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Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data — Palo Alto-based bl

Bloomberg: The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand chip equipment export controls that would constrain ASML's ability to sell immersion DUV machines to China — The Netherlands is lobbying the

“The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change… and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes

Elon Musk argues that the primary class conflict in society exists between productive individuals and those he characterizes as parasitic, suggesting that value creation rather than traditional econom

Europe experienced severe heatwaves beginning in late May 2026, with the first starting May 24 bringing temperatures 10-15°C higher than normal and causing several deaths. A second, more intense heat

This post suggests that organizational dysfunction or corruption within USAID developed gradually over an extended period rather than suddenly, using metaphorical language about 'worms' to describe sy

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Tim Cook, who told The Wall Street Journal that the jump in costs was unlike anything he had seen “in any area in over 40 years.” Biggest price jump in anything I’ve ever seen too. https://www.wsj.com

David Politis / Utah Money Watch: Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an 81M Series B at a 1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation from Pelion and Cervin — The Utah eCommerc

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Warp, a startup using AI to automate payroll compliance and employee management, raised a 60M Series B led by Battery, bringing its total funding to 85M — Warp, a startup using A

Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised 60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff i

“We are going to have a multi-racial nation in Singapore. This is not a Malay nation. This is not a Chinese nation. This is not an Indian nation. Everybody will have his place here, equal: language, c

Serverless PostgreSQL is a managed database service that abstracts away infrastructure management, allowing users to run PostgreSQL databases without provisioning or managing servers. This approach en

What is the difference between distilling Mythos & paying experts somewhere like @mercor_ai to generate training samples? Who are the Chinese equivalents of @HelloSurgeAI & co? If you understand this

A serverless database for AI applications should prioritize scalability, low latency, and seamless integration with machine learning workflows, eliminating the need for infrastructure management. Key

Which countries are we missing? America is now paying foreign aid to 177 countries. And Congress just shipped another $50 billion. It's an odd way to run an empire when Washington's cutting checks to

Women are not suitable for dealing with the amount of violence necessary to maintain civilization. This is, again, because women are wired to care for babies with whom 'zero' violence is the correct a

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: YouTube rolls out changes to Shorts, including adding a setting to double playback speed, eliminating the “dislike” button, and more — YouTube is rolling out a series of chan

NASA cancelled the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) after spending more than $3.5 billion with no operational flights, opting instead to shift toward commercial hardware like Centaur V. On February 26, 2

This appears to be a brief post or reference to an 8-minute duration, likely related to a video, audio clip, or event duration shared by Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter). Without access to the specif

A huge moment for open source AI - as token usage skyrockets across orgs, so do concerns over cost & data/vendor lock-in & necessity of a multi-AI strategy Keep an eye on @Lux_Capital portfolio cos @h

AI is quickly moving beyond emulating the human mind to predicting an increasingly large percentage of all observations in the world. General world models will become a new foundational infrastructure

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Amazon plans to expand Amazon Now to 300+ Indian cities and towns, up from 100 at present, as CEO Andy Jassy visits India; a source says he is set to meet Modi — Amazon.

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: An Amazon seller reveals how middlemen on chat apps offer access to Amazon employees who allegedly grant favors, like reinstating suspended accounts, for a fee — Middlemen l

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Disney's CEO, his legacy, new CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Chapek, Apple, Disney+, purchasing Pixar, AI, and more — For two dec

Asmongold explains Keir Starmer's resignation using a WoW raid strategy and it makes perfect sense 'Labour just performed a tank swap. Starmer had too many debuffs so they pulled him out and brought i

This post discusses developing a GitLab nodes adapter to enable Hugging Face model storage on decentralized git infrastructure, leveraging open-source platforms for distributed model repository hostin

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Cloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on PACT, a protocol to distinguish legitimate human or bot traffic from undesirable network requests — Makers of

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today said it has signed a multiyear partnership with Microsoft Corp. that will see its data security and cyber recovery technology offered as a native

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Customer engagement service MoEngage acquires Aampe, whose AI agents help brands personalize messaging, for “tens of millions”, per a source; Aampe raised ~$28M — Indian cu

Democrats have reached such an extreme that they’re electing someone to Congress who straight up wants to 'eradicate' America. And not only does she believe this but she founded an activist organizati

Bobby Allyn / NPR: Documents: Meta's planned prediction markets app will use Meta AI models to generate questions from trending topics, make recommendations, and resolve markets — Meta is planning to

Elon just hinted at Neuralink’s next major leap: Not just brain-to-computer control Higher-bandwidth communication between humans, AI, and eventually humans themselves This is much bigger than typing

A Tesla Model 3 crashed into a residential home in Katy, Texas, killing a 76-year-old grandmother, with the driver claiming Autopilot was active at the time. Elon Musk disputed the claim, and Tesla's

To maintain business continuity, you need a robust data-backup strategy. While multi-region backups offer the highest availability, many organizations want a more cost-effective way to protect their d

French researchers designed experimental glass tubes mimicking wine bottle necks and used fluorescent sensors to track oxygen movement through corks over 18 months without opening them. By varying cor

The FCC is considering new rules that would require phone companies to collect government IDs and physical addresses from customers to combat scam calls and robocalls. Privacy advocates warn the propo

Figma has revealed some new design and coding product updates at its annual Config conference that aim to help creatives 'push their ideas further' and automate tedious tasks with AI. Part of this is

Formula E announced its first calendar for the 2026-27 GEN4 era featuring a record 21 races across 13 cities, with three new permanent circuit venues including COTA in Austin, Brands Hatch in London,

Google LLC-owned YouTube today reached a settlement with a Florida-based minor in a social media addiction case, one of many trials that will take place as social media platforms face growing scrutiny

Google announced changes to its Play Store model to settle its years-long legal fight with Epic Games, including lowering the commission fee to 20 percent on in-app purchases and creating a new progra

Gotham has fallen. The mass exodus out of the New York will continue apace. I call it the Blue Exodus. Last night’s sweep of Marxist Socialist candidates will further destroy New York City. The virule

Superhuman Inc., the company formerly known as Grammarly, said today it has agreed to acquire GPTZero Inc., the startup whose detection tools tell teachers, editors and hiring managers when a piece of

Elon Musk claims that Grok, the AI assistant developed by xAI (associated with SpaceX), maintains greater political neutrality compared to other AI systems. Musk suggests that xAI's approach to buildi

Take-Two Interactive will sell the standard version of Grand Theft Auto VI at 80, a more traditional price after speculation the company would raise costs . The 80 price exceeds that of most other PS5

Jeanne Whalen / Wall Street Journal: How Chicago is betting on quantum computing, including turning the site of the former US Steel mill into a campus, after largely missing the digital revolution — I