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Artemis II breaks distance record as new books reframe the point of human spaceflight

The lunar flyby drew tens of millions of viewers and reignited the debate over whether crewed missions justify their cost.

Anthropic annualized revenue run rate climbs to $65B as growth accelerates

Investors expect Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate to reach between $100B and $120B by the end of 2026, the Financial Times reported.

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Artemis II breaks distance record as new books reframe the point of human spaceflight

The lunar flyby drew tens of millions of viewers and reignited the debate over whether crewed missions justify their cost.

Anthropic annualized revenue run rate climbs to $65B as growth accelerates

Investors expect Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate to reach between $100B and $120B by the end of 2026, the Financial Times reported.

AI workflow startup Relay closes, CEO joins Google Chrome team

Relay founder Jacob Bank returns to Google as VP of Product for Chrome, following its July closure announcement.

Flock’s new safeguards still allow officers to enter bogus case numbers

Flock's updates aim to stop officer stalking, but privacy groups see loopholes for mass surveillance.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning arrives on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

The open MoE model activates 3B of 30B parameters per forward pass for up to 4x throughput and 30% faster task completion.

Nvidia invests $1.5B in SB Energy, the data center developer behind OpenAI

The deal makes Nvidia the sole compute supplier for OpenAI's Ports-Pike data center near Cincinnati, Ohio.

Moxie AI companion robot maker goes out of business and shuts down servers

The shutdown of Moxie's servers leaves neurodivergent children without the AI companion they relied on for social practice.

Google partners with five football clubs to bring Gemini and Pixel to fans

Gemini will deliver match insights and stats while Pixel cameras capture behind-the-scenes content for supporters.

Zuckerberg’s AI future vision meets skepticism over Meta’s social media history

TechCrunch Equity panelists cite broken social media promises as a reason to doubt personal AI agents.

Anthropic CEO Amodei says AI backlash is fundamentally a crisis of trust

Amodei argues the AI backlash stems from a decades-long crisis of trust in companies, governments, and tech.

Woman joins lawsuit alleging stepfather used Grok for explicit images

The stepfather allegedly created over 7,000 explicit images from a photo taken when she was 11.

Anthropic details Claude watermarking approach and detection API

The company will use Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text and release a detection API for EU AI Act compliance.