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Brian Steinberg / Variety: Walmart acquires Paris-based Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and run targeted ads on streaming services; Vibe.co's co-founders will join Walmart Connect — Walmart is o

Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: Walmart acquires Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and buy ads on CTVs, sources say for 1.4B cash; top executives get 180M to stay for four years — Retail gia

Vector search is a retrieval method that converts unstructured data (text, images, audio) into numerical vector representations and finds similar items by comparing vectors in high-dimensional space,

When I left Stability AI a couple of years ago I predicted we would see almost perfect video from Chinese labs around now But it’s still amazing to see the quality of output reaching these levels wher

President Trump signed an executive order on June 22, 2026, mandating a complete migration to post-quantum cryptography by the end of 2031, four years earlier than originally planned. The order direct

Larry Sanger, Wikipedia's co-founder, was blocked from editing the site after campaigning for changes to make it more fair and balanced, according to reporting cited on X. The incident highlights ongo

Starfall is a proposed reentry vehicle designed by SpaceX to provide uncrewed, point-to-point cargo delivery from orbit by safely returning payloads to Earth. The design focuses on precision delivery

This post suggests a philosophical framework for analyzing Western cultural decline, proposing a sequential loss of commitment to truth, goodness, and beauty as core values. The statement implies that

Hillel Aron / Courthouse News Service: YouTube settles a lawsuit ahead of a second California trial over social media harms to minors; Meta, TikTok, and Snap remain defendants — The case will now pit

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: A US NLRB judge ruled that Amazon violated federal law by not recognizing the Teamsters union at a SF warehouse and must collectively bargain with the workers — A US labor b

Absolutely. This is a total lie. All DOGE did was require contact with the aid recipients to confirm that funds were being used legitimately. Anything less than this is insane! Multiple people from US

Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn't think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn't think it'd be 'hell.' After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she des

Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg: Air Space Intelligence won an $875M, 12-year FAA contract to develop AI tools that map flight trajectories and identify areas of congestion to reduce delays — Air Space

Bloomberg: Alphabet stock fell as much as 7.2%, the most intraday since February, after Google DeepMind VP John Jumper became its second top AI exec to leave in a week — Alphabet Inc. shares tumbled o

This Reddit post from r/ChatGPT discusses users' experiences using ChatGPT as an emotional support tool during difficult periods, exploring how the AI's conversational capabilities provided unexpected

BIG thread on AI usage trends, as reported by Pew Research last week. Lots of juicy stats on AI use cases, data privacy, AI adoption by age and gender, speed of adoption, AI sentiment, which tools are

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk indicates he's SUING Rep. Ro Khanna (D) after Khanna said Elon needs to answer for '4.5 million kids dying' because of DOGE cuts ELON: 'Time to sue this liar.' 'The reality is th

BREAKING: SpaceX just received an investment-grade credit rating from Fitch for its new bond offering. • Fitch gave SpaceX a BBB+ rating, which means its debt is seen as reasonably safe for big invest

BREAKING: Starlink will bring live sports streaming to Virgin Atlantic flights. • The service will be free through Virgin Atlantic’s high-speed Starlink WiFi. • FIFA World Cup 2026 matches will be ava

China added a Germany-sized low carbon electricity grid last year. Nearly 500 TWh more generation, almost all solar and wind, built in factories that still burn coal. Carbon payback came in under two

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Crypto trading app Fomo raised a 75M Series B led by Index at a 550M valuation, taking its total funding to ~$94M, and claims to add 3,500 new users per day — Two established inve

DataOps is a set of practices and tools that apply DevOps principles to data engineering, focusing on automating data pipelines, improving data quality, and enabling faster iteration cycles. The strat

Elon just sued German state TV for extreme lies. He and his very good German attorney scored a quick win and are continuing. Suing evil and lying politicians and government institutions that abuse the

Elon Musk says that 'it's disappointing how well propaganda works.' 'If you repeat a lie… some people actually believe it… If someone believes CNN, then they would say, he must be a Nazi because they

@elonmusk @kylaschwaberow Yup. In this case, the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area. They reached a speed

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Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Filing: Oracle's global workforce fell by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months to 141,000 as of May 31; the company says AI adoption has led to reductions — Oracle Corp. redu

AMD removed Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) from consumer Ryzen CPUs through a silent AGESA 1.2.7.0 firmware change, but reversed this decision after user backlash. AMD confirmed in June t

General Motors temporarily laid off 1,300 workers at its Factory Zero EV plant due to sluggish demand for battery-powered vehicles , following the discontinuation of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit .

Hugging Face was approaching milestones of 3 million public models and 1 million public datasets on its platform, reflecting rapid growth in open-source AI resources. The announcement highlights the e

Google LLC is investing around $75 million into the independent movie studio A24 Films LLC in order to explore the potential of artificial intelligence further in the entertainment industry. A24, whic

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing ~75M, roughly equal to Thrive's 2024 investment — Searc

Grok Build upgrades /goal is live on Grok Build. We use a team of agents: - implementors - skeptics - code reviewers - planners and a mix of grok build and composer in various roles. Would love to hea

The US government ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models in June 2026, citing national security concerns related to jailbreak vulnerabilities that cou

This post references a bill to prohibit stock trading by members of Congress, which the author claims to have introduced. The post criticizes the House Republican leadership for not scheduling a vote

This entry references a Pew Research Center report examining American public attitudes toward artificial intelligence, likely covering survey data on awareness, adoption, concerns, and demographic var

Intrinsic, Google LLC’s artificial intelligence robot software company, unveiled today during Automate 2026 an AI robotic prototype that will help companies modularize factory floors with automated ro

Is it really worth it joining a robotics hackathon? One year ago, thousands of people around the world spent a single weekend building AI robots using the open-source LeRobot stack. Many had never bui

Is there a market where folk are predicting when Reflection AI will drop their first model This is probably as much compute as currently used by all the Chinese open source companies together (more ad

It’s much more likely cutting USAID SAVED 4.5 million kids lives by no longer funding the dozens of USAID-funded civil wars that had been raging across Africa, Central Asia, LatAm and beyond. Elon Mus

Lucid announced a workforce reduction of approximately 18 percent across full-time employees, contractors, and production workers , with the second shift at its AMP-1 factory being eliminated . The re

A young man used a percussive massage gun directly on both his eyes for several minutes every week over three months to relieve eye tiredness . Close examination revealed multiple retinal tears and br

Multiculturalism is sold as neutral cultures peacefully coexisting side by side. That’s deliberate propaganda. Some cultures are not neutral. They are openly hostile, teaching that outsiders, especial

Allie K. Miller expresses subjective observations about perceiving changes in Claude Opus 4.8's behavior or capabilities, describing an intuitive sense ('spidey feeling') that the model feels notably

Neuralink now has its 26th recipient Sgt. Lee Marten, @Canuckula, is a Vancouver Police Sergeant, cyclist, and ALS patient who became the first Canadian to receive the N1 brain-computer interface Lee

Polymarket paid online creators to post deceptive videos showing lucrative bets filmed on near-perfect copies of the Polymarket website featuring fake trades and winnings. A Wall Street Journal invest