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We built Aleph as one of the first generalist text-based editing models. Aleph 2.0 takes it further: visual prompting for precise control, longer videos (up to 30 seconds), and yes, multi-shot support

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This post likely discusses Paul Erdős, the prolific Hungarian mathematician known for his unconventional lifestyle and numerous mathematical collaborations, exploring the personal or professional chal

Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider: X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by “programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts” — X

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A deep dive into Apple Watch and Health efforts; sources: iOS 27 to get a revamped AirPods control panel and default support for AirPlay rivals like Google Cast — Also: iOS 27

New York Times: A look at the scourge of smartphone thefts in London, as victims describe receiving texts threatening them into unlinking Apple IDs from stolen iPhones — Tens of thousands of smartphon

Nikkei Asia: At an IEEE conference, Huawei proposed a new chip scaling law and said it aims to design chips with transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm by 2031 — TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies on Monday

Fate loves irony, but despises hypocrisy you’re fundamentally misunderstanding the controversy here, while invoking a controversy that should have made it obvious. “race swap” wasn’t even a conversati

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Financial Times: How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity — Deals hit record highs, unloved

It's actually 1% of the population that committed 63% of violent crimes, at least in Sweden. You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of t

This post criticizes perceived inconsistency in public figures' responses to different cases of alleged injustice, contrasting support for George Floyd protests with claimed silence regarding a case i

Nicki Minaj posted a message of gratitude on X (formerly Twitter) expressing appreciation for Elon Musk's contributions to humanity. The post represents a public endorsement or acknowledgment of Musk'

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating — Moment, the fina

ngl I thought this was them talking about no researchers under 18 There are some darn good ai researchers in that age bracket Anthropic Doesn't Allow Kids Under 18 — Here's Why⁣ ⁣ 'We just don't know

Melissa Shin / Bloomberg: Plenary Americas LP, La Caisse's infrastructure arm, agrees to acquire and take private Canadian database company ISC for $872M, expected to close in Q3 — The infrastructure

Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding? A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Quartermaster, which is building an analytics platform and a SmartMast, with sensors on a ship's mast to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $43M Series A — Oceans — to s

Elon Musk shared real-time video footage of Starship, SpaceX's fully reusable super-heavy lift vehicle designed for missions to orbit, the Moon, and Mars. The post likely documented live test footage

Restore Britain Restore Britain is under brutal assault by the establishment. Listen to me when I say this - they want us gone. Everything will be thrown at us - false allegations, dishonest polling,

David Oks: Rising DRAM prices are driving “forced premiumization” in the smartphone market in India and Africa, as consumers in the sub-$200 segment risk being priced out — The global memory crunch an

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg invented a fake disease called 'bixonimania,' a fictional skin condition supposedly caused by screen time. Multiple AI chatbots including Google's Gemini,

Financial Times: Sources: Princeton Digital Group to sell its Chinese data center assets for as much as $1B, capping global buyout firms' retreat from China's data center market — Princeton Digital Gr

Star Citizen, an ambitious space simulation game in development by Cloud Imperium Games, has reached $1 billion in crowdfunding, making it one of the most funded projects ever. The milestone reflects

Starship’s Super Heavy booster produces roughly the same thrust as ~80 Boeing 747s all firing at once The scale of that power is almost incomprehensible Its Raptor 3 engines are true marvels of engine

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking Tether's stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M — Tether has bought ou

The reality you and probably everyone else have to accept by now is this: you’ve almost certainly watched at least a few fully AI generated videos on social media without realizing they were generated

This was the 'Woodstock of AI' with some help from the universe and @ClementDelangue 's hard work more than 5000 people showed up. A truly inspirational day, I first saw a lot of AI companies includin

Tortured for months, finally and mercifully she died alone in the filthy hovel of her captor. Democrats will condemn society, and forgive her killer. Others believe a brutal public execution will be t

Approximately 50,000 RC Lens supporters attended the French Cup Final, creating a dominant home atmosphere for their team. The large turnout demonstrated significant fan engagement and support for Len

A 6-person team is building task-specific AI models that are 4-8x faster than anything from OpenAI or Anthropic. 500K downloads on HuggingFace. No hype. Just better engineering winning on the merits.

Sophia Cai / Politico: A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on May 21; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary — The draft also incl

Noah Berman / The Wire China: A profile of TP-Link, whose share of the US consumer router market grew from 10% to 60%+ between 2019 and 2025, as it seeks to rebut national security concerns — When Jef

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: As the US House probes Airbnb's use of Chinese AI models, CEO Brian Chesky says the company is not sharing data with Chinese firms and uses open-source models — Airbnb Inc. C

Boring Company’s goal is to solve traffic in cities and one day build Hyperloop high-speed transit between city centers See how Prufrock continuously mines - pushing and building at the same time. The

This appears to be a satirical or false claim, as 'Chief Gyatt Officer' is not a legitimate corporate position and such a significant personnel announcement would not use slang terminology. The post l

British police are hiding Henry Nowak’s final Snapchat and police bodycam footage. 18-year-old Henry Nowak was stabbed to death in Southampton. His Snapchat videos captured the attacker carrying a 21c

Matthew Prince / Wall Street Journal: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI won't replace builders or sellers, but it will affect middle managers, operations jobs, and other “measuring” positions — Th

Congrats and a huge thank you to the SpaceX team that always delivers. This was an incredible first flight of a brand new vehicle. Our collective future flying amongst the stars has become so much clo

NASA Administrator congratulated SpaceX and Elon Musk on a successful Starship V3 launch, characterizing it as progress toward lunar and Martian exploration objectives. The post reflects NASA's recogn

Elon Musk congratulated SpaceX on a successful Starship V3 launch and landing test, characterizing it as a significant achievement for humanity. The post celebrates a milestone in SpaceX's development

Financial Times: Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin — Threat to code that under

Anusha Shah / Reuters: Delivery Hero says it received a takeover offer from Uber for €33 per share, a discount of 1.76% from Delivery Hero's close on Friday — German food delivery service Delivery Her

This post from Elon Musk's X account appears to be commentary on or engagement with content from @Erdayastronaut, likely discussing impressive or striking photographs, with Musk expressing enthusiasm

Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg: FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all “treasury.gov” email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020 — New detai

Alexandra Alter / New York Times: For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down — Illegal,