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How many more children before we admit the experiment failed? This time it’s two Iraqi brothers, 18 and 20, on trial in Essen, Germany, for allegedly raping a 7 year old girl on two separate occasions
Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: How the US AI build-out is pushing up prices for electricity, software, and more; in a survey, 81% of economists say it will add to inflation over the next year —
I think this means you can collect ~10k hours just from open source datasets, which means basically anyone should be able to build a decent robot foundation model: 500 from the new BitRobot dataset 50
IBM unveiled the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology at the 0.7 nm node, featuring a revolutionary 'nanostack' transistor architecture . The chip packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a
IBM Corp. today unveiled what it says is the world’s first sub-one-nanometer chip technology, a research breakthrough that it said will fuel the next 10 years of semiconductor development and pave the
Identity verification company Incode Technologies Inc. today announced that it has acquired Identiq Protocol Ltd., an Israeli startup that builds cryptographic tools letting companies share fraud sign
Madison Mills / Axios: Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring three founders and other team members behind AI security startup Virtue AI; two founders report to Nat Friedman — Meta Superintellige
SK hynix Inc., the world’s largest supplier of HBM memory, today filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The South Korean company hopes to sell up to 17.79 million shares for 29.4 billi
Microsoft has extended its free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for consumers by an additional year, allowing enrolled devices to continue receiving security updates until October 1
Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku: Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by 100 for 512GB models and 150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025 — Microsoft is increas
Mindestens vier Mädchen im Alter von 12 bis 14 Jahren wurden am vergangenen Samstagnachmittag in einem Schwimmbad in Schwäbisch Gmünd Opfer sexueller Übergriffe. Tatverdächtig ist ein 21-jähriger Afgh
Bloomberg: NAND flash maker Kioxia, Japan's most valuable company since June 12, plans to offer US depositary shares in spring 2027 amid AI-driven demand for memory chips — Kioxia Holdings Corp. inten
Need to find a harder problem for /goal. I haven't even finished my coffee yet. Introducing /goal in Grok Build. Execute long-running tasks autonomously, with multiple rounds of subagents implementing
A comprehensive effort is underway to sequence the genomes of endangered species, with Google providing funding and AI tools to the Vertebrate Genomes Project and the Earth BioGenome Project. Google.o
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: New Zealand-based Partly, which develops an AI model for the auto parts industry, raised a 50M Series B led by DST at a 500M valuation, as it enters the US — Partly Group
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: NHTSA proposes eliminating the mandate for manual brake pedals in “vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems” — The Trump administration's Depar
Nochmal, damit das alle verstehen, was in Deutschland passiert. Die gesamte deutsche MSM-Presse verliert kein Wort über Uwe Boll oder Citizen Vigilante. Ausnahme drei Artikel: Welt (hinter Paywall), w
Notion is shutting down Notion Mail, its AI-enhanced email client launched in April 2025 based on the Skiff acquisition, on September 22. More than 50% of Notion Mail users now manage their email usin
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Notion plans to shut down its Gmail client Notion Mail on September 22 and go “all in” on AI agents to run inboxes, saying 50%+ of users do not open the inbox — Last year, Notion e
Om Malik / On my Om: Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59 — Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital af
Artificial intelligence startup Ornn AI Inc. made a big splash today as it raised 33 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto-focused fund and others to build out a marketplace for co
Ana Maria Constantin / The Next Web: Paris-based Tsuga, whose observability software runs in customers' own clouds to help them skip per-byte ingestion costs, raised a 35M Series A led by Singular — T
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a 50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to 70M — AI agents ar
DigitalOcean has launched a cloud-based service enabling users to run OpenAI's Codex, an AI code generation model, on DigitalOcean's infrastructure. This offering allows developers to access Codex cap
Artificial intelligence developer-centric cloud provider Runpod Inc. announced Tuesday it has raised 100 million in early-stage funding, pushing the valuation of the company to 1 billion. The Series A
Artificial intelligence startup Scaled Cognition Inc. today announced that it has raised 100 million in funding. Khosla Ventures led the Series A deal with participation from Genesys Telecommunication
Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg: SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut helped support Softbank's stock — SoftBank Gr
Ethan Gach / Kotaku: Sony's Bungie says it is laying off a “significant number of employees”, including “most of the Destiny team”; Bungie has an estimated headcount of 800 — The studio said the sci-f
