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Originally USAID was a slush fund invented in 1964 during the cold war under the Johnson Doctrine. An election fund to prevent communist and Socialist regimes from the Western Hemisphere. Mainly Centr

Recent research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the first signs of ozone depletion appeared as early as 1957 , decades before CFCs became widely used. Th

Laura Kreutzer / Wall Street Journal: Quantifind, whose AI products help banks combat financial crimes such as money laundering, raised $200M led by Summit Partners — Its Graphyte platform aims to hel

Emma Roth / The Verge: Rocket Lab plans to acquire Iridium for $8B and combine Rocket Lab's launch services with Iridium's satellite-based communications network to rival SpaceX — Iridium's constellat

Ryan Wang asked about cases where Tesla lacks source code access, such as for network switch software, and the response indicates that decompiling and modifying such software is sometimes necessary fo

Based in the UK, Curve are building a financial super-app, a smart wallet that consolidates all your debit and credit cards into a single app and card, simplifying how millions of users spend, send an

NPR: SCOTUS finds that Trump's 2025 firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter without cause was lawful, placing independence of several agencies in doubt — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday

TechCrunch: SCOTUS limits the law enforcement use of “geofence” warrants, saying people have “a reasonable expectation of privacy” in their cell-phone location data — Zack Whittaker Lorenzo Franceschi

Sony notified PlayStation users in the UK and Europe in June 2026 that 551 StudioCanal movies and TV shows they had purchased would be removed from their libraries on September 1, 2026 , with no refun

Semafor: Source: the Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating shares to Trump Accounts, which provide children with tax-advantaged savings accounts — THE SCOOP — The Trump administra

The Information: Sources: AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise 300M to 500M at a 5B pre-money valuation, more than 4x its valuation in a January 2026 round — AI video startup Higgsfield AI

Catherine Perloff / The Information: Sources: Amazon is weighing using OpenAI's and its own Nova models to cut costs after Anthropic raised prices for using its models in Amazon products — As Anthropi

Reuters: Sources: component and supplier lists, and photos of iPhone 18 Pro models, are among files a ransomware group stole from Apple's Indian supplier Tata — Sensitive lists of components and suppl

Reuters: Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with other major Chinese companies — Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXi

Katrina Manson / Los Angeles Times: Sources: disconnected US military databases may have led to the February 28 strike on an Iranian school; some see AI as a fix, others fear it amplifies errors — - A

Song Jung-a / Financial Times: South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix say they plan to invest ~$590B to build a new chip complex, including four chipmaking plants and a chip packaging cluster — Companies

Yi Whan-woo / The Korea Times: South Korea unveils plans for new AI data centers backed by ~$357.5B from SK Group, GS Group, and Naver, targeting 8.4GW initially and 18.4GW by 2035 — President Lee Jae

SpaceX has now completed its 60th dedicated Starlink launch of 2026, putting nearly 1,600 new Starlink satellites into orbit this year alone All in just under 6 months That is an insane pace The Starl

Starlink New Zealand BREAKING: Starlink becomes New Zealand’s largest rural internet provider. 🇳🇿 • Starlink now has 27% share of NZ’s rural broadband market. • Share jumped from 19% to 27% in one yea

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that broad geofence surveillance constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. The ruling does

Tesla FSD v14 Lite is rolling out to customers with our AI3 hardware FSD v14 Lite is now rolling out to AI3 early-access customers. Based on the feedback, will rollout to more customers over the next

The hard truth is that USAID, with its constant support of often violent leftist regime change, caused a lot of death! USAID: The data show that dismantling USAID did not result in ANY increase in Afr

Financial Times: The UK FCA unveils the updated version of its crypto regulatory framework, after softening proposed rules that critics said risked holding the UK back — FCA eases capital and disclosu

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The US DOJ seizes nearly 400 domains for illegally streaming 2026 FIFA World Cup matches; last week, ACE, UEFA, and more shut down 44 domains linked to PirloTV — The

