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Pope Leo XIV today issued an encyclical that contains an extensive discussion of artificial intelligence and its risks. The approximately 43,000-word document is entitled “Magnifica Humanitas,” which
New York Times: Pope Leo XIV presents Magnifica humanitas, his encyclical on AI, calling for AI regulation, protection for children against hypersexualized AI images, and more — The document marks a p
Product >> Brand 2 years ago: 'Elon destroyed the Tesla brand globally! It'll never recover!' Today: #1 selling EV in California: Tesla Model Y #1 selling EV in the U.S.: Tesla Model Y #1 selling EV i
Reuters: Report: the EU plans to fine Google a high triple-digit million euro amount as part of a 2025 probe over concerns it favors its own services in search results — The European Union is planning
Searching X in Grok Build is really fast and useful for research/docs/real-time info, video is not sped up Media I've been using Grok Build some time now, and it has genuinely surprised me. It is uniq
Bloomberg: SoftBank stock jumped 4.6% to a record high on Monday, spurred by hopes of big returns from the company's stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp if they go public — SoftBank Group Corp. shares
Sophie Shulman / CTech: Sources: Wix is expected to cut ~1,000 jobs in the coming months, or ~20% of its workforce, after weak Q1 earnings and a ~50% collapse of its stock in 2026 — The company will r
SpaceX put 10 megawatts of solar power in space across 3000 gen1 Starlink satellites, then they put 100 megawatts in space with 7000 gen2. soon, they're doing 1000 megawatts with gen3. SpaceX is basic
Jennifer Maas / Variety: Star Citizen, a video game in development since 2012, has reached $1B in lifetime funding; it remains in alpha and does not have a confirmed release date — Cloud Imperium Game
Starlink satellite internet service has expanded to the Kyrgyz Republic, marking another country addition to its global coverage network. This announcement was made by Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter
Tristan Bove / Fortune: Study: rate of fabricated references in biomedical papers has grown 12x+ since 2023; in early 2026, one in 277 papers had at least one non-existent reference — It was a process
This post describes a creative prompt for generating AI-produced images of fictional or impossible objects styled as realistic eBay product listings, complete with the platform's interface elements an
Reuters: Tether plans to launch GELT, an “official” stablecoin representing the Georgian lari, with the support of Georgia's government in an unusual partnership — Tether, the world's biggest stableco
The 400’s in Rome were brutal Western civilization has collapsed before. But a few scholars preserved the ideas that once made Rome great. They made a backup, and it did eventually come all the way ba
The team is gathering speed Grok Build just got another update: v0.1.220-alpha.1 xAI is now shipping multiple updates in a single day with nonstop fixes, improvements, optimizations, and new features
Charles Clover / Financial Times: The UK, outpaced by the US and China in AI, is turning to experimental technologies like neuromorphic computing in search of computing sovereignty — Military capabili
the @xai team really cooked with Grok Build the most beautiful (and performant) TUI I've seen so far >realtime context view >feels snappy in ghostty >first class worktree support >great resume session
This trend will continue for many years SpaceX put 10 megawatts of solar power in space across 3000 gen1 Starlink satellites, then they put 100 megawatts in space with 7000 gen2. soon, they're doing 1
Today, I'm working on trying to better understand how coding assistants mention HF's products. Taking a simple approach of running tons of queries and analyzing the answers with @DAKlingbeil's https:/
Sonia A. Rao / New York Times: Visually impaired Waymo users in California say riding in a Waymo gives them a feeling of independence and spares them from discrimination from human drivers — Ruben Bru
Watching Grok Build think is pretty fascinating. Definitely noticing a change with the releases made this weekend, its become incredibly thoughtful. And the plans are getting insanely detailed, I mean
We built Aleph as one of the first generalist text-based editing models. Aleph 2.0 takes it further: visual prompting for precise control, longer videos (up to 30 seconds), and yes, multi-shot support
We've expanded the Beta to many more people. Go to https://x.ai/cli to give it a try. Our entire engineering team will be responding to (and fixing) any issues you encounter, so please share feedback
This post likely discusses Paul Erdős, the prolific Hungarian mathematician known for his unconventional lifestyle and numerous mathematical collaborations, exploring the personal or professional chal
Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider: X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by “programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts” — X
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A deep dive into Apple Watch and Health efforts; sources: iOS 27 to get a revamped AirPods control panel and default support for AirPlay rivals like Google Cast — Also: iOS 27
New York Times: A look at the scourge of smartphone thefts in London, as victims describe receiving texts threatening them into unlinking Apple IDs from stolen iPhones — Tens of thousands of smartphon
Nikkei Asia: At an IEEE conference, Huawei proposed a new chip scaling law and said it aims to design chips with transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm by 2031 — TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies on Monday
