industry

NanoCo, the startup behind NanoClaw, a fast-growing alternative to OpenAI Group PBC’s OpenClaw project, said today it’s teaming up with Vercel Inc. and OneCLI to try to fix the “trust problem” holding

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Netflix plans to launch a vertical video feed, to help with content discovery, this month, and plans to use AI for content creation and recommendations — Netflix is going to l

One of my favorite things about Runway is working alongside people who are genuinely passionate about storytelling. The videos shared internally are always a delight. Big ideas don’t need big budgets.

Financial Times: OnlyFans is in advanced talks to sell Architect Capital a below 20% stake at a 3B+ valuation, down from a previously reported ~60% stake at a ~5.5B valuation — Discussions with Archit

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company. OpenAI has been shifting its priorities as

@opentraces 0.3 is out! Big update: a stronger security pipeline with TruffleHog and LLM review, generation-aware ingest for living traces, line-level attribution + inverse blame with a @gitbutler-sty

Tesla police vehicles demonstrated significantly lower operational costs over a five-year period, costing approximately 75% less to operate compared to traditional gasoline patrol cars when accounting

'People get confused sometimes they think an economy is money. Money is a database for exchange of goods & services. Money doesn't have power in & of itself. The actual economy is goods & services' 一

People oddly assumed that I didn’t understand LiDAR, even though I oversaw the custom LiDAR development that Dragon uses to dock with the Space Station Aujourd'hui grosse discussion avec mes ingés (ch

Q-Day—the moment when quantum computers can break widely used cryptography—may be approaching faster than expected due to recent algorithmic and hardware advances. Advances in algorithms and design ar

Soft directives don’t stop crawlers from ingesting deprecated content. Redirects for AI Training allows anybody on Cloudflare to redirect verified crawlers to canonical pages with one toggle and no or

Research paper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-026-01594-4 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://w

SpaceX completed a full-duration static fire test of Starship V3, igniting all 33 Raptor 3 engines at Starbase and clearing the final major technical hurdle before Flight 12. The upgraded megarocket i

Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - and it's just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, wh

Some signs of life grok 4.3 beta can use an ubuntu shell and a persistent file layer to generate artifacts grok wrote python to encode the xai / grok logo into audio, i gave it the script back and had

Financial Times: Sources: China mobilizes multiple agencies to probe Meta's 2B Manus deal; some officials worry aggressive measures may send chilling signals to the tech sector — The landmark tech exi

Axios: Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is sc

Reuters: Sources: Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, laying off ~10% of its global workforce, or ~8,000 employees — Meta (META.O) intends to cond

Bloomberg: Sources: Sequoia raised ~7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a 3.4B vehicle in 2022 — Sequoia Capital, one of the lar

Financial Times: Sources suggest Anthropic is holding off from a wider Mythos release until it can reliably serve it to customers; Anthropic has suffered outages in recent weeks — Dario Amodei met wit

South Africa has an amazing opportunity to increase its GDP 10x 🇿🇦 If they just simply remove all the racist laws and allow Starlink to operate, the growth potential is massive SpaceX has already comm

A social media post from X user Allie K. Miller expressing enthusiasm about a shirt design spotted in New York City that they want to purchase in bulk (10 units). The post likely includes an image of

Elon Musk claimed that Starlink satellite internet service becomes operational within 5 minutes of receiving the equipment, highlighting the quick setup and activation time of the service. This statem

Still an early beta, but promising i gave Grok 4.3 beta an absolutely psychotic eval and it passed conflicting records, stale CRM data, signed docs with higher precedence, prompt injection buried in t

Financial Times: SynMax: ~40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays, with major sites for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others likely set back by more than three months — Delays to a swath of new

Tesla is officially launching in Estonia. The company is holding an opening event on April 24th at Ülemiste Center 'Bring your friends and family to see our models, take part in the day’s activities a

Tesla is suing the state of North Dakota because the state won't allow the company to open any showrooms/service centers and sell direct to consumers. North Dakota law prohibits vehicle manufacturers

In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of a

DigitalOcean's Inference Cloud Memory Layer is a technical architecture component designed to optimize database performance by implementing an in-memory caching layer for faster data access and reduce

I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably

This post likely advocates for treating longer time periods with the same urgency and attention to detail as shorter ones, suggesting a productivity or time management approach where months receive th

🚨 TRUMP CALLS OUT GENOCIDE IN SOUTH AFRICA “In South Africa there’s a very horrible thing going on… it’s a genocide, it’s a horrible thing… they kill people if they’re white.” Time for sanctions! Medi

Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, posted a birthday message on his 43rd birthday reflecting humorously on not discovering the meaning of life at 42 (a reference to Douglas Adams' 'Hitchhiker's G

Financial Times: Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake in German food delivery rival Delivery Hero from Prosus, which would bring its total stake to ~7% — German delivery group's larg

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the

Grinex, a US-sanctioned Russia-linked cryptocurrency exchange, suspended operations after claiming a $13.1 million cyberattack by 'unfriendly states.' The Kyrgyzstan-based exchange, which facilitates

“We'll have universal high income. We're basically just issuing money to people, and just because the output of Business Services will so far exceed the money supply, that effectively you have deflati

pgvector is an open-source PostgreSQL extension that enables efficient storage and similarity search of vector embeddings within a relational database. It allows developers to build vector search capa

This Reddit discussion thread explores perspectives on the economic paradox of widespread AI automation, specifically addressing concerns that if AI performs most productive work, unemployment could e

Axios: White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been “productive and constructive”; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to identity verification — Honestly, what's ho

xAI just made Speech to Text generally available. 25 languages. batch uploads + live streaming. word-level timestamps. multichannel audio. speaker diarization. check out the Speech to Text docs. 👇 Med

Yes, and enable quadriplegics to walk again and use their hands Neuralink is just so incredible 🥹 Neuralink will help millions restore speech, blindness, and so much more! These videos make me emotion

Your statement is true if goods & services output doesn’t rise dramatically due to AI/robots, but false if it does. In a normal economy, issuing more money simply increases the dollar price of the exi

Tesla reached a milestone of 10,000 customers in Singapore, marking significant market penetration in the Southeast Asian city-state. This achievement reflects growing adoption of Tesla vehicles in th

4 hours total from completely blank slate to finished video. Wild times. What started off as a workflow test, just an idea, quickly had me locked into a flow state. 4 hours total from completely blank