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Jeff Bezos gründet KI-Startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos steigt als CEO und Gründer in das KI-Startup Project Prometheus ein, das bereits Milliarden-Finanzierungen erhalten haben soll.
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Jeff Bezos has appointed himself co-CEO of an AI startup called Project Prometheus.
The startup, which will focus on developing AI for engineering and manufacturing in various fields,
has already received $6.2bn in funding
– more than many companies are able to raise in their lifetimes.
Leading the company alongside Bezos is his co-founder and co-CEO Vik Bajaj,
a celebrity tech executive in his own right.
Bajaj is a physicist and chemist best known for his …

According to the Daily Mail, Russian hackers have stolen hundreds of sensitive military documents containing details of eight RAF and Royal Navy bases as well as Ministry of Defence staff names and emails and posted them on the dark web.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/…

'Catastrophic' attack as Russians hack files on EIGHT MoD bases and post them on the dark web
In what has been described as a 'catastrophic' security breach, cybercriminals accessed the cache of files by hacking a maintenance contractor used by the MoD.

🌡️ Taking the moon's temperature with beeswax
#moon

Taking the moon's temperature with beeswax
Sometimes space exploration doesn't go as planned. But even in failure, engineers can learn, adapt, and try again. One of the best ways to do that is to share the learning, and allow others to reproduce the work that might not have succeeded, allowing them to try again. A group from MIT's Space Enabled Research Group, part of its Media Lab, recently released a paper in Space Science Reviews that describes the design and testing results of a pair of passive sensors sent to the moon on the ill-fa…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Buzzcocks:
🎵 Why Can’t I Touch It
#Buzzcocks
https://jealousband.bandcamp.com/track/jealous-why-can-t-i-touch-it-the-buzzcocks-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6IA0gt1G76qAoVEfTJAY4P

Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who will become co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021 (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/bezos-project-prometheus.html

Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.

Scientists Warn: “Almost Half of the Beaches Will Disappear by the End of the Century”
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-warn-almost-half-of-the-beaches-will-disappear-by-the-end-of-the-century/

YouTube says it will no longer give data to US Billboard charts after January 16, saying Billboard's ranking formula doesn't count ad-supported streams fairly (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/yout

YouTube to pull music data from Billboard's charts because it doesn't like its ranking formula | TechCrunch
YouTube takes its ball and goes home by pulling Billboard's access to its music data.

IDK if you can’t make games without making unethical shortcuts (labor exploitation, never-ending crunch, AI plagiarism, etc.) because otherwise you’d need “300 people and 7 years”, maybe work on making games that are better?
A lot of the really big games of the last decades were initially made by just a few people with really great basic game loops.

Lithium-Ionen-Akkus: Brandursache Nummer eins in der Abfallwirtschaft
Oft landen Akkus von E-Bikes im Hausmüll und sorgen für Brände auf Recyclinghöfen und in Müllfahrzeugen. Die Folgen für Unternehmen sind teils gravierend.
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