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Chinese, HK Investors Banned From SpaceX IPO on Security Grounds

Underwriters on SpaceX’s $75 billion initial public offering have been told not to accept orders from investors in Hong Kong and China, citing US restrictions around the export of critical technology, people with knowledge of the matter…

SpaceX won't get early access to the S&P 500

The largest index in the world won't relax its rules to let SpaceX enter early.

What SpaceX is really worth, according to the professor called the dean of valuation

Aswath Damodaran, the New York University finance professor with the nickname the “dean of valuation,” had estimated, before getting a look at the prospectus, that SpaceX was worth $1.2 trillion. What he says now.

Musk tells Jamie Dimon that America faces a catastrophic 'zero memory fab' crisis

Elon Musk revealed SpaceX's IPO plans, driven by capital-intensive projects like deploying 100,000 satellites and orbital AI data centers. He emphasized the critical threat of the US lacking domestic high-volume computer memory chip…

Apex Space Doubles Valuation to $2.3 Billion in Funding Round

Startup Apex Space announced that it had raised more than $200 million as it works to increase production of satellite platforms for commercial firms and government work, including the development of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome…

Cambridge scientists develop first ‘AI vaccine’ against coronaviruses. Here’s how it works

The New World Screwworm Is Back. Here’s What That Means.

Here’s why farmers and scientists are concerned over the New World screwworm’s unwelcome return to the United States.

Wind from Milky Way's supermassive black hole is finally discovered

A disease of deforestation: how Ebola is linked to the smartphone in your pocket

As demand for cobalt, gold and other minerals grows, mining is accelerating deforestation in the Congo basin – and increasing the risk of deadly Ebola outbreaks For decades after the discovery of Ebolavirus in 1976, outbreaks of the…

Tencent’s chief AI scientist dismisses lag concerns, says race a ‘long-term game’

Yao Shunyu, the former OpenAI researcher now leading Tencent Holdings’ artificial intelligence model development, pushed back against concerns that the tech giant is slow in AI, arguing that the race is just beginning with massive untapped…

The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos

On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email addresses that they controlled, and the…

Scientists are teaching AI-powered robots to run lab experiments

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots to take over human researchers' most laborious, time-consuming tasks. (Image credit: Jodi Hilton for NPR)