A school bus caught fire outside Bangkok with 25 of those on board feared dead, according to officials and rescuers

TechCrunch Anduril speeds up launch of defense payloads by buying Apex satellite buses off the shelf The company, which is best known for AI-powered defense products that span air, land and sea, is partnering with satellite bus manufacturing startup Apex Space to rapidly deploy payloads on orbit for the U.S. Department of Defense. Apex is doing something similar by productizing satellite buses, the part of the spacecraft that hosts the payload. "Our focus is really replicating those same things that we've done in other domains, in the space domain," Gokul Subramanian, the Anduril's SVP of space and software, said in a media briefing.

Yahoo News Helene shows that hurricanes in the age of climate change don't wreck just coastlines Unlike hurricanes that might ravage a coastline, push a few miles inland and eventually dissipate, Helene, in part because of its sheer size and the speed with which it was traveling North, ravaged inland parts of the country.

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Series, a GenAI game development platform, has quietly raised $28M from Netflix, Dell, a16z, others It's been quite the year for gaming industry exec Pany Haritatos. Last month, he quietly closed an oversubscribed $28 million Series A for his new game studio startup Series Entertainment, according to an SEC document and confirmation from the company. Investors include Netflix, Dell Technologies Capital, with follow-on investments from seed investors Andreessen Horowitz, BITKRAFT, and F4 Fund.

Fidelity has cut its estimate of X's value by 79% since Musk's purchase Elon Musk's X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price, according to a new estimate from investor Fidelity. The asset manager's Blue Chip Growth Fund now values its stake in X, formerly known as Twitter, at approximately $4.19 million, based on newly released disclosures from Fidelity's Blue Chip Growth Fund. For context, Fidelity had initially invested $19.66 million in X through the Blue Chip Fund, as per regulatory filings.

Yahoo Sports AP Top 25: Alabama is the new No. 1 after defeating Georgia; Ole Miss, Utah, Louisville plunge Alabama jumps to the No. 1 in the AP Top 25 poll, moving up from No. 4 after defeating Georgia. The Bulldogs drop from No. 2 to No. 5.