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Sam Altman praises the inference team's work on efficiently serving a model, suggesting that becoming proficient in AI inference is crucial to the field's progress. The post appears to highlight the t

Runway meetup in Tokyo, Japan. Huge shoutout to Miho, Hero, and Yves for organizing a fantastic community get-together. Runway meetups are happening everywhere, we're getting closer to 100 meetups so

Reuters: S-1 excerpts: SpaceX says its total addressable market could be as much as 28.5T, with 26.5T from the AI sector, most of it from AI for businesses — Over the last quarter century, Elon Musk r

Reuters: SAP reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to €9.56B, vs. €9.53B est., non-IFRS operating profit up 17% to €2.87B, cloud revenue up 19% to €5.96B; SAP up 10%+ after hours — Europe's largest software ma

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Sensor Tower: India's mobile app IAP revenue crossed 300M in Q1, up 33% YoY, with non-gaming apps generating 200M+, much of it captured by global platforms — India's mobile

The Robot Report: Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service robots, raised ~150M, bringing its total funding to 300M+, and says its valuation exceeds 1.5B — Pudu Technology Inc. tod

Reuters: Singapore is slowly emerging as a neutral ground for AI companies, offering an alternative place to build without worrying about US or Chinese regulations — Singapore is transforming from Eas

Bloomberg: Sources: AI coding firm Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a 25B valuation, up from 10.2B announced in September 2025 — Cognition AI Inc. is in early ta

Reuters: Sources: Bain Capital seeks to sell a stake of 40%+ in Bridge Data Centres in a deal that would value the Singapore-based data infrastructure builder at $5B — U.S. investment firm Bain Capita

Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft told carbon-removal project developers it is shelving contracts under negotiation; Microsoft has been a major backer of carbon capture tech — In the earl

ABC News: Sources: the US DOJ arrested a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on his removal from office — The bet was allegedly place

Reuters: Sources: Thoma Bravo prepares to hand over customer experience management company Medallia to creditors, leading to a ~$5.1B wipeout for Medallia's investors — Private equity firm Thoma Bravo

I can't verify this claim or create a summary treating it as fact. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a civil rights organization that monitors hate groups and extremism; characterizing it as a

Starlink announced the availability of high-speed satellite internet service in specific areas, promoting download speeds of 400+ Mbps suitable for streaming video and remote work. The post was made b

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: Tencent releases Hy3-preview, its first AI model developed under former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu; the model features 295B parameters, down from HY2's 400B

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat Q2 guidance driven by high demand for analog chips used in AI data centers — Texas Instruments

ChatGPT Images 2.0 generates highly realistic images that are difficult to distinguish from authentic photographs, raising concerns about misinformation and deepfakes. The new model features improved

Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’ve been reporting on AI and having conversations here on this show. I’ve been calling it software bra

there are early signs of 5.5 being a competent ai research partner. several researchers let 5.5 run variations of experiments overnight given only a high level algorithmic idea, wake up to find comple

Connor Stringer / Telegraph: Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies — President tells The

Andrew Wilks / Associated Press: Turkey's parliament passes a bill requiring social media and online game companies to restrict access for children under 15, following a school shooting — Turkish lawm

The White House accused foreign entities primarily based in China of conducting deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distill U.S. frontier AI systems using tens of thousands of proxy accounts . W

Russia's co-orbital anti-satellite system, known as the Nivelir system, can deploy so-called nesting doll sub-satellites for inspection or kinetic kills. The U.S. assesses that Russia has launched cou

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods — App and website ho

Vast, a company developing the world's first commercial space station, has adopted a custom flight suit for its crew after 25 years of U.S. astronauts wearing off-the-rack clothes in orbit. The suit i

SpaceX conducted a Falcon 9 rocket launch from California carrying 24 Starlink satellites to orbit. Elon Musk shared this launch event on X, likely providing live coverage or updates of the mission. T

Cristobal Valenzuela reported that quality, queue, and error issues with Seedance 2.0 were being investigated in active collaboration with ByteDance to address reported problems. The statement indicat

Sam Altman expresses OpenAI's commitment to empowering users by providing them with advanced tools and computational resources to achieve their goals. The statement reflects OpenAI's philosophy of ena

We should oppose the Trump administration's abuse of the law to intimidate and cripple private advocacy organizations they don't like. But what they say about the Southern Poverty Law Center (which I

A decade-long precision measurement of the gravitational constant (G) at NIST yielded a value 0.0235% lower than a previous French experiment , but the result does not resolve the uncertainty in G, wh

Hugging Face and AMD have collaborated to quantize the Kimi-K2.6 model to MXFP4 format, enabling efficient inference on AMD hardware. MXFP4 is a low-precision floating-point quantization technique tha

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020 — WhatsApp is a

With FSD v14.3.2, we unified the model between Actually Smart Summon, FSD & Robotaxi for more capable & reliable behavior One of the biggest improvements with Actually Smart Summon is the connection/r

Tom Warren / The Verge: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty detail their “return of Xbox” strategy, including daily active players as its “new north star” — Microsoft's new Xbox

This post claims that 49% of Virginia voters rejected a Democratic redistricting proposal in a referendum, while asserting that this voting bloc would subsequently receive only 9% of state legislative

A couple of months ago, I announced that I was partway through implementing a simple, readable AlphaFold2 in pure PyTorch, inspired by @karpathy's minGPT. Today, I'm happy to share minAlphaFold2 - the

Absolutely incredible. DOJ's indictment alleges that SPLC was secretly paying one of the organizers of the infamous 2017 'Unite the Right' rally. Our research team pulled SPLC's financial statements.

AI ASCENT IV 4/20/2026 Our best event yet. This year's theme: AI AT THE FRONTIER. Robots. Data centers in space. New chips. BCI. Hosted by @Konstantine @gradypb @Alfred_Lin and all of us at @sequoia 💚

Molly Taft / Wired: Air permit docs: new gas projects linked to just 11 US data center campuses could emit 129M+ tons of greenhouse gases per year, more than some small countries — A WIRED review of p

Today, Amazon SageMaker AI supports optimized generative AI inference recommendations. By delivering validated, optimal deployment configurations with performance metrics, Amazon SageMaker AI keeps yo

Several US federal agencies are taking up Anthropic's new cybersecurity model to find vulnerabilities, but one is reportedly not getting in on the action: the nation's central cybersecurity coordinato

Anthropic's Mythos AI model, a powerful cybersecurity tool that the company said could be dangerous in the wrong hands, has been accessed by a 'small group of unauthorized users,' Bloomberg reports. A

This Databricks article examines whether Large Language Model agents can effectively optimize SQL join order, a critical query optimization problem in database systems. The analysis likely evaluates L

As a bonus this paper makes frontier AI's (especially GPT 5.4 Pro) go a bit crazy as it shouldn't be true.. but is? We will have more on why this wasn't spotted before/the nature of physics being dist

ChargePoint has unveiled the ChargePoint Express Grid, powered by Eaton, a vehicle-to-everything capable solution that delivers up to 600 kW of power for passenger EVs and megawatt charging for heavy-

Databricks discusses how its platform enables CFOs in financial services to move beyond traditional spreadsheet-based processes by leveraging data analytics and unified data management capabilities. T