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 soun…
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…
The flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan took seven minutes. By car, depending on the time of day, the same journey takes between 60 and 120 minutes. On Friday, Joby Aviation landed its…
Most of the umbilical cord blood collected at birth is discarded. The tissue is clamped, cut, and disposed of as medical waste, along with the stem cells it contains, cells that are immunologically naive, genetically diverse, and capable of being repro…
The United States government now owes more than the country produces. Data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on 30 April showed that debt held by the public stood at $31.27 trillion at the end of March, while nominal GDP over the preceding 12…
The Norway-founded company’s vertically integrated NEO factory in Hayward marks the first US-scale push to put a general-purpose humanoid robot into private homes, with shipments planned this year and a competitive field that is already crowded 1X Tech…
The Trump administration has told Anthropic it disagrees with a controlled rollout that would bring its dangerous cyberattack-capable AI to roughly 120 organisations in total, even as the White House simultaneously explores an executive order to bring …
Elon Musk told a federal jury on Tuesday that his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders is not about him. “It is not okay to steal a charity, that’s my view,” Musk said from the witness stand in Oakland, California, in his first testimony under oa…
China’s Ministry of Commerce warned on Friday that US legislation advancing through Congress would “severely disrupt the international economic and trade order and seriously undermine the stability of the global semiconductor industry chain and supply …
Summary: Stanford professor James Zou is reportedly raising approximately $100 million at a valuation targeting $1 billion for a startup called Human Intelligence that applies AI to research on the human body, according to Bloomberg. Zou’s research inc…