok iOS app now contains a placeholder that reads “Grok Voice mode coming soon to CarPlay.” It is a single line of interface text, and it means that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot is about to follow ChatGPT and Perplexity onto the car dashboards of every iPhone user in the world. The car, it turns […]This story continues at The Next Web
Planet Labs is not selling satellite images. It is selling a subscription to watch the entire planet change in real time.
At 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time on 3 May, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying 45 satellites, three of which belonged to Planet Labs. Pelicans 7, 8, and 9 are the latest additions to Planet’s next-generation constellation of high-resolution Earth observation satellites, bringing the Pelican fleet to nine spacecraft. Each […]This story continues at The Next Web
In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room diagnoses than two human doctors
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.