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It's highly likely that the cosmological constant a) is actually a constant and b) can't be adjusted It is actually forced by the algebra of relativity (no need to add by hand) as we showed here: http

Raphael Satter / Reuters: Letter: US Central Command says it received “threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data” to target US personnel in war zones — U.S. forces d

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a 50M Series B led by Plural — Orbital Industr

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security and governance platform for AI agents, raised a 30M Series A led by Balderton at an estimated 180M valuation — Geordie AI, a Lon

This post from Rupert Lowe's account (shared via Elon Musk's platform) claims that the political movement or party 'Restore Britain' is gaining support because it prioritizes truthfulness in its messa

Semiconductor specialists Marvell Technology Inc. and Synopsys Inc. today posted quarterly revenue numbers that topped analyst expectations. The two companies also raised their guidance. Both attribut

Microsoft is launching a revamped version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, offering a cleaner design that the company claims loads twice as fast. As part of this update, Copilot will provide more reliable an

Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: Microsoft overhauled Copilot's design in Microsoft 365 with a minimalist black-and-white, text-focused interface aimed at creating a more consistent experience — The AI

Narrative violation: Open model use in Factory has more than 3x’d in the last month relative to closed models. By both total consumption and event count. Will be interesting to see what open vs closed

📢 New @heyjasper release ! 📢 MONET 🌸 : An Apache2.0 deduped and recaptioned dataset of 105M samples unlocking reproducible text-to-image research. Nano T2I 🖌️ : A codebase to train your own T2I model

Elon Musk indicated that the next development phase involves implementing an inference stack in C (with some C++) to enable high-speed reinforcement learning operations simultaneously across a large c

Elon Musk posted on X to recruit engineers and technical talent interested in optimizing hardware performance to join SpaceX. The post encourages those with expertise in achieving exceptional performa

Hyperconverged cloud infrastructure company Nutanix Inc. delivered a mostly upbeat earnings report today, easily beating estimates on profit and revenue, and investors liked the news as the company’s

Shares of Okta Inc. rose more than 6% in late trading today, while SentinelOne Inc. fell more than 18%, as the two cybersecurity companies reported quarterly results hours apart with sharply different

One fascinating thing we saw that doesn't seem to be (?) in any literature is the effect of Whitehead's second lemma on de Sitter deformation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehead%27s_lemma_(Lie_al

OpenCode now integrates with DigitalOcean's Inference Router, enabling intelligent routing of AI model requests across distributed infrastructure. This integration allows developers to optimize model

MIT researchers developed a low-temperature process for extracting battery-grade lithium from the common mineral spodumene. The process uses a liquid reagent to dissolve the rock into useful forms inc

Today, I’m talking with Wassym Bensaid, the chief software officer at Rivian, and the co-CEO of Rivian’s platform joint venture with Volkswagen, which everyone just calls RV Tech. That joint venture k

Salesforce Inc. delivered stronger-than-expected financial results today, but the software vendor came up short when it issued its current quarter and full-year revenue forecast, as the stock barely m

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