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In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body, fusing with her flesh. She levitates, then

This OpenAI Academy resource explores practical applications of Codex, their AI code generation model, within data science workflows and teams. It likely covers how data scientists leverage Codex to a

This resource from OpenAI's Academy demonstrates practical applications of Codex, their code-generation AI model, within sales team workflows. It likely covers how sales professionals can leverage Cod

Bill Gurley / Bill's Substack: How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more — How the S

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a “VC vs GC” video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen — One of the m

Release: inaturalist-clumper 0.1 Part of the infrastructure I use for publishing my iNaturalist sightings on my blog. I've been running this in production for a few weeks now, inspiring some iteration

Pramugdha Mamgain / DealStreetAsia: Indian ride-hailing app Rapido raised 240M led by Prosus as part of a broader primary and secondary financing transaction, valuing Rapido at 3B post-money — Ride-ha

Bloomberg: Kioxia reports record Q4 earnings of ~3.8B, forecasts Q1 operating profit of ~8.2B, and says it is planning a US listing; Kioxia shares are up 300% YTD — Kioxia Holdings Corp., the world's

Kieran Smith / Financial Times: London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised 70M at a 2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January — Multiverse

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers — You can also no

Anyscale provides integrated dashboards for monitoring and debugging Ray workloads, offering persistent visualization of Cluster and Actor metrics and status. These dashboards enable users to track pe

In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involv

Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: Nvidia's future in China remains unclear after the Trump-Xi Summit; Trump says China “chose not to” buy Nvidia chips as “they want to try to develop their own” — The st

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours, after a probe — Soci

OpenAI Group PBC today made its Codex programming assistant available on mobile devices. The service is accessible through ChatGPT’s iOS and Android clients. It’s rolling out about eight months after

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more — On Friday, Op

OpenAI is exploring legal action against Apple, frustrated that the ChatGPT integration failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected. Executives at OpenAI believe the partnership has b

OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product. In a memo viewed by The Verge, Brock

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team — OpenAI is once aga

Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to 'securely

OpenAI Group PBC has added a set of personal finance features to ChatGPT Pro, the priciest consumer tier of its popular chatbot service. On launch, the capabilities are available in preview to a limit

OpenAI Group PBC has reportedly become so upset with Apple Inc. over its poor handling of the ChatGPT-Siri integration that it’s now exploring legal action against the company. A report by Bloomberg t

Transformer: OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation — Transformer Weekly: US-Chin

Pennsylvania residents held a town hall meeting expressing intense opposition to rapid data center development in the state , with more than 20 speakers criticizing the industry for rising electricity

PipelineIQ is a Databricks solution that leverages data analytics and AI to provide predictive sales intelligence, enabling sales teams to forecast pipeline outcomes and identify actionable opportunit

John Ainger / Bloomberg: Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to rampant demand from data centers — Power prices

Stephen Foley / Financial Times: Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes — Inci

Telco cloud modernization has become an urgent operational imperative for operators burdened by decades of siloed infrastructure and the demands of 5G, 6G and edge AI. A unified platform approach is n

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Replit says it has “worked things out with Apple”, which has approved a Replit update after four months, following a reported dispute over vibe coding apps — All's well that ends w

In this post, we walk through how to configure document-level ACLs for your S3 knowledge base in Amazon Quick. You will learn how to set up and verify an ACL configuration that enforces document-level

Cowboy Space has filed FCC plans for a 20,000-satellite 'Stampede' orbital data center constellation, after raising $275 million to develop rockets whose upper stages would serve as computing platform

Multiple observational studies have found that routine adult vaccines are associated with a reduced dementia risk, with some showing risk reductions of 25% to 40%. Researchers hypothesize that certain

Russia has launched an intensified recruitment drive to attract university students to join its newly formed Unmanned Systems Forces as drone pilots, offering high salaries, promises of no front-line

Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: Semiconductor stocks fell globally on Friday after the Trump-Xi summit concluded without major chip deals; Nvidia closed down 4.42% and AMD closed down 5.69% — Beijin

ArXiv will ban authors for one year if they submit papers containing obviously AI-generated content , with examples including hallucinated citations, placeholder text, or chatbot meta-comments left in

Lee Jaewoon / The Elec: Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment — Company to accelera

New research reveals that pollution from coal-fired power plants is significantly reducing the energy output of solar installations, particularly where coal and solar capacity expand side by side. Aer

Vercel's AI Gateway now includes functionality to sort AI providers based on performance metrics including cost, latency, and throughput. This feature enables developers to optimize their AI model sel

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices — Kraken, one o

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: Sources detail friction between Samsung's memory and logic chip businesses over higher bonuses for memory chip workers, leading many to leave or apply elsewhere — A looming 18-d

Bloomberg: Sources: HSG, formerly Sequoia China, has set up a 3B continuation fund anchored by its ByteDance stake, offering entry into the company valued at 370B — HSG, the investment firm formerly k

Sean Silcoff / Globe and Mail: Sources: Nord Quantique, a quantum computing startup that is pursuing a hardware-level quantum error correction approach, raised 30M at a 1.4B valuation — West Coast pip

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M — The acqu

Reuters: Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review — Elon Musk's rocket and satellite make

Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market — Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by

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