Madrid’s Orbital Paradigm aims to prove a cheaper path to orbital reentry
Orbital Paradigm is moving fast and cheap to industrialize low Earth orbit.
Mistral, the French AI giant, is reportedly on the cusp of securing a $14B valuation
The two-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences.
Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers
Scale is clearly concerned enough about the threat of Mercor, and the poaching of one of its employees, to pursue legal action.
FirstClub bucks India’s speed obsession, quickly triples valuation to $120M with premium approach
FirstClub has raised $23 million in a Series A round co-led by Accel and RTP Global to expand its premium quick commerce platform.
Apple’s Siri upgrade could reportedly be powered by Google Gemini
An AI Siri is in the works and it could be running Gemini under the hood.
xAI’s CFO is the latest executive to leave Elon Musk’s AI firm
While at xAI, Mike Liberatore helped orchestrate the company’s $5 billion debt raise, alongside another $5 billion in equity — almost half of which came from SpaceX.
CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe
CoreWeave hopes the YC-backed startup will help it expand down the stack, and cash in on enterprises developing AI agents.
SpaceX gets a green light to more than double its Florida launches
SpaceX is one step closer to nearly tripling the number of Falcon 9 launches from Florida.
Pornhub owner pays $5M settlement to FTC over historic failure to block abusive content
Pornhub owner Aylo will pay a $5 million settlement to the FTC and Utah over allegations that the company knowingly profited off of illegal materials.
Google’s NotebookLM now lets you customize the tone of its AI podcasts
When generating an Audio Overview, users can now choose whether they want their AI podcasts to be formatted like a “Deep Dive,” “Brief,” “Critique,” or “Debate.”