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Bloomberg: SoftBank stock jumped 4.6% to a record high on Monday, spurred by hopes of big returns from the company's stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp if they go public — SoftBank Group Corp. shares

Sophie Shulman / CTech: Sources: Wix is expected to cut ~1,000 jobs in the coming months, or ~20% of its workforce, after weak Q1 earnings and a ~50% collapse of its stock in 2026 — The company will r

SpaceX put 10 megawatts of solar power in space across 3000 gen1 Starlink satellites, then they put 100 megawatts in space with 7000 gen2. soon, they're doing 1000 megawatts with gen3. SpaceX is basic

Jennifer Maas / Variety: Star Citizen, a video game in development since 2012, has reached $1B in lifetime funding; it remains in alpha and does not have a confirmed release date — Cloud Imperium Game

Starlink satellite internet service has expanded to the Kyrgyz Republic, marking another country addition to its global coverage network. This announcement was made by Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter

Tristan Bove / Fortune: Study: rate of fabricated references in biomedical papers has grown 12x+ since 2023; in early 2026, one in 277 papers had at least one non-existent reference — It was a process

This post describes a creative prompt for generating AI-produced images of fictional or impossible objects styled as realistic eBay product listings, complete with the platform's interface elements an

Reuters: Tether plans to launch GELT, an “official” stablecoin representing the Georgian lari, with the support of Georgia's government in an unusual partnership — Tether, the world's biggest stableco

The 400’s in Rome were brutal Western civilization has collapsed before. But a few scholars preserved the ideas that once made Rome great. They made a backup, and it did eventually come all the way ba

The team is gathering speed Grok Build just got another update: v0.1.220-alpha.1 xAI is now shipping multiple updates in a single day with nonstop fixes, improvements, optimizations, and new features

Charles Clover / Financial Times: The UK, outpaced by the US and China in AI, is turning to experimental technologies like neuromorphic computing in search of computing sovereignty — Military capabili

the @xai team really cooked with Grok Build the most beautiful (and performant) TUI I've seen so far >realtime context view >feels snappy in ghostty >first class worktree support >great resume session

This trend will continue for many years SpaceX put 10 megawatts of solar power in space across 3000 gen1 Starlink satellites, then they put 100 megawatts in space with 7000 gen2. soon, they're doing 1

Today, I'm working on trying to better understand how coding assistants mention HF's products. Taking a simple approach of running tons of queries and analyzing the answers with @DAKlingbeil's https:/

Sonia A. Rao / New York Times: Visually impaired Waymo users in California say riding in a Waymo gives them a feeling of independence and spares them from discrimination from human drivers — Ruben Bru

Watching Grok Build think is pretty fascinating. Definitely noticing a change with the releases made this weekend, its become incredibly thoughtful. And the plans are getting insanely detailed, I mean

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

We've expanded the Beta to many more people. Go to https://x.ai/cli to give it a try. Our entire engineering team will be responding to (and fixing) any issues you encounter, so please share feedback

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