Soros is Magneto and his son is Mini Magneto BREAKING: George Soros is the largest individual donor in the 2026 midterm election cycle with $102 million to Democrats. This is the same George Soros who
Ann Gehan / The Information: Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models — Google i
Alan Neuhauser / Axios: Source: Muon Space, which operates satellite networks for climate and national security monitoring, is raising 250M; it has raised ~181M since its 2021 launch — Muon Space, whi
Alberto Nardelli / Bloomberg: Sources and a draft document: the US proposes that the EU sign on to an AI partnership to help secure chip supply chains; the one-page statement had few details — The US
Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Bumble explores a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector; its shares fell 48% over the past 12 months, giving it a market cap of $388M — Dating app Bumble
Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to “midtraining” to try to catch up with Anthropic, after major executive departures — Google is r
Financial Times: Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end — Facebook parent is accelera
New York Times: Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions — The A.I. company's advi
The Information: Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT 5.6 over security concerns, approving “access customer by customer” — For AI companies on t
Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data — Palo Alto-based bl
Bloomberg: The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand chip equipment export controls that would constrain ASML's ability to sell immersion DUV machines to China — The Netherlands is lobbying the
“The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change… and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes
Elon Musk argues that the primary class conflict in society exists between productive individuals and those he characterizes as parasitic, suggesting that value creation rather than traditional econom
Europe experienced severe heatwaves beginning in late May 2026, with the first starting May 24 bringing temperatures 10-15°C higher than normal and causing several deaths. A second, more intense heat
This post suggests that organizational dysfunction or corruption within USAID developed gradually over an extended period rather than suddenly, using metaphorical language about 'worms' to describe sy
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Tim Cook, who told The Wall Street Journal that the jump in costs was unlike anything he had seen “in any area in over 40 years.” Biggest price jump in anything I’ve ever seen too. https://www.wsj.com
David Politis / Utah Money Watch: Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an 81M Series B at a 1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation from Pelion and Cervin — The Utah eCommerc
Lucinda Shen / Axios: Warp, a startup using AI to automate payroll compliance and employee management, raised a 60M Series B led by Battery, bringing its total funding to 85M — Warp, a startup using A
Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised 60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff i
“We are going to have a multi-racial nation in Singapore. This is not a Malay nation. This is not a Chinese nation. This is not an Indian nation. Everybody will have his place here, equal: language, c
Serverless PostgreSQL is a managed database service that abstracts away infrastructure management, allowing users to run PostgreSQL databases without provisioning or managing servers. This approach en
What is the difference between distilling Mythos & paying experts somewhere like @mercor_ai to generate training samples? Who are the Chinese equivalents of @HelloSurgeAI & co? If you understand this
A serverless database for AI applications should prioritize scalability, low latency, and seamless integration with machine learning workflows, eliminating the need for infrastructure management. Key
Which countries are we missing? America is now paying foreign aid to 177 countries. And Congress just shipped another $50 billion. It's an odd way to run an empire when Washington's cutting checks to
Women are not suitable for dealing with the amount of violence necessary to maintain civilization. This is, again, because women are wired to care for babies with whom 'zero' violence is the correct a
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: YouTube rolls out changes to Shorts, including adding a setting to double playback speed, eliminating the “dislike” button, and more — YouTube is rolling out a series of chan
NASA cancelled the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) after spending more than $3.5 billion with no operational flights, opting instead to shift toward commercial hardware like Centaur V. On February 26, 2
This appears to be a brief post or reference to an 8-minute duration, likely related to a video, audio clip, or event duration shared by Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter). Without access to the specif
A huge moment for open source AI - as token usage skyrockets across orgs, so do concerns over cost & data/vendor lock-in & necessity of a multi-AI strategy Keep an eye on @Lux_Capital portfolio cos @h
AI is quickly moving beyond emulating the human mind to predicting an increasingly large percentage of all observations in the world. General world models will become a new foundational infrastructure
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Amazon plans to expand Amazon Now to 300+ Indian cities and towns, up from 100 at present, as CEO Andy Jassy visits India; a source says he is set to meet Modi — Amazon.