BeyondMath’s ‘digital wind tunnel’ puts a physics-based AI simulation to work on F1 cars

Simulating the real world is a tremendously complex problem if you want to do it at any useful level of fidelity. Traditional techniques are holding back design teams at vehicle and aerospace companies, but BeyondMath is putting AI on the task with a new way of simulating the world that could save

Starpath accelerates moon water mining plans with $12M in funding

NASA and the space industry are in agreement: If we want to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, we'll need to make use of every native resource we can — and none are as important as water ice.  Starpath Robotics is one of a handful of startups planning for this future. The

Reliant’s paper-scouring AI takes on science’s data drudgery

AI models have proven capable of many things, but what tasks do we actually want them doing? Preferably drudgery — and there’s plenty of that in research and academia. Reliant hopes to specialize in the kind of time-consuming data extraction work that’s currently a specialty of tired

Mike Lynch, recently acquitted in HP-Autonomy fraud case, is missing after yacht capsized off Sicily (updated)

Update 2: His body has now been identified. Story here. Update: Authorities have yet to access the inside of the sunken yacht, and Mike Lynch is still classified as missing. Other details have emerged in the interim. The accident appears to have been caused by a major storm and a

US tech giants fight Indian telcos’ bid to regulate internet services, pay for network usage

Global technology giants are pushing back against attempts by India’s telecom networks to bring internet services under stricter regulation, rejecting arguments that such measures are necessary to create a “level playing field” and address national security concerns. The Asia Int

Pakistan’s PostEx to enter new markets, starting with Saudi Arabia

Pakistani startup PostEx, offering financial and logistics services to online merchants, is set to enter new markets, beginning with Saudi Arabia this year, technewss has exclusively learned. “We want to go into other markets to really disrupt them because we see the gap,” said Muhamm

What margins? AI’s business model is changing fast, says Cohere founder

OpenAI and Anthropic spend billions of dollars a year training models like GPT-4 and Claude, but competitive price dumping is making the business around these platforms rather precarious. Aidan Gomez, CEO of competing AI provider Cohere, says that selling access to models is quickly becoming a R

Could Trump’s AI-generated Taylor Swift endorsement be illegal?

On Sunday, former President Donald Trump posted a collection of memes on Truth Social — the platform owned by his media company — that make it seem like Taylor Swift and her fans are coming out in support of his candidacy. But as new legislation takes effect, these images could have dee

Swarmbotics founders grew ‘obsessed with robot swarms’ and now plan to bring them to the battlefield

Few truly autonomous systems are deployed on the battlefield, but one startup is looking to change that with robotic systems that use cooperative behavior to boost troops' intelligence and tactical advantage. Those systems are called “swarms,” and they’re basically collections of auto

Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new longevity ‘technocapitalist’ school

Depending on your thoughts on the intersection of crypto and Silicon Valley's libertarians, this is either a dream idea or an odd one: Former a16z investor Balaji Srinivasan has booked out an island near Singapore to create his own “Network School.” This is where he'll run programs on

FlightAware warns that some customers’ info has been ‘exposed,’ including Social Security numbers

Flight tracking site FlightAware has blamed a “configuration error” for exposing a raft of personal information of its customers, including some of their Social Security numbers. The company, which claims to be one of the largest aggregators of flight data, said in a notice on its webs

A surprising number of ‘iPad Kids’ are on X, study finds

A surprising number of “iPad kids” — that is, Generation Alpha’s 7- to 9-year-old demographic — are using X (formerly Twitter), according to new data from parental control software maker Qustodio in a report released on Monday focused on children’s app usage in the U.S.

Apple Podcasts launches on the web

Apple Podcasts can now be streamed from the web. Apple announced on Monday that its Apple Podcasts app is now available on all major web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari) in over 170 countries.   The new dedicated web experience aims to make it easier for anyone with a web browser on

From a $2.5 million hyper car to a Spanish track-ready EV, here were the most interesting EVs at Monterey Car Week

Historic vehicles, flowing champagne and fashion have dominated the events at Monterey Car Week for decades now. But a change is afoot: EVs, tech-centric vehicles, startups and a heavy dose of Silicon Valley's software developers and founders added to the scenery this year.  Even the Pebb