Fresh wave of online service outages hit US as AWS continues to battle issues

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AWS provides cloud services underpinning many sites and applications.

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How the AWS outage hit people, from missed Starbucks orders to wonky Alexa alarms

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An Amazon Web Services outage affected Roblox players, Robinhood traders, and Starbucks drinkers.

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This startup is building an agentic AI platform for advertisers. See the pitch deck that helped it raise $12M.

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Bolbi Liu's startup AdsGency just raised a $12 million seed investment round, led by XYZ Venture Capital.

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NASA acting administrator says SpaceX is 'behind schedule' on moon-landing contract, so he's reopening it

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Duffy said that competition will help NASA stick to its timeline.

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An ex-Microsoft scientist is building an AI startup to change how companies handle work visas

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Priyanka Kulkarni

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Napster — yes, that Napster — wants to sell you a $100 device for video chatting with AI agents and digital twins

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Napster is launching an AI-powered 3D device.

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This fintech founder wanted to encourage innovation. So she started a monthly meeting to celebrate employee mistakes.

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Garima Shah started a monthly meeting to celebrate employee mistakes.

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The founder of the world's top LiDAR maker says there's one problem with Elon Musk's approach to self-driving

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Steven Qiu founded RoboSense in 2014. RoboSense had the world's largest market share for passenger car LiDAR systems in 2024, per the market research company Yole Group.

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Taiwan's chip capital bucks the fertility slump — for those who can afford it

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In Taiwan's chip capital, the real boom is babies.

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OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy says it will take a decade before AI agents actually work

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OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy is unimpressed with the state of AI agents.

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