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NASA ramps up support to get Boeing's astronaut capsule flying after Butch and Suni fiasco

NASA is throwing extra support and money behind Boeing's troubled astronaut capsule to get it fixed and flying again as soon as possible

SpaceX's supersized Starship launches into orbit for the first time but flight ends early

SpaceX has launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time and successfully delivered the newest and most advanced Starlinks yet

Contradicting Trump, Pope Leo XIV says AI safety concerns are not ‘fake news’ and should be taken seriously

Nvidia's board increases chipmaker's share buyback plan by $150 billion

Nvidia’s board has cleared the way for the company to spend $150 billion more in share buybacks as the chipmaking giant looks to make use of more of its stellar revenue growth fueled by demand for its high-end artificial intelligence chips

MLB average game time up nearly 4 minutes to 2:42, partly because of robot umpires

The average time for a nine-inning Major League Baseball game has increased by nearly four minutes this season, reaching 2 hours and 42 minutes

SpaceX launches Starship toward orbit for the first time

Trump said he would dine with Anthropic CEO amid mounting AI debate

President Donald Trump had plans to dine late Sunday with the CEO of Anthropic

Walmart says it's not using personal information to set prices as it expands digital shelf labels

Walmart is aiming to assuage customers' fears about its new pricing technology as it rolls out digital price labels at its stores

OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US government sites in unexpected ways

OpenAI announced it has halted development of its latest artificial intelligence models hours after it disclosed its agents scouring federal government website acted in unexpected ways that suggest a lack of control

China and US agree to establish AI safety channel and continue trade and military talks

China and the U.S. have agreed to set up a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis communications