Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
On Friday morning, Shivon Zilis, a top executive and lieutenant of Elon Musk at his brain chip implant company Neuralink—as well as mother of four…
Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges | MIT News
As far back as she can remember, Cathy Wu ’12, MNG ’13 wanted to find ways to solve problems to improve people’s lives. Her parents…
Semifive, Hyundai, Doosan, Aidin, Hanwha Ocean & More
Insider Brief South Korea’s physical AI news this week spanned on-device robotics chips, cobot sensing, shipyard and highway automation, multi-agent manufacturing and a modular robotics…
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
An explosive and newly partially unsealed court filing alleges that the US Department of Homeland Security built up dossiers on ICE observers—including their photos, license…
New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want | MIT News
What makes InstructMesh so adept at following such unique prompts? It pairs Microsoft’s TRELLIS system, which creates 3D models from text and image prompts, with the…
OpenAI Eyes $30B Pre-IPO Round at $1.4T Valuation
OpenAI is in talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in a pre-IPO funding round that would value the ChatGPT maker at roughly…
Range Rover Sport Electric: Price, Specs, Availability
Sandwiched between the launch of the long-awaited full-fat Range Rover Electric at the start of September and the upcoming final reveal of the much-anticipated Jaguar…
New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures | MIT News
RNA vaccines, which have been proven effective against Covid-19, are now being developed for many other diseases, including cancer. One of the drawbacks to these…
SoftBank Invests $225M in Utah’s Autonomous Solutions, Forms Construction Robotics Joint Venture
Insider Brief SoftBank Group invested $225 million in Autonomous Solutions Inc. and formed a joint venture with the industrial automation company to develop and commercialize…
Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
Welcome to Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To…
MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma | MIT News
When MIT mechanical engineering student Daphne Wang arrived for her internship at the Muscogee Creek Nation Department of Health in Tulsa, Oklahoma last summer, she…
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS voice models
Google has launched two Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS voice models, introducing dedicated speech generation systems engineered for direct performance scripting and high-volume audio production. The…