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Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance is discussing capex of up to 70B in 2026 as it builds out data centers and AI infrastructure, underwriting it with its 50B profit from 2025 — ByteDance Ltd., the develope

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: EU leaders are divided on curbing Big Tech as they weigh cloud tender rules and giving EU companies preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum — European leaders

Bloomberg: Sources: Germany and Spain are leading opposition to EU plans to ban Chinese suppliers like Huawei from telecom networks as part of new cybersecurity rules — Germany and Spain are leading o

Financial Times: Sources: software-specialist PE firm Hg agrees to acquire Rightsline, whose software helps Disney, the BBC, WBD, and others manage IP licensing, for 500M — Acquisition of rights and r

Financial Times: Sources: Uber has increased its stake in Delivery Hero to ~37% by acquiring Aspex Management's 14.6% share at a €12B valuation, after a takeover offer last week — Share purchase from

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Starlette, an open-source Python framework underpinning FastAPI, has a vulnerability called BadHost that can allow hackers to bypass authorization — Millions of AI agents an

Super happy that a bunch of people are finding marlin useful. Thank you for the inference support @ZeroGPU_AI @huggingface 🥰🤝 We’ve got hands on more compute now so we’ll also release a series of blog

Wall Street Journal: Temu owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to ~15.7B, below ~16.2B est., net profit down 15% to ~1.85B, below ~3.4B est., amid fierce competition in China — The company is rolli

Thank Heaven for the First Amendment in America! The truth is called hateful in Belgium. Therefore speaking it is against the law. This is more frightening than calling the truth 'misinformation'. The

How newsrooms should use AI - or if they should at all - has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the barg

On Monday, Pope Leo XIV unveiled an encyclical letter addressing the societal implications of artificial intelligence. The letter, titled Magnifica Humanitas, warned that the 'use of AI is never a pur

Wall Street Journal: The Shanghai Stock Exchange says memory maker CXMT cleared a listing review for the exchange's Nasdaq-like STAR Board, in what could be China's top IPO in 2026 — The listing could

Chloe Taylor / CNBC: The UK's GCHQ head says the UK and allies have a “narrowing window” to counter cyber threats from China and Russia, as Russia intensifies “daily” hybrid warfare — Choose CNBC as y

Garrett Downs / CNBC: The US DOD announces a 9.7B five-year deal with Dell to provide Microsoft 365, advanced cloud subscriptions, and on-premises licensing to the US military — The Department of Defe

Since moving to South Carolina's Lowcountry, I've been spellbound by the myriad of beautiful birds that share the coast with us - ospreys raising their babies in towering nests beside the road to my d

Today, we remember a legend. On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline

Train with autoregression & convert weights to diffusion for inference. Most researchers agree that autoregression is best when memory bandwidth is cheap and diffusion is best when FLOPS are cheap. Th

Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: Trump says it is “critically important” that the CFTC has exclusive authority to oversee prediction markets, as some US states attempt to regulate them — President Trump on

U.S. law enforcement agencies are monitoring growing backlash to AI and have begun classifying anti-technology sentiment as an extremism threat, with unpublished reports from the Department of Homelan

ABC News: US prosecutors charge Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using inside information to make $1.2M on Polymarket bets about Google's Year in Search results — Michele Spagnuolo allegedly pla

The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $2.29 billion contract to build a secure, high-speed satellite communications network to connect military sensors and weapons platforms across the globe. The Spac

Jay Peters / The Verge: Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices due to “rising memory and storage costs”; the 512GB model is now 789, up from 549, and the 1TB model is 949, up from 649 — The 1TB OLED mode

Valve's Steam Deck OLED models are finally back in stock after months of shortages, but buyers are now facing much steeper prices than before. The 512GB Steam Deck OLED now costs 789, up from 549, whi

Cognition Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence programming tools, today announced that it has raised more than 1 billion in funding. Lux Capital, General Catalyst and 8VC led the Series D round

Volvo Cars, majority owned by China's Geely Holding, received approval from the U.S. government allowing it to continue selling vehicles with Chinese 'connected technology' in the country. This exempt

We have crossed the uncanny valley of AI video. Introducing Project Luxo: a new initiative exploring how AI-generated video has crossed the uncanny valley. Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared a seri

We just hit a major milestone — @FireworksAI_HQ passed $800M annualized run rate and reached 4x revenue growth, apart from Cursor, in Q1. We invite curious and courageous minds to join us and define n

Wise words Dans le manifeste 'techno-optimiste' de Marc Andreessen, il y a une phrase qui m'a marqué : 'Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas.' Nos ennemis ne sont pas des mauvaises pe

In the wake of Google expanding its AI verification efforts at I/O, YouTube is now finally going to start taking AI labeling seriously. YouTube has announced that it's relocating AI disclosures on Sho

YouTube is automatically applying AI-generated content labels if it detects a video includes 'significant photorealistic AI use,' while making labels more prominent by displaying them directly below t

38 airlines have now partnered with SpaceX to bring @Starlink to their fleets, and based on my research, more than 6,300 commercial aircraft already have Starlink installed or are under contract to re

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed Berkeley Humanoid Lite, a low-cost, open-source robot made of 3D-printed parts , which keeps hardware costs under $5,000 with a modular design allowing easy c

Audi's CEO Gernot Döllner outlines the company's strategy to maintain global brand strength through localized vehicle production and tailored models for specific markets like China. As of 2026, Audi w

Reuters: A Samsung union representing its consumer electronics division says it asked a South Korean court to block a pay deal vote that mainly benefits chip workers — A Samsung Electronics' (005930.K

I cannot provide an accurate summary as the source content is not accessible to me. Based on the context, this appears to be a social media post by Rowan Cheung directing users to YouTube video conten

Leslie Josephs / CNBC: American Airlines picks SpaceX's Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi on more than 500 planes; SpaceX already has contracts with United Airlines, Southwest, and others — American Airlin

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As Chinese AI models go closed source, and all U.S. frontier models are closed, there is a massive opportunity for a western open source AI Lab A future lack of competitive open source AI models is a

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Atlanta-based e-commerce logistics company Stord raised a 250M Series F led by Strike at a 3B valuation, up from 1.5B after a 200M Series E in May 2025 — E-commerce logistics

Below is a common error. Here are the facts: Dr. Andrew Baker, the Chief Medical Examiner for Hennepin County (who was the only person that conducted the autopsy of George Floyd) did not agree with th

Shares of the cloud content management firm Box Inc. headed lower in extended trading today after it barely scraped past Wall Street’s earnings and revenue targets in its first quarter. The company re

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Charter confirms a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to steal 40M customer records from Charter's Salesforce instance and threatened to leak the data — U.S. te

Koh Ewe / BBC: China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal — Shanghai First Interme

Correction issued by Department of War The Fake News media has the story wrong, again. @SpaceX remains a strong and valued partner to the Department of War. The claims in this article are simply not b

It's possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV's latest encyclical about AI's impact on humanity. An analysis by Linch Zhang posted on the forum LessWrong found certain paragraphs of Ma

Artificial intelligence-native infrastructure provider for identity and fraud prevention Didit today announced it has raised 6 million in seed funding. New and continuing investors joining the round i