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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

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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