WASHINGTON — A Maxar Intelligence executive warned that the U.S. government risks undermining battlefield operations by cutting funding for commercial satellite imagery, renewing industry concerns raised in a June letter to Congress.
“The industry has proven the value of commercial imagery,” said Susanne Hake, general manager for U.S. government at Maxar Intelligence, speaking Sept. 11 at an aerospace industry conference hosted by the U.S....
Google is depending on thousands of contractors to train the AI behind its flagship chatbot Gemini.As The Guardian reports, many of these "AI raters," tasked with instructing the model and correcting its many mistakes, are facing poor working conditions and are often exposed to extremely disturbing content.It's yet again a worrying reminder that despite tech companies attempting to paint their AI models as...
WASHINGTON—Firefly Aerospace is pitching its rockets and orbital platforms for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense initiative, a projected $175 billion program intended to shield the U.S. from next-generation missile threats.
Speaking Sept. 11 at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s aerospace industry summit, CEO Jason Kim said Firefly’s Alpha rocket could launch missile-defense test targets while its Elytra spacecraft platform could serve as a...
A thin cloud that appears on Mars each year has baffled astronomers ever since it was first spotted, but it may be the result of a moisture-rich atmosphere that was thought impossible.
Each winter, an 1800-kilometre-long cloud forms near Mars’s Arsia Mons volcano in...
The decomposed remains of a woman were found Monday in the front trunk of a Tesla which had been impounded in a Los Angeles tow yard. Making the situation even stranger, the vehicle is registered to the buzzy indie pop singer David "D4vd" Burke, who's currently on tour.Sources told the Los Angeles Times that the remains were a "head and torso" stashed inside...
