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The Paris Salon was arguably the greatest art event in the Western world. In 1863 they rejected 2/3 of submissions, including works by Manet, Pissarro, and Courbet because they violated traditional ar

The reality is that stoking hate was incredibly lucrative for the SPLC. That’s why they did it. Incentives explain outcomes. White supremacy went up because the SPLC changed the definition and applied

Tesla Inc.'s 'T' logo is designed to represent a cross-section of Nikola Tesla's original electric motor as depicted in his patent drawings, rather than simply being a stylized letter. This design cho

Bloomberg: The value of US government's stake in Intel has increased fourfold to ~36B, since an August 2025 announcement that the US will buy a stake worth 8.9B — The value of the US government stake

Their cover story is be The key takeaway I got from the grand jury indictment is that these could not have been 'paid informants.' Let's set aside that SPLC is not a law enforcement body, and therefor

Westminster Abbey contains a door made from English oak in the 1050s, making it one of the oldest surviving Anglo-Saxon artifacts. The door predates most modern nation-states and remains the only know

Twelve companies including Anduril, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX, and others have received contracts to develop space-based interceptor prototypes for Golden Dome , with

Clem Delangue expressed his personal motivation for continuing work in the open-source space, stating that enjoyment is his primary driver for persisting in the field. He also expressed confidence tha

To me, one of the main lessons from SpaceX is that companies can continue to experience startup-like rates of progress as long as their founder doesn’t lose any of their intensity over a quarter of a

This Reddit post from r/ChatGPT likely shares a nostalgic screenshot or description of the user's computer desktop from approximately 2008, showing the operating system interface, applications, and vi

Whoah, self-driving cars compete with airlines. I never considered that till now. Yesterday I drove my @tesla 900 miles on FSD from Miami to Nashville and I realized it’s genuinely the better option.

You can't trust Chat GPT. It is funding partisan left-wing groups while pretending to be 'unbiased.' Media Just like the SPLC, OpenAI has funneled millions to left-wing activist nonprofits like the Do

We knew at some point Tim Cook would step down from his position as Apple's CEO. Over the last year, it has become increasingly obvious that John Ternus was his likely successor. The news this week wa

And the more distributed and open-source AI will be, the more jobs and wealth it will create! I have changed my mind on how AI will impact jobs in America. Previously, I believed AI would replace many

Bloomberg: Anthropic says Google is committing to invest 10B now in cash at a 350B valuation and will invest another 30B if Anthropic hits performance targets — Google will invest 10 billion in Anthro

Porsche has agreed to sell its 45% stake in Bugatti Rimac to a consortium led by HOF Capital , ending its involvement in the 2021 joint venture with Rimac Group. Porsche will also divest its 20.6% sta

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 — Canadian AI

Elon Musk posted about Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot, likely announcing a development milestone or demonstrating capabilities of the autonomous robot project. The post uses the 'Autobots, assemble!'

Amazon Web Services Inc. has inked a multiyear deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with cloud infrastructure. Bloomberg reported today that the agreement is worth billions of dollars. The deal centers

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Financial Times: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal — Canadian and German s

Artificial intelligence coding assistant startup Cognition AI Inc. is engaged in discussions with investors over another massive funding round that would more than double its valuation to 25 billion,

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: ComfyUI, which gives creators granular control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models, raised 30M at a 500M valuation — ComfyUI, a startup that helps cr

Clem Delangue from Hugging Face announced upcoming machine learning research from Shopify, though specific details about the research topic or findings are not provided in this teaser post. The post s

Europe authorized Moderna's combination mRNA flu-COVID vaccine before the United States did. This dual-purpose vaccine addresses two respiratory viruses in a single shot. The European Commission grant

Emma Dunkley / Financial Times: EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions — Gen Z and mi

Falcon Heavy is SpaceX's heavy-lift launch vehicle, the most powerful operational rocket in the world, capable of carrying large payloads to orbit and beyond. The rocket uses three Falcon 9 first stag

The FCC has expanded its foreign-made router ban to also cover consumer Wi-Fi hotspots and LTE/5G home-internet devices, though existing products and phones with hotspot features are not affected. Cel

Joe Wertz / Bloomberg: France's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting — France's foreca

Google-parent Alphabet will invest up to 40 billion in Anthropic, deepening its partnership with the AI startup . The deal consists of 10 billion in immediate cash at a 350 billion valuation, with an

Mimi Billing / Sifted: Helsinki-based Verda, formerly Datacrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised €100M in debt and equity — The Finnish cloud provider, formerly known

In the first 24 hours of the assault on Iran, the US military struck more than 1,000 targets, nearly double the scale of the 'shock and awe' attack on Iraq over two decades ago. This acceleration was

Hugging Face offers a $9 Pro account subscription that provides significant value compared to other developer tool subscriptions. According to Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, this pricing tier rep

This post from the ChatGPT subreddit documents a user's conversation with ChatGPT about the subjective experience of being an AI, exploring topics like consciousness, sentience, and how the model perc

I remember their craven actions Remember that time the ADL labeled Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA an “extremist threat” and “hate group” They put TPUSA in their official “Glossary of Extremism and H

If you forget about the Harveys and Lovables and Anthropics for a second … getting to 100M in revenue is very rare. According to this dataset ca. 1.5% of VC funded startups. If you’ve achieved that as

I'm always baffled how most investors seem to obsess over top revenue growth numbers these days and seem to take that as a universal prediction of future success in AI. Maybe we're finally starting to

Elon Musk posted about how incentive structures fundamentally drive outcomes in systems, suggesting that understanding what motivates actors within a system is key to predicting or explaining results.

Gopika Gopakumar / Reuters: India's central bank cancels Paytm Payments Bank's banking license, after imposing business curbs over non-compliance with rules in January 2024 — India's central bank said

Intel Corp. crushed analysts’ expectations as it delivered its first-quarter earnings results today, in a sign that its efforts to turn around its business under Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan could be fi

CNBC: Intel stock closes up 23.6%, its best performance since October 1987, as Intel shows signs of renewed growth amid the AI boom; the stock is up 124% YTD — Intel shares soared 24% on Friday, their

Runway ML announced the fourth annual AI Festival and introduced its panel of jurors for evaluating submissions. The submission deadline was set for Monday, April 27, with creators encouraged to enter

Ironically, the so-called “anti-hate” groups have an incredibly strong financial incentive to stoke hate, so they actually AMPLIFY hate! The worst thing that could happen to them is actually ending ha

I can't verify this claim as stated. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a civil rights organization that monitors hate groups including the KKK; there is no credible evidence that the SPLC prov

Jenna Russell / New York Times: Maine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town — Gov. Jan

Fossilized jaws reveal that enormous octopuses growing up to 19 meters long were top predators in the oceans during the Cretaceous Period, potentially making them the largest marine animals and invert