Fate loves irony, but despises hypocrisy you’re fundamentally misunderstanding the controversy here, while invoking a controversy that should have made it obvious. “race swap” wasn’t even a conversati
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Financial Times: How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity — Deals hit record highs, unloved
It's actually 1% of the population that committed 63% of violent crimes, at least in Sweden. You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of t
This post criticizes perceived inconsistency in public figures' responses to different cases of alleged injustice, contrasting support for George Floyd protests with claimed silence regarding a case i
Nicki Minaj posted a message of gratitude on X (formerly Twitter) expressing appreciation for Elon Musk's contributions to humanity. The post represents a public endorsement or acknowledgment of Musk'
Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating — Moment, the fina
ngl I thought this was them talking about no researchers under 18 There are some darn good ai researchers in that age bracket Anthropic Doesn't Allow Kids Under 18 — Here's Why 'We just don't know
Melissa Shin / Bloomberg: Plenary Americas LP, La Caisse's infrastructure arm, agrees to acquire and take private Canadian database company ISC for $872M, expected to close in Q3 — The infrastructure
Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding? A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Quartermaster, which is building an analytics platform and a SmartMast, with sensors on a ship's mast to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $43M Series A — Oceans — to s
Elon Musk shared real-time video footage of Starship, SpaceX's fully reusable super-heavy lift vehicle designed for missions to orbit, the Moon, and Mars. The post likely documented live test footage
Restore Britain Restore Britain is under brutal assault by the establishment. Listen to me when I say this - they want us gone. Everything will be thrown at us - false allegations, dishonest polling,
David Oks: Rising DRAM prices are driving “forced premiumization” in the smartphone market in India and Africa, as consumers in the sub-$200 segment risk being priced out — The global memory crunch an
Researchers from the University of Gothenburg invented a fake disease called 'bixonimania,' a fictional skin condition supposedly caused by screen time. Multiple AI chatbots including Google's Gemini,
Financial Times: Sources: Princeton Digital Group to sell its Chinese data center assets for as much as $1B, capping global buyout firms' retreat from China's data center market — Princeton Digital Gr
Star Citizen, an ambitious space simulation game in development by Cloud Imperium Games, has reached $1 billion in crowdfunding, making it one of the most funded projects ever. The milestone reflects
Starship’s Super Heavy booster produces roughly the same thrust as ~80 Boeing 747s all firing at once The scale of that power is almost incomprehensible Its Raptor 3 engines are true marvels of engine
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking Tether's stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M — Tether has bought ou
The reality you and probably everyone else have to accept by now is this: you’ve almost certainly watched at least a few fully AI generated videos on social media without realizing they were generated
This was the 'Woodstock of AI' with some help from the universe and @ClementDelangue 's hard work more than 5000 people showed up. A truly inspirational day, I first saw a lot of AI companies includin
Tortured for months, finally and mercifully she died alone in the filthy hovel of her captor. Democrats will condemn society, and forgive her killer. Others believe a brutal public execution will be t
Approximately 50,000 RC Lens supporters attended the French Cup Final, creating a dominant home atmosphere for their team. The large turnout demonstrated significant fan engagement and support for Len
A 6-person team is building task-specific AI models that are 4-8x faster than anything from OpenAI or Anthropic. 500K downloads on HuggingFace. No hype. Just better engineering winning on the merits.
Sophia Cai / Politico: A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on May 21; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary — The draft also incl
Noah Berman / The Wire China: A profile of TP-Link, whose share of the US consumer router market grew from 10% to 60%+ between 2019 and 2025, as it seeks to rebut national security concerns — When Jef
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: As the US House probes Airbnb's use of Chinese AI models, CEO Brian Chesky says the company is not sharing data with Chinese firms and uses open-source models — Airbnb Inc. C
Boring Company’s goal is to solve traffic in cities and one day build Hyperloop high-speed transit between city centers See how Prufrock continuously mines - pushing and building at the same time. The
This appears to be a satirical or false claim, as 'Chief Gyatt Officer' is not a legitimate corporate position and such a significant personnel announcement would not use slang terminology. The post l
British police are hiding Henry Nowak’s final Snapchat and police bodycam footage. 18-year-old Henry Nowak was stabbed to death in Southampton. His Snapchat videos captured the attacker carrying a 21c
Matthew Prince / Wall Street Journal: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI won't replace builders or sellers, but it will affect middle managers, operations jobs, and other “measuring” positions — Th
Congrats and a huge thank you to the SpaceX team that always delivers. This was an incredible first flight of a brand new vehicle. Our collective future flying amongst the stars has become so much clo