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TNB Tech Minute: Blue Origin Rocket Explodes During Testing

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: OpenAI will allow some organizations access to a science-focused AI model to protect against biological hazards. And Dell reports massive first-quarter revenue growth in AI servers. Danny Lewis hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Some follow the noise.

0:03.3

Bloomberg follows the money.

0:05.4

Because behind every headline is a bottom line.

0:09.3

Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,

0:13.8

there's a money side to every story.

0:16.5

And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss.

0:20.8

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0:22.3

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0:25.3

Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.

0:32.7

Here's your morning, TNB Tech Minute for Friday, May 29th.

0:34.6

I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.

0:41.8

A rocket being tested by Jeff Bezos' space exploration company exploded last night into a massive fireball.

0:48.5

Blue Origin was preparing one of its new Glenn rockets for an upcoming mission near Cape Canaveral, Florida when the incident occurred.

0:53.3

In a social media post, Bezos said personnel were safe and accounted for.

0:55.6

The catastrophic failure is a major setback for Bezos's Blue Origin. The blast destroyed the only launch pad that the company

1:01.0

can use for its powerful new Glenn rockets, and will likely set back NASA's Artemis Moon

1:06.2

Exploration mission, as well as the company's commercial launches.

1:15.7

Elsewhere in the tech world, OpenAI is building a new program to allow limited use of a science-focused AI model to protect against viruses and other biological hazards.

1:20.4

The company says it will let government agencies and trusted public health organizations use

1:24.8

the model called GPT Rosalind, after Rosalind Franklin, whose research

1:29.1

helped uncover the structure of DNA molecules. OpenAI says the model can help address risks

1:34.8

posed by biological weapons and pandemics. The initiative is part of a campaign to tout AI as a force

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