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Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active “predictors” aged 18-34 — Mr. Zucker

South Korea's Defense Ministry announced it will train 500,000 'drone warriors' in a major shift toward drone-centric warfare . The plan aims to train personnel across all military branches so that 'a

SpaceX is planning to launch a direct-to-consumer Starlink mobile service in the US , as SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell discussed during a recent investor roadshow . A standalone mobile service woul

Step 1: Invent a new extra-bad category of crime, like 'hate crime' or 'terrorism', with extra-harsh punishments. Step 2: Expand the definition of the new kind of crime to include anything, or anyone,

California's State Bill 576, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, prohibits streaming services from airing commercials louder than the programs they accompany, taking effect July 1, 2026. The law requires

Alistair Gray / Financial Times: Swiss watchmaker Swatch seeks $170M from Samsung in a London trial over 26 digital watch face apps that allegedly cloned luxury brand designs, including Omega — Swiss

This post argues that companies building the best products at any given layer of technology or infrastructure will be those whose teams are deeply focused and passionate about that specific layer rath

The biggest risk in AI is concentration: of power, capabilities and economic wealth. Who can doubt it with trillion dollar companies and government now already controlling a massive part of it? So we

Bloomberg: The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers — Elon Musk received a regula

The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin' And the first one now Will later be last For the times t

The OpenAI Foundation is joining Intercept as a founding partner through our AI resilience program. As AI accelerates advances in biology and medicine, we also need to prepare for the risks of misuse,

There are three reasons. First, woke progressives (“intersectional activists”) constantly thirst for confirmation of their moral superiority, which they typically get by defending whoever (they're tol

'There should be as many models in the world as firms in the world.' Satya and I dig into when to own vs. rent your intelligence, why every company should be building and climbing its own private eval

There's a lot of sloppy thinking around open models. You can ban them and make it impossible for US companies to use them, but this won't stop A) global open model progress B) bad actors using them So

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber expands the list of criminal convictions that disqualify US drivers and expands the background-check timeline, possibly removing ~0.5% of active US drivers — Uber Techno

Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is reportedly preparing a major overhaul that could eliminate up to 100,000 jobs worldwide and eventually close four factories in Germany. The plants targeted for closure a

“We're in a weird state of the world where the supposedly totalitarian regime is trying to open up the technology, and the supposedly democratic government system is trying to restrict and control tec

When you came to Iceland in early June 2025 we had not yet started to see many of the consequences of the 2024 push to bring in people from Gaza (led by a group of women in an empathy rush). Since the

This post likely discusses concerns about potential U.S. regulatory restrictions on open-source AI models that exceed certain capability thresholds, reflecting debate about whether advanced AI develop

AMERICA IS BUILDING AGAIN 🇺🇸 I went underground with @boringcompany checking out the MUSIC CITY LOOP — a massive 25-mile twin-tunnel system in Nashville that will move people from the airport to downt

Gianluca Lo Nostro / Reuters: Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic “better understand and adapt” its products to Europe and Africa — The artif

Apple announced price hikes on MacBooks and iPads, citing increased memory and storage costs that CEO Tim Cook said had become unavoidable. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created extraordi

Reuters: Apple says it removed VK's apps from the App Store to comply with sanctions; VK says they were removed without warning and it has never been under US sanctions — The Kremlin demanded an expla

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple says “the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage”; the MacBook Neo rises from 599 to 699 — Apple Raises P

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Apple stock closed down 6.15% on Thursday after the company raised some product prices, its worst fall since April 2025 — Apple on Thursday announced price hikes on MacBooks

The surging cost of memory chips has translated into a bonanza for companies like Micron Technologies Inc., but for almost everyone else there’s going to be a steep price to pay, with both Apple Inc.

Chipmaking equipment giant Applied Materials Inc. is trying to make life easier for its chip fabrication plant customers, so they can build the extremely complex 3D architectures necessary for the nex

Hugging Face, a leading open-source machine learning platform, has achieved $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), marking a significant milestone in its growth as a commercial AI company. Th

BREAKING: Kazakhstan Railways is bringing Starlink internet to 900 train carriages this summer. • By July, around 900 train carriages will be equipped with Starlink internet. • The service will cover

BREAKING: Starlink is providing free internet for Venezuela after devastating earthquakes. • Free service through July 25 for people impacted by the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela. • The free se

AI tokenization has become essential for enterprises seeking to balance data security with innovation, enabling sensitive data to be used safely in AI workloads without compromising utility or complia

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Chipmaker Onsemi agrees to buy Synaptics in a nearly 7B all-stock deal expected to close in the middle of 2027; ON drops 9%+ and SYNA jumps 11%+ after hours — ON Semiconductor h

Clem Delangue, founder of Hugging Face, received congratulations from Shawn Wang (@swyx) on X (formerly Twitter) regarding Hugging Face being recognized as the most loved platform in AI. The post refl

arXiv:2606.25273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot 3D anomaly detection is essential for industrial quality inspection, where labeled anomaly samples are scarce. Meanwhile, existing methods lac

Communism through (my) ages: 1) When I was 15, a teacher told me 'It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense.' 2) At about 19, college friends, 'Socialism isn't communism.' 3) At 20, on mee

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Doc: the DOD has quietly revised its doctrine on how the US military picks its targets, envisioning “systems where AI initiates actions with human monitoring” — The Pentago

Richard Speed / The Register: Elastic announces a ~7% reduction in its workforce, and says “advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams”; ESTC closed down 8.70% — CEO says a

Analysis of ancient proteins from 23 fossilized teeth belonging to at least 20 Homo naledi individuals revealed no male genetic markers, suggesting the assemblage may represent females only. The findi

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance — Facebook anno

The U.S. has denied authorization for Polestar to sell 2027 model-year vehicles, effectively preventing new Polestar models from entering the U.S. market. The Connected Vehicle Rule restricts vehicles

AVL, a leading automotive testing company, modernized its measurement data analytics by adopting Databricks' Lakehouse architecture to replace traditional test bench data processing systems. The imple

Getting used to being liked likely means you are overfit to RLHF. The problem with overfitting is that the pain overwhelms the limbic system once you try to sample trajectories outside the known distr

Grok Imagine Video has achieved significant adoption on Vercel's AI Gateway, accounting for approximately 50% of all videos generated by developers using the platform. This milestone indicates Grok Im

Honestly at this point I'm a bit frustrated I didn't get my USAID-sponsored RPG Naming it USAID was brilliant honestly because most people are too dumb to even ask what it really does It’s like naming

This post likely presents a before-and-after comparison of some aspect of Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), or another Musk-led enterprise, showing the contrast between the company's initial state

How many more children before we admit the experiment failed? This time it’s two Iraqi brothers, 18 and 20, on trial in Essen, Germany, for allegedly raping a 7 year old girl on two separate occasions