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Engineers who work for Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been brought on as senior advisers to the acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), sources tell WIRED.On Sunday, Sean Duffy, secretary of the Department of Transportation, which oversees the FAA, announced in a post on X that SpaceX engineers would be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia to take what he positioned as a tour. “The safety of air travel is a non-partisan matter,” Musk replied. “SpaceX engineers will help make air travel safer.”By the time these posts were made, though, according to sources who were…

Google is launching a new experiment that uses AI to help people explore more career possibilities. The company announced on Wednesday that a new “Career Dreamer” tool can find patterns between your experiences, educational background, skills, and interests to connect you with careers that might be a good fit. With Career Dreamer, you can use AI to draft a career identity statement by selecting your current and previous roles, skills, experiences, education, and interests. Google notes that you can add this career identity statement to your resume or use it as a guide for talking points during an interview. Career…

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Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make more desirable pets. A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic engineering to make glow-in-the-dark rabbits, hypoallergenic cats and dogs, and possibly, one day, actual unicorns.The Los Angeles Project is the brainchild of biohacker Josie Zayner, who in 2017 publicly injected herself with the gene-editing tool Crispr during a conference in San Francisco and livestreamed it. “I want to help humans genetically modify themselves,” she said at the time. She’s also given herself a fecal transplant and a…

Welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter! We’re going on hiatus for a bit, but you can find all our AI coverage, including my columns, our daily analysis, and breaking news stories, at TechCrunch. If you want those stories and much more in your inbox every day, sign up for our daily newsletters here. This week, billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, which powers the company’s Grok chatbot apps. Trained on around 200,000 GPUs, the model beats a number of other leading models, including from OpenAI, on benchmarks for mathematics, programming, and more. But…

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Chemonics spokesperson Payal Chandiramani says USAID has indicated that Fews Net should qualify for a waiver, and it is working with the agency to determine how it should apply. USAID and the US State Department did not respond to requests for comment.From the beginning, Fews Net was notable for the sheer range of variables that it factored into its analyses. In addition to looking at more obvious signals—such as drought levels and current grain supplies in different countries—it also examined tertiary causes. “Like locusts,” says historian Christian Ruth, whose forthcoming book on the history of USAID will be published later…

Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into unchartered territory, sometimes literally as well as figuratively. In one of the latest examples, a startup called Karman+ with ambitions to build autonomous spacecraft that can travel to asteroids and then mine them for materials has now raised $20 million in a seed round that it will be using to get itself to its next stage of hardware and software development.  Karman+’s initial target is very out-there. It aims to build a vessel that can travel to asteroids potentially millions of…

Dreading your next performance appraisal? Are you wondering how to highlight your achievements or handle unexpected feedback without feeling defensive? Performance reviews can be stressful, but they’re also a golden opportunity to showcase your contributions, set career goals, and take control of your professional growth. This webinar will teach you proven strategies for preparing, communicating effectively, and turning feedback into actionable career progress. Whether facing your first review or looking to refine your approach, this session will help you make the most of it. Meet the Speaker With over 30 years of leadership excellence across the Indian Armed Forces and…

On the final day of my visit to Japan, I’m alone and floating in some skyscraper’s rooftop hot springs, praying no one joins me. For the last few months, I’ve been using ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode as an AI language tutor, part of a test to judge generative AI’s potential as both a learning tool and a travel companion. The excessive talking to both strangers and a chatbot on my phone was illuminating as well as exhausting. I’m ready to shut my yapper for a minute and enjoy the silence.When OpenAI launched ChatGPT late in 2022, it set off a…