2026-07-01

Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers

Meta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year alone, the same question that came up with xAI now applies to Meta: why isn't the company putting all that capacity to work on its own models?<br /> The article Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare [...]

2026-07-01

A space history mystery: What happened to the Viking arm used 50 years ago?

A timely tale about a 50-year-old robotic arm... [...]

2026-07-01

NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late

Starliner's certification may be delayed to 2027, 10 years later than Boeing's original schedule. [...]

2026-07-01

Messy Subnautica 2 saga ends with Unknown Worlds CEO departing again

Thus ends the messy saga of Subnautica 2. [...]

2026-07-01

Fufjilm launches special waterproof and black-and-white editions of its retro QuickSnap instant cameras

If you really want to get retro, Fujifilm is making some special editions of its classic instant camera. [...]

2026-07-01

Visa, Mastercard and Coinbase have launched a new global stablecoin

A new stablecoin venture backed by some big financial institutions is launching. [...]

2026-07-01

Palantir’s ‘AI sovereignty’ manifesto is a war on how AI makes money

Palantir has a new enemy, and it is the way most of the AI industry makes money. Its nine-point manifesto tells institutions to hoard their data, own their model weights, and stop “tokenmaxxing.” It is a pitch dressed as a principle. On Tuesday, Palantir posted its “thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty” on X. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-01

General Motors is locking in a long-term memory chip supply deal with Micron

GM will secure supply of LPDRAM, NOR, and UFS NAND products as demand for advanced memory in vehicles grows [...]

2026-07-01

Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration’s Good Graces

The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached. [...]