Kevin Weil left OpenAI to build robot labs for drug discovery. Warp Sciences is out of stealth with a $215M Series A led by Lightspeed, at an $865M post-money valuation per Bloomberg.
Co-founders: DJ Patil, FAIR co-founder Manohar Paluri and drug hunter Sol Reisberg.
💥 Introducing Warp Sciences, a new company applying AI and robotics to help the world develop new medicines faster.
We’ve raised a $215M Series A led by @lightspeedvp to bring frontier AI out of the browser and into the lab, and build scientific capacity here in America.
I co-founded Warp with my long-time friend @dpatil, FAIR co-founder @manohar_paluri, and drug hunter Sol Reisberg. The early team is full of incredible people like @bkspears9, who helped achieve Q>1 fusion at LLNL.
The valuation is from Bloomberg's report: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Company site: warpsciences.com
GitHub is wobbling again. Since 15:28 UTC its status page has an open incident for intermittent errors loading Issues, Pull Requests and search on github.com. Still investigating at 16:08, "evaluating mitigation options", impact minor. Second incident today after the Actions one.
CoreWeave stock is down about 20% in a week, per The Information, and investors are asking the question the whole AI build-out depends on: can debt-financed data centers keep working as borrowing costs climb? The Information traces how the debt pile got here.
#CoreWeave
Source: The Information's feature on the debt build-up (paywalled; the 20% figure is from its summary): theinformation.com/articles/…
iOS 27.2 lands next week, and Apple Music is losing its red.
Per 9to5Mac: a black-and-white Music icon, blue instead of red for the active tab, monochrome Library sections, black widgets. Books gets a reworked reading UI that 9to5Mac thinks was built with the iPhone Duo in mind.
Source: 9to5Mac's walkthrough with screenshots of both apps: 9to5mac.com/2026/10/22/ios-2…
Source: Axios Pro's exclusive with CEO Wei Lyu: axios.com/pro/health-tech-de…
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a Mahjong tile… but make it an egg
Last Sunday, I had the chance to attend the premiere of The Doll: Ghawiah!
Film horor ini berkisah tentang sebuah keluarga yang menjadi sasaran teror dari arwah seorang anak perempuan bersama boneka kesayangannya, GHAWIAH.
Buat kalian yang suka film horor, jangan sampai kelewatan!
📅 Coming to theaters on October 29, 2026.
Tesla and SpaceX have each formed a special committee on a potential merger, at shareholders' request, Elon Musk said on SpaceX's earnings call.
He said he's conflicted and can't join the talks: "I don't think we should assume that a merger is a certainty."
#SpaceX #Tesla
Elon Musk today on a potential merger between SpaceX and Tesla:
"Both Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees at the request of shareholders. Because I'm a conflicted party I can't be in on these discussions. I don't think we should assume that a merger is a certainty. Do I think it would be a good idea? Yes. But at the end of the day, shareholders have to be supportive of this. The special committees have not reached an agreement on any transaction, and it doesn't mean they will, but there is a lot of be gained from cooperating on SI, chip design, robots, mass or orbit, connectivity. I think it would be a good idea."
Now in writing. Tesla's 10-Q filed today says the board "has formed a special committee comprising disinterested directors to explore deepening Tesla's relationship with SpaceX", including "a business combination". No assurance of a deal, it says. sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
Resolved at 15:18 UTC, about an hour in. GitHub says Actions workflow and step result processing has recovered and repository updates are back to normal; a root-cause analysis is promised later. githubstatus.com/incidents/4…
Google DeepMind just mapped every 10x10m patch of forest on Earth by type.
ForTy sorts natural, planted and farmed forest, built on AlphaEarth Foundations from satellite imagery across 1.7M sites. The 2020 map and a 2017–2025 series are free on Earth Engine.
Source: TechCrunch's interview with Kirtley: techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/fu…
OpenAI let outside evaluators inside, and they found holes.
Per CNBC, METR and Redwood Research ran a pilot review of an internal OpenAI monitoring system: one staffer each, July 21 to Aug 11, codebase access. They found vulnerabilities and gave OpenAI a 61-page report.
Source: CNBC, which has OpenAI's statement and the background on Altman's "employee-like access" pledge: cnbc.com/2026/10/22/metr-red…
