NASA may sideline SpaceX and choose a different company to land its astronauts on the moon later this decade, acting space agency chief Sean Duffy suggested during TV appearances Monday. Duffy emphasized that he believes SpaceX, which has a $2.9 … Read more
Linda Yaccarino, whom Elon Musk hired to run X in 2023, grappled with the challenges the company faced after Mr. Musk took over. Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive of X and a top lieutenant to its owner, Elon Musk, said … Read more
There has been a remarkable amount of consistency at the Financial Times and I’m not just talking about the pink paper, which celebrated its 130th anniversary last year. FT Group CEO John Ridding has been chief executive since 2006 after … Read more
This story was first published in the Lever Eight years before the second-largest bank failure in American history occurred this week, the bank’s president personally pressed Congress to reduce scrutiny of his financial institution, citing the “low risk profile of … Read more
Eight years before the second-largest bank failure in American history occurred this week, the bank’s president personally pressed Congress to reduce scrutiny of his financial institution, citing the “low risk profile of our activities and business model,” according to federal … Read more
A correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous points us to this article in Technology Review, “Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online. Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect … Read more
There are currently about 440 fission reactors operating worldwide, which together can generate about 400 gigawatts of power with zero carbon emissions. Yet these fission plants, for all their value, have considerable downsides. The enriched uranium fuel they use must … Read more
“When, last September, it became possible that concerns raised in 2007 might have merit as part of a strategy of exploitation, NIST as the relevant standards body issued new guidance to stop the use of this algorithm. We immediately acted … Read more
Introduction “Code is easy. People are hard.” Colleen McCreary picked up this phrase from a senior engineer in the early days of Zynga, and it’s stuck with her ever since. “I think universally founders and early startup leaders underestimate how … Read more