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Qualcomm Inc.’s stock jumped 14% in after-hours trading today after it shared a series of updates about its artificial intelligence roadmap. The company announced plans to acquire an inference softwar

Tom Phillips / IGN: Rockstar says physical copies of GTA 6 will contain a digital download code, not a disc; physical copies release on November 12, ahead of the November 19 launch — Keep it on the do

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost 79.99, or 99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; pre-orders start at midnight tonight — The game

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Seltz, which is building a web search engine that can be used by AI agents, raised a $12.5M seed led by Speedinvest and B Capital — The rise of AI has rekindled the long-dormant

Reuters: SK Hynix overtaking Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company is the culmination of 14 years of bets on HBM, which paid off as the AI boom took off — SK Hynix's (000660.KS) overta

Bloomberg: SK Hynix says it is seeking to raise ~29.4B in a US listing, expects trading to start on July 10, and intends to use the funds for building additional capacity — Memory Chip Frenzy Sends SK

Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. more than quadrupled its revenue growth in the most recent quarter as it continued to benefit from surging demand linked to the artificial intelligence industr

Moneycontrol: Sources: India drives 50%+ of WhatsApp's revenue, generating $1B+ annually, largely via business messaging, likely helping Kunal Shah get WhatsApp's top job — A prolific angel investor k

Financial Times: Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise a funding round at a ~40B valuation that may close as soon as Q3; Kalshi raised 1B at a $22B valuation in May — Rapidly growing company is increas

Reuters: Sources: Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, based partly on connectivity tech from Alphawave Semi, which Qualcomm acquired in 2025 — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) is in talks to p

Hugo Lowell / Wired: Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 — At high-stakes me

Dong Cao / Bloomberg: Sources: Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar Hong Kong share sale after its stock surged 2,000% since its January IPO, pushing its market cap above $128B — Chinese artific

SpaceX's @Starlink will be installed on more than 80 giant Oldendorff ships. Oldendorff is one of the world’s largest dry bulk shipping companies. 'With vessels operating in diverse regions and tradin

The expensive, $27 million political proxy war between Anthropic and OpenAI came to a draw last night when Alex Bores, a New York state Assemblyman whose popularity surged after being targeted by a pr

The craziest thing about Quake is how many modern FPS games originate from it somehow Valve's Source engine was a modified Quake 1 engine which spawned Half Life, Counter Strike, DOTA, Apex Legends, T

The fall of Rome was less a dramatic collapse and more the slow and eventually total decline of state services. One day, your postman becomes a little less reliable. He arrives less often. Then later

Right out of the box, the new Google Home Speaker passed a couple of important tests. Even with the volume at 100 percent and music blaring out of the speaker, it quickly ducked the audio and listened

Elon Musk posted about improvements to the X Money financial service experience, highlighting enhancements to card activation processes and expressing optimism about expanding the user onboarding. The

The strange thing about progress is that it only counts if you ignore where we started. Every civilisation practised slavery. The civilisation that ended it is now told it should feel guilty forever f

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: The US FDA drops an enforcement complaint against Whoop over its blood pressure tracking tool, reversing a July 2025 warning letter; Whoop is updating the tool — The US Foo

The users who complain about the flaws in your product may seem annoying, but they are on the whole probably your most valuable users. They complain because they care, and I doubt a startup could ever

This is one of those moments where I feel most disconnected from my normie friends I'm like 'do you realize what this means?' And they say 'no' and I realize I will need to explain decades of nerd lor

Traitor-maxxing August, 2021. Mayorkas goes to the Southern border and announces a bunch of USAID funded programs to improve the lives of the people in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. We later f

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Trase, which is building an operating system and infrastructure layer for AI agents in industries like health care and defense, raised a 107M seed led by Arch — Trase, an AI

Try Grok I switched the Grok as my search engine a few months ago. I only use Google now to correct typos / check spelling, as it's slower to use Grok for those tasks. Grok is superior to Google in ev

USAID funded the Wuhan lab Wuhan lab created SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan lab was making more viruses DOGE defunded USAID DOGE may have been the most important pandemic prevention agency of the past century This

The MongoDB plugin in Grok Build enables users to query data, optimize database indexes, and perform database management tasks directly within the Grok interface. This integration allows developers to

Jack Healy / New York Times: Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, who championed a huge data center beside the Great Salt Lake, lost his Republican primary on Tuesday after voter backlash — The upse

The California Science Center in Los Angeles will open the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center on November 13, revealing Space Shuttle Endeavour in its launch position. This will be the only place

This Databricks blog post explores how organizations can leverage their existing data assets to find answers to business questions without requiring additional data collection or external sources. The

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: XCures, which uses AI to streamline patient data and medical records, raised a 46M Series B at a 127M post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to 76M — XCur

460 criminal charges 6.5B intended loss, 1.4B actual loss $127M seized assets Great work by @SecKennedy, @DAGToddBlanche, @FBIDirectorKash, & @DrOzCMS on today’s fraud takedown. If you’re committing f

A Biden-appointed activist judge, Sparkle Sooknanan, just blocked a commonsense tool to keep non-citizens from voting. The SAVE system simply encourages states to work with DHS to check their voter ro

The 2026 Toyota C-HR is a fully electric compact SUV constructed on Toyota's dedicated e-TNGA battery-electric platform, positioned as the brand's most style-forward and performance-leaning EV. It off

ABC launched an on-air campaign urging viewers to support 'The View' and eight Disney-owned ABC affiliates in its battle with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC launched an investiga

Ben Kamisar / NBC News: Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate who argued for AI safeguards, lost to Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary, which drew millions in AI PAC spending — NBC News project

Bloomberg: Alibaba sues the DOD, seeking removal from a blacklist of companies supporting China's military, says the decision is a violation of constitutional due process — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

French semiconductor startup AlpSemi SAS today announced that it has raised €17 million, or about 19.5 million, in funding. The investment was led by Paris-based private equity firm Yotta Capital. Nas

Cloudflare Inc. and newsletter platform beehiiv Inc. today launched an integration that hands independent publishers a single toggle to decide whether artificial intelligence crawlers can reach their

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control to writers' dashboards, allowing them to decide whether AI crawlers can scrape their work — Cloudflare Inc. and newsletter platfor

Allium Inc., a startup that provides financial institutions with data about the cryptocurrency market, has raised 40 million in funding. Amplify Partners led the Series A round. Allium stated in its a

By their logic, absolutely! USAID funded Osama Bin Laden's Mujahideen, which spawned Al-Qaeda, ISIS and the Taliban. So did USAID supporters cause 4.7 million deaths in the Global War on Terror while

By their logic, yes USAID funded the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine in 2014 that directly led to the 2014-2022 Donbas War (15,000 killed) and the subsequent 2022 Russia-Ukraine War (300,000 killed). So

By their own logic USAID: Using the methodology the Lancet used to determine cuts to USAID's funding resulted in four million deaths, @GKMasterson determined that USAID funding itself resulted in 187

Juro Osawa / The Information: ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 in Beijing, saying the AI video model can generate 30-second clips from up to 50 reference materials, up from 12 for Seedance 2.0 — ByteDan

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cerebras reports Q1 revenue up 94% YoY to 193.4M, net loss down 41% to 14M, and forecasts core gross margin to shrink in Q2; CBRS drops 8%+ after hours — - Cerebras reported finan