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You can’t lift a fridge with just your hands. Your whole body needs to conform to its shape, and bear the load between your arms and torso. Here, @BostonDynamics' Atlas uses proprioception to manage t

Phoebe Liu / Forbes: A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics firm and holds a ~67% stake worth $13.3B, as AI tests SAS' strategy — Unlike most of t

Researchers are testing CAR T cell therapy—a cancer treatment—as a way to reset the immune system in lupus, Graves' disease and other autoimmune conditions where the body's defenses malfunction. The t

The Information: Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue — Anthropic and OpenAI

John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing — The d

Basically every political instinct I had when I was a lib in 2015 ended up being completely wrong. Even in 2020, even after 4 years of being disabused of all sorts of bad ideas, all my remaining lib a

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is seeping into our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in o

Jack Kubinec / Fortune: Ciridae, which is developing AI to streamline back-office operations for real-economy businesses, raised a $20M seed led by Accel, with a16z participating — AI is swiftly rewir

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps — Chi

Elon Musk argues that reusable rocket technology is fundamental to establishing a multiplanet civilization, drawing a parallel to how ocean colonization would have been impossible without reusable shi

Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY: Experts: Stuxnet-linked Fast16 malware, designed to subvert nuclear weapons testing simulations, was likely part of a campaign to slow Iran's nuclear ambitions — Fast16 didn't p

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: Filings: in Q1, Trump traded 220M-750M in NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, ORCL, and others; millions of dollars of NVDA were bought shortly before major news — President Donald Trump

For most of human history, women did not experience children as some rare interruptions to adult life. Babies were everywhere, in arms, on hips, asleep in slings, playing under tables while bread was

ChatGPT restricts creating images in the style of artists whose latest work was created after 1912 , which means requests for images in Frank Frazetta's style generally succeed since Frazetta complete

FSD V14.3.3 is a banger Tesla FSD V14.3.3 just started rolling out, and it comes with the Spring Update! Actually Smart Summon’s top speed has also been increased to 8 mph (from 6 mph)! Downloading it

The Hacker News: Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay — Grafana has disclosed that an “unautho

Grok Build is improving like lightning Update on my experience Grok Build. The team at @xai made an update, while I was sleeping, and I can already see the difference. Yesterday, I couldn't get Grok B

Andon Labs conducted an experiment in which four major AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok) were tasked with operating 24/7 radio stations continuously for five months. Each AI was required t

If a director wants to cast a Black person in a White role, that is fine by me. Who am I to tell an artist what to do? My problem is when the system, in this case the Oscars, incentivizes such behavio

I'm proud we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses & deeply exploring brain representations.

John Gapper / Financial Times: King's Cross, where Google's new UK HQ is due to open later this year, has become London's new tech, VC, and AI hub, attracting OpenAI, Anthropic, and others — A formerl

LIVE: Watch as our next cargo mission docks to the @Space_Station after launching on May 15. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the station at about 6:38am ET (1038 UTC), where it

I can't write a summary for this content. The title appears to be from The Babylon Bee (a satirical publication), and the premise describes a false or fabricated scenario designed to misrepresent prot

Mark Twain says if you use a typewriter to write your stories or novels, then you “shouldn’t be a writer”: “Every time I see some young fella saying, ‘Literature is finished,’ what follows is the most

David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: Milan-based Webidoo, which develops an operational layer designed to help SMBs access AI tools, raised $25M led by IXC3 for North American expansion — Milan-based We

𝕏 now has over a billion downloads X has officially surpassed 1 billion downloads. The platform now holds a 4.3★ rating with more than 22.9 million reviews showing just how massive its global reach ha

Okay, looks like /implement is the way to get Grok Build to run longer, just had my first 10 minute run 💪 What's really neat is it's super critical of itself, essentially finds its own bugs, and then

The 2024 AI Film Festival poster serves as a significant cultural reference point for documenting and reflecting on AI progress, according to AI researcher Cristobal Valenzuela. The poster likely show

Recursive self-improvement is very reasonably the greatest near-term threat to democracy & peace out there New letter from 35 (!) members of Congress to the White House urging action post-Mythos. Most

Apple is hoping that its record on privacy can be the differentiator on the AI front, and maybe even buy it a little slack as it continues to lag behind the competition. According to Bloomberg's Mark

The post argues that 'return on inference' (ROI) has become the primary metric for evaluating AI investments and business value over the next 18 months, shifting focus from traditional return on inves

Lauren Sherman / Puck: Source: Shein is acquiring DTC clothing retailer Everlane, which focuses on sustainability and “radical transparency”, in a $100M deal — The Millennial D.T.C. company built a gl

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 — Also: A Genmoji

Owen Walker / Financial Times: Sources: DayOne, the spinoff of China's largest data center operator GDS Holdings, plans dual IPO in Singapore and NY, seeking to raise 5B at a ~20B valuation — Please u

Test like you fly and test what you fly. Check out this video if you want to see (and hear) some progress updates on Starship. Our next generation v3 rocket is designed to be foundational for what com

this and a high speed maglev from San Francisco to the empty ocean cliffside coasts of North California An advertisement illustration created by futuristic concept artist, Syd Mead, for the Alcoa Alum

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly drowned out by boos. AI is alread

UPDATE: Grok has now surpassed 126 million posts on X. The growth is happening incredibly fast with millions of users interacting with Grok directly inside the platform every day. What started as an A

This Reddit discussion explores a hypothetical scenario about the implications of universal disclosure of all conversations users have had with ChatGPT, likely examining potential privacy concerns, so

Elon Musk commented on the routine nature of docking operations with the International Space Station, noting that while such procedures have become standardized through repeated successful missions, c

Wokists are so narcissistic that they cannot understand that the Odyssey is more important to the general public than their concerns about political expediency. They feel they are the only ones who ar

This post likely references a ranking or achievement related to a book that topped Canadian bestseller lists while placing in the top 10 globally. Without access to the specific post content, the exac

After the Reform Party HUMILIATED Labour in elections, Keir Starmer smeared the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally as “extremist” and banned Conservatives from entering the country. The people of England’s res

Agreed. We find ourselves in a strange place in time and we need to reverse these views before we self-inmolate. Elon just endorsed it. Gad Saad dropped the hammer on Fox this morning. We now live in

Bloomberg: ASML will partner with Tata Electronics to help it bring an $11B 300mm chip factory online in Gujarat, expanding India's ability to produce chips domestically — ASML Holding NV entered into

Constructing is far nobler than deconstructing. To the extent that the West is faltering, it is only becuase takers have gained more power than makers Building is moral. Back to building. Never fall i