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Billionaire business tycoon Elon Musk suggested that the International Space Station should be scrapped sooner rather than later.”It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the @Space_Station,” he posted on Thursday. “It has served its purpose. There is very little incremental utility. Let’s go to Mars.”NASA announced last year that Musk’s SpaceX had been tapped to make a de-orbit vehicle.US PREPARES TO DEORBIT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AMID CHINA COMPETITION Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on Feb. 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)”As the agency…
Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) agentic framework that can improve the development and deployment speeds of large language models (LLMs). Announced on Thursday, the company unveiled the AI CUDA Engineer that improves both the pre-training and inference speeds of an AI model by optimising the codebase. The AI firm highlighted that the entire process is driven by AI agents and is end-to-end automated. Notably, Sakana AI introduced The AI Scientist last year which can conduct scientific research.Sakana AI Unveils AI CUDA EngineerIn a post, the Japanese AI firm stated that after…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
Italy’s competition authority, Autorita Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), launched probes into Tesla, BYD, Stellantis, and Volkswagen. AGCM is investigating the four automakers for unfair commercial practices. Tesla, BYD, Stellantis, and Volkswagen are under investigation for allegedly misleading customers about the performance of their electric vehicles. According to AGCM, the car makers provided information to customers about “EV driving range, battery capacity degradation, and limitations on standard battery warranties, potentially in breach of the Consumer Code.” “The companies’ websites appear to have displayed generic – and at times contradictory – information regarding the driving range of their marketed…
WASHINGTON — German launch vehicle company Isar Aerospace has completed tests of its first Spectrum rocket and is ready to launch, pending a license.The company announced Feb. 21 that it completed a static-fire test of the first stage of Spectrum a week earlier, firing its nine engines for 30 seconds. The company performed a similar test of the rocket’s upper stage in the third quarter of last year.Those tests confirmed that the rocket is ready, technically. “We are almost ready for the test flight. All we need is the license”, Daniel Metzler, chief executive and co-founder of Isar Aerospace, said…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The budget resolution from Republicans was on the agenda in the Senate, but the late-night debate encompassed so much more.Democrats used the overnight session that ended early Friday morning as a platform for their outrage over what President Donald Trump has wrought during his first month in office and their warnings of what is still to come.From Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency slicing through the federal workforce to Trump’s attacks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the GOP plan to extend tax breaks including for the wealthy and cut safety net programs, far more…
An employee walks across the bridge from parking to SpaceX in Hawthorne on July 17, 2024. Genaro Molina | Los Angeles Times | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said it would drop a case accusing Elon Musk’s space technology company SpaceX of refusing to hire certain immigrants.The Justice Department last month signaled it could back away from the case, brought during Democratic President Joe Biden’s term.Musk, a top adviser to Republican President Donald Trump, is leading a commission tasked with identifying waste in the federal government.In a Thursday court filing in Brownsville, Texas, government lawyers asked a judge…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
Elon Musk set the record straight about rumors of Tesla investing in Nissan. While the billionaire CEO did not outright deny the rumor or even reject the alleged Nissan proposal, Musk did hint at the inherent flaw of the rumored investment. The Rumor & Elon’s Reply According to Fortune, a few influential people in Japan prepared a proposal for Tesla, suggesting an investment in Nissan. The report suggests that Tesla might be interested in acquiring Nissan’s factories in the United States. In an X post featuring Fortune’s article about the proposal for Tesla to invest in Nissan, Elon Musk replied,…
HELSINKI — Researchers are examining how artificial intelligence technologies could support a planned Chinese mission to the boundaries of the solar system, according to a new paper.Artificial intelligence can help with the unique challenges of missions to the edge of the solar system, according to the paper, which include an unknown environment, complex mission dynamics, diverse scientific payloads, uncertain exploration targets, long detection distances and long communication delays with limited data rates.AI can enhance autonomy and reduce dependence on Earth through assisting data processing, autonomous perception and decision-making and efficient computing, according to authors from institutions including the Beijing Institute…