Elon Musk has combined his companies SpaceX and xAI, which could change the landscape of the tech industry. With a net worth of $800 billion, Musk is already comparable to some of the largest companies in history. He believes that success in technology comes from how quickly new ideas can be developed and implemented. This merger might set a new standard for how powerful companies operate in...

Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work ArXiv, a widely used open repository for preprint research, is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers. Although papers are posted to the site before they are peer-reviewed, arXiv (pronounced “archive”) has become one of the main ways that research circulates...

Hot air balloon makes emergency landing in California backyardA couple in Temecula, California, woke up to find a hot air balloon boarded with 13 people in their backyard on Saturday.The pilot said he had to make an emergency landing due to the balloon hovering and running out of fuel. No injuries were reported.“I was amazed that they missed our tree. They missed our house”, Jenna Perrin said....

Twilio co-founder’s fusion power startup raises $450M from Bessemer and Alphabet’s GV Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to build one of the world’s most powerful lasers, which it hopes will serve as the foundation of a grid-scale power plant the fusion startup intends to start construction on in 2030. Inertia Enterprises is building on technology developed at the Lawrence Livermore...

One of the most debated aspects of the Grand Theft Auto series has always been its approach to failure. In earlier titles like GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas, failing a mission or dying meant restarting from the very beginning of that mission. While this could be frustrating, it also added tension, strategy, and a sense of accomplishment when you finally succeeded. With GTA VI on the...