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Choi Yeon-jae / The Korea Herald: Samsung's Securities, SDS, and Card units jointly acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange, in a ~$446M all-cash deal — Samsung

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Snowflake stock closed up 36% on Thursday, its best day ever, after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon — Software stocks popped on Thursda

Axios: Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~12B valuation, up from 8B late last year, and hit 1.5B in ARR, up from 1B in October — Payments firm Airwallex has raised

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks — Senio

Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease — Apollo Global Management Inc

Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok is cutting music label-facing jobs to focus on its music distribution arm SoundOn and other projects that connect it more directly with artists — Music has been core to TikT

SpaceX has almost finished writing V1.0 of an in-house AI training stack in C that exact-maps to 220k GB300s with 800G NICs, making heavy use of pipeline parallelism and getting as close to bare metal

Spectacular work by @ClementDelangue and the team at @huggingface! The HF science team just made async RL weight sync ~100x cheaper on bandwidth, and you don't need a shared cluster anymore. The probl

Starlink has connected 167K @united flights and counting, delivering seamless internet gate to gate🛰️✈️ Starlink powers the world’s biggest satellite constellation in low Earth orbit. What does that m

Starlink powers the world’s biggest satellite constellation in low Earth orbit. What does that mean for you? We're rolling out the world’s fastest, most reliable high-speed inflight Wi-Fi now — with w

I cannot verify this claim based on the provided information. The title references 'Suicidal Empathy' as a top book in Canada, but this appears to be either a misattribution, a fabricated post, or a b

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the DSA for allegedly failing to adequately stop the sale of illegal products; further penalties could follow — Chinese online re

This post expresses Elon Musk's philosophical perspective that conscious matter is exceptionally rare in the universe compared to other phenomena like black holes, and argues for a moral imperative to

Cristobal Valenzuela, co-founder of Runway ML, attended a community meetup event in Tokyo where he connected with members of the Runway ML user community and heard personal stories about how users are

Sean Hollister / The Verge: The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from 399 in 2022 to 789 today, is the end of an era for gaming handhelds, coming amid RAMageddon, tariffs, and the Iran war — The Steam De

Apple's long-awaited Siri overhaul, expected to arrive in iOS 27, might look a lot like ChatGPT with a splash of Liquid Glass. Renders from Bloomberg offer a preview of iOS 27, including the new app a

🚨 This is EXACTLY WHY ICE agents are FORCED to wear masks ICE Newark rioter: “I HAVE YOUR FACE, MOTHERF***ER” “Your WHOLE F***ING FAMILY is DEAD!” “Your KIDS. Your WIFE. ALL DEAD!” This is the type of

This is my parents’ house. This is why I’m running. This is coming for your home. It’s coming for your industry. If not by fire, then by blight, addicts, fraud, and the slow rot created by corrupt pol

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Triomics, which is building an AI-powered platform to help oncologists automate data-heavy tasks, raised a 22M Series B, following a 15M Series A in 2024 — Triomics, a star

Chris Vallance / BBC: UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years — Scientists from K

Unity Catalog, Databricks' open governance solution, integrates with Apache Iceberg to provide unified metadata management, access controls, and data lineage across data lakes and warehouses. This int

🟥 W toku procesu wycieka coraz więcej szczegółów. Zabójca, Vickrum Digwa, zadzwonił na policje, a nie na pogotowie i skłamał, że to Henry go zaatakował, był pijany, obraził go rasistowsko i strącił mu

We are starting to be quite bullish about getting in the data infrastructure business. I just cloned 68 TB (while I only have a 4TB local disk) to my @huggingface training bucket in 1 minute 55 second

We're selectively releasing the Paris 2.0 weights and partnering with researchers and teams interested in diffusion-based video models, world models, and embodied agents. The model is on Hugging Face:

New features coming to YouTube could make it better for listening to podcasts, rolling out to Premium subscribers starting today on Android and coming later to iOS. A new 'on-the-go mode' shifts YouTu

YouTube is launching a new AI feature that creates a personalized video feed based on descriptions of what you want to watch. In its announcement, YouTube says custom content feeds can be built around

1/ Composer 2.5 is having a moment. Worth a look at how the team actually got here. @cursor_ai's Federico Cassano and @FireworksAI_HQ cofounder Dima Dzhulgakov discussed Training Data with @sonyatweet

AI should dramatically increase quality of life and individual freedoms for people around the world. The OpenAI Foundation is making an initial $250M commitment to measurement, transition support, and

By the time that the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district wraps up in June, Anthropic and OpenAI will have spent millions on their battle over the political future of AI: who

Airis Labs Ltd., a provider of video analysis software for government agencies, launched today with 60 million in funding. The startup raised just over half the capital through a Series A round led by

Runway's CEO is visiting Japan this week, with a scheduled speaking event for which registration is now open. The announcement expresses gratitude to the Runway ML team and Cristobal Valenzuela's team

Reuters: Amazon says it invested £15B in the UK in 2025, including new sites and expanded studio facilities, keeping it on track to invest £40B over three years by 2027 — Amazon (AMZN.O) invested over

ANNOUNCEMENT: WE’RE SAVING SCIENCE! We’re often told that science is “self-correcting.” But that’s not really true. Science doesn’t correct itself like a thermostat adjusting the temperature in your h

Databricks announced the launch of Change Data Feed (CDF) for Lakebase, a feature that captures and tracks data modifications (inserts, updates, deletes) in real-time or batch processes. This capabili

Blockchain privacy company Aztec Labs Ltd. announced today that it has acquired Obsidion Labs Ltd., the British startup behind zero-knowledge identity protocol ZKPassport. The deal comes as government

This Databricks blog post provides guidance on optimizing business intelligence serving infrastructure for both performance and total cost of ownership. It likely covers best practices for configuring

Broadcom Inc. today debuted three new chips designed to power multi-gigabit Wi-Fi 8 routers. Wi-Fi 8 is an upcoming version of the eponymous networking standard that is set to be finalized in 2028. Ch

Bug fixes shipping to Grok Build 0.2.3 (release notes will be available in the TUI) - add “Yes, and don't ask again for anything (always-approve mode)' - add alpha/stable to welcome screen - JetBrains

In this post, we share how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) collaborated with Works Human Intelligence (WHI) to build two AI agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. We discuss the chal

A new report out today from Cisco Systems Inc. argues that none of the closed flagship large language models it tested can be considered safe once an attacker is allowed to push past a single prompt,

'Elon Musk still works incredibly hard. I visited him recently, I left around midnight and he was still working. I think he must have gone till 2am. So I don't know anybody who works as hard as him. H

Elon Musk’s goal for The Boring Company is to solve one of the most miserable daily experiences on Earth: traffic Cities are three-dimensional But transportation is still mostly trapped in a two-dimen

.@elonmusk is a patriot who loves America, & @SpaceX has been a good-faith partner of the War Department. The Department of War is proud to work with @SpaceX and will continue collaborating in support

Shares in Everpure Inc., formerly Pure Storage Inc., fell more than 7% in late trading today despite the data storage company beating expectations on revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2027 first quar

In 2024, wind and solar energy sources generated more electricity than coal in the United States for the first time on record, marking a significant milestone in the nation's energy transition away fr

Great to see @poolsideai (US lab) committing to open sourcing their foundation models going forward Laguna is an interesting release, check it out @Shaughnessy119 https://poolside.ai/blog/introducing-