Why This Palantir Billionaire Is Backing A Plan To Breed 30,000 Monkeys

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale is investing in an animal testing company that aims to secure a national supply chain of monkeys for biomedical testing.

This Startup Wants You To Recharge Your AC With Cheap Carbon Dioxide

A flight recorder for wayward AI systems. The space industry’s record investments. AI spending warnings. All that and more in this week’s Prototype.

Homeowner Complaints Against Mortgage Servicers Surge After Trump Gutted Agency

Amid high mortgage rates and persistent inflation, beleaguered homeowners are seeing simple accounting errors go unfixed, leaving them to fight for their homes with little help from the CFPB.

Inside OpenAI’s Plan To Protect The Internet Before Hackers Break It

Using the latest GPT model, cyber researchers in OpenAI’s Project Daybreak community found one of the most critical internet bugs in recent memory. It’s part of an all-out sprint to secure the web before hackers can deploy similar tools to wreak havoc …

The Woolly Mammoth Billionaire’s New Startup Is Genetically Engineering War Dogs For The Military

Ben Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

Counterfeiters Are Advertising Fake Cash On TikTok

The Chinese-owned social network has run dozens of ads promoting the sale of counterfeit currency. One even directed users to a Telegram account offering a discount code for 10% off fake money: “TikTok10.”

Germany’s New Robot Billionaire Is Betting Big On Humanoid Gyms

David Reger’s $7 billion Neura Robotics wants to be the Apple of physical AI, building not only an army of industrial and humanoid robots, but also their operating software system and the “gyms” where they will train. Nvidia, Amazon and Tether are onb…

This Startup Wants To Catch AI’s Mistakes

A flight recorder for wayward AI systems. The space industry’s record investments. AI spending warnings. All that and more in this week’s Prototype.