Author: Able Jam
NASA addresses criticism over all-male crew selected for Artemis III test mission
When NASA’s Artemis III mission launches next year, the crew won’t include any women — a revelation that sparked controversy after the agency on Tuesday announced the four astronauts selected for the flight.The crew members unveiled Tuesday are NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano. Their
OpenAi shutsdown its social influence campaigns in China
OpenAI has dismantled two China-linked influence campaigns that allegedly used ChatGPT to generate social media content aimed at shaping public conversations around some of America’s most contentious political and economic issues. The campaigns, which focused on debates surrounding AI data centres and trade tariffs, relied on OpenAI’s tools to produce social media posts, comments and
OpenAI expects to go public within the next year
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff in a message earlier this week that he expected the AI startup to go public “within the next year,”the ChatGPT maker said on Monday it had confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering recently, joining rival Anthropic in a push toward a stock market listing as it looks
SpaceX is poised for blastoff with an IPO
Elon Musk’s mega-conglomerate SpaceX is about to launch an initial public offering of stock that is expected to break records — and soon the world will know just how historic that IPO is going to be.The listing price is expected to be revealed late Thursday, and the stock is expected to start trading publicly on
Trump threatens to hit Iran very hard
The United States President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to further intensify strikes on Iran and take over its oil and gas infrastructure by taking ‘total control’ of Kharg Island. The development comes amid escalating US-Iran war continuing for the third day in a row, following the fragile April 7 ceasefire and a ceasefire that
LinkedIn unveils new team
LinkedIn is aiming to burnish its position as a go-to platform for business advertisers with a new team of marketing experts that it expects to generate an annualised run rate of US$100 million (S$128.6 million) next fiscal year.The Microsoft-owned platform on June 10 unveiled BrandWorks, a newly assembled team that aims to deliver higher-performing ad
New Indian 3D model reveals Mars’ complex surface temp pattern
For decades, scientists trying to understand the Martian surface have relied largely on models that treat the planet as if it were relatively flat. These models have helped explain how temperatures change through the day and across seasons, but they often miss something important: Mars is not flat.A team of researchers from Isro’s Physical Research
Starlink India launch hits security roadblock
India has effectively frozen approvals for Elon Musk’s space-based internet service Starlink to begin commercial operations, due to concerns over the use of its satellite terminals in the Iran war, according to people familiar with the matter. Security agencies under India’s Ministry of Home Affairs have withheld the final clearances Starlink needs to launch, the
EU regulators order Meta to allow rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp
EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday ordered Meta Platforms to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp while they continue to investigate whether the company abused its market power by blocking competitors from the messaging app.The European Commission’s decision to issue an interim measure against Meta – its first in 17 years – followed complaints
Taiwan fires rockets in China’s direction from a US
Taiwan’s military fired rockets in China’s direction from “shoot-and-scoot” mobile launchers on Wednesday in a demonstration of how it might try to repel a Chinese attack. While the U.S.-supplied system known as HIMARS has been tested before, the latest live-fire exercise was the first time its rockets were fired into the waters of the narrow