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Just ordered Reachy! Can't wait to do some fun projects with my kids. Reachy is mad, but RAM costs + tariffs are forcing our hand. Prices will go up on June 1st! Still at the early bird price until th

Ben Lang / Road to VR: Meta schedules its annual Connect event for September 23-24 and says the event will focus on “the latest in VR, wearables, metaverse, and AI” — Meta's annual Connect event is se

Meta announced on Tuesday that it's testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers to questions or context about a conversation on the platform. If you've spent any tim

'More capitalist countries have lower income inequality, not higher. High income inequality is caused by cronyism which goes hand in hand with highly regulated markets.' More capitalist countries have

Business Insider: Musk v. Altman: Altman faced an intense cross-examination from Musk's attorney, who asked “are you completely trustworthy?”; Altman replied “I believe so” — - Sam Altman faced intens

Emma Roth / The Verge: Nonprofit RSL Media announces the Human Consent Standard, an AI licensing framework for use of people's work or likeness, backed by George Clooney and others — This new standard

SpaceX fueled its new Starship V3 megarocket for the first time, setting a new record as the world's tallest rocket at approximately 408 feet (124.4 meters), surpassing the V2 by 4 feet. The successfu

The family of a 19-year-old college student is suing OpenAI over claims that his conversations with ChatGPT led to an accidental overdose. In the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Sam Nelson's parents allege

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Paymentology, which provides real-time card and payment processing technology for banks and fintechs, raised $175M co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners — Payment

A Reddit discussion from r/ChatGPT where a user shared a prompt experiment asking an AI to generate a photo from a random year with the title 'a few seconds before happiness,' and then questioned what

Reachy is mad, but RAM costs + tariffs are forcing our hand. Prices will go up on June 1st! Still at the early bird price until then though if you were looking for an excuse to get one now: http://hf.

Rivian's AI-powered voice assistant is rolling out today to the company's vehicle fleet. The assistant will be available through a software update to all compatible Rivian Gen 1 and Gen 2 vehicle owne

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did 'huge damage' to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman said Musk required OpenAI president Greg Broc

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has begun his testimony against Elon Musk in a high-profile jury trial in a California federal courtroom. Altman, alongside OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is a primary defendant

After two weeks of hearing from assorted witnesses that he was a lying snake, the jury finally heard from the lying snake himself: Sam Altman. At the end of the testimony, his lawyer William Savitt as

Reuters: Samsung and its South Korean labor union fail to reach a pay deal; the union has said workers will strike for 18 days from May 21 if its demands are not met — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS)

The Information: Source: Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire New York-based Stainless, which helps developers generate SDKs from APIs, for at least 300M — Anthropic is in advanced talks to acqui

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to make the Camera app fully customizable in iOS 27, along with noticeable design changes across Siri, Safari, Weather, and more — Apple Inc. is planning

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Google is in talks with SpaceX and other companies for a rocket launch deal, as Google expands its own efforts to put orbital data centers in space — A deal between the t

Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: Sam Altman recently discussed launching an AI compute company that is majority-owned by OpenAI, similar to Stargate's original data center initiative — Sources say Sam A

Financial Times: Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets — In-house MeshClaw tool

Bloomberg: Sources: Wispr Flow developer Wispr AI is in talks to raise a round that could more than double its valuation to 2B; source: the round is set to total ~260M — Wispr AI Inc., the developer b

SpaceX has just received FCC approval to acquire ~65 MHz of nationwide spectrum from EchoStar for the company's next-gen direct-to-device @Starlink Mobile service. The FCC says the deal gives SpaceX “

SpaceX is considering several locations domestically and internationally to build the world’s most advanced spaceports! It’s no secret that we intend to launch Starship a lot, targeting thousands of f

Starlink is now onboard @GulfAir Experience seamless streaming, gaming, and scrolling from gate to gate 🛰️✈️ We just made history. ✈️🌐 Gulf Air’s first @Starlink flight just took off. Full internet. C

Starlink Mobile V2 coming next year will be a game changer for global connectivity! Thank you @FCC Thanks to President Trump, America is leading the world again. 🇺🇸 Today, the @FCC approved two major

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, shared excitement about seeing Reachy Mini, a small humanoid robot, featured on the cover of Linus Tech Tips' latest video. The post suggests Reachy Mini received n

Talked to a friend at a top AI lab. Their whole team is former journalists, training models on poems, summaries, and creative writing. I use AI every day and can see that it tends to flatten my writin

Would it shock you to hear that Android 17 is filled with new AI-enabled features, like improved dictation and vibe-coded widgets? Fortunately, that's not all. The platform is getting non-AI updates t

Databricks announced the general availability of Catalog Commits, a feature that integrates open table formats with open catalog systems to enable versioning and tracking of catalog-level changes. Thi

Span, Nvidia, and PulteGroup are testing home-based data center nodes that use unused grid capacity to cut costs, ease community pushback, and support growing AI demand. The Span installation bundles

Databricks explores how lakehouse architecture enables sports organizations to process and analyze player tracking data at scale, converting raw motion capture and sensor information into actionable c

Reuters: The US DOD says it is deploying Mythos to find and patch software vulnerabilities across the US government, even as it works on a transition away from Anthropic — WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters)

Christian Martinez / Reuters: The US FCC approves EchoStar's sale of approximately 65MHz of spectrum to SpaceX and 50MHz to AT&T — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunicati

Thinking Machines Lab Inc., the artificial intelligence research startup founded by former OpenAI Group PBC Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, wants to move beyond the era of “turn-based” AI intera

This was posted exactly 3 years ago. What 3 years of progress look like is wild. Can't wait for the next 3 years. guess who has access to runway #gen2 now? 👀 first quick trial for animated #aicinema,

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Threads is testing a Meta AI integration similar to X's Grok, letting users mention Meta AI in a post or a reply to get more context, in five countries — Threads is testing a

Elon Musk advocated for open-sourcing X's recommendation algorithm to provide transparency and build public confidence that the platform is not secretly manipulating content recommendations. This stat

Trial lawyers missed a great chance to ask everyone on the stand, under oath, what their definition of AGI is sam altman, under oath, clarifies that microsoft will lose access to openai’s research IP

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Vancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised an additional 70M after a 130M raise announced in January, giving it a 2B post-money valuation — Vancouver-based Photoni

SpaceX launched Falcon 9 carrying the NROL-172 national security payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenb

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Waymo recalls ~3,800 robotaxis in the US to fix software issues that may cause them to drive onto flooded roads, after some were seen stalled on flooded streets — Waymo is recalli

We just crossed 1,000,000 public datasets on Hugging Face! That's petabytes of data available that millions of AI builders are downloading, analyzing, and training AI models on every day! What's inter

We've just hit 1M open datasets on the Hugging Face Hub 🎉 Open models need open data. Today we hit that milestone, together with the most incredible community in AI! 🤗 Onwards to the next million 🚀 Me

Emad Mostaque discusses popular platforms used by the community for Seedance and Happy Horse, likely referencing tools, services, or applications that have gained user preference within these specific

Data resilience is quickly becoming the line between systems that recover and businesses that stall as artificial intelligence reshapes how data is created, moved and exposed. What’s changing isn’t ju