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Homebuilding artificial intelligence startup Higharc said today it has raised 95 million in a new round of funding to transform the way construction projects are planned and run. Today’s Series C roun

Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose a new challenge for security teams managing email s

I built http://loratlas.com to make it easier to browse the 1,500+ Krea 2 Style LoRAs I trained. You can try them with your own prompts, run a random loop to generate lots of examples, or blend multip

Grace Kay / The Information: Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a 200-per-week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6; the tally excludes beta versions of xAI products — Tesla told employees

David Holz, CEO of Midjourney, expressed enthusiasm about Marcin joining the team and appreciated him creating video content at the Midjourney office. The post highlights internal company culture and

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised 2B at a 15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as 3B — China's Kling AI has raised an

Lots of people are advocating for more American open-source models these days which is amazing but very few people do anything about it! Latest example, Alex Karp came out advocating for American open

Model Y long wheelbase now available to order in the US Introducing Model Y Long Wheelbase – now available in the US & Puerto Rico A 3-row, 6-seat configuration that brings exceptional interior space

Most people should probably update their priors on the state of open-source speech-to-speech. It's honestly kind of mind-blowing. We teamed up with @cerebras to build a fully open-source realtime voic

Fifteen privacy and consumer groups warned the FTC that X poses serious privacy risks, calling the company's petition to end oversight audits illegal. X requested that the FTC terminate data security

PamStealer is a macOS infostealer disguised as the legitimate Maccy clipboard manager that uses a two-stage attack chain to silently harvest data and clipboard contents while evading detection. The ma

This post likely discusses issues of model ownership and intellectual property rights in AI development, particularly regarding concerns about who controls trained model weights and the underlying neu

This post likely discusses the concept of model weights and their ownership or control in machine learning contexts, possibly drawing a playful analogy to relationship dynamics. The title suggests com

Open source AI models and their underlying code enable organizations and nations to develop artificial intelligence capabilities independently, without reliance on proprietary systems or external vend

OpenAI Group PBC has reportedly floated the idea of giving a 5% stake to the U.S. government. Sources told the Financial Times today that the ChatGPT developer’s executives made the suggestion during

OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Fin

Paraguay is entering a new era of connectivity 🇵🇾 Paraguay is working with Starlink through MITIC and COPACO to bring high-speed internet to more than 1,600 schools in isolated areas This will connect

New York Times: President Trump says Micron will invest 250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a 250 deposit in some US states — President Trump said the

Rampart from the @ndstudio @WhiteHouse is number one trending token classification model on HF. Very cool to see public organizations starting to own and build their weights instead of renting them fr

Sam Altman / Financial Times: Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies — The labs devel

Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank Group Corp. and its telecommunications subsidiary SoftBank Corp. are planning to launch a new neocloud business in the U.S. that will rent access to artificia

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~2B valuation, six months after raising 75M at a 1B valuation — Binance is set to lead

The Information: Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal — A British law firm h

Bloomberg: Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October — Crusoe, the data center upstart wi

Bloomberg: Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~22B; it was valued at 11B in February — ElevenLabs has held early ta

Bloomberg: Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank is in talks to raise money at an 8B+ valuation, up from 4.35B in 2025; its deposits are up from 1.1B in March to 4.05B — Erebor Bank is in talks to rais

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincided with suspicious Kalshi wagers — Pl

British data intelligence startup StirlingX Ltd. has raised 20 million in an early-stage round to accelerate product development and push into new markets. StirlingX describes itself as a data intelli

Clem Delangue argues that AI companies should not be referred to as 'labs,' characterizing such terminology as pretentious and inaccurate since these organizations operate as commercial enterprises ra

This article outlines three key questions organizations should address when scaling AI initiatives from pilot projects to production impact. Based on the Databricks focus, it likely covers questions r

Bloomberg: The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android market power should stand — Google lost its long-running fi

Joe Warminsky / The Record: The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks — A 19-year-old

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Travel app Hopper agrees to a 35M FTC settlement over allegations the company misled users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs — Hopper, the trav

Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: Tripo AI, which is developing 3D foundation models and world models for use in games, raised 150M, a month after it said it raised 200M — Tripo AI, a global artificial inte

Elon Musk posted about 'Turbo America,' likely referencing initiatives related to rapid technological advancement, economic growth, or entrepreneurial development in the United States. Without access

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: UK-based StirlingX, which develops secure data intelligence systems for defense and critical infrastructure, raised a 20M Series A, following a 11M seed — The UK company, whic

Clem Delangue announced the term 'Summer of Open-source AI' in a live discussion with Dee Bosa and Vipul Ved, indicating a period focused on advancing and promoting open-source artificial intelligence

The 2026 Volvo EX30 Cross Country is a small electric SUV that is a joy to drive with a stylish cabin, though the rugged Cross Country variant sacrifices only modest range compared to the standard mod

Christopher Beam / Bloomberg: A look at Manifest, an annual convention for prediction markets where many purists worry that Kalshi and Polymarket are undermining the technology's public good — At Mani

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: A researcher says a vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email tool lets anyone see a user's real email address; first reported in June 2025, Apple has not fixed it — “Hide My Emai

The Viking 1 lander used its robotic arm to perform the first Martian soil sample analysis , collecting samples for biological experiments that involved scooping soil and testing it with nutrient solu

Amazon Web Services Inc. is reinventing the way data-intensive analytical workloads are handled by the Amazon OpenSearch Service with the launch of a new, purpose-built log analytics engine today. The

Decision Execution Platforms represent an evolution beyond traditional dashboards by enabling organizations to not only visualize data insights but also automatically trigger and execute business deci

Peter Millard / Bloomberg: ByteDance is building a 39B data center complex in a free-trade zone in Brazil's Ceará, set to be its largest facility outside of China with a 1GW capacity — The TikTok crea

The 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge recognized and celebrated winning startups that built innovative solutions using the Databricks data and AI platform. The competition showcased emerging

This Databricks article discusses advanced forecasting techniques and tools designed to meet the rapid decision-making demands of contemporary retail operations. It likely covers how modern retailers