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Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing ~75M, roughly equal to Thrive's 2024 investment — Searc

Zsana Hoskins / Bloomberg: Groq raised 650M led by Disruptive and Infinitum after its Nvidia deal, aiming to hit 200 MW in capacity by the end of 2027, following a 750M raise in 2025 — Groq Inc. raise

Hot tubs sit at about 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, warm enough that most people can only soak for about 15 minutes. NVIDIA’s newest AI servers can run their cooling liquid even hotter — up to 45 degrees

The US government ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models in June 2026, citing national security concerns related to jailbreak vulnerabilities that cou

As AI factories evolve into “data centers of the future,” the infrastructure stack must also transform into a mix of CPU and GPU platforms that can deliver a full set of AI computing solutions. This r

This newsletter issue covers three major AI topics: techniques for making AI systems more persuasive ('superpersuasion'), the concept of self-sustaining or self-improving AI systems, and various theor

Sarah Basford Canales / The Guardian: In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes leaders warn AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, urging leaders to “act now” —

Vercel increased the maximum number of projects that can be linked to a single Git repository, allowing developers to deploy multiple projects from the same repository without hitting previous limitat

Seven months after inking a 20 billion chip licensing deal with Nvidia Corp., Groq Inc. today announced that it has raised 650 million in funding. Growth investment firm Disruptive and hedge fund Infi

It’s cold, it’s very, very noisy, and—if I can be quite honest with you—I’m not feeling super relaxed. I’m currently around 300 meters, or 1,000 feet, beneath the North Sea, in a dark, dank cave. It s

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: Instagram is testing horizontal video on Instagram for TV, plans to experiment with longer-form storytelling and episodic series, and launches on Samsung TV —

Intrinsic, Google LLC’s artificial intelligence robot software company, unveiled today during Automate 2026 an AI robotic prototype that will help companies modularize factory floors with automated ro

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Lucid announced a workforce reduction of approximately 18 percent across full-time employees, contractors, and production workers , with the second shift at its AMP-1 factory being eliminated . The re

A young man used a percussive massage gun directly on both his eyes for several minutes every week over three months to relieve eye tiredness . Close examination revealed multiple retinal tears and br

For the past two years, the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot program has driven innovative research across the U.S. for over 700 proj

Nearfield Instruments B.V., which specializes in producing advanced chip manufacturing equipment, revealed today it has gotten a massive 380 million capital injection. The Dutch company’s Series D rou

Nivida Corp. today announced Halos for Robotics, the industry’s first full framework for robotic safety systems that encompasses building, testing and managing complete artificial intelligence robotic

Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled da

Ian King / Bloomberg: Nvidia unveils Halos, a safety-focused OS developed from autonomous vehicle tech and designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab — Nvidia Corp. is w

Mission, Vision and Veritas — new Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) supercomputers to be built with HPE and NVIDIA — are tapping NVIDIA Vera CPUs to accelerate scientific discovery, unlocking agen

OpenAI Group PBC today expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program with a new open-source patching initiative called Patch the Planet, an updated Codex Security plugin, a partner program and the full

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more — Amid concerns abo

Patch the Planet is a Daybreak initiative by OpenAI designed to provide support and resources to open source software maintainers. The program aims to address vulnerabilities and improve the security

Polymarket paid online creators to post deceptive videos showing lucrative bets filmed on near-perfect copies of the Polymarket website featuring fake trades and winnings. A Wall Street Journal invest

This morning on Hacker News I saw Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance, describing a small but effective inpainting model - a model where you can mark region

PP-OCRv6 is a multilingual optical character recognition (OCR) model family released by PaddlePaddle that supports 50 languages across multiple parameter sizes ranging from 1.5M to 34.5M. The model se

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present — Adm

We've fielded the same question at every conference this year. An engineer has chosen a framework, CrewAI one week, LangGraph the next, Mastra the week after, and wants to see exactly how observabilit

Bob Starr was delighted with his vibe-coded website. 'Boomberg' showed how much US tax money is going to tech companies, and Starr launched it online immediately after making it. It wasn't until month

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: Real estate professionals are increasingly using AI-powered virtual staging tools like Stuccco and BoxBrownie to create misleading house and apartment listings — “Virtual s

This episode likely discusses red-teaming methodologies and adversarial testing approaches in AI systems, featuring security researchers Zico Kolter and Matt Fredrikson from Carnegie Mellon University

A report indicates that Kennedy Space Center faces significant infrastructure and operational challenges in preparing for the arrival of super heavy-lift rockets like SpaceX's Starship-Super Heavy, wh

In this post, we walk you through how to deploy ComfyUI workflows on Amazon SageMaker AI processing jobs to generate hundreds of high-quality images in a single batch. You learn how to set up the infr

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible through a single model API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks — Last night,

Sakana Fugu Ultra, a new AI model, is now available through Vercel's AI Gateway, expanding the selection of models developers can access via the platform. This addition allows users to integrate Sakan

Kerry Flynn / Axios: Sources: marketing tech startup AppsFlyer raised a 1B Series E at a 2.7B post-money valuation; Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity acquire minority stakes — AppsFlyer has raised more

Wired: Sources: Meta internally exposed data from its employee-tracking program meant to help train its AI models, including full prompts and private conversations — Employees had previously raised co

Bloomberg: Sources: Qualcomm is in advanced talks to acquire Modular in a transaction valuing the AI chip startup at ~4B, up from a 1.6B valuation in September 2025 — Qualcomm Inc. is in advanced talk

Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons seeks to raise ~1.62B in a US IPO, selling 58M shares at 26 to 28 apiece, at a valuation of 19B at the top of the range — Bending Spoons, an It

Samantha Subin / CNBC: SpaceX announces a senior unsecured notes offering and discloses that it has about 100.8B in cash; SPCX drops 8%+ — - SpaceX launched an inaugural bond sale days after its block

Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: SpaceX signs a computing deal worth up to 6.3B with Reflection AI for access to Nvidia GB300s at Colossus 2; Reflection will pay 150M per month through 2029 — SpaceX has signed a

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This article likely explores the hidden operational processes and internal workings of computers that users typically don't observe, such as microprocessor functions, system-level operations, or the b

You've got a working prototype in Google AI Studio. A React frontend, a Node.js backend, maybe a database. Now you want a live URL to share with your team, your users, or a friend who wants to try it.

A profile of a former hacker who has undergone a transformation and shifted focus to a new passion . Based on the headline's wordplay about 'seeing the light' and 'collecting all of it,' the article l