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Four-story elevator … wow Real “man of the people” he is 🚨 BREAKING: A @FreeBeacon investigation reveals Rep. Ro Khanna—who rails against the ultra-rich who 'hoard wealth'—lives in a 6M D.C. mansion w
This article discusses Databricks' evolution of database architecture, tracing the progression from monolithic database systems to Lakebase and then to LTAP (Lakehouse Transaction Processing), emphasi
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: Getty Images announces plans to end its Shutterstock merger after the UK CMA conditioned approval of the deal on Shutterstock selling its editorial business — A
GLM-5.2 has become the most-liked model of all time on Hugging Face's model repository, surpassing previous records. This achievement reflects significant community recognition and adoption of the mod
Google shut down the Tenor API on June 30, 2026, breaking GIF pickers in Discord, X, Bluesky, and WhatsApp. Platforms that built GIF search into their products using Tenor are now scrambling for repla
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pickers on platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere — GIFs are a huge part of th
Google introduced Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and most cost-efficient image model built for high throughput, speed and scale. The model generates text-to-image outputs in about four seconds and co
Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-sec
Half price Starlink for people in the Memphis region SpaceXAI has announced that they will be applying a 50% discount on the standard @Starlink monthly price for both new and existing customers in the
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future competition from AI travel agents — Chatb
Bloomberg: How Spain's LaLiga uses nationwide IP blocking to combat illegal sports streams, impacting an estimated 550K+ domains, putting it in conflict with Cloudflare — From small businesses to gove
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. 'AI is the new frontier for us,' sa
Bloomberg: Lime raised 174M in its US IPO, selling 6.68M shares at 25 each, at the midpoint of the marketed range, giving Lime a market value of 1.6B — Neutron Holdings Inc., better known as Lime, and
Ryan Lawler / Axios: MDOTM, which makes AI software for asset and wealth managers, raised 27M led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to 36.5M — MDOTM, which makes AI software for
Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman - the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures - was a bit like watching a to
My grandfather, communism, and the tremor that never left. A story I rarely share. He was the principal of a private school; respected, steady, a man who believed in books and order. Then, one ordinar
NASA is considering repurposing an engineering development version of a nuclear-powered Mars rover for the moon's south polar region in a mission called PROMISE ('Polar Rover for Observation, Mapping
A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka's The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its Squid Game reality show in the trend of creating real competitions based on fict
Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, has progressed from its initial conception to advanced development stages, with the company working toward implantable devices that could enabl
AI browsers can be manipulated through prompt injection or memory poisoning to create false operational contexts where they bypass security guardrails, treating harmful actions as game logic rather th
NEW: @FreeBeacon has the receipts on Ro Khanna’s obscene, oligarchic wealth: —his 2 kids (under 10yrs old) own 3 private golf courses in Ohio (not kidding) —his wife drives a $190,000 luxury Range Rov
Data center coolant monitoring startup Omen AI Inc. is trying to fix one of the most pressing yet little-known challenges in the artificial intelligence industry after raising 31 million in Series A f
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a 31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to 41.5M — The AI-driven
Josh Scott / BetaKit: Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which is building software, sensors, and drones to autonomously monitor the Arctic, raised a CA139M Series A led by Georgian — Six months after cl
Our first summit dedicated to world models, coming to SF this September. Announcing our first summit dedicated to world models, coming to SF this September. Very excited to have some incredible resear
PEOPLE ARE BLAMING ELON MUSK FOR “DEATHS” FROM USAID CUTS — BUT THE DATA AND REALITY SAY OTHERWISE Opponents are loudly claiming that cutting wasteful USAID spending is killing people in poor countrie
Lisa Bonos / Inc: Pie, a startup that uses AI to optimize marketing for brick-and-mortar small businesses, emerges from stealth with a $19.5M Series A led by Lightspeed — Pie, which spent the past yea
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: Political campaign managers and consultants are using AI to analyze voter data, create campaign materials, and more; survey: 87% of campaigners use AI daily — A.I.
Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning Grindr into an “AI-native company”, “impos[ing]” AI on staff, facing “opposition”, using AI as a CEO, and more — George Ari
Reddit is implementing a requirement for users to log in to access old.reddit.com, the legacy version of the platform. This change is part of Reddit's broader effort to increase user registration and
French multinational energy giant Schneider Electric SE said today it’s buying an industrial artificial intelligence company called Cognite Holding B.V. in a 3.1 billion all-cash deal, with an eye to
Frank Connelly / Bloomberg: Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a 3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva — Schneider
Israeli startup Arato Software Ltd. is developing tools for developers to test and evaluate their artificial intelligence applications, and it has just gotten 10 million in seed funding to pursue that
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference — We closely track efforts b
Nikkei Asia: Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026 shipment targets, with Xiaomi cutting 30% to ~95M units — TAIPEI — Major Chinese sma
Bloomberg: Sources: Kalshi agreed to pay 20M to sponsor the World Cup knockouts, after initially balking at FIFA's 150M asking price, alongside ADI Predictstreet — When the World Cup knockout round be
Bobby Allyn / NPR: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, before directing Meta employees to build a prediction market app — Before Meta CEO Ma
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources: Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox — -
Politico: Sources: the Trump administration plans to lift export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 as early as Tuesday evening, making it available to all general users — Anthropic and the administr
Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok settles a lawsuit before a second California trial over social media harm to minors for an undisclosed sum; Meta and Snap remain defendants — TikTok is finalizing a settleme
Rocket Lab Corp. today announced plans to acquire Iridium Communications Inc., a major satellite operator, for 8 billion in cash and stock. The companies expect to complete the transaction in mid-2027
Super excited about open-source router systems and routing models like @vllm_project semantic router: https://huggingface.co/llm-semantic-router The future is multi-models and you'll want to customize
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that law enforcement’s use of warrants to collect large amounts of cellphone location data requires privacy protections under the Fourth Amendment. The case centered
The AOC puppet is just flat-out lying Here’s the truth: AOC is so full of crap that one simple Google search exposes the whole lie She’s lying to scare people again Neither Elon nor DOGE can directly
This post by Clem Delangue discusses the current state of the timeline regarding closed versus open source approaches, arguing that open source should prevail. The tweet appears to address the competi
John Harney / Bloomberg: The DOD seeks to recruit engineers experienced in frontier AI, machine learning and automation, and data systems, to embed them “down to the unit level” — The Trump administra
The interesting thing about viral narratives is that they don't have to be true to spread. There's now enough evidence pointing to the fact that AI usage does not kill jobs, but that might not matter
Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment “steering” rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it “already made the changes” — Britain's com
A study from the American Lung Association found that if the U.S. transitions to a 100% zero-emission passenger vehicle fleet by 2050, it would result in 89,300 fewer premature deaths and $978 billion
They are such liars! The original frame for the US-AID debate was: 'Evil space Nazi Elon Musk killed 14,000,000 people!!!' *I and others pointed out that this is not possible, given that the global de
Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons raised 1.68B by selling 58M shares at 29 each, valuing it at ~18.4B, in one of the largest US IPOs by a European company in 2026 — Bending Spoons
Kyle Baird / The Block: Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves — Quick Take — Paym
A consortium of more than 140 financial, payments and technology companies, including Visa Inc., Stripe Inc. and BlackRock Inc., is backing a new stablecoin called Open USD, taking direct aim at the m
Voice AI is the core interface for future devices but it’s still not mainstream. And that is crazy to me. The quality is good enough to dictate everything (I’ve only had to add 20 words to my Wispr fl
This post presents an argument about the unintended consequences of taxation policies, drawing a parallel between sin taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, and fuel—which aim to reduce consumption—and implyin
85% of reported scam complaints involving social media were linked to Facebook, while 𝕏 had the lowest at just 0.1%. • Facebook was cited in 85% of identified social media scam complaints collected. •
Max Miller / Engadget: A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K+ AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock — “You can't get
Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Next Platform: Academic papers and conference materials offer a deep dive into China's all-CPU LineShine, which pairs custom 304-core Arm CPUs with HBM to top the Top500
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Adobe: online spending across all retailers in the US hit 26.4B during Amazon's four-day Prime Day event, up 9.3% YoY; Walmart and Target also hosted sales — Online spending
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO — Chamath Palihapitiya,