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Communism through (my) ages: 1) When I was 15, a teacher told me 'It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense.' 2) At about 19, college friends, 'Socialism isn't communism.' 3) At 20, on mee

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Doc: the DOD has quietly revised its doctrine on how the US military picks its targets, envisioning “systems where AI initiates actions with human monitoring” — The Pentago

Richard Speed / The Register: Elastic announces a ~7% reduction in its workforce, and says “advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams”; ESTC closed down 8.70% — CEO says a

Analysis of ancient proteins from 23 fossilized teeth belonging to at least 20 Homo naledi individuals revealed no male genetic markers, suggesting the assemblage may represent females only. The findi

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance — Facebook anno

The U.S. has denied authorization for Polestar to sell 2027 model-year vehicles, effectively preventing new Polestar models from entering the U.S. market. The Connected Vehicle Rule restricts vehicles

AVL, a leading automotive testing company, modernized its measurement data analytics by adopting Databricks' Lakehouse architecture to replace traditional test bench data processing systems. The imple

Getting used to being liked likely means you are overfit to RLHF. The problem with overfitting is that the pain overwhelms the limbic system once you try to sample trajectories outside the known distr

Grok Imagine Video has achieved significant adoption on Vercel's AI Gateway, accounting for approximately 50% of all videos generated by developers using the platform. This milestone indicates Grok Im

Honestly at this point I'm a bit frustrated I didn't get my USAID-sponsored RPG Naming it USAID was brilliant honestly because most people are too dumb to even ask what it really does It’s like naming

This post likely presents a before-and-after comparison of some aspect of Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), or another Musk-led enterprise, showing the contrast between the company's initial state

How many more children before we admit the experiment failed? This time it’s two Iraqi brothers, 18 and 20, on trial in Essen, Germany, for allegedly raping a 7 year old girl on two separate occasions

Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: How the US AI build-out is pushing up prices for electricity, software, and more; in a survey, 81% of economists say it will add to inflation over the next year —

I think this means you can collect ~10k hours just from open source datasets, which means basically anyone should be able to build a decent robot foundation model: 500 from the new BitRobot dataset 50

IBM unveiled the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology at the 0.7 nm node, featuring a revolutionary 'nanostack' transistor architecture . The chip packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a

IBM Corp. today unveiled what it says is the world’s first sub-one-nanometer chip technology, a research breakthrough that it said will fuel the next 10 years of semiconductor development and pave the

Identity verification company Incode Technologies Inc. today announced that it has acquired Identiq Protocol Ltd., an Israeli startup that builds cryptographic tools letting companies share fraud sign

Madison Mills / Axios: Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring three founders and other team members behind AI security startup Virtue AI; two founders report to Nat Friedman — Meta Superintellige

SK hynix Inc., the world’s largest supplier of HBM memory, today filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The South Korean company hopes to sell up to 17.79 million shares for 29.4 billi

Microsoft has extended its free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for consumers by an additional year, allowing enrolled devices to continue receiving security updates until October 1

Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku: Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by 100 for 512GB models and 150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025 — Microsoft is increas

Mindestens vier Mädchen im Alter von 12 bis 14 Jahren wurden am vergangenen Samstagnachmittag in einem Schwimmbad in Schwäbisch Gmünd Opfer sexueller Übergriffe. Tatverdächtig ist ein 21-jähriger Afgh

Bloomberg: NAND flash maker Kioxia, Japan's most valuable company since June 12, plans to offer US depositary shares in spring 2027 amid AI-driven demand for memory chips — Kioxia Holdings Corp. inten

Need to find a harder problem for /goal. I haven't even finished my coffee yet. Introducing /goal in Grok Build. Execute long-running tasks autonomously, with multiple rounds of subagents implementing

A comprehensive effort is underway to sequence the genomes of endangered species, with Google providing funding and AI tools to the Vertebrate Genomes Project and the Earth BioGenome Project. Google.o

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: New Zealand-based Partly, which develops an AI model for the auto parts industry, raised a 50M Series B led by DST at a 500M valuation, as it enters the US — Partly Group

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: NHTSA proposes eliminating the mandate for manual brake pedals in “vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems” — The Trump administration's Depar

Nochmal, damit das alle verstehen, was in Deutschland passiert. Die gesamte deutsche MSM-Presse verliert kein Wort über Uwe Boll oder Citizen Vigilante. Ausnahme drei Artikel: Welt (hinter Paywall), w

Notion is shutting down Notion Mail, its AI-enhanced email client launched in April 2025 based on the Skiff acquisition, on September 22. More than 50% of Notion Mail users now manage their email usin

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Notion plans to shut down its Gmail client Notion Mail on September 22 and go “all in” on AI agents to run inboxes, saying 50%+ of users do not open the inbox — Last year, Notion e

Om Malik / On my Om: Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59 — Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital af

Artificial intelligence startup Ornn AI Inc. made a big splash today as it raised 33 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto-focused fund and others to build out a marketplace for co

Ana Maria Constantin / The Next Web: Paris-based Tsuga, whose observability software runs in customers' own clouds to help them skip per-byte ingestion costs, raised a 35M Series A led by Singular — T

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a 50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to 70M — AI agents ar

DigitalOcean has launched a cloud-based service enabling users to run OpenAI's Codex, an AI code generation model, on DigitalOcean's infrastructure. This offering allows developers to access Codex cap

Artificial intelligence developer-centric cloud provider Runpod Inc. announced Tuesday it has raised 100 million in early-stage funding, pushing the valuation of the company to 1 billion. The Series A

Artificial intelligence startup Scaled Cognition Inc. today announced that it has raised 100 million in funding. Khosla Ventures led the Series A deal with participation from Genesys Telecommunication

Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg: SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut helped support Softbank's stock — SoftBank Gr

Ethan Gach / Kotaku: Sony's Bungie says it is laying off a “significant number of employees”, including “most of the Destiny team”; Bungie has an estimated headcount of 800 — The studio said the sci-f

Soros is Magneto and his son is Mini Magneto BREAKING: George Soros is the largest individual donor in the 2026 midterm election cycle with $102 million to Democrats. This is the same George Soros who

Ann Gehan / The Information: Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models — Google i

Alan Neuhauser / Axios: Source: Muon Space, which operates satellite networks for climate and national security monitoring, is raising 250M; it has raised ~181M since its 2021 launch — Muon Space, whi

Alberto Nardelli / Bloomberg: Sources and a draft document: the US proposes that the EU sign on to an AI partnership to help secure chip supply chains; the one-page statement had few details — The US

Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Bumble explores a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector; its shares fell 48% over the past 12 months, giving it a market cap of $388M — Dating app Bumble

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to “midtraining” to try to catch up with Anthropic, after major executive departures — Google is r

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end — Facebook parent is accelera