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BREAKING: SpaceX’s Starship just got another lunar customer. Japan’s ispace will use SpaceX’s Starship for Moon cargo missions. • ispace signed an agreement with SpaceX to secure 500 kg of payload cap

BREAKING: Tesla Cybertruck’s bulletproof body helped protect a toddler, an infant, and neighbors during a shooting. Cybertruck became a real-life shelter during a chaotic 4th of July neighborhood part

Calling all exceptional civil and electrical engineers! The SpaceX Cape Starship team needs help building and scaling the worlds most advanced launch pads. If you want to join the greatest team on Ear

Rajasik Mukherjee / Reuters: China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to raise around 890.37M in its Hong Kong share sale by offering 216.2M shares at ~4.12/share, the top of its range — China's Nex

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised 1.2B, its fourth fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, like AI and robotics; Paradigm had 11.9B in AUM at the end of 2025 — Paradigm,

Data exports are live on @tracesdotcom, along with a integration directly with @huggingface. Your traces are your data. We make it easy for you to share, but also understand and move that data how you

Elon Musk posted a statement indicating openness to critical feedback, suggesting a receptive attitude toward constructive criticism. This tweet reflects Musk's public stance on accepting input and po

Elon Musk reveals the environmentalist viewpoint he says has become total madness 'There are 8 billion people on Earth and it would be better if there were none. I'm like, 'hey buddy, you can start wi

Excited to release Grok 4.5 with @SpaceXAI. It's an Opus-class model that's fast and low cost. It's a significant step up over any model we've developed so far, including Composer 2.5, and has become

The Information: Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds of millions at a 9B valuation; source: founder Marc Lore indicated he'll contribute 200M to the round — Wonder, the owner of GrubHub

Grok 4.5, an AI model developed by xAI, reportedly delivers performance comparable to Anthropic's Claude Fable model while operating at substantially lower computational costs (approximately 1/17th th

Grok 4.5 is actually insane. I'm one step closer to launching my new 3D Home Plan Builder. Powered by Grok 4.5 and Grok Imagine. 🚀 Grok 4.5 just crushed it: designed the entire 2D + 3D plan inside the

Axios: Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs 2 per 1M input tokens and 6 per 1M output tokens — Elon Musk's SpaceXAI is launching G

Grok 4.5 is not yet using our internally developed C/C++ inference software that exact maps to the GB300 hardware. Doubling or more of the current speed is probably achievable. I think AI has just hit

Grok 4.5, an updated version of xAI's conversational AI model, has been officially released and is now accessible through Grok Build, xAI's development platform. The announcement encourages users to t

Grok 4.5 demonstrated capability in website creation by generating a visually appealing website about black holes as an example of its web development functionality. The post was shared on X (formerly

Researchers discovered a HalluSquatting attack that exploits AI tools' tendency to hallucinate package names, which attackers can register to trick AI assistants into running malicious code and assemb

Has been my regular work horse for weeks. Impressive indeed. Based on strong positive feedback from customers in our beta test program, @SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public tomorrow. I

I had a pretty similar experience A bunch of my tweets about missing Fable were actually about missing GPT 5.6 Sol, but I couldn’t say it so said Fable instead Fable is really good and maybe better in

I used Codex to port Command & Conquer: Red Alert to Mac and Android. No emulation. The original engine now compiles natively to ARM64, with macOS and Android platform layers. Codex wrote the code, bu

Jim Fan discussed recent advances and foundational concepts in robotics at Sequoia, covering key developments in the field. The talk appears to serve as a comprehensive overview for understanding curr

This post from Clem Delangue (CEO of Hugging Face) argues that the current state of AI development makes self-hosting open-source language models a viable and advantageous alternative to relying on pa

I've been using this + spot compute to do random personal experiments for ridiculously cheap. Previously was spending like 20% of my run cost on egress and now it's 0% :) Storage and egress fees have

A federal judge rejected Kalshi's request to block New York from enforcing gambling laws against the prediction market platform, ruling that state gambling regulations are not preempted by federal com

Kaon AI, a generative artificial intelligence platform and research outfit formerly known as FlowGPT that provides online interactive entertainment, today announced it has raised 60 million across rec

Corbin Bolies / Variety: Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds using its AI-based FlowGPT and Emochi tools, raised $60M from B Capital and others, and says Emochi has 2M DAUs — Kaon AI, a st

A 66-year-old Pennsylvania man, Harry Tiffany IV, was arrested for allegedly using xAI's Grok AI tool to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM) , which he uploaded or shared through Grok between Ap

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct — Meta's AI expansion is

Miami-based City Labs launched BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability), the world's first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, aboard SpaceX Transporter-17 on July 7, 2026. The mission demonstrat

This guide provides strategies and best practices for migrating data analytics workloads from Azure Synapse to the Databricks platform, covering technical considerations and transition planning. It li

A newly deployed seafloor observatory at the Southeast Indian Ridge captured the first in situ measurement of oceanic crust being created between tectonic plates . Rather than occurring gradually, sea

This post from Hugging Face co-founder Clem Delangue congratulates Prime Intellect on securing a new funding round and calls for them to open their model weights, likely advocating for open-source AI

Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users — While native

Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider: Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a 300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures — - Or

David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion — Paris-

In this post, we explore how Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) is transforming scientific research by combining graph databases with generative AI. With this approach, you can acce

Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/prime-intellect-raises-130m-series-a-to-help-enterprises-build-their-own-ai-agents

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a 130M Series A at a 1B valuation — Prime Intelle

Oratomic Inc., a quantum computing startup, has raised 300 million in early-stage funding to scale its quantum hardware and accelerate its path to fault tolerance and error correction, creating the ne

Rate of improvement is 🚀🚀 Very excited for this model. It’s an enormous improvement over composer 2.5 and trained entirely from scratch. It’s been a pleasure working with the SpaceXAI team on it. Even

Run AI workloads on any cloud, store on Hugging Face, no egress fees to worry about. @skypilot_org and @huggingface built this together: • Models and datasets stay in HF Hub. SkyPilot runs the compute

Smart pet technology company Fi has just launched the world's first dog collar with @Starlink. Basically, you’ll know exactly where your dog is at all times anywhere in the U.S. It’s 199 + 189/year me

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard — Mark Zucke

.@Starcloud_ CEO @PhilipJohnston: 'Buy SpaceX stock.' 'It's like owning the railroads.' ' The SpaceX IPO is going to be viewed historically as the most undervalued IPO of all time.' 'They will tear th

Storage and egress fees have been one of the biggest cloud lock-in traps in AI. When models and datasets are hard and expensive to move, infrastructure choice stops being a real choice. Today, we’re c

A Brown University professor discovered widespread AI cheating when 40 out of 86 students scored perfect 100s on a take-home midterm exam with an average of 96 , while some answers contained unusual p