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The second flight of Blue Origin’s massive New Glenn rocket won’t happen until at least mid-August, CEO Dave Limp announced Monday in a post on X. That represents a slight delay — Jeff Bezos’ space company had said in March it was targeting “late spring” for the rocket’s second launch. New Glenn’s first launch took place January 16. While the rocket’s upper stage reached orbit on its first attempt, the booster stage exploded while attempting to land on a drone ship in the ocean. Blue Origin said in March it discovered “seven corrective actions” as part of the investigation mandated…

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman appears on screen during a talk with Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella at the Microsoft Build 2025 conference in Seattle, May 19, 2025.Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty ImagesOpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue less than three years after launching its popular ChatGPT chatbot.The figure includes sales from the company’s consumer products, ChatGPT business products and its application programming interface, or API. It excludes licensing revenue from Microsoft and large one-time deals, according to an OpenAI spokesperson.For all of last year, OpenAI was around $5.5 billion in ARR.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — I’m cruising around Bowser’s Castle with my old pal Toad. It’s not exactly relaxing, what with all the lava pits and banana peels and turtle shells littering the road. Add 23 other characters — is that a cow driving? — who are trying to get to the finish line first, and it’s chaos.The hectic, high-speed insanity of any race in the new Mario Kart World would have caused the eight-year-old Switch console to wheeze a bit. And that’s why we’ve got the Switch 2 ($449.99), the souped-up sequel to Nintendo’s popular home-and-portable hybrid.It looks prettier, too. The…

Impact investor and advisor Christian Tooley posed a simple question to the audience at SXSW London last week: What if investors put aside societal prudence for profit?  Tooley was mainly referring to vice clauses, the restrictions that limited partners place on venture firms to guardrail their investments.  Some of these no-no sectors often include products dealing with sex, substances like psychedelics, gambling, and tobacco, and such limitations are usually imposed by large institutional investors, who don’t want to invest in products that are at best controversial and at worst potentially harmful. Tooley feels investors are missing out on innovation by…

PayPal is partnering with hotel payment provider Selfbook to let users search for and book hotels within the PayPal app. The company said that it will let users pay through PayPal at checkout and offer exclusive discounts to users within the app. Users can also use PayPal Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) for select hotels that have enabled the feature. People using the PayPal app will be able to go to the Offers section and search for hotels with filters like travel dates and number of guests using an in-app browser. Users will see hotels that use Selfbook’s payment suite…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Amazon said Monday that it will spend $20 billion on two data center complexes in Pennsylvania, including one it is building alongside a nuclear power plant that has drawn federal scrutiny over an arrangement to essentially plug right into the power plant.Kevin Miller, vice president of global data centers at Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, told The Associated Press that the company will build another data center complex just north of Philadelphia.The announcements add to the billions of dollars in Big Tech’s data center cash already flowing into the state.Since 2024 started, Amazon has…

Anthropic has unveiled a custom collection of Claude AI models designed for US national security customers. The announcement represents a potential milestone in the application of AI within classified government environments.The ‘Claude Gov’ models have already been deployed by agencies operating at the highest levels of US national security, with access strictly limited to those working within such classified environments.Anthropic says these Claude Gov models emerged from extensive collaboration with government customers to address real-world operational requirements. Despite being tailored for national security applications, Anthropic maintains that these models underwent the same rigorous safety testing as other Claude models in…

A row of Waymo vehicles burn on a street during an anti-ICE protest in downtown Los Angeles, California, on June 8, 2025. Benjamin Hanson | Afp | Getty ImagesSeveral Waymo autonomous vehicles were set ablaze in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday amid widespread protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.A spokesperson for the Alphabet-owned company confirmed there were multiple Waymo vehicles “in the vicinity” of protests that were unable to be retrieved, NBC News reported. Waymo is suspending service in the protest area “until it is deemed safe,” the spokesperson added.The protests erupted in downtown L.A. on Friday after Immigration…

Several Waymo robotaxis and Lime e-scooters were set on fire this weekend amid unrest in downtown Los Angeles spurred by groups protesting immigration raids in the city by the Trump administration.  A group of protesters attacked five Waymo autonomous vehicles on Los Angeles Street early on Sunday evening, reports Los Angeles Times. They slashed tires, broke windows, and spray-painted anti-ICE messages. Three cars were set on fire, and at one point, “the besieged Waymos began honking their horns in coordinated cacophony,” the LA Times wrote.  The Times reports that some Lime e-scooters were also thrown into the burning shells of…

LONDON (AP) — Getty Images is facing off against artificial intelligence company Stability AI in a London courtroom for the first major copyright trial of the generative AI industry.Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court are scheduled for Monday. The trial could last for three weeks. Stability, based in London, owns a widely used AI image-making tool that sparked enthusiasm for the instant creation of AI artwork and photorealistic images upon its release in August 2022. OpenAI introduced its surprise hit chatbot ChatGPT three months later.Seattle-based Getty has argued that the development of the AI image maker,…