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France 24: President Emmanuel Macron says France will invest an additional €1B for quantum computing research and a further €550M in state funding for semiconductors — Bruyères-le-Châtel (France) (AFP

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Qualcomm stock closed up 11.6% on Friday and is now up 75% in the past month, as the company increasingly becomes a key player in AI devices — Qualcomm shares surged 12% on Frida

Reachy Mini, a robotic arm, unexpectedly malfunctioned or 'passed out' during an appearance on a live cooking show hosted by @lalopenguin, with the incident apparently being notable enough to warrant

Clem Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, posted a social media message expressing support for RC Lens ahead of a French Cup final match. The post uses the French phrase 'allezlens' (let's go

Cristobal Valenzuela shared reflections on a social gathering in Tokyo involving collaborators Daito Manabe and Rhizomatiks, highlighting the creative energy and community aspects of Tokyo's runway an

Justin Papp / CNBC: Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he requested information from Kalshi and Polymarket on their efforts to prevent insider trading — Rep. James Comer, R

DigitalOcean has made request-based autoscaling generally available on its App Platform, enabling applications to automatically scale based on incoming HTTP request volume rather than just CPU or memo

Ars Technica's review describes The Mandalorian and Grogu as an 'average' Star Wars entry that provides solid entertainment but falls short of being spectacular or groundbreaking. Directed by Jon Favr

SpaceX delayed a critical test of its massive Starship rocket just seconds before launch after a pin holding the tower arm in place failed to retract. Starship was slated to take off on its twelfth ma

Details have emerged about a tentative deal struck between Samsung and semiconductor employees who had threatened to strike. The deal reportedly makes some workers eligible for average annual bonuses

Artificial intelligence startups are facing two massive headaches: There’s too much AI-generated code to deal with, and not nearly enough computing power to run it all on. Modal Labs Inc., which has j

US solar generation surged 35% in 2025 with 27 gigawatts of newly installed capacity, surpassing hydroelectric power for the first time in annual generation. Solar's expansion added roughly 85 terawat

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race — CEO

Politico: Sources: David Sacks told President Trump that federal reviews of AI models before release would slow down innovation and hurt the US in its AI race with China — But during a conversation wi

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Sources: Nintendo asked partners and suppliers to assemble ~20M Switch 2 consoles by March 2027, ~20% above the 16.5M public sales outlook issued in early May — Nintendo

Scott Patterson / Bloomberg: Sources: the SEC has delayed the release of a plan for an “innovation exemption” that would allow crypto firms to trade tokenized versions of US stocks — The Securities an

SpaceX has just launched and deployed ~45 tons to space. This was one of the heaviest payloads since Polyus launched by Energia in 1987 and Skylab launched by Saturn V in 1973! Starship has successful

A SpaceX team was recorded chanting 'USA! USA! USA!' in what appears to be a celebratory moment, likely following a successful rocket launch or space mission achievement. The post was shared on X (for

SpaceX successfully completed the twelfth flight test of Starship, with the vehicle achieving splashdown as planned. This milestone represents continued progress in SpaceX's development of the fully r

AI covers and remixes of songs are already a blight on the internet. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are awash in flat reggae versions of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' dinky country renditions of

Starlink enables reliable real-time communication with recovery teams and live streaming of Starship’s splashdown in the middle of the Indian Ocean The Starship recovery team is deployed in one of the

This article from Zero Hedge criticizes the UK Starmer government's policies regarding free speech restrictions, suggesting the administration is intensifying its enforcement or expansion of speech-li

During a test flight, Starship executed a banking maneuver designed to simulate the final approach trajectory it would use when returning to Starbase for a booster catch in future missions. This maneu

Elon Musk announced an imminent Starship launch attempt via X, indicating a SpaceX test flight was scheduled to begin within five minutes of the post. This represents one of SpaceX's integrated flight

Elon Musk posted that T-zero (likely referring to a scheduled SpaceX launch or major event) is set for 5:30 PM Texas time. The post indicates a specific countdown to an imminent event, with the precis

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit on May 21, 2026, accusing Meta and WhatsApp of misleading millions of users about the privacy of WhatsApp chats. The lawsuit alleges WhatsApp deceives user

Thanks for sharing this. The Huggingface Hub, instead of being considered as a huge dataset, should be considered as a dynamic discovery engine that can be directly executed and verified. Most models

O.J. Simpson was ordered to pay $25,000 in damages for pirating satellite television signals from DirecTV using illegal devices known as 'bootloaders.' Federal agents seized the illegal devices from S

Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selection

SpaceX's Starship team has received clearance to proceed with propellant loading operations, indicating preparation for an upcoming test flight or launch attempt. This represents a key milestone in th

A Reddit user reported that their metallic smartwatch strap accidentally touched the Steam Controller's magnetic charging puck's exposed contacts, creating a short circuit that caused the device to si

Peter Wells / Financial Times: The Trump administration plans to require most green card applicants to return to their home countries to apply, which could adversely impact tech workers — Move to tigh

Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: The US Ambassador to Canada accuses Canada of imposing trade barriers by requiring that US streamers contribute 15% of Canadian revenue to local programming — Remark

Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica: The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI — Pilots' vo

This sucks. America should welcome greatness. Builders, innovators, and creators should have a fast path to citizenship. I can’t fathom why we would make life harder for founders starting billion doll

Today, Zyphra Research is sharing fundamental work extending Equilibrium Propagation beyond Energy-Based Models to biologically realistic neuron models. A step toward more efficient AI, local learning

U.S. President Donald Trump has delayed the signing of an executive order designed to regulate advanced artificial intelligence models. “I didn’t like certain aspects of it. I postponed it,” Trump tol

The Trump-appointed FCC chairman Brendan Carr initiated an inquiry into whether ABC's daytime talk show 'The View' qualifies as a 'bona fide news program' exempt from political equal-time rules. The p

This is a humorous post by Elon Musk on X (Twitter) making a joke about the pronunciation of 'Retatrutide,' a pharmaceutical compound, by mishearing it as 'Retardatide' and joking about the implied tr

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: US and Canadian authorities arrest 23-year-old Jacob Butler, known online as “Dort”, for allegedly operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet, which infected ~2M devices — U.S

This article discusses how organizations can leverage observability data—including metrics, logs, and traces—to proactively identify and prevent incidents before they impact systems and users. It like

This post likely shares images or video footage of SpaceX's Starship vehicle captured from a Starlink satellite in orbit, providing a perspective of the spacecraft from space. The content demonstrates

SpaceX's Starship Flight Test 12 was a test flight of the fully integrated Starship launch vehicle, likely involving the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage. Elon Musk promoted the live broad

This post expresses optimism about humanity's future prospects, suggesting current times represent an exceptionally positive period for human civilization and development. The incomplete text indicate

Western civilization is amazing What if the west isn't the villain they told you it was? We’ve spent years accepting accusations about racism, intolerance, and slavery without challenging the bigger h

Sam Altman posed a question to the public asking what problem they most hope AI will solve in the future, with an implied offer that OpenAI might be able to help address it. The post invites community