SpaceX abruptly aborted the second launch attempt of its upgraded Starship rocket system on Thursday, moments after the booster ignited at the company’s complex in South Texas. The company was attempting to return to flight just weeks after the first Starship V3 launch in May. CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X that
US beverage maker Coca-Cola said one of its dairy subsidiaries was hacked and will close operations for the foreseeable future. The multinational giant said in a disclosure to the US Securities and Exchange Commission that its dairy company Fairlife was attacked by ransomware and its production systems were affected. The company said its Fairlife production
Roblox on Thursday announced a new feature called “Build,” which allows users to design games from their mobile devices using AI. The Build feature allows anyone to turn simple text messages into a basic game without any programming experience. For example, if a user types, “Let’s make a cozy adventure game set in a dense
Ryan Beiermeister has joined Founders Fund as a partner, he announced Monday. Beiermeister is well known in Silicon Valley for several reasons. For one thing, prior to this role, she spent about two years as VP of Product Policy at OpenAI, which became a household name shortly after ChatGPT became the fastest-growing app in history.
OpenAI’s Sora may have gone out of business, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids that will let you create a custom digital avatar that looks and sounds like you based on
BP has had an on-again, off-again relationship with climate technology. Now, it’s definitely “off.” In addition to moving away from clean energy earlier this year, the oil giant announced today that it would sell most of its portfolio of companies (more than 10 companies, according to BP) to Verdane, a Nordic private equity firm. Since
