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Meta is planning to power its AI data centers with solar energy beamed from space. If it works, solar farms could produce power 24/7 without batteries or backup generators. The company behind it all i

MIT engineers have developed a 'computational violin' that uses physics-based simulation to realistically produce violin sound by modeling how the instrument and its vibrating strings interact with su

Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now worth ~30B; a Musk attorney asks why he hasn't donated 29B to OpenAI's nonprofit arm — OpenAI co-founder and President G

In his landmark trial against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk testified that he was deceived into funding the company , and argued he was trying to save OpenAI's mission to develop AI safely by resto

'Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robb

Confidential artificial intelligence platform provider Opaque Systems Inc. today announced it has acquired advanced cryptographic AI technologies from the Technology Innovation Institute, the applied

The strongest witness for Elon Musk's case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman's journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual w

Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc. sagged more than 2% in late trading today despite the big-data analytics company beating first-quarter expectations and raising full-year guidance for the second c

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to 1.63B, vs. 1.54B est., US government revenue up 84% to 687M, and US commercial revenue up 133% to 595M — Palantir Technologies (PLTR

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised 140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a 1B valuation — US tech bi

This post highlights a Hugging Face Datasets entry for a San Francisco criminal court dataset available in Parquet format, shared by Jamie Quint and tagged to Clem Delangue (Hugging Face CEO). The pos

Amazon.com Inc. and Penske Logistics, the transportation solutions division of Penske Corp. Inc., today separately announced supply chain solutions aimed at easing business operations. Penske announce

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to 1B, vs. 966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17%+ after hours — Pinterest reporte

DigitalOcean outlines its AI-native cloud infrastructure designed to support the inference phase of AI model deployment, emphasizing tools and services that enable businesses to run and scale AI model

Reachy Mini, a wireless robotics product, has been launched or made available in Singapore. The announcement was made by Clem Delangue, co-founder of Hugging Face, indicating market expansion for this

Rivers of Blood This parasitic idea stems from the anthropologists of peace who preached the Noble Savage canard (as per Jean-Jacques Rousseau). @elonmusk is exactly right. History is paved with river

SAP SE today announced plans to acquire two startups that help organizations analyze tabular data, or information stored in rows and columns. Santa Clara, California-based Dremio Inc. raised more than

Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab — S

Singapore Airlines has just announced that it is adopting SpaceX's @Starlink. The rollout will begin in Q1 2027 and be completed by end of 2029. 'With more than 10,000 satellites launched to low Earth

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Bloomberg: Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and its executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US — Apple Inc. has held explorat

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple prepares a “Create a Pass” feature for iOS 27, which lets users take a QR code and generate a custom pass around it for concerts and other venues — Apple Inc. i

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI's robotics and consumer hardware divisions in late 2025 to give them more room to grow; the plan was rejected — Comp

Natsuki Yamamoto / Nikkei Asia: Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY 2027, as Japan tries to cut its reliance on Chinese metals — TOKYO

Financial Times: Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount — Global lenders explor

Starlink on Singapore Airlines! 🇸🇬 We’re enhancing our complimentary in flight Wi-Fi offering across all cabin classes on our Airbus A350-900 long-haul and ultra-long-range fleet and A380 aircraft fro

Tesla owners in the Netherlands accumulated 10 million kilometers of driving using FSD (Full Self-Driving) Supervised within one month of its availability in the country. Elon Musk highlighted this mi

Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people's homes, is back with a new robot. But this one is designed as a companion, not a cleaner. The f

This Databricks blog post discusses how organizations can achieve AI scalability through unified infrastructure and organizational alignment, emphasizing the importance of consolidating teams, platfor

There's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm. The contract has the partner names, the starting capital, th

This is absolutely mind blowing! When Karin Bass was in Ghana as Los Angeles burned, the deputy mayor she left in charge was at home on house arrest. For phoning in a bomb threat. We are indeed govern

This man says, “let me get this straight. When White people move into an area, it’s called “colonizing” or “gentrification”, which is bad. But if people of a high melanin count move into an area, that

Toyota's Woven City is a $10 billion 'living laboratory' where the company tests futuristic mobility technologies with real residents , located at a former factory site in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefec

The Trump administration has brought onshore wind development to a halt, with the Pentagon holding up approvals for approximately 165 wind projects on private lands, citing national security concerns.

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Trump's World Liberty Financial countersues Tron founder Justin Sun, alleging defamation, contract violations, and more — One of the Trump family's biggest early crypto backers is

Artificial intelligence has rapidly changed the cybersecurity landscape, leaving organizations reeling — and in need of new trust infrastructure. More than 70% of organizations are already deploying A

Jason Lemkin / SaaStr: A look at Atlassian and Twilio earnings beats, with early signs of Atlassian's AI response success and Twilio becoming a picks-and-shovels layer for AI agents — So this week two

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~2.5B with 2M+ paying users and 300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists — The music AI

Rachyl Jones / Semafor: A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids — In recent months

Sam Altman's post argues that the Agents SDK 2.0 is underappreciated or overlooked despite its capabilities and potential value. The post likely discusses features, improvements, or use cases of the A

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Javi West Larrañaga / Reuters: Amadeus IT Group, which operates the world's largest travel booking system, plans to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, for €1.2B in cash — Spanis

Ancient cultures were extremely violent, not “peace-loving ecologists” at all! David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. 'It w

Clem Delangue announced the birth of a child named Johnny Cash, sharing the news on X with a playful reference to 'Alpha' and 'ReachyMini.' The post appears to be a personal announcement celebrating a

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything, which say Apple is applying App Store rules erratically — iPhone maker wa

Laurie Chen / Reuters: China's Linkerbot, which holds 80%+ of global dexterous robotic hands market, raised a Series B+ at a 3B valuation and seeks a 6B valuation in its next round — Chinese robotics