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CoreWeave shares soar 19% after $2 billion debt offering
Michael Intrator, Founder & CEO of CoreWeave, Inc., Nvidia-backed cloud services provider, gestures during the company’s IPO at the Nasdaq Market, in New York City, U.S., March 28, 2025. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters CoreWeave shares popped 19% after announcing a $2 billion debt offering. The renter of artificial intelligence data centers powered by Nvidia chips […]
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D-Wave Quantum shares soar 20% as company releases latest computing system
Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images D-Wave Quantum’s latest quantum computing system has hit the market, the company said Tuesday. Shares popped more than 18%. The quantum computer, known as Advantage2, marks its sixth iteration and most advance system, the company said. D-Wave said the computer offers a 40% boost in […]
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CoreWeave CEO defends capex plans, says company is meeting ‘demand signals’ from major hyperscalers
Michael Intrator, founder and CEO of CoreWeave Inc., Nvidia-backed cloud services provider, attends his company’s IPO at the Nasdaq Market in New York City on March 28, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters CoreWeave shares jumped more than 5% Thursday as the renter of artificial intelligence servers posted strong revenues and CEO Michael Intrator reinforced the […]
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Why a Singapore-based team is trying to sequence 100,000 Asian genomes
Data from the U.S. National Library of Medicine suggests that 85% of genomics studies have been conducted in individuals of European descent. Singapore-based project GenomeAsia 100K is working to address this representation disparity. Almost a decade ago, it set the goal to sequence 100,000 Asian human genomes and create a genetic representation of Asian human […]
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AMD CEO Lisa Su calls China a ‘large opportunity’ and warns against strict U.S. chip controls
Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su said China is a “large opportunity” market for the semiconductor and artificial intelligence industry even as export controls and evolving tariff plans loom over the world’s second-largest economy. “There should be a balance between export controls for national security as well as ensuring that we get the widest possible […]
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Genomics explained: How tech revealed the information inside our DNA
New technological advancements have allowed scientists to look at the entire human genome. But what are genomics, and why is it relevant? New technological advancements have allowed us to look at the entire human genome. The genome is the complete set of genetic information encoded in the DNA. Human DNA has around three billion letters […]
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Boeing’s Starliner losses top $2 billion after spacecraft program reports worst year yet
Boeing spacecraft Starliner is seen from the window of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule “Endeavour” on July 3, 2024, while docked with the International Space Station during the crew flight test. NASA Boeing has lost more than $2 billion and counting on its Starliner spacecraft after a rough year in which the capsule’s first astronaut flight turned […]
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Trump and Musk called for former Starliner astronauts to return ‘as soon as possible.’ Here’s what NASA planned.
Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and guests at a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship, in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., November 19, 2024. Brandon Bell | Via Reuters Elon Musk and President Donald Trump took to social media this week declaring that astronauts left at the […]
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Planet lands $230 million contract for Pelican imagery satellites
An animated rendering of a Pelican satellite in orbit. Planet Satellite imagery and data analysis company Planet announced it had signed a $230 million contract on Wednesday, with an anchor customer furthering the rollout of its next-generation Pelican satellites. “It is a momentum-building event. … It’s both our biggest deal ever and it’s a significant […]
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FAA grounds SpaceX’s Starship after mid-flight explosion, reports property damage on Turks and Caicos
SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Jan. 16, 2025. Eric Gay | AP The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that SpaceX’s Starship rocket is grounded until the company and regulator complete an investigation into the midflight failure of the most recent test flight, which […]
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