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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

A key implication of this work is that not all AI adoption is labor-replacing. Some jobs may be more automation-prone, some may expand as AI lowers costs and increases demand, and some are more likely

🇿🇦 A senior South African politician just got caught lying about Starlink to protect mobile network operators. Parliamentary communications chair Khusela Diko claimed Starlink 'doesn't move the needle

A startup called Sabi just came out of stealth with a beanie that reads your thoughts. 70,000 to 100,000 miniature EEG sensors woven into the fabric. You put it on like a winter hat and type by imagin

Adithya is putting his work where his heart is. If you believe in open research and open AI, join a company that actually lives those values, not a closed-source, revenue-maximizing one! Quick career

Anna Tong / Forbes: AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces — Defunct startups are b

AI Search is the search primitive for your agents. Create instances dynamically, upload files, and search across instances with hybrid retrieval and relevance boosting. Just create a search instance,

Americans have a natural tendency to think of our country as unitary, with states as mere administrative boundaries. But the ethnic and cultural differences within the USA are staggering, greater than

Bloomberg: Analysis and filings: Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025's end; if SpaceX hits a 2T IPO valuation, Google's stake would be worth 100B — An early investment in SpaceX ha

NASA's Artemis II mission took four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby in April 2026, marking the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years. During the mission, the crew documented the Moon's topogr

Oracle Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. seem to be putting their longstanding rivalry aside in favor of a more pragmatic relationship that acknowledges the reality of today’s multicloud technology e

We built a custom technology stack to run fast large language models on Cloudflare’s infrastructure. This post explores the engineering trade-offs and technical optimizations required to make high-per

Canva has overhauled its design and workspace suite as it attempts to become the ultimate centralized hub for AI-powered content creation. The platform announced its Canva AI 2.0 update today, introdu

Cisco Systems Inc. today announced that it has landed a new multiyear partnership with Churchill Downs Inc. to modernize the network infrastructure across its racing venues and casinos, with work set

Agents are becoming multi-channel. That means making them available wherever your users already are — including the inbox. Today, Cloudflare Email Service enters public beta with the infrastructure la