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Grok Build just got another workflow-focused update, bringing smarter controls, improved reliability, and better performance. Release Notes: v0.2.80 — 2026-07-01 Features: • Command timeouts can now b

Pivot 0.5 is the first trained model released by the organization, available as a free research preview with open weights coming soon to Hugging Face. The announcement was made by Clem Delangue on X (

Bloomberg: How a new Amazon-built transatlantic fiber-optic link in Ireland is symbolic of the country's AI ambitions, but also of its chronic lack of defense spending — A new Amazon transatlantic fib

Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: How the rapid rise in US- and China-made AI abilities is leading to both a transformation in AI use at work, and sudden lurches in policies and markets — How work cha

In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work. He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in.

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire — Vinton Cerf will

Christopher Nolan directs and writes The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, the king of Ithaca , in a film set for release on July 17, 2026 . The final trailer arrives directly from the Trojan

Nikkei Asia: Japan commits up to 6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 — TOKYO — Japan will provide up

Last year, @elonmusk brought national attention to the paper-based federal retirement process hidden deep underground in Boyers, Pennsylvania. The Last Day of Paper is more than a milestone, it is pro

Marko Zivkovic / AppleInsider: Leaked Apple supplier docs show iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max may use Qualcomm modems in the US and Apple's own C2 chips elsewhere, A20 Pro packaging tech, and more — After

Financial Times: Letter: the US says Anthropic “agreed to proactively detect and address security risks” of Fable 5 and Mythos 5; a source says Anthropic developed a “safeguard” — US government move a

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Meta introduces a 20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users — “All AI glasses

Sara Fischer / Axios: Meta names Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz as its first-ever chief data officer, to manage AI analytics across the company, and names Denise Moreno as CMO — Meta has named i

Meta Platforms Inc. reportedly plans to rent its artificial intelligence infrastructure to other companies. Sources told Bloomberg and CNBC today that the Facebook parent will sell excess capacity not

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman acknowledged the May 28, 2026 New Glenn rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral, noting that spaceflight development is extraordinarily difficult and pledging NASA's suppo

A NASA Office of Inspector General audit released June 30 found that Boeing's Starliner capsule will not achieve human-rating certification until 2027 at the earliest , representing a significant dela

Now The Fountainhead – arguably the better book: 1. There are two ways to exist: create from your own vision, or live by reflecting and pleasing others – Rand calls them the first-handers and the seco

One of the reasons we brought @xAIMemphis to Mississippi wasn’t just its record-breaking $20 billion investment. It was also because the company is a great corporate partner that’s committed to giving

Orwell was a genius Animal Farm by George Orwell, in short: 1. Old Major, the fattest pig on the farm, delivers a sermon about 'liberation.' He has never missed a meal in his life – but he is the most

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Oxmiq, which aims to combine GPUs, CPUs, and a tensor engine into a single block of IP that it can license, raised 35M led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fudomo — Artificial in

Peter: 'I heard you say you might want a mini woolly mammoth. Is that true?' Elon: 'Yeah, I think it would be really cool to have a pet miniature woolly mammoth. That'd be pretty epic.' Peter: 'I'll p

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. showed investors and other stakeholders an early prototype of a handheld artificial intelligence device ahead of its planned initial public offering, the Wall Stre

It’s our goal for AWS to be the most secure place to run any workload, and in support of that we’ve been deeply investing in security across our services since AWS's inception more than two decades ag

Multiple recent studies have found that Tylenol use during pregnancy is not associated with autism in children. These findings contradict statements made by President Trump and Health and Human Servic

Sony announced it will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games starting in January 2028, with future releases sold digitally through the PlayStation Store and other retailers. Sony

Stephen Totilo / Game File: Sony says all new PlayStation games will only be sold in digital formats from January 2028, as digital media preference “significantly outpaces physical discs” — New games

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Sony says it will close the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 before closing PS3 and PS Vita stores “in all other countries” in July 2027 — The virtual

Bloomberg: Sources: Meta plans a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI compute and models, to compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; META jumps 8%+ — Meta Platforms Inc. is dev

Steven Borowiec / Nikkei Asia: South Korean government data: the country's exports grew 70.9% YoY in June to 102.25B, an all-time monthly high, anchored by a record 44.82B in chip shipments — SEOUL —

Bloomberg: Stockholm's Patent and Market Court orders Google to pay nearly 2B to Klarna's PriceRunner in a dispute over abuse of power in the shopping comparison market — Alphabet Inc.'s Google was or

Teams recently completed build and acceptance testing of our 1,000th Merlin 1D engine for Falcon’s first stage! With Falcon’s reusability, recovering these engines has enabled continued reliability en

Tesla’s Supercharger network just delivered a monster Q2 In Q2 2026, Tesla Superchargers delivered 2 terawatt-hours of electricity globally That is enough electricity to power roughly 180,000+ U.S. ho

This is a humorous social media post by Cristobal Valenzuela making a joke about Chile's failure to qualify for a FIFA World Cup tournament, suggesting that the only way to guarantee not losing a Worl

The truth about Ellis Islanders. - Around 2% were denied entry due to poor health or for holding anti-Christian ideology. - 33% voluntarily returned home, because there wasn't welfare in the U.S. back

Associated Press: The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison — A self-exiled billionair

This is absolutely correct. The only way to fight 'open' is with 'open.' Glad to hear a voice in Washington that understands the real stakes. 'At this very moment China is giving its AI technology awa

Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: [Thread] The US' now-lifted export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers towards Chinese AI models — A lot to un

Financial Times: Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen held “constructive” talks; sources say they discussed how Apple can launch Siri AI in the EU while avoiding fines — Discussions come as tech

Today, we’re announcing a partnership with Bertelsmann. Runway will be integrated across Bertelsmann’s global portfolio of businesses, including the RTL Group, BMG and Bertelsmann Marketing Services.

Niko Gallogly / New York Times: Together AI, which offers access to open-source models, raised 800M led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 at an 8.3B valuation, taking its total funding to 1.3B — Together

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Twelve Labs, which is building AI models to make video searchable and understandable, raised a 100M Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, and signs an AWS deal — Twelve Labs Inc.

TwelveLabs Inc., the developer of generative artificial intelligence foundation models that can understand videos like humans, today announced it has raised 100 million in early funding to expand beyo

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber dismissed two leaders at its AI data labeling business as part of a broader leadership transition at the unit, which it says is “seeing strong momentum” — Uber Technolog

The British government has signaled it is likely to intervene in Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, citing concerns about maintaining media plurality. Briti

Cloudflare’s new Attribution Business Insights dashboard helps website owners understand crawler behavior, appetite, and potential value, fueling business-level conversations around crawl compensation

Home battery installations in the United States hit a new record of 673 megawatts of residential energy storage in the first quarter of 2026. The surge was driven by rising residential electricity cos