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This post claims that South Africa currently has more race-based laws than it did during apartheid, a contentious assertion made by Elon Musk on X. The claim likely references post-apartheid policies

Databricks has released a connector that enables Google Sheets users to access real-time data directly from Databricks lakehouses with built-in governance controls. The connector allows seamless integ

This appears to be a humorous post by Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter) joking about applying the concept of Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system to cats, likely referencing a cat's tendency to k

This Reddit thread from r/ChatGPT discusses whether locally-run open-source AI models can match the capabilities of frontier models like ChatGPT. Leading open-source models like Llama 3.3 70B and Deep

A Reddit post from the r/ChatGPT community where a user asks whether other users are experiencing a particular issue or behavior with ChatGPT, likely related to a bug, outage, unexpected response patt

It took me a few hours yesterday, but I got access to the case files for Olaolukitan Adon Abel previous se*ual battery case from Savannah GA that caused him to be BANISHED from the ENTIRE CITY. I'll d

A Manhattan federal jury found on April 15, 2026, that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market , following a lawsuit brought by over 30

A Reddit post from the r/ChatGPT community in which a user shares their experience of asking ChatGPT to evaluate their intelligence, likely showcasing the AI's response. The post probably highlights h

Load balancing and scaling LLM serving involves distributing inference requests across multiple model instances or GPUs to prevent bottlenecks and ensure consistent response times under varying traffi

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a 22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users — Gizmo, an A

Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old Texas man, threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home, having written about AI's purported risk to humanity and traveling from Texas with

Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability — Snap

Meta Platforms Inc. has announced a new deal with Broadcom Inc., extending a partnership that already sees the two companies work together on the design of the social media giant’s in-house artificial

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a new deal with Broadcom Inc., extending a partnership that already sees the two companies work together on the design of the social media giant’s in-house artifici

Microsoft Corp.’s push for artificial intelligence independence is gaining traction with today’s release of MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a lean and mean version of its flagship image generation model that d

The Tesla Model 3 Performance is showcased in a spring-themed promotional post shared via the Tesla Asia X account, featuring cherry blossom imagery that suggests an Asian market campaign. The post hi

Model S with over 800,000 kilometers on the odometer still going strong! 🚗 800,361 km. Zero defects. Passed inspection again. In a Tesla Model S. You know… the “toy” that was supposed to die after a f

Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Delangue advocates for more developers and researchers to focus on building evaluation harnesses and testing frameworks specifically designed for open-source an

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its five-year survey, producing the largest-ever 3D map of the universe using data from tens of millions of galaxies and quasars to study

The Ars Technica article covers the first teaser trailer for *Godzilla Minus Zero*, the sequel to the Oscar-winning *Godzilla Minus One*, which was debuted by writer/director Takashi Yamazaki at Cinem

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000 — After he

A r/ChatGPT post by a software engineer with 7 years of experience offering practical advice to 'vibe coders' — developers who use AI tools to generate code with minimal traditional programming knowle

Orders of Magnitude No orbital launch provider but SpaceX has ever put even 1,000 satellites in orbit; SpaceX has launched >11,000. What has @elonmusk said about this unprecedented accomplishment? “It

Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Parasail Inc. today announced that it has raised 32 million in early-stage funding. Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures jointly led the Series A round.

Sequoia Capital's 'Partnering with Auctor' article announces the firm's lead investment in Auctor, a New York-based AI-native startup that emerged from stealth on April 15, 2026. Auctor raised a total

People don’t even know about the French Algerians. They just think there were a few French administrators in Algeria, but there were actually hundreds of thousands of French and they were all ethnical

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised 23.6B YTD, up from 7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom — U.

During the NBA Play-In Tournament on April 15, 2026, Amazon Prime Video's stream of the Miami Heat vs. Charlotte Hornets game went offline for nearly two minutes in overtime, with the audio feed cutti

Project Think is Cloudflare's initiative to develop next-generation AI agents built on its global network infrastructure, leveraging tools like Workers AI, Durable Objects, and the Workers platform to

John Collison / Cheeky Pint: Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more — Mati Stan

Quantum-HPC integration may still be in its earliest chapters, but the race to build the software infrastructure it will need is already underway. As the quantum technology market matures toward a pro

Ramaphosa says South Africa does not have race laws, and @elonmusk and Starlink is not excluded because of such laws, but then he also says that Musk and Starlink are welcome to do business in South A

Restoring broken neural pathways What is neuron degeneration? Skyler, a machine learning engineer at Neuralink, shares how brain-computer interfaces could bypass neural pathways that are broken due to

Salesforce Inc. wants to make conversation the interface for developers, bringing agents to the foreground with a “headless” version of its platform designed to let humans and artificial intelligence

This Reddit post from r/ChatGPT appears to be a user-reported discussion about a perceived decline in ChatGPT's logical reasoning capabilities over time. Based on the broader context of similar commun

SONIC training code + Finetuning checkpoint + VLA data collection scripts are open-sourced. Little easter egg on the GEAR-SONIC website too :) https://github.com/NVlabs/GR00T-WholeBodyControl SONIC is

Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: a Snap-Perplexity AI search deal calling for Perplexity to pay Snap $400M has fallen apart; Snap is set to announce significant layoffs on Wednesday — Mass layoffs land

Financial Times: Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend 7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and 2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years — Ride-hailing app races to make

The Information: Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp — Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its 40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~5B each; SoftBank has already invested 30B — More banks are being invited

South Africa = racist regime The South African laws are literally super racist, plain and simple. It’s not complicated: imagine if the law was called “White Empowerment”, instead of “Black Empowerment

Elon Musk announced a successful static fire test of SpaceX's Starship vehicle, a critical pre-launch milestone in which the rocket's engines are ignited while the vehicle remains secured to the launc

Norwegian defense technology startup Stendr said today it has closed on 5.4 million in pre-seed funding in order to deliver advanced artificial intelligence capabilities for modern weapons systems. Th

Super exciting projects ahead! We are looking for excellent people to help build our vertically integrated AI stack. Numerics, quantization, HW simulators, compiler, runtime, kernel performance, RTL,

Washington Post: Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks — Virginians previously embra

Tesla is developing a diner concept, likely combining a retro-themed restaurant experience with Tesla Supercharger stations, allowing EV owners to dine while their vehicles charge. Elon Musk has refer