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grok 4.5 is seriously good. it's going in the direction which i'm hoping to see more of -- an emphasize on speed as well as intelligence. i'm noticing in my own work that speed is often the bottleneck

Grok is a frontier model. Grok 4.5 just constructed an explicit counterexample to hypercontractivity for the Poisson semigroup (the square root of the Laplace–Beltrami operator) on the 4-sphere. Back

Elon Musk announced progress updates on Grok, his AI assistant developed by xAI, likely highlighting improvements in the model's capabilities, training, or deployment. The post suggests ongoing develo

Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic: How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books — twenty-three hundred years ago, th

Grok 4.5 is looking like a success with help from Cursor data but underneath the surface we expect future Grok/Cursor model training is likely to speed up in the coming months. We've spent several mon

Teleoperated humanoid robots completed two minimally invasive gallbladder removal surgeries on live pigs during a preclinical trial published in Nature. One surgery involved a humanoid robot with a hu

i am really sad about this and very grateful for all fidji has done for openai, and even grateful for her friendship and who she is as a person. we all wish her the best for a speedy recovery. this su

Elon Musk expressed enthusiasm about Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) capability after testing it over a weekend, describing the experience as 'magical' and expressing surprise at how advanced the syst

This post likely explores hypothetical technological, economic, or social projections by extrapolating trends from the preceding decade (2020-2030), considering how current growth rates and developmen

Impressive Intelligence vs. Cost for Grok 4.5 I think given terafab + the Tesla FSD team's expertise in making very efficient AI models, this advantage will only continue to compound Grok is making pr

Leo Schwartz / The Information: Internal US DOJ memo: attorneys working on digital currency cases should expect less cooperation from Binance, which is adding requirements for asset freezes — In early

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize 293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries — Law enfo

Elon Musk argues that achieving Kardashev Type II civilization status—the ability to harness the total energy output of a star—requires humanity to establish itself as a multi-planetary species, with

Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: Leaked renders via Android Headlines show the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, Watch 9, and Watch Ultra 2; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is likely a new wide foldable — The company h

Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised 97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor demand ra

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A — Brendan Foo

Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financi

Dominic Preston / The Verge: Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview — Muse Spa

Meta Platforms Inc. this week sought to reassure consumers about the privacy safeguards of its controversial artificial intelligence-enabled glasses, yet at the same time it’s reportedly pushing even

Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan have been diagnosed with cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea, making it the largest outbreak in state history. No deaths have

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Micron raises its US capex commitment to 250B through 2035, adding 50B for New York, Idaho, Virginia, and other projects, and invests $500M in GlobalWafers — Micron Raises

Microsoft may once again be struggling to keep up with its own climate goals, according to its 2026 sustainability report. As reported by GeekWire, the report states that Microsoft's carbon emissions

Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it's now using AI to 'identify potential issues earlier,' which means 'cust

Bloomberg: MiniMax is looking to raise as much as 1.9B by selling 35.6M shares at ~34 each and offering ~$830M in convertible bonds due 2027 — MiniMax Group Inc. is joining a rush by Chinese technolog

New renderings of SpaceX's AI satellite, called AI1. • AI chip vendor agnostic. System architecture supports compute modules from any provider. • 150 kW peak compute payload • 120 kW average compute p

Reachy Mini, a robot product from Pollen Robotics, celebrated its one-year anniversary since its public introduction. Despite initial challenges during development and launch, the product gained adopt

OpenAI Build Week is here. The challenge starts July 13. Across the week, join live sessions and community events with builders around the world. Registration is open. Bring the idea sitting in your b

Multiple news organizations including The New York Times and Daily News have asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, alleging the company hid evidence critical to a copyright infringement

OpenAI released ChatGPT Work, a general-purpose productivity agent designed to help people with ambitious tasks beyond traditional coding projects. The tool performs actions autonomously across connec

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Oxylabs, which develops web data scraping infrastructure, received a 130M investment at a 3.6B valuation from Warburg Pincus, its first outside investment — Data scraping

I found search results covering multiple Windows Defender zero-days from 2026, but the specific article about a disk-fill vulnerability isn't in these results. However, based on the Ars Technica title

Unified identity security platform provider Permiso Security Inc. today launched the Risk Score Engine, a model that assigns continuous, multidimensional risk scores to every human, machine and artifi

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: PitchBook: US venture funding hit 412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or 355.9B; Q2 saw seven 1B+ rounds — U.S. venture c

POV: you're in SF during a once-in-a-generation shift in technology. You just graduated, or you came out for the summer. AI billboards everywhere, models getting smarter every week, equal parts exciti

Ruf unveiled a new 1,000+ horsepower twin-turbo flat-eight engine at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, paired with a six-speed manual transmission . The prototype engine is installed in an elongated Ruf

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: SAP will make it easier for customers to switch to rival service providers or end contracts, averting a possible EU antitrust fine after a September 2025 probe — SAP (SAPG.DE),

Saving PBs of storage on @huggingface thanks to deduplication Deduplicating files chunks results in a huge gap between what's physically stored and the actual data Applied at intra and inter-files lev

DigitalOcean has released a public preview of Managed Weaviate, a fully managed vector database service that enables users to scale AI and machine learning applications without managing infrastructure

Bloomberg: SK Hynix raises 26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for 149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed — SK Hynix Inc. raised $26.5 billi

Socialists imagine a class struggle. In their made-up fantasy the CEO is in competition with low level workers, the wealthy entrepreneur is stealing from the underpaid nurse. In reality, workers do no

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock — Streamer is rethink

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Sources: Sonos' layoffs include some top design and product executives, like VP of Design Dana Krieger; CEO Tom Conrad says the move reduces management layers — Sonos Inc. has

SpaceX moved the Super Heavy booster to the launch pad at Starbase in preparation for Flight 13 testing operations. This represents progress in readiness for the upcoming integrated flight test of the

tbh i dont think sol gets that many dates either I had early access to 5.6/Sol for ~month. Sol is my default. It is faster, plans/judges just as good as Fable, and I think produces better overall work

Financial Times: The AI data center boom has led to surging demand for power transformers, with average lead times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years — Surging data-centre

The Cape Gigabay is getting closer to being ready for Starship! Teams recently installed the 420-ton crane – which we’ll use to break over and move Starships and Super Heavy boosters preparing for fli