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Nuclear companies are taking an old approach to building new reactors. Rather than trying to put new designs up or build large quantities of small reactors, we want to develop a range of reactors using existing designs. The 2-year-old startup announced Series A last month. This included investments from CIV, GoldCrest Capital, MCJ Collective, True Ventures and Wonder Ventures, but did not disclose the amount raised. Now, TechCrunch has learned that the company has secured $51.3 million in Series A and has increased its total funding to $70 million. The nuclear company was founded in 2023 by three consecutive entrepreneurs.…

The strike remains unaccessible to hundreds of thousands of commuters in New Jersey and New York without access to the railroad.New Jersey commuter railroad engineers have failed to realize negotiations for higher wages, leaving the train idle for commuters with the third largest transport system in the United States for the first time in more than 40 years. The strike began on Friday, with locomotive engineers and train brothers suspended consultations late Thursday after a 15-hour negotiation session on behalf of 450 NJ Transit Engineers who promote the agency’s commuting trains and agency management. The labor conflict came weeks after…

Des Moines, Iowa (AP) – Iowa can continue Limit the instruction The federal judge said about gender identity and sexual orientation at schools up to sixth grade, but said that non-mandatory programs related to the topic must be permitted.US District Judge Stephen Rocher filed a split decision late Thursday, with some with students suing LGBTQ advocacy organizations, teachers and states. Attorney General Brenna Byrd said in a statement Friday that she is committed to complying with Iowa laws, and that her office is “seeing the next steps, including appeal.”In another ruling in March, Rochell I was temporarily blocked again Another…

Openai has announced a cloud-based software engineering agent designed to write code, fix bugs and help developers by performing multiple tasks at once. “Today, we’re introducing Codex, a software engineering agent that runs in the cloud and performs tasks such as creating new features and fixing bugs. It can perform many tasks in parallel.” What is a codex? Codex is a research preview that provides AI-powered teammates that can autonomously handle engineering tasks, from creating new features, responding to code-based questions, running tests, and suggesting pull requests. Codex runs in a cloud sandbox preloaded with a codebase. “Codex is a…

Spotify announced last week that it will be rolled out to be released on all podcasts as a way to “help new fans.” However, Podcasters responded quickly with criticism of the new feature. It will primarily promote more podcasts that are less appealing to new listeners, while still already having a large audience. On Friday, Spotify changed courses in its planning, but did not eschew the idea completely. Now the play count will only be displayed on the show, with at least 50,000 plays each. Instead of displaying an accurate play count, specifications are only updated with certain milestones, such…

New York (AP) – During reopening collections, between courts blocking student loan programs and layoffs Education Departmentborrowers can be confused about their student loan status. Recently, the Education Department announced that it will be launched Unwanted collection A default loan means that around 5.3 million borrowers in the default could potentially earn wages by the federal government.At the heart of the confusion is the government’s income-driven repayment plan, which cuts monthly payments for borrowers with low incomes. Those plans were temporarily suspended after federal court blocked some of the plans in February. “It’s very confusing. They made it very complicated,”…

Openai announced on Friday that it will begin a research preview of Codex, the company’s most capable AI coding agent. Codex is powered by Codex-1, a version of the company’s O3 AI inference model optimized for software engineering tasks. According to Openai, Codex-1 generates “cleaner” code more than O3, glues the instructions more accurately, and runs the tests repeatedly on the code until you get the results. The Codex agent runs on sandboxed virtual computers in the cloud. By connecting to GitHub, the Codex environment may be preloaded in the code repository. According to Openai, AI coding agents take 1-30…

The US president has repeatedly threatened to unleash airstrikes targeting Iranian programs if the deal is not reached.US President Donald Trump says Iran has a government proposal on a rapidly moving forward nuclear program as negotiations continue between the two countries. Trump was aboard Air Force 1 on Friday as he ended his trip to the United Arab Emirates. This is the first time he has allowed him to send a proposal to Tehran after multiple negotiations between US Middle Eastern envoy Steve Witkov and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araguchi. “We are in very serious negotiations with Iran for long-term…

Mike Novogratz ‘Crypto Firm Galaxy Digital It opened trading under ticker Glxy on Nasdaq on Friday. The shares were opened on US exchanges at $23.50 per share.Galaxy Digital, which has been trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange since 2020, has moved its shares to NASDAQ through a direct listing. This follows a tough multi-year battle with US regulators.Novograts said on Friday CNBC’s “Scoobox” that Galaxy’s value now lies in two high-growth areas: crypto and artificial intelligence.”These are two of the most exciting growth areas on the market: the infrastructure required for AI and AI to exist and, ultimately, on the…

Alphabet subscription bets are beginning to pay off. Google One, Tech Giant’s consumer subscription service for cloud storage and AI tools, has surpassed 150 million subscribers worldwide, the company told Reuters. This is 50% jump since February 2024, when it reached the 100 million mark six years after its release. “Alphabet’s Google One Subscription Service has recently exceeded 150 million subscribers, claiming consumers for cloud storage and artificial intelligence capabilities,” Reuters reported. A boost occurred shortly after Google launched its $19.99/month plan with premium AI features. Unlike the basic storage tier, this new plan gives paid users access to tools…