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We are launching Flagship, a native feature flag service built on Cloudflare’s global network to eliminate the latency of third-party providers. By using KV and Durable Objects, Flagship allows for su

Amazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM principal (users and roles) in AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 and Cost Explorer, enabling customers to understand and attribute inference costs across

Introducing “Is It Poison?” Our new reality show where contestants are given identical bottles. Some are safe. Some are not. With limited information, they decide: drink, pass, or persuade someone els

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered — The former Inst

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, is soliciting beta testers for new dataset hosting features specifically designed for robotics data. The post seeks to identify organizations and researchers curren

xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, is significantly younger than established competitors in the AI industry, requiring substantial development to catch up. The statement acknowledges th

Nicholas Moore, who pleaded guilty to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court's electronic document filing system dozens of times over several months, was sentenced on Friday to a year of probation. Moore also

Elon Musk stated on X that Mars is currently inhabited only by robotic rovers and probes, with no human presence yet. This reflects SpaceX's current phase of Mars exploration relying on automated syst

Meta is raising the price of its entire Quest VR headset lineup due to an AI-driven squeeze on components required to make the headsets. Memory chips are in high demand from AI infrastructure expansio

MIT engineers built an AI wristband that controls robots by reading your hand muscles. It works by using an ultrasound to capture images of the muscles and tendons in your wrist. An AI algorithm then

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