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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct — Meta's AI expansion is

Miami-based City Labs launched BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability), the world's first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, aboard SpaceX Transporter-17 on July 7, 2026. The mission demonstrat

This guide provides strategies and best practices for migrating data analytics workloads from Azure Synapse to the Databricks platform, covering technical considerations and transition planning. It li

A newly deployed seafloor observatory at the Southeast Indian Ridge captured the first in situ measurement of oceanic crust being created between tectonic plates . Rather than occurring gradually, sea

This post from Hugging Face co-founder Clem Delangue congratulates Prime Intellect on securing a new funding round and calls for them to open their model weights, likely advocating for open-source AI

Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users — While native

Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider: Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a 300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures — - Or

David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion — Paris-

In this post, we explore how Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) is transforming scientific research by combining graph databases with generative AI. With this approach, you can acce

Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/prime-intellect-raises-130m-series-a-to-help-enterprises-build-their-own-ai-agents

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a 130M Series A at a 1B valuation — Prime Intelle

Oratomic Inc., a quantum computing startup, has raised 300 million in early-stage funding to scale its quantum hardware and accelerate its path to fault tolerance and error correction, creating the ne

Rate of improvement is 🚀🚀 Very excited for this model. It’s an enormous improvement over composer 2.5 and trained entirely from scratch. It’s been a pleasure working with the SpaceXAI team on it. Even

Run AI workloads on any cloud, store on Hugging Face, no egress fees to worry about. @skypilot_org and @huggingface built this together: • Models and datasets stay in HF Hub. SkyPilot runs the compute

Smart pet technology company Fi has just launched the world's first dog collar with @Starlink. Basically, you’ll know exactly where your dog is at all times anywhere in the U.S. It’s 199 + 189/year me

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard — Mark Zucke

.@Starcloud_ CEO @PhilipJohnston: 'Buy SpaceX stock.' 'It's like owning the railroads.' ' The SpaceX IPO is going to be viewed historically as the most undervalued IPO of all time.' 'They will tear th

Storage and egress fees have been one of the biggest cloud lock-in traps in AI. When models and datasets are hard and expensive to move, infrastructure choice stops being a real choice. Today, we’re c

A Brown University professor discovered widespread AI cheating when 40 out of 86 students scored perfect 100s on a take-home midterm exam with an average of 96 , while some answers contained unusual p

This post discusses a feature or capability for exporting content to Hugging Face repositories, with the benefit of creating verifiable session history. The statement suggests that integrating with Hu

Boone Ashworth / Wired: The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years — After more th

Madison Mills / Axios: The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro — The OpenAI Deplo

This post from Cristobal Valenzuela appears to be a metaphorical announcement about an upcoming project or product launch, using culinary imagery to suggest innovation and anticipation for something n

The soundbite is from my US congress testimony 3 years ago btw haha https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1673348676478025730 This is my 5-minute testimony before the US Congress! Open science and open

There was literally a Bolshevik takeover of the Smithsonian. Democrats can never be allowed to take power again. This is just a sample; the full 162-page report lays out the entire Radical Left ideolo

Time is relative to your POV. The last World Cup was in 2022. Argentina won. The same Messi, the same Ronaldo, and a lot of the same from that time into this World Cup. But if you think of 2022 from t

Try Grok 4.5 in the API, Grok Build, and Cursor Announcing Grok 4.5, our first model trained specifically for coding and agents. It was trained with Cursor and offers frontier intelligence at leading

Elon Musk announced the availability of Grok 4.5, xAI's large language model, integrated into Cursor, a popular AI-assisted code editor. This integration allows developers to leverage Grok's capabilit

Elon Musk announced that Grok 4.5, an AI model developed by xAI, is now available for testing through Vercel, a popular platform for deploying web applications. This release likely allows developers t

The U.S. operates only one active rare earth mine at Mountain Pass, California, which produced approximately 45,000 tons of rare earth oxide concentrate in 2024, but the ore is still mostly shipped to

The US military has lost dozens of MQ-9 Reaper drones worth more than $1 billion during operations over Iran, prompting the Pentagon to seek large numbers of cheaper alternatives expected to survive p

We are very pleased to see @NVIDIARobotics @asierarranz using #reBotarm showed the cleanest sim-to-real loop yet: #IsaacLab →#LeRobot → #GR00T. We built reBot for exactly this workflow. ✅ Isaac Sim/La

X (formerly Twitter) is introducing a Community Notes feature that notifies users via X Chat when posts they have interacted with receive corrections or fact-checks. This notification system aims to k

We will continue to make refinements to the Grok Build harness and the 1.5T foundation model almost every day in response to user requests. The 2T model will finish training this month and be availabl

We're still just scratching the surface of how much better, faster, cheaper we can make inference for open-source models! So super excited to see companies like @zml_ai by @steeve come out of stealth

Wispr Flow kept replacing the word 'Anthropic' with the word 'Perplexity'. They sound nothing alike and are direct competitors. After flagging this to them back in April, they only just now emailed me

With just one year in orbit, the first FireSat satellite has already spotted wildfires invisible to existing satellites. After a successful launch early this morning, 3 more satellites joined the cons

Grok is an AI chatbot developed by xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, designed to answer questions with a conversational and occasionally humorous tone. The system is integrated into X

Wow… within 5 minutes my kids built this game called the Tesla City with Grok 4.5. It’s a simple Tesla arcade game in SF where: 1/ You can choose a Tesla (3 / Y / S / X / Cybertruck / Roadster / Semi

2023: “Twitter rebrand to X is destined to fail.” 2026: “Fastest-growing website among the top 20 in the world.” X in June 2026: → 4.399 billion visits → Up 4.66% from May → Fastest-growing website am

Americans have had enough of the bottom 2% of society ruining our lives “I'm gonna be so blunt. Because of the ghetto-ass activities that happened in Newport Beach — we are now going to see next year

Anthropic PBC will pay 19 billion to lease a TeraWulf Inc. data center for 20 years. TeraWulf, a Nasdaq-listed developer of artificial intelligence infrastructure, announced the deal today. The compan

New York Times: Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people this year, as AI companies expand in the city — Anthropic, the artificial i

Bloomberg: Apple supplier Luxshare raised ~3.1B in its Hong Kong IPO, selling 383.5M shares at ~8 each, the top of its marketed range, and will start trading on Thursday — Apple Inc. supplier Luxshare

Financial Times: Apple's interest in buying CXMT chips has thrust the Chinese memory chip maker and its relationship with Beijing into the AI supply chain spotlight — Sharp turnaround for state-backed

Reece Rogers / Wired: As part of Meta's Muse Image rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content by other users — As part of Meta's Muse Image