At 9:10AM ET, the agency will kick off a livestream of the start of the Crew-9 mission meant to bring stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams back to Earth next year.
Out of the loop? Check our storystream on the Boeing Starliner issues that left them stuck on ISS. Liftoff is scheduled for 1:17PM ET today.
OpenAI is slated to close the largest funding round in history at $6.5 billion next week, and as the Wall Street Journal reports, Apple has just pulled out of the round in the eleventh hour.
Apple’s involvement was already surprising—it’s rare for the iPhone maker to invest in external companies. The reporting of a potential investment came after Apple announced a ChatGPT integration into Siri.
Edmunds’ Jonathan Eifalan tested charging a Rivian R1T at a Tesla Supercharger using the sparsely available NACS adapter and noted that not every V3 Supercharger is showing up on the Rivian charging station map yet.
Tesla first enabled Supercharger access for Ford before adding it for Rivian, and most recently added GM to the list — with Kia scheduled for next year.
Before launching a slimmed-down Flight Simulator 2024 next month, leader Jorg Neuman talked to Polygon, saying the game’s core business is still PC players who buy it outside of Game Pass.
Also, on the Bing Maps link:
Half the cities that we’re making [in our regular World Updates]? I currently have planes [gathering data] in Africa, South America, and Asia. I’m flying those planes because flight simmers want [those areas]....So I’m like, ‘Hey, I’m flying to Brazil. You want those?’ They’re like, ‘Yep!’
The New York Times reports that documents shown to potential investors in just another tech company have an interesting detail:
Roughly 10 million ChatGPT users pay the company a $20 monthly fee, according to the documents. OpenAI expects to raise that price by two dollars by the end of the year, and will aggressively raise it to $44 over the next five years, the documents said.
The proposed investment could value the company at $150 billion and give it two years to convert to a for-profit business before the funding becomes debt.
[The New York Times]
