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Pew Research Center: A survey of US adults finds 56% support banning social media for under-16s, while 21% oppose; majorities across demographic and partisan groups support a ban — Nearly six-in-ten U

Ugandan health authorities confirmed an isolated case of Marburg virus disease, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever, while conducting surveillance for an ongoing Ebola outbreak. No contacts of the M

Prague-based artificial intelligence developer EquiLibre Technologies Inc. has raised funding at a valuation exceeding 500 million. The company stated late Tuesday that the Series A round was led by C

Thomas Ricker / The Verge: Amazon says Leo reached 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit following a recent launch, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes” — Early adopter

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with AI-enabled gadgets, and more — Amazon is focusing o

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created the world's first synthetic cell called SpudCell that can feed, grow, and reproduce, built entirely from non-living chemical components . SpudCe

BREAKING: Japan is testing Starlink-powered fire hydrant signs as emergency communication hubs. • Japan has approximately 120,000 fire hydrant signs installed nationwide. • The technical demonstration

In June, the Tesla Model Y became the best-selling vehicle overall in New Zealand, surpassing all other car models in monthly sales. This announcement was shared by Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter),

Samantha Elkins / NBC News: Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked — Cloudflare gave

The FAA proposed noise standards for civilian supersonic aircraft, moving to lift the decades-old ban on flights exceeding Mach 1 over U.S. land due to sonic booms. The proposal establishes a noise-ba

Fable, a platform or service, has made a return or comeback according to reporting from Ben's Bites, a newsletter covering AI and tech developments. The article likely discusses the relaunch or reviva

Finally, Grok’s Speech-to-Text is now live in Grok Build You can now just dictate prompts directly to your coding agents using /voice or Ctrl + Space, powered by Grok Voice Just talk naturally for lik

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2% in its Nasdaq debut Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~1.9B valuation — IQM, a full-stack quantum company ou

Jim Tankersley / New York Times: German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 — The Ger

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised 1.2B led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent at an ~8B valuation — Quantum Systems

GLM 5.2 is 5x cheaper than Opus 4.8 and 11x than Fable 5, yet it tops PostTrainBench. That’s exciting because lower costs make personalized intelligence economically viable. Every company and country

Startups worldwide raised a record 510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to a new report out today from market intelligence company Crunchbase Inc. The figure was more than investors put in

Sam Altman expresses enthusiasm about attending World Cup matches in the United States, particularly highlighting the experience of watching the USA national team play at home during the week of July

This post likely contains Elon Musk's perspective or commentary on rent control policies, possibly analyzing their economic effects or criticizing their implementation. Without access to the specific

Google LLC has disrupted NetNut, one of the largest residential proxy networks in operation, degrading a service that had turned more than 2 million home devices worldwide into relays for other people

Google lost its long-running fight against a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc's top judges said regulators were right to punish the company for abusing Android'

Google's electricity consumption grew 37 percent in 2025, its largest year-on-year annual increase to date, driven predominantly by AI demand. This brought cumulative growth in electricity use to more

Here is something completely new you can do in one shot with Runway. This entire video was generated from a single long audio file. Runway analyzed the file, read the audio transcription, and generate

Homebuilding artificial intelligence startup Higharc said today it has raised 95 million in a new round of funding to transform the way construction projects are planned and run. Today’s Series C roun

Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose a new challenge for security teams managing email s

I built http://loratlas.com to make it easier to browse the 1,500+ Krea 2 Style LoRAs I trained. You can try them with your own prompts, run a random loop to generate lots of examples, or blend multip

Grace Kay / The Information: Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a 200-per-week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6; the tally excludes beta versions of xAI products — Tesla told employees

David Holz, CEO of Midjourney, expressed enthusiasm about Marcin joining the team and appreciated him creating video content at the Midjourney office. The post highlights internal company culture and

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised 2B at a 15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as 3B — China's Kling AI has raised an

Lots of people are advocating for more American open-source models these days which is amazing but very few people do anything about it! Latest example, Alex Karp came out advocating for American open

Model Y long wheelbase now available to order in the US Introducing Model Y Long Wheelbase – now available in the US & Puerto Rico A 3-row, 6-seat configuration that brings exceptional interior space

Most people should probably update their priors on the state of open-source speech-to-speech. It's honestly kind of mind-blowing. We teamed up with @cerebras to build a fully open-source realtime voic

Fifteen privacy and consumer groups warned the FTC that X poses serious privacy risks, calling the company's petition to end oversight audits illegal. X requested that the FTC terminate data security

PamStealer is a macOS infostealer disguised as the legitimate Maccy clipboard manager that uses a two-stage attack chain to silently harvest data and clipboard contents while evading detection. The ma

This post likely discusses issues of model ownership and intellectual property rights in AI development, particularly regarding concerns about who controls trained model weights and the underlying neu

This post likely discusses the concept of model weights and their ownership or control in machine learning contexts, possibly drawing a playful analogy to relationship dynamics. The title suggests com

Open source AI models and their underlying code enable organizations and nations to develop artificial intelligence capabilities independently, without reliance on proprietary systems or external vend

OpenAI Group PBC has reportedly floated the idea of giving a 5% stake to the U.S. government. Sources told the Financial Times today that the ChatGPT developer’s executives made the suggestion during

OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Fin

Paraguay is entering a new era of connectivity 🇵🇾 Paraguay is working with Starlink through MITIC and COPACO to bring high-speed internet to more than 1,600 schools in isolated areas This will connect

New York Times: President Trump says Micron will invest 250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a 250 deposit in some US states — President Trump said the

Rampart from the @ndstudio @WhiteHouse is number one trending token classification model on HF. Very cool to see public organizations starting to own and build their weights instead of renting them fr

Sam Altman / Financial Times: Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies — The labs devel

Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank Group Corp. and its telecommunications subsidiary SoftBank Corp. are planning to launch a new neocloud business in the U.S. that will rent access to artificia

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~2B valuation, six months after raising 75M at a 1B valuation — Binance is set to lead

The Information: Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal — A British law firm h