NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced Wednesday they are giving up on a robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray telescope before it falls out of orbit.…
The rescue satellite, named Link, launched July 3 on a journey to fly …
Link is about the size of a refrigerator, with two power-generating so…
Katalyst, the startup leading the Swift rescue effort, said Wednesday …
OpenAI ‘temporarily slows’ scaling efforts, also promises zero data retention for select frontier model customers
OpenAI this week announced multiple moves designed to counter negative perceptions of its security and privacy, saying it had slowed its pace of scaling, implemented a two-week pause in reinforcement learning, and will be offering zero data retention for “eligible API customers.…
” In its first announcement, issued Tuesday, OpenAI said it “temporari…
Those efforts occurred while OpenAI hardened and red-teamed its resear…
” OpenAI’s statement said the company will “now require stronger evide…
StarFive Dubhe-100 – A 64-bit, RVA23-compliant RISC-V core for high-performance applications
StarFive has launched a new high-performance 64-bit RISC-V core from the Dubhe family with the RVA23-compliant Dubhe-100 designed for servers and HPC, as well as other high-performance applications.…
The new RISC-V IP core delivers a SPECint2006 score of 15/GHz, support…
StarFive Dubhe-100 key features and specifications: ISA – RV64GCBVH 15…
Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.
OCC Promises Final Rule for GENIUS Act by November
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) will have a final rule implementing the GENIUS Act out by November, Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V.…
Gould said Wednesday (Aug.
19) at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium.
“We were working on the rule even before the President actually signed…
Elon Musk Is Expected to Point His Money Machine at Texas
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk is expected to spend up to $200 million in the midterms. It could be a big boost for GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who’s struggled to raise cash.
Nvidia Weighs Investment in Round Valuing Mercor at $20 Billion
Nvidia has discussed participating in a funding round that would value Mercor, a data labeling provider that supplies data that helps the chip designer develop open-source models, at $20 billion, The Information reported Wednesday (Aug.…
19), citing unnamed sources.
The size of Nvidia’s potential investment and the total funding round …
Mercor’s revenue from Nvidia has been growing as the chip company focu…
Eartheye Space forges strategic partnership with IN2
SAN FRANCISCO – Risk-management firm IN2 will have access to Eartheye Space multi-sensor satellite tasking and analytics through a memorandum of understanding signed Aug.…
IN2 will include Eartheye satellite […] The post Eartheye Space forges…
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