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Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising 130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The round is the first time the bootstrapped c

A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one - instead, it's offering to pay its customers to put its compute units in their homes. Sunrun is laun

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Boone Ashworth / Wired: 1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give it 25 degrees of freedom of movement, nearly the same as a human hand — The soft, wei

OpenAI announced a 5.6 model release alongside three major product launches: ChatGPT Work (an enterprise offering), a new ChatGPT desktop application, and an unspecified third product feature. The ann

Emma Whitford / Inside Higher Ed: A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% — Brown U

This appears to be a satirical or false claim, likely from a parody account impersonating OpenAI's Sam Altman, rather than an authentic statement. The URL structure and content suggest this is not a g

Allstate Insurance claims that Broadcom initiated a software license audit only after the insurer decided to stop using VMware and CA software. Both Broadcom business units have brought copyright infr

Databricks' 5th Genie Hackathon demonstrated key insights about their Genie AI product through three core capabilities: asking questions about data, building analytical solutions, and composing workfl

Jeff Bezos’s rocket company Blue Origin Enterprises LP is reportedly looking to raise money from outside investors for the first time in more than two decades. The company is in talks to secure 10 bil

I can't provide a summary for this claim without being able to verify the actual content of the post. However, I can note that this appears to be a disputed political claim that would require fact-che

Financial Times: Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a fivefold return for Carlyle — Deal underscores bright

Character.AI's plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series - short-

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Companies are mobilizing internal groups of “AI champions” to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025

Elon Musk posted a comment suggesting parallels between the simulation hypothesis and video game mechanics, proposing that objects may be randomly generated in reality and only acquire definite positi

Researchers at U.K.-based cybersecurity company Darktrace Holdings Ltd. today detailed a cloud intrusion in which a compromised artificial intelligence gateway tied to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Amazo

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Databento, which sells financial data feeds, raised a 97M Series B led by NEA, taking its total funding to 127M, and says it is “profitable every month” — Christina Qi spen

Emad Mostaque appeared as a guest on The Beyond Tomorrow Podcast, with the episode released as a YouTube premiere where he engaged with viewers in the chat. The post promotes the episode availability

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: European startups raised 24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised 10.4B, above Germany's 3.2B, and France's 2.4B — In Q2, Europe

Mark Zuckerberg promoted Meta's AI model on X (formerly Twitter), which Elon Musk highlighted as evidence that X has become the dominant platform for AI announcements and industry discourse. Musk's co

Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post: Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI — The

Wall Street Journal: Fidji Simo says she has decided to leave her full-time role at OpenAI and transition to being a part-time adviser after her medical condition worsened — The head of artificial gen

OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a 'part-time advisor,' she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in Apri

Recent research published in July 2026 suggests that Homo floresiensis scavenged the remains of Komodo dragon kills rather than hunting large prey as previously thought. This finding indicates a diffe

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads — Google is rol

You can see if ads on Google Search, Google Discover, and YouTube were made or edited using AI from a new section in Google's 'My Ad Center,' as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The update, announced o

Grok 4.5 is an AI model developed by xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, announced via his X platform. The model represents an advancement in xAI's Grok AI assistant line, likely featuri

grok 4.5 is seriously good. it's going in the direction which i'm hoping to see more of -- an emphasize on speed as well as intelligence. i'm noticing in my own work that speed is often the bottleneck

Grok is a frontier model. Grok 4.5 just constructed an explicit counterexample to hypercontractivity for the Poisson semigroup (the square root of the Laplace–Beltrami operator) on the 4-sphere. Back

Elon Musk announced progress updates on Grok, his AI assistant developed by xAI, likely highlighting improvements in the model's capabilities, training, or deployment. The post suggests ongoing develo

Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic: How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books — twenty-three hundred years ago, th

Grok 4.5 is looking like a success with help from Cursor data but underneath the surface we expect future Grok/Cursor model training is likely to speed up in the coming months. We've spent several mon

Teleoperated humanoid robots completed two minimally invasive gallbladder removal surgeries on live pigs during a preclinical trial published in Nature. One surgery involved a humanoid robot with a hu

i am really sad about this and very grateful for all fidji has done for openai, and even grateful for her friendship and who she is as a person. we all wish her the best for a speedy recovery. this su

Elon Musk expressed enthusiasm about Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) capability after testing it over a weekend, describing the experience as 'magical' and expressing surprise at how advanced the syst

This post likely explores hypothetical technological, economic, or social projections by extrapolating trends from the preceding decade (2020-2030), considering how current growth rates and developmen

Impressive Intelligence vs. Cost for Grok 4.5 I think given terafab + the Tesla FSD team's expertise in making very efficient AI models, this advantage will only continue to compound Grok is making pr

Leo Schwartz / The Information: Internal US DOJ memo: attorneys working on digital currency cases should expect less cooperation from Binance, which is adding requirements for asset freezes — In early

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize 293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries — Law enfo

Elon Musk argues that achieving Kardashev Type II civilization status—the ability to harness the total energy output of a star—requires humanity to establish itself as a multi-planetary species, with

Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: Leaked renders via Android Headlines show the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, Watch 9, and Watch Ultra 2; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is likely a new wide foldable — The company h

Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised 97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor demand ra

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A — Brendan Foo

Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financi

Dominic Preston / The Verge: Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview — Muse Spa

Meta Platforms Inc. this week sought to reassure consumers about the privacy safeguards of its controversial artificial intelligence-enabled glasses, yet at the same time it’s reportedly pushing even