The U.S. Government is launching machine learning models on Hugging Face, a popular open-source platform for sharing AI models and datasets. This initiative, highlighted by Hugging Face co-founder Cle

There are no American flags, but there are flags of many other countries. Those whose loyalty is to another country over America are, by definition, traitors and must be expelled immediately. If you l

There's a startup trying to build data centers in the ocean. And it's INCREDIBLY fascinating: Mass consumption of electricity and water is a growing bottleneck for data centers. So by moving offshore,

Think about this, the 7+ year old Teslas with AI3 that are now getting FSD V14 Lite have a more capable self-driving system than any brand-new non-Tesla car currently sold in North America. Pretty wil

This is Linton-on-Ouse in England. Population 1200. The British state is planning to dump 3,750 migrants into this village and essentially replace them overnight. Millennia of traditional rural life a

THIS IS WHY WE MUST SUPPORT THE OPEN SOURCE APP LAYER MORE OPEN SOURCE AI = INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY Remarkable that some people fondly miss Googles RSS reader app, already gone for over a decade. Remar

This week's Moonshots podcast with @PeterDiamandis, @alexwg & @DaveBlundin was one of the more interesting discussions we have had Really take off time even if this is the slowest it'll ever be Some c

Thoughts: 1. Harness > models 2. Enterprises will jump on using zenith-shaped things to optimize costs (esp. with open source models) Can't wait to try @ii_posts You don't need Fable for the most comp

Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to 'protect artists' and 'inform listeners.' Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal wil

Tired: The US government regulating open-source AI models Wired: The US government training and releasing open-source AI models Today, we are releasing Rampart: a 14.7MB machine learning model designe

Elon Musk shared an experience of using Grok's voice feature while walking in Sausalito to inquire about local apartment rental prices, describing it as an impressive demonstration of AI capability. T

Today, we are releasing Rampart: a 14.7MB machine learning model designed to protect citizens’ privacy by redacting personal information directly in your browser before it gets sent to any server A bi

Try SpaceXAI Voice models in the Vercel AI Gateway Grok's realtime voice is now on AI Gateway. Build with AI SDK 7: • 𝚡𝚊𝚒/𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚔-𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎-𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔-𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝-𝟷.𝟶 (𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎) • 𝚡𝚊𝚒/𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚔-𝚝𝚝𝚜 (𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚎𝚌𝚑) • 𝚡𝚊𝚒/

The U.S. Department of State is offering up to $10 million for information identifying or locating members of the UNC5792 and UNC4221 hacker groups linked to Russia's intelligence and military service

Coal generation hit an all-time monthly low of 39.3 TWh in April 2026, and solar subsequently overtook coal in the US electricity mix for the first month on record in May 2026. Coal's share of the US

USAID had 64 years and $2 trillion to end world hunger. The Left is acting like all they needed was 1 more year. By ending USAID the funding for Communism and was drastically cut. Less Communism did m

Bloomberg: Verizon and the UK's BT agree to create a joint venture for their international businesses with ~4B in combined yearly revenue; Verizon will pay 625M to BT — Verizon Communications Inc. and

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched the SiriusXM SXM-11 satellite mission to orbit, with coverage of the launch event available via the X platform livestream link shared by Elon Musk. This mission deplo

We have seen multi model harnesses for cheaper & faster tasks What about for the hardest challenges? What about open source? Proud to share the latest update our Zenith harness, taking models you can

We quantized GLM-5.2 (744B MoE) to 4-bit — and kept its MTP draft head in BF16. → Matches the FP8 release on quality → Runs on 4×H200 instead of 8 → Fastest 4-bit GLM-5.2 at int conc: +69–79% vs AWQ /

A featurette showing Laika's process for crafting the stop-motion film, featuring nearly two-and-a-half minutes of the studio's crew building out the world in perfect detail. The featurette reveals ne

xAI has introduced a Build page feature to the xAI Console, expanding its development tools and capabilities for users working with xAI's platform. This addition likely enables developers to create, t