Theo Baker spent four years researching Stanford. Before he left, this is what he found.
Most of Stanford’s 2026 graduates are smart, ambitious, and poised for great careers. Theo Baker already has it. During his first semester at the university, Baker published an article that led to the resignation of Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne. For his work, Baker received one of journalism’s highest honors, the George Polk Award. Warner […]
OSHA investigates worker death at SpaceX’s Starbase site
A worker died Friday at SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in south Texas, prompting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to investigate. The San Antonio Express-News reported Monday that the unidentified victim died around 4:17 a.m. local time on May 15, citing OSHA and local officials. The Wall Street Journal later reported that the county […]
SandboxAQ brings drug discovery models to Claude – no computing PhD required
Drug discovery is one of the most expensive endeavors in modern industry. Finding a single viable molecule can take a decade and cost billions of dollars, and most candidates have yet to be successful. A generation of AI startups promises to solve this problem, and most of them are making the problem less painful for […]
Elon Musk loses lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
Elon Musk’s claims that he was treated unfairly by OpenAI’s co-founders failed after a nine-judge California jury unanimously ruled that the lawsuit was filed too late. Musk accused Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft of “stealing charity” by creating a for-profit affiliate of Frontier AI Labs. However, the jury found that any damages that […]
NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach that affected at least 1.8 million people
New York public health provider NYC Health and Hospitals announced that at least 1.8 million people were affected by a months-long data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal data, medical records, and fingerprint scans. NYCHHC is the largest public health system in the United States, providing health care to more than 1 million New […]
Kin Health raises $9 million to build AI note-taker for patients
The market for AI note-taking devices is exploding in the U.S., with more than $600 million in revenue generated in the sector last year, according to a report by Menlo Ventures. And as startups like Heidi Health and Freed demonstrate, there’s a decent demand for this technology in the medical field, with doctors and clinics […]
Open source tools maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code and refuses to pay ransom
Grafana Labs, the maker of the popular open source web visualization software that bears the company’s name, acknowledged that it had been hacked but announced that it refused to pay the hackers who threatened to expose its codebase. In a series of social media posts, the institute said its investigation found that hackers misused stolen […]
Apple’s Siri revamp could include automatic chat deletion
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Garman, privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June. The relaunch of Siri is widely seen as a major opportunity for Apple to reestablish its relevance in artificial intelligence. As part of that effort, Garman said, company executives […]
Why trust is a big issue in the Elon Musk and OpenAI trial
Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI will make closing arguments this week, leaving it up to a jury to decide whether OpenAI, which has morphed into a somewhat for-profit organization, did anything wrong. But as Kirsten Kolosek, Sean O’Kane, and I pointed out on the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast, a big theme in […]
If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, it’s best not to mention AI
Graduation ceremony season has arrived once again. And this year, some speakers found it difficult to get graduates excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, spoke at the University of Central Florida and acknowledged that we live in a time of […]