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Starbase injury rates outpace rivals as SpaceX chases its Mars moonshot

SpaceX has been moving at breakneck pace, rapid progress comes at a cost. Worker injury rates at its Starbase facility are almost six times higher than the average, data reveals.

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Meta refuses to sign EU’s AI code of practice

Meta will not sign the EU’s new rules, calling the implementation “over-reach”

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Netflix starts using GenAI in its shows and films

Netflix said it used gen AI for the first time for a scene in an Argentinean show called El Atonata.

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Perplexity sees India as a shortcut in its race against OpenAI

Perplexity is quietly expanding into India to compete with OpenAI in the next phase of AI adoption.

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‘Utopian’ city California Forever announces huge tech manufacturing park 

Solano Foundry is a 2,100-acre manufacturing park that can host 40 million square feet of advanced tech manufacturing space.

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Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users

Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the … Continue reading

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Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep

Microsoft’s data center boom has been imperiling its 2030 carbon negative pledge, so the tech giant is turning to Vaulted Deep, which operates like a reverse oil company.

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Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts

Hadrian wants to revolutionize American manufacturing through automation.

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After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering

Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye, one of the first among the small number of Black women to raise more than $1 million in venture capital, announced on Thursday the closure of her award-winning beauty startup Ami Colé. 

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OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT

OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT agent, which the company claims to be its most capable AI agent product yet.

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