Destination

2026-06-17

Towers once planned for California shuttle launches leveled for SpaceX rockets

"Space Launch Complex-6 represents six decades of American innovation." [...]

Destination

2026-06-17

"Truly evil" FDA rejection of gene therapy overturned after Trump official ousted

Gene therapy company UniQure had another FDA meeting after Vinay Prasad's exit. [...]

qz

2026-06-17

25 things that had to be true for the smartphone to exist

From transistors to touchscreens, the smartphone required centuries of breakthroughs in physics, chemistry, manufacturing, and global trade to converge at exactly the right moment [...]

fastcompany

2026-06-17

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang shares 3 key points about the future of AI

Huang believes society will adapt to AI just like it did to cars. [...]

Destination

2026-06-17

The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible

Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model's guardrails can't be circumvented. Security experts say that can't be done. [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-17

Arcade raised $60M to fix the real wall blocking enterprise AI agents: what they’re allowed to do

The problem with letting an AI agent loose inside a company is not that it might forget who it is. It is that it has no reason to hold back. A human employee is restrained by the fear of being fired. An agent, as one investor in Arcade.dev put it, “will exhaustively exploit every permission […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-17

The bottleneck in geothermal moved from the drill to the turbine. This SpaceX alum raised $22M to fix it

The race to power artificial intelligence has a problem that solar panels and wind turbines cannot fix on their own: the electricity has to be there at 3am, in still air, under cloud. Critical Energy, a Los Angeles startup founded by a former SpaceX engineer, has raised $22mn to chase that always-on demand with geothermal, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-17

Why CMOs need a new operating system for accountability

Marketing leaders have never had access to more data, yet proving the business impact of advertising has become increasingly difficult. As budgets face greater scrutiny and finance teams demand clearer evidence of return on investment, many chief marketing officers are discovering that traditional performance metrics no longer satisfy the questions being asked in the boardroom. Tal […]<br /& [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-17

China’s new five-year plan makes tracking AI’s hit to jobs a national priority

China has spent two years telling the world it intends to win the AI race. Its new five-year employment plan is the quieter admission that winning it could cost a lot of people their jobs. The State Council, effectively China’s cabinet, has issued its blueprint for employment policy from 2026 to 2030. Buried in a […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]