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Tom Warren / The Verge: Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO — The second maj

We're about to find out if the systems designed to make deepfakes and AI-generated content easy to spot are actually up to snuff. SynthID and C2PA Content Credentials, two distinct technologies for in

It’s a really special time to be alive…some thoughts from training this model 🧵 Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in

It's time Tickets are still available for the Runway AI Festival in New York on June 11 and Los Angeles on June 18. Join us in celebrating the very best work being made with AI across film, design, ne

This post likely references a user interface feature or instruction related to Grok, the AI assistant developed by xAI (Elon Musk's AI company). The phrase 'just tap the Grok logo' suggests a simple i

Mercedes-AMG has unveiled the all-electric GT 4-Door, the first all-electric model in AMG history , powered by three axial flux motors with a 106-kWh battery and featuring a rear-biased all-wheel-driv

Lithuania has approved Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) Supervised feature, becoming the second European country to do so after another nation's prior approval. This regulatory clearance allows Tesla t

Damisola Sulaiman / Sifted: London-based Primer, which helps e-commerce merchants connect and manage multiple payment providers, raised a 100M Series C led by Sofina — The London-based fintech is doub

A retired Tennessee law enforcement officer, Larry Bushart, spent 37 days in jail for posting a meme after conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination. Tennessee officials agreed to pay $835,00

Elon Musk posted about SpaceX's Starship performing a mandatory near-complete stack test at 1200mm (likely referring to 1200 meters or a specific measurement related to the vehicle's components). The

The final trailer for the live-action Masters of the Universe film stars Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam/He-Man, who returns to the planet Eternia after 15 years to battle Skeletor, alongside allies

SpaceX Corp. today published the filing for its upcoming initial public offering. The move came against the backdrop of reports that OpenAI Group PBC could submit the paperwork for its own IPO to regu

Hugh Son / CNBC: Mercury, which provides banking services to startups, raised a 200M Series D led by TCV at a 5.2B valuation, up from 3.5B in March 2025 — Mercury, a fintech firm that provides banking

Minnesota became the first state to ban prediction markets when Governor Tim Walz signed a public safety bill into law, making operation, promotion, or advertising of platforms like Kalshi and Polymar

If you’re building visual shopping, image or document understanding, or chart analysis, you need a way to verify whether your model’s response is actually grounded in the source image. A text-only eva

NASA's Psyche spacecraft successfully flew by Mars on May 15, 2026, as part of a gravity-assist maneuver, during which onboard instruments were powered up for calibration and took images of the Red Pl

No one has ever developed a fully reusable orbital heat shield When you return from orbital velocity, you come in like a flaming meteor. You are a raging ball of fire. It is incredibly difficult to bu

Once AI starts making solving open problems in novel ways it won’t stop. We are entering the final stage of human solutions to open problems like this. Feels weird, doesn’t it? Today, we share a break

One great thing about spaceflight is that the scenic route is often the fastest path to where you’re going. Also great to see the Psyche spacecraft healthy and enjoying its journey to the 16 Psyche as

Elon Musk states his vision to democratize space travel by enabling broader human access to the Moon and Mars, framing this accessibility as necessary to ensure the long-term survival and continuation

Release notes for Grok Build will be published daily Bug fixes shipping for Grok Build (release notes will be available in the TUI itself) - Copy only path on ReadTool block - Redirect stderr to /dev/

SpaceX's development of a fully reusable Starship vehicle could significantly reduce launch costs and enable the scale of space infrastructure necessary for humanity to achieve Type I Kardashev civili

Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos has begun placing commercial advertising on space launch rockets amid declining revenues and the loss of foreign partners. Since the beginning of 2026, rocke

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: S. “Soma” Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015, has died at age 59 — S. “Soma” Som

Jemima McEvoy / The Information: Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest 2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE — OpenAI cofo

Reuters: Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has suspended a general strike and put the deal to a vote — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised 60M led by Thrive Capital at a 1B valuation — Socket, a cybersecurity startup that sells technol

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. This week's

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as Friday; the company plans to be ready to go public as early as September — The artificial-intelligence g

Elon Musk posted on X praising SpaceX's Starship as a work of art, likely expressing appreciation for the vehicle's design, engineering, or aesthetic qualities. The statement reflects Musk's perspecti

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stable Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs — Stability AI, the co

Starship aesthetic is unparalleled 'Cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see' Starship v3 is truly wild > 200+ feet (just the upper stage ship itself) > 220,000 lb payload capacity to low eart

Starship Rising These vehicles are the first of many – made possible by the tireless effort of SpaceX engineers and technicians – and are designed to enable the core revolutionary capabilities of Star

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue.

That is the goal NEWS: Elon Musk laid out SpaceX's core mission in precise terms during his Forbes interview, describing the specific test he uses to define a genuinely self-sustaining civilization be

Elon Musk commented positively on an all-black paint finish applied to a base or foundation of an unspecified product or structure. The post suggests aesthetic appreciation for the sleek appearance cr

Utah may host one of the world's most colossal data centers, despite stark warnings from experts and fierce public backlash. Earlier this month, commissioners in Box Elder County signed off on the Str

Figure AI livestreamed three F.03 humanoid robots sorting packages continuously starting May 14, 2026 , generating significant viral attention and becoming a benchmark demonstration for autonomous hum

The Summer of AI Research 2026 is now accepting applications! Work on an open science AI research project between July 13 and August 16. In this fully online event we invite people with little researc

The team, the team, the team!!!! These vehicles are the first of many – made possible by the tireless effort of SpaceX engineers and technicians – and are designed to enable the core revolutionary cap

The UK has fallen. UK authorities have accused little girls of being prostitutes, “co-conspirators” and willing accomplices in their own grooming and abuse. They have arrested a father for trying to r

There were massive international protests over George Floyd and those police involved were severely punished with long prison sentences, yet the police responsible here did not even lose their jobs! A

This (Antiqua et Nova) is an interesting read ahead of Magnifica Humanitas release https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html Anyone

This is far worse than George Floyd Because he is white, there will be no justice. 'I CAN'T BREATHE' The final words of Henry Nowak, a student, just 18 years have been revealed A Sikh had stabbed him

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This poor boy was running away from someone who stabbed him & stole his phone, but the police in the UK attacked him instead of his murderer! He wasn't a career criminal. He was a Russel group univers