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It is far too soon to mention retirement, but astute observers of the space industry have noticed SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket is not launching as often as it used to. The decline is modest so far, and it does not signal any problem at SpaceX or with the Falcon 9. Rather, it is a manifestation of SpaceX’s eagerness to shift focus to the much larger Starship rocket, an enabler of what the company wants to do in space: missions to land on the Moon and Mars, orbital data centers, and next-gen Starlink. Elon Musk’s SpaceX conducted 165 launches with…

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Novo Nordisk is looking for deals more than ever before, the CEO of the Danish drugmaker said in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday. “If our ambition is to help hundreds of millions of patients out there, then we need not just the best, but the broadest pipeline in the world,” said Novo Nordisk CEO Mike Doustdar. “So let’s go and see who else basically has assets that are complementary to what we have. And we are quite active with those [business development] talks and acquisitions, and you’ll see more of those as well going forward.”Novo created the market for…

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Cloud computing giants cannot afford to pinch pennies on the artificial intelligence buildout, CNBC’s Jim Cramer argued Wednesday. Cramer’s comments came after he heard someone describe the rally in data center and AI-related stocks as an “if you build it, they will come” dynamic — the idea that companies are spending aggressively on infrastructure in hopes customers eventually materialize. However, Cramer said applying the famous phrase from the movie “Field of Dreams” to the AI boom misses a crucial point: The customers already exist, and the cloud providers racing to keep up with demand. “The whole point of this data…

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, at left, seen on Nov. 16, 2023, and Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, seen on June 16, 2023.Carlos Barria | Gonzalo Fuentes | ReutersIn the eyes of prediction markets traders, Elon Musk is hurting himself in the trial against OpenAI. The multibillion-dollar lawsuit against OpenAI went to trial on April 27 in federal court in Oakland, California. The day after proceedings started, Kalshi traders were calling for a 60% likelihood Musk would win the case. Those odds dropped to just under 34% on May 2, two days after Musk concluded his testimony. Eric Zitzewitz,…

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Google’s AI-focused DeepMind division has taken a minority stake in the developer of popular sci-fi simulation EVE Online, saying it will use the game to study “intelligence in complex, dynamic, player-driven systems.” The research partnership comes as the management behind EVE Online developer CCP Games announced that they have spent $120 million to buy themselves out from their former owners at South Korean publisher Pearl Abyss (Crimson Desert). The newly independent entity is being rebranded as Fenris Creations, which will continue to operate as normal without any restructuring or layoffs, the company said. “Something that already behaves like a living…

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