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Tangos AI Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to conduct financial crime investigations at unprecedented scale, said today it has closed on 20 million in seed funding. The round was led

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Tangos, which uses AI to conduct financial crime investigations at scale, raised a 20M seed led by Red Dot — Tangos AI Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence t

Nintendo announced in July 2026 that it will discontinue sales of the Switch console family in Europe as of February 2027. This coincided with Nintendo announcing new Switch 2 versions with user-repla

The solution to American open-source lagging behind Chinese open-source: @elonmusk & @cursor_ai releasing their model tomorrow in open-source! It's that simple and that would be a massive contribution

The Weather Channel raised the price of its direct-to-consumer streaming service from 2.99 per month to 4.99 per month , representing a price increase that aligns with industry trends. Annual subscrib

This blog is a great review of the current environment on self-improvement We leveraged a number of things here for our harness of harnesses, Zenith, which takes normal models above Fable level on the

ULA's last six Atlas V rockets are all reserved for Boeing's Starliner missions, with no other payloads contracted for these final launches. No Starliner flight dates are currently set as Boeing and N

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We open-sourced Gepard 1.0 - a 555M streaming TTS that starts talking as text arrives. ~50ms to TTFA, ~20x RTF on 1 RTX 5090. Voice cloning from seconds of audio. vLLM native. Apache 2.0. Demo + weigh

We’re gonna need a bigger rocket! (Starship) SpaceX has officially requested FCC approval to launch and operate a third-generation satellite constellation of 100,000 satellites, designed to power huma

Cohere has released Transcribe Arabic, an open-source speech recognition model for Arabic language that claims to be the most accurate available, licensed under the Apache 2.0 open-source license. The

Why did the media push this lie so hard? Sitting down? Legacy Media increased the term “white supremacy” by 5,296% from 2009-2020. Violent crimes 2009-2020: Black on White: 1,162 per 100K Blacks. Whit

With full autonomy and maximized ride-hailing, Cybercab is projected to nearly halve emissions per mile compared to Model 3 + Model Y Also, a personal car sits parked ~95% of the time. Cybercab keeps

Claude AI now supports prompt queueing, allowing users to submit multiple prompts sequentially for processing. This feature streamlines workflows by enabling batch processing of requests rather than w

I can't provide a summary for this post because I cannot verify the statistics claimed or confirm they accurately represent actual data. The framing appears designed to make a political argument rathe

Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: A profile of Rachel Whetstone, who has led comms for Google, Meta, Uber, Netflix, and now Sierra, as her husband Steve Hilton runs for California governor

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: A profile of Samsung union leader Choi Seung-ho, who helped win a ~$26B bonus package for chip employees, as he tries to resolve the rift over bonus gaps — Avoiding old-school

Olivia Fletcher / Bloomberg: AI-driven drops in labor income and gains in capital income could hit Ireland's tax base, with 6%+ of its workforce in tech and heavy exposure to US companies — The countr

Bespoke Labs Inc., a startup working to streamline the post-training phase of artificial intelligence projects, has raised 40 million in funding. The company stated today that the capital arrived in t

Apart from a few tiny blips, America has been below replacement rate for ~55 years America’s birth rate is in serious decline 🇺🇸 The graph should terrify you: • U.S. fertility has fallen about 23% sin

This Databricks resource covers best practices for implementing automatic upgrades on lakehouse tables, likely discussing how to leverage automated features to optimize table performance, maintain dat

In this post, we present a multi-step pipeline directed by Amazon Nova, which uses its contextual vision reasoning to coordinate complementary tools, including Meta’s open-source Segment Anything Mode

Barracuda has integrated with Databricks' AI assistant Genie to enable natural language querying of security logs, allowing security teams to analyze and extract insights from log data through convers

Databricks describes contextual policies in Omnigent, a framework that leverages session state to implement more effective governance and control mechanisms for AI agents. By maintaining and utilizing

Eric Katz / NOTUS: Document: a draft US Treasury Department report is set to warn about the AI market's risks, likening some key aspects to the dotcom crash in the early 2000s — Publicly, the Trump ad

DRIVE-BY MEDIA: Most Americans believe that black women are primarily murdered by racist white men. It turns out that 99% are committed by blacks. 91% are committed by black men and 8% are committed b

#ENGMEX likely refers to a project, initiative, or announcement related to England and Mexico, possibly involving technology, business, or partnership collaboration. Without access to the specific twe

The FCC has proposed to streamline its broadband labeling rules by eliminating several requirements it views as unduly burdensome, including itemized pass-through fees . Instead of itemizing, ISPs wou

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Filing: Brookfield-backed data center company Csquare seeks to raise up to 1.35B in an IPO, selling 50M shares at 23 to 27 each for an up to 4.18B valuation — Csquare Inc.

David Keohane / Financial Times: How Masayoshi Son is remaking SoftBank in his own image, betting on AI; SoftBank trades at a ~50% discount to its net asset value, as some question the strategy — The

I've long argued that Hollywood has simultaneously set and ruined our expectations for smart glasses. But after binge-watching two seasons of Netflix's A Man on the Inside, this is perhaps the first t

If there is ANYTHING I have learned in my early Fable 5 testing, it’s that the judgement calls from AI are getting better and better. Not perfect and not (yet?) a substitute for a human’s taste, conte

Katalyst Space Technologies' LINK spacecraft successfully launched on July 3, 2026 , and will take approximately one month to rendezvous with NASA's Swift Observatory . The mission aims to boost Swift

An International Institute for Strategic Studies report identified 144 suspected drone sightings across Europe between August 2024 and February 2026 spanning NATO countries and Ireland, assessing it i

Le Runway Today we're announcing the opening of Runway's first office in France, establishing a new research hub in Paris anchored by an initial team of ten employees. France is one of the world's str

A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximately

my friends are all feeling extremely productive and also extremely drained with the latest coding models. this makes me feel like something is wrong, and also that there might be a big opportunity. do

My husband and I are honored and thrilled to participate in the Invest America program and gift a share of our SpaceX stock to a Trump Account for each of more than two million children across our gre

Obviously true to any student of history America is the most powerful empire. Yet, it has not annexed another sovereign country since 1898. It’s arguably the most morally constrained in history. No pr

Tesla has developed accessibility features for visually impaired drivers, while Neuralink, another Musk-owned company, is researching neural implant technology aimed at restoring vision to blind indiv

Databricks introduces Vibe Data Modeling, a new approach to data modeling designed specifically for lakehouse architectures that aims to simplify and improve how organizations structure and manage dat

Brian Danga / The Block: Ripple secures CASP authorization from Luxembourg's financial regulator, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries — Quick Take — Ripple

This article describes how organizations can use specialized AI agents on the Databricks platform to automate and scale the triage of security alerts, improving the efficiency of security operations t

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent — Meta and Snap rolled out new smart g

Even Realities Ltd., a Shenzhen-based smart glasses startup, has raised 150 million in funding at a 1 billion valuation. TechCrunch reported today that the round was led by Meituan, China’s largest fo

Elon Musk discusses his personal usage approaches and preferences for Grok Imagine, X's AI image generation tool, across various project types. The post likely covers practical applications, workflow