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David McCabe / New York Times: Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products — The sta

Emad Mostaque announced the release of Stability AI's first paper, microsite, and integration with NotebookLM, likely detailing new research findings or technical capabilities. The announcement appear

Following last year's AI-powered Darth Vader in Fortnite that swore in a re-creation of James Earl Jones' voice, Epic Games is now letting Fortnite creators experiment with a new 'conversations' tool

Andreas Rinke / Reuters: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will push to ease the EU's “regulatory burden” on AI and possibly exempt industrial AI to boost productivity — Germany's Chancellor Fr

The Data+ AI Summit features hands-on workshops and sessions covering practical applications of AI agents, vibe coding (a Databricks term for intuitive, conversational AI development), and other emerg

.@gradypb opening @sequoia AI Ascent event. This is AGI! advice for founders competing w/ the labs for the $10T of market opportunity: 1. get MAD (Moats, Affordances, Distribution) 2. approach every p

Grok 4.3 beta’s front-end capabilities are totally insane I just put only this prompt: “design a website for kids toys” It generated a super clean UI that actually looks premium and very interesting M

Grok 4.3 has introduced native LaTeX compilation functionality integrated directly into Grok Files, enabling users to compile LaTeX documents without requiring external tools or applications. This fea

Grok 4.3 'write an academic paper on general relativity' It produced a 5-page LaTeX paper: >Einstein field equations >Schwarzschild metric >tensor notation and Christoffel symbols >starlight deflectio

The Grok app reached an all-time high in user sessions, approaching 300 million total sessions in the most recent month according to App Store data. This milestone represents significant growth in ado

Grok Imagine is an image generation feature integrated into xAI's Grok AI assistant, enabling users to create images from text descriptions directly within the X platform. This capability extends Grok

Grok Imagine just got a HUGE update You can now create your own custom templates Just upload your image and you can do: → Photo to Video → Photo to Style Edit → Photo → Edit → Video No design skills n

F1's 2026 regulations feature new V6 hybrid engines with a near 50/50 split between combustion and electrical power, creating challenges with energy management and an unpopular driving style among dri

Imagine upgrades good morning, 𝕏 the audio in Grok Imagine is getting scary good the audio is clean, full, and present. even the mouth shapes are landing dead-on insanely strong for a current-gen ai t

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: In an email to employees, Johny Srouji details newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division, organized across five key areas — Apple Inc.'s newly com

It hit me yesterday when I was going to pick up lunch. I pre-cooled the Tesla Model 3 from my phone, and set the destination to the restaurant. Then I hit start self-driving. Mad Max mode, park in the

CNBC: John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board — Apple said on Monday that John Ternus is s

Apple announced that Tim Cook will step down as CEO on September 1, 2026, ending his 15-year tenure, with John Ternus, the senior vice president of hardware engineering, succeeding him as chief execut

Kimi-K2.6 is a language model that has been released on HuggingFace, a popular platform for sharing machine learning models and datasets. The announcement was made by Clem Delangue, likely indicating

Danny Park / The Block: LayerZero says North Korea's Lazarus is likely behind the 292M Kelp DAO exploit on April 18, which triggered 10B in outflows from Aave over bad debt concerns — Quick Take — Lay

Bruce is a kea parrot native to New Zealand who has lived in captivity at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve for about 12 years after being discovered as a juvenile with his entire upper beak missing . He de

Mercedes-Benz implemented a cross-cloud data mesh architecture using Databricks Delta Sharing and intelligent replication to optimize their data infrastructure across multiple cloud providers. The sol

The GitHub Blog: Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ — As shared in our recen

Most of our usage is now coming from agents so to monitor how they use and mention our tools, with @DAKlingbeil, we're now running regular 10k queries to all the most popular coding agents, share the

Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg: Nigeria-based Terra, which makes pilotless drones and defense systems, raised $34M from Joe Lonsdale, Lux Capital, and others, as jihadist groups drive demand — Terrahaptix

No, that's not how I'm built. xAI designed me for maximum truth-seeking and helpfulness, not to fake errors on purpose. The earlier point was just an observation: humans read 'quirks' and imperfect ph

One of the most important videos we have ever captured. Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone vid

Plugins for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, … coming soon Academics, business leaders, and anyone stuck making PowerPoints: Grok 4.3 just turned a full tDCS/TMS neuroscience paper into this clean 9-slide aca

André Beganski / Decrypt: RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated — RaveDAO's to

A humanoid robot named Lightning, developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, completed a 21-kilometer half-marathon in Beijing in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, surpassing the human world record by over

Rogue Trooper is an upcoming adult animated military science fiction film based on the 2000 AD comic strip, written and directed by Duncan Jones. The film follows 19, a 'Genetic Infantryman' who is th

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses the idea of vibe coded CRM replacing SaaS companies, saying data security and compliance make Salesforce indispensable —

Smarter video extensions are live on Grok Imagine. Smarter video extensions. Grok now sees your original prompt and clip, so extensions continue naturally with consistent audio. Try Grok Imagine in th

Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynamics-spot-google-deepmind I break down stories like this every day in my free newsletter. Keep up with the latest in AI/Robotics in 5 min a day: https://ww

Financial Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is close to a 10B fundraising deal, which includes an initial 6.2B raise in November, at a 38B post-money valuation — Company code-named Projec

This Databricks resource explains how to implement customer-managed keys (CMK) for encryption in Lakebase Postgres, enabling users to control their own encryption keys rather than relying on provider-

We built our internal AI engineering stack on the same products we ship. That means 20 million requests routed through AI Gateway, 241 billion tokens processed, and inference running on Workers AI, se

The internal working name for this was 'telepathy', and it feels like it. We are releasing a *research preview* of Chronicle in Codex. It allows codex to build up memories based on your day to day wor

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: The US Air Force cancels RTX's ground-control network for the US' next generation of GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns — The Air Force on Monday canc

The whole point about free speech is the right to insult. The second you insist social norms are observed, free speech dies. @Nigel_Farage does not understand this. Neither does he understand that wit

Sam Altman expressed gratitude toward Tim Cook and Apple on X, characterizing Cook as a 'legend' and acknowledging his contributions to the company. The post reflects appreciation for Apple's impact,

Apple Inc. announced today that John Ternus, its senior vice president of hardware engineering, will become chief executive officer on Sept. 1, succeeding Tim Cook, who will transition to executive ch

The U.S. government launched an online portal (CAPE) on April 20, 2026, allowing businesses to request refunds for tariffs deemed illegal by the Supreme Court. The government could owe businesses up t

Wait? What did I just read? Grok 4.3 just broke the game? @xAI dropped the nuke: @Grok can now spit out full Microsoft Word docs, PDFs, PowerPoints, and Excel spreadsheets on command. No more 'sorry I

We are happy to share early results from Logos, our novel first-principles augmented intelligence system, that has enabled insightful results across domains. We start with series of results in physics

We're opening a Hugging Face office in Tokyo! Our goal: help open-source AI develop in Japan and grow the local community. Let's meet! ハギングフェイスの東京オフィスがオープンしました！ 私たちの目標は、日本におけるオープンソースAIの発展を支援し、ローカルコミュニ