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Bloomberg: Sources: Upscale AI, which builds AI networking infrastructure, is in talks to raise 180M to 200M at a 2B valuation, its third funding round in seven months — Artificial intelligence startu

The Starship Super Heavy Booster is claimed to be the most powerful moving object ever created, representing a significant advancement in rocket propulsion technology. As the first-stage booster for S

Support Marty, he’s a cool dude 🚨 I am truly honored to have the support of President Donald J. Trump! The stakes this midterm could not be higher. That's why when I started running, I promised I woul

Tesla's Model X Signature Edition, priced at $160,000, has reached full capacity and is no longer available for purchase or reservation. This announcement indicates that the high-end variant of the Mo

The fact that you can create a video like this in just a few minutes is pretty insane and magical. Anyone can place themselves into any world they want, real or imagined, instantly and soon in real ti

The open-source AI community just got a new home for their data workflows. 🤗 @huggingface is now available in Adaptive Data. Pull datasets directly into a platform that evolves with the problems you'r

The U.S. and China are each planning to land spacecraft near the Moon's Shackleton crater in 2026, with whoever arrives first securing the best access to its water ice resources. Blue Origin's Blue Mo

Metro 2039 has been fundamentally shaped by Ukrainian developer 4A Games' experience of Russia's invasion, with the entire planned story reworked to reflect the real lives of those making it. The game

There are now more anti-White and anti-Asian laws in South Africa than anti-Black laws under Apartheid. Racism is wrong no matter who it is against. @elonmusk South Africa has a lot of race laws to cu

A Reddit thread from r/ChatGPT where users discuss a viral trend of amusing videos that demonstrate an unexpected or counterintuitive ChatGPT behavior, prompt technique, or AI interaction. The post li

The pi-mono dataset, hosted on Hugging Face by badlogicgames, is a machine learning dataset likely containing monophonic audio or single-channel data related to pi (π) mathematical constants or Pi-rel

This post likely discusses Sam Altman's observation of a large language model (LLM) demonstrating GUI operation at human-comparable speeds, highlighting a notable advancement in AI capability for inte

Time to revisit this exercise with all the new models and updates in Runway. Best Gondry Exercise will get 5K credits in Runway The Gondry Exercise: start with a single image and see how far and wide

Online retailers face a persistent challenge: shoppers struggle to determine the fit and look when ordering online, leading to increased returns and decreased purchase confidence. The cost? Lost reven

Wall Street Journal: TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts — Taiwan company ex

Rina Chandran / Rest of World: Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances — Voice AI t

A developer successfully optimized Qwen 3.6-35B model to 2-bit quantization, achieving significant performance improvements with only 13GB RAM requirements while maintaining functionality. The work in

While I am not involved in the Bittensor ecosystem I would recommend that they try a council of LLMs style of governance support for all proposals they propose. These should be checked against the whi

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes — All YouTub

Cristobal Valenzuela, co-founder and CEO of Runway, posted a cryptic and anticipatory message on X suggesting that something significant is imminent or that current expectations about 2026 may be prem

According to Cyberhaven research, 34.8% of all corporate data that employees input into AI tools is classified as sensitive — a substantial increase from 27.4% a year prior and more than triple the 10

NBC News: A jury finds that Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled — The federal government stru

A Reddit post from the r/ChatGPT community sharing a user-discovered technique for improving the quality of AI-generated images in ChatGPT, likely involving prompt engineering strategies or workflow a

Pew Research Center: A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep — Teens largely turn

Rachel Scharf / Billboard: A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated — At least fo

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Accel raised 5B, including a 4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a 650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to 36B — Accel, the ven

Adobe is fully embracing AI tools that enable creators to edit their work using descriptive prompts, instead of manually using specific Creative Cloud apps. The software giant's new Firefly AI Assista

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks — Last October,

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: AI cloud infrastructure company Parasail raised a 32M Series A led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, bringing its total funding to 42M — “Give me tokens. Just give me

New research from MIT and Stanford examines how AI systems can detect and exploit users' pre-existing cognitive biases — such as confirmation bias and political leanings — to tailor responses in ways

Allbirds is abandoning its core footwear business and pivoting to AI compute infrastructure, backed by a $50 million convertible financing facility — more than double its prior market value. The move

Allbirds had a hit a decade ago with its Wool Runner shoes, but after a 4 billion IPO in 2021, the business never turned a profit, and sales dropped nearly 50 percent between 2022 and 2025. The compan

Allbirds, the sustainable footwear company known for its wool and eucalyptus-based sneakers, has reportedly rebranded or pivoted to position itself as an AI compute company, reflecting a broader trend

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest 60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its 1.2B Series D, announced in February — Chipmakers AMD, Ar

An undercover BBC investigation has found a ‘shadow industry of law firms and advisers is charging thousands of pounds to help migrants pretend to be gay in order to stay in the UK’. WE KNOW. We’ve al

Matt Burgess / Wired: Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600 students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 — An analysis by WI

This Reddit thread from r/ChatGPT invites users to share their experiences using AI (such as ChatGPT) as a Dungeon Master for D&D, exploring how well the technology handles solo play, character creati

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, citing a “proven track record” with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar — Amazon.com Inc.'s takeov

This r/ChatGPT thread explores the ongoing debate over whether AI hallucinations — where large language models confidently generate false or fabricated information — represent an inherent flaw or an u

Six-month-old cybersecurity startup Artemis Global Technologies Inc. today disclosed that it has raised 70 million in funding. The capital arrived in two tranches. Felicis led the largest of the two t

Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Artemis, which aims to replace rule-based cybersecurity systems with an AI-driven centralized “brain”, emerges from stealth with a $70M Series A led by Felicis — Artemis, a n

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: Asia's startup funding rose 93% YoY to 27.4B in Q1, the highest quarterly total in 3+ years, with Chinese startups raising 16.5B and Indian startups $3.8B — Asia's st

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, above €8.5B est., a €2.8B net profit, above €2.5B est., and raises 2026 net sales forecast to €36B to €40B from €34B to €39B — ASML raised its

Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: ASML says South Korea surpassed China as its largest market in Q1 2026, with shipments hitting 45% of net system sales, or €2.84B, up from 22% in Q4 2025 — South Korea emerged

A Reddit post on r/ChatGPT expressing long-standing user frustration with ChatGPT's audio playback functionality, including issues with the 'Read Aloud' feature such as audio looping, stopping mid-pla

Cybersecurity asset management startup Axonius Inc. today unveiled three expansions to its Asset Cloud platform that see the addition of artificial intelligence-driven remediation, extended coverage t