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There was no award when Newton discovered three laws of forces, nor when da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. There was no Grammy for Beethoven or Chopin, nor a Nobel Prize in Literature for Homer. Masterp

A researcher or company developed an innovative hearing aid design by studying human ear anatomy, reportedly achieving significant miniaturization or efficiency improvements—reducing a key metric from

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: UK chip startup Fractile raised a $220M Series B led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Founders Fund to make specialized logic and memory chips for inference — Factori

Veeam Software Group GmbH today debuted new features that will make it easier for enterprises to back up their records and protect them from hackers. Some of the capabilities are rolling to the compan

This post links to a live broadcast of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. The broadcast was shared by Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter), allowin

I cannot provide an accurate summary as the title consists only of platform links without descriptive content. Based on the shortened URLs and source attribution to Sonya Huang, this appears to be a p

We asked the CEO of HuggingFace @ClementDelangue what the risks of releasing powerful open source models are. He says restricting AI creates more risk than openness. 'Six, seven years ago, at the time

This article argues that infrastructure quality and architecture are more critical to AI/ML project success than the choice of underlying model. It likely explores how proper deployment, scaling, moni

Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1

AfD bei 28%, inzwischen hat sich der Abstand zur Union (22%) auf 6 Punkte vergrößert. Gleichzeitig sinkt auch das Verständnis für die 'Brandmauer'. Deutschland will den Wandel - wir sind dafür bereit.

After seeing the new OpenAI and Thinking Machines voice APIs, I did finally order a Reachy. Way more excited to talk to this thing than a Google puck Reachy is mad, but RAM costs + tariffs are forcing

Artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Grego AI formally launched today with a claimed method of using existing AI models to find critical software vulnerabilities that human auditors and other

Amazon employees are reportedly using the company's internal AI platform MeshClaw to automate routine or unnecessary tasks as pressure grows to demonstrate AI adoption, in a practice known as 'tokenma

Google announced a slew of upcoming features for Android 17 operating system, including advanced capabilities for the company's Gemini AI assistant, redesigned emoji and video improvements. The event

Databricks announced a Student Fellows program designed to provide educational opportunities and professional development for undergraduate and graduate students interested in data engineering, data s

Databricks announced a new feature called Native Lakehouse Sync, which enables seamless synchronization of data between external data sources and Databricks' lakehouse platform. This capability likely

Bloomberg: Anthropic In Talks to Raise 30 Billion at 900 Billion Valuation — Anthropic PBC is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, according to people famili

Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to get rid of the bottleneck between architectural planning and code execution with a number of upgrades to its artificial intelligence software development tool Kir

BREAKING: SpaceX has once again broken the record for the tallest rocket ever built. For the third time in just three years, a new version of Starship has been stacked at Starbase in South Texas near

Clem Delangue of Hugging Face expresses satisfaction with their AI product, highlighting a personal moment where his child interacted with it as a meaningful validation of the investment. The post sug

Congrats to all the winners of the Shows That Don't Exist Yet but Might Exist Very Soon Because This Proves The Point You Can Just Make Anything You Ever Dream Of With Runway And Somehow It Already Lo

Elon Musk posted a congratulatory message to the Tesla Giga Berlin team on X (formerly Twitter), likely celebrating a significant milestone or achievement at the German manufacturing facility. The pos

Runway ML announced the winners of its inaugural Big Pitch Contest, a competition for television show concepts that have not yet been produced, with twenty total winners selected. The announcement hig

Space technology startup Cowboy Space Corp. today disclosed that it has raised 275 million in funding at a 2 billion valuation. Index Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by NEA, IVP and sev

eBay rejected GameStop's unsolicited 56 billion takeover bid, with eBay's board declaring the offer 'neither credible nor attractive.' The proposal called for purchasing eBay shares at 125 apiece with

Elliptic Enterprises Ltd., a startup that helps crypto industry players detect illicit blockchain transactions, has raised 120 million in late-stage funding. The startup stated in its announcement of

Elon Musk shared a post expressing that having children contributes to happiness and citing commentary from @ZubyMusic about the need to culturally elevate the status of parenting. The post appears to

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Exaforce, which uses AI agents to detect and thwart cyberattacks, raised a 125M Series B at a 725M valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M — As bad actors weaponize

The Databricks JDBC driver is an open-source tool that enables Java applications to connect to Databricks SQL warehouses and clusters with improved query performance and enhanced capabilities. The dri

FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary resigned after a rocky tenure marked by complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists, and vaping lobbyists, stepping down after just over a yea

Foundry Local 1.1 adds live transcription, embeddings, Responses API, WebGPU plugin, and download cancellation. The post Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API appeared f

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Foxconn says some of its North American factories suffered a cyberattack in recent days; ransomware group Nitrogen claims it stole 8TB of data — Famous for helping build Apple

Hollywood actors and producers are standing behind a new AI licensing standard that will tell AI systems whether they'll need to pay to use a person's likeness, creative work, characters, and designs.

German defense technology firm Helsing GmbH is reportedly on the verge of securing a bumper 1.2 billion in funding that would bring its valuation to around 18 billion, making it one of Europe’s most v

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google announces Pause Point, an Android 17 feature that forces a mandatory 10-second pause before opening any app a user has labeled as a distraction — An anti-doomscrolling

Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more — ZDNET key takeaways — Google par

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google unveils a “full bleed” Android Auto design that fills unconventionally shaped screens like in the BMW Neue Klasse, plans to add YouTube video streaming — The phon

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Google unveils Android security features, including protection from spoofed banking calls, default theft protection, and biometric protection for Mark as lost — Here

Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: Google unveils Googlebook, its new laptop lineup featuring a unified OS merging ChromeOS and Android, with devices from Dell, HP, and others coming this fall — ZDNET's key take

Google introduced Googlebooks, a new high-end laptop segment that will run Android and prominently feature Gemini artificial intelligence . Googlebooks, launching this fall, are the first laptops desi

Grok, xAI's conversational AI assistant, has been updated with new capabilities or features that expand its functionality. The announcement suggests improvements to Grok's performance or competencies,

This article discusses how Chief Financial Officers at consulting firms can use Databricks' data and AI platform to improve operational margins and profitability. It likely covers strategies for lever

If you want to get a sense of the AI writing gap, just look at the horrible prompting jobs in the replies. “Write a hot take! In all lowercase! Add an analogy to randomly summarize the tweet - which n

This post likely discusses Tesla's autonomous driving capabilities, specifically how some users have become so reliant on autopilot or full self-driving features that they rarely manually control thei

Qasim Nauman / New York Times: Instructure reached a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without disclosing what it gave in exchange — Instruct

Molly Taft / Wired: Internal emails: xAI added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site — Emails show that Elon M