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Starship’s Next Flight Could Widen Starlink’s Lead
SpaceX’s planned orbital flight will test a faster way to expand its satellite internet network. SpaceX is targeting 28 September, pending regulatory approval, for Starship’s first attempt to enter a sustained orbit. The mission aims to deploy 26 next-generation Starlink satellites intended to join the operating network.
Can AI’s Biggest Labs Agree to Slow Down?
An AI safety proposal has become an antitrust dispute over who gets to set the pace of development. On 12 September, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for frontier AI development to slow so safety work can catch up. Anthropic plans to give independent evaluators access to its systems. Amodei also
The Biggest Mistake People Make About SpaceX Is Thinking the Rocket Is the Product.
Market capitalisation at IPO — approximate figures Microsoft ~$3.3T NVIDIA ~$3.2T Apple ~$3.1T Amazon ~$2.1T SpaceX ~$2.0T Alphabet ~$1.9T Meta ~$1.5T Tesla ~$1.0T Approximate figures at IPO. Market caps fluctuate daily. SpaceX highlighted as the newest entrant to this group.
You Are Not Buying Intelligence. You Are Buying Compute.
The unit of measurement nobody explains is the one that determines whether AI is a software business or an infrastructure business.