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Jensen Huang's Nvidia ranks among SpaceX's largest shareholders.Philip FONG / AFP via Getty ImagesSeveral of SpaceX’s biggest investors have made themselves known.The biggest backers of Elon Musk’s company include Alphabet, Nvidia, and Saudi Arabia.Companies tied to Peter Thiel and Ron Baron are also on the list.Some of SpaceX’s biggest shareholders…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Myung-hee Na, an engineer with more than two decades of experience in the semiconductor industry who leads technology research at Intel Foundry. At Intel, she focuses on developing next-generation technology in semiconductor chips. The conversation has been edited for length and…
Lottery jackpots continue to climb to staggering heights, with the Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing now sitting at an estimated $707 million.Although billion-dollar prizes remain rare, they’ve become far more common over the past decade.The Christmas Eve Powerball jackpot of $1.817 billion was the second-largest lottery prize in US history,…
For the first time in the four-decade fight against HIV, there is a “miracle” drug that can all but eliminate the risk of infection, but in the Latin American countries where it was tested, most people can’t afford it.Trials show that lenacapavir, made by Gilead Sciences, is almost 100% effective…
Microsoft’s latest earnings were as much about reassurance as results.In a memo to employees after the company reported quarterly earnings, CFO Amy Hood pointed to Azure’s growth and Copilot’s momentum as evidence that Microsoft’s biggest AI bets are paying off, even as the company spends tens of billions of dollars…
Google’s latest earnings call offered a familiar message: AI is driving growth, and it’s also getting more expensive.On Wednesday, Alphabet reported second-quarter revenue of $119.8 billion, up 24% from a year earlier, while Google Cloud posted another blockbuster quarter as enterprises raced to adopt AI. At the same time, executives…
Chances are, you’ve heard of Hyrox. If not, it may only be a matter of time.Hyrox, a group fitness competition, has ballooned in popularity. The race combines 1-kilometer running stints with functional fitness stations like sled pushes and pulls, burpees, and farmer’s carries, all set to a party atmosphere that…
AI is making a lot of people rich. You might not be one of them, says Palantir CEO Alex Karp — and that’s the problem.In an interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner, Karp said AI will likely raise living standards broadly, but the scale of gains at the very…
OpenAI has built a super app for work.On Thursday, the company announced it is now merging its popular Codex AI coding tool into its ChatGPT desktop app, a move to turn the flagship AI app into a one-stop shop for engineers and other professionals. OpenAI also revealed a Work setting…
In what is perhaps Thomas Edison’s most famous quote, the inventor said, “Genius is one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.”For most of Edison’s career, this perspiration took place in his laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey.When the laboratory opened in 1887, Edison had already been credited with inventing the light…
