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Nvidia inks $13 billion deal to buy the AI startup that was hacked by OpenAI | CNN Business
Nvidia announced on Thursday that it will buy artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a massive bet by the chipmaker to expand the reach of open-source AI technology.

Apple shares 'shocking evidence' against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI | TechCrunch
Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.

If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel? | TechCrunch
The team behind Starcloud's orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri.

If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel? | TechCrunch
The team behind Starcloud's orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri.
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Robert Patrick Recalls Feeling ‘Pressure’ Not to ‘Let Everybody Down’ in ‘Terminator 2,’ So He ‘Isolated’ Himself on Set (Exclusive)
Robert Patrick recently reflected on the intense physical preparation behind his T-1000 role, his castmates and working with James Cameron on ‘Terminator 2.’

"We're not doing 30 bets a year": Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z | TechCrunch
Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI tr