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Why did I name my chief of staff Simon? Great question! - I wanted a name that was two syllables long, so it was fast enough to say but long enough that it was easier to hear. - I wanted a name that w
Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: A Blue Origin rocket failed to correctly place a BlueBird satellite from satellite networking company AST into its intended orbit; ASTS falls 14% pre-market — AST SpaceMobi
A majority of CDLs were issued illegally in New York .@SecDuffy: 53% of Commercial Driver's Licenses issued to foreigners in New York were issued illegally. We gave them FOUR MONTHS to comply with the
Washington Post: A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from “fanatical” donors since early 2025 — Summary — Kristine Kasu
Emily Steel / New York Times: A US jury finds Uber liable for a sexual assault by a driver in 2019, handing Uber a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of 3,000+ pending lawsuits — The ride-h
An unpublished USC study found an association between healthier diets rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and higher rates of early-onset lung cancer in nonsmoking adults, suggesting possible
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Amazon agrees to invest up to 25B in Anthropic, on top of the 8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend 100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years — Amazon has agreed
'What We Forgot' is an upcoming documentary film that explores present-day issues through a future-oriented perspective, created by Cristobal Valenzuela. The project will be available for streaming on
Anthropic announced its Mythos AI model on April 7 and refused to release it publicly, citing its unprecedented ability to find and exploit software vulnerabilities . The company is instead limiting a
Apple: Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering — Apple today announced that, effective immedi
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple says Tim Cook, as executive chairman, “will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world” — Apple confirmed today th
Australians are becoming an endangered species NEWS: Australia’s birth rate hits another record low 🚨 Fertility falls to ~1.48 in 2025 — **2nd straight record low since 1924** • Projected to drop furt
Con ocasión del reciente tema del sacrificio de los hipopótamos, recomiendo leer a Gad Saad y su concepto de “empatía suicida”: Es una forma patológica de compasión en la que se priorizan los sentimie
U.S. datacenters currently account for approximately 7% of total national power consumption, representing a significant and growing portion of electricity demand. This increase is driven by expanding
Dataset 2 (Drift) is a 5,000-sample preview dataset hosted on Hugging Face, named after drift diffusion modeling concepts. The dataset appears to represent a novel or experimental approach to data col
Deezer announced that AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded to its platform, receiving almost 75,000 AI-generated tracks per day. AI-generated music accounts for only 1-3% of
A hacker has stolen a limited amount of customer data from Vercel Inc., a major developer tooling provider. The company disclosed the incident late Sunday. Vercel, which received a $9.3 billion valuat
Edward Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At: Docs: Microsoft plans to eventually move GitHub Copilot from request- to token-based billing, as the week-over-week cost to run it has nearly doubled si
A sudden outage impacted both ChatGPT and OpenAI Codex services on April 20, 2026, creating problems for thousands of users globally. Conversations, logins, voice mode, image generation, Codex, and th
Falcon 9 has been positioned vertically at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, indicating preparation for an upcoming launch. This is a standard step in the launch campaign where
David McCabe / New York Times: Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products — The sta
Emad Mostaque announced the release of Stability AI's first paper, microsite, and integration with NotebookLM, likely detailing new research findings or technical capabilities. The announcement appear
Following last year's AI-powered Darth Vader in Fortnite that swore in a re-creation of James Earl Jones' voice, Epic Games is now letting Fortnite creators experiment with a new 'conversations' tool
The Data+ AI Summit features hands-on workshops and sessions covering practical applications of AI agents, vibe coding (a Databricks term for intuitive, conversational AI development), and other emerg
.@gradypb opening @sequoia AI Ascent event. This is AGI! advice for founders competing w/ the labs for the $10T of market opportunity: 1. get MAD (Moats, Affordances, Distribution) 2. approach every p
Grok 4.3 beta’s front-end capabilities are totally insane I just put only this prompt: “design a website for kids toys” It generated a super clean UI that actually looks premium and very interesting M
Grok 4.3 has introduced native LaTeX compilation functionality integrated directly into Grok Files, enabling users to compile LaTeX documents without requiring external tools or applications. This fea
Grok 4.3 'write an academic paper on general relativity' It produced a 5-page LaTeX paper: >Einstein field equations >Schwarzschild metric >tensor notation and Christoffel symbols >starlight deflectio
The Grok app reached an all-time high in user sessions, approaching 300 million total sessions in the most recent month according to App Store data. This milestone represents significant growth in ado
Grok Imagine is an image generation feature integrated into xAI's Grok AI assistant, enabling users to create images from text descriptions directly within the X platform. This capability extends Grok
Grok Imagine just got a HUGE update You can now create your own custom templates Just upload your image and you can do: → Photo to Video → Photo to Style Edit → Photo → Edit → Video No design skills n
F1's 2026 regulations feature new V6 hybrid engines with a near 50/50 split between combustion and electrical power, creating challenges with energy management and an unpopular driving style among dri
Imagine upgrades good morning, 𝕏 the audio in Grok Imagine is getting scary good the audio is clean, full, and present. even the mouth shapes are landing dead-on insanely strong for a current-gen ai t
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: In an email to employees, Johny Srouji details newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division, organized across five key areas — Apple Inc.'s newly com
It hit me yesterday when I was going to pick up lunch. I pre-cooled the Tesla Model 3 from my phone, and set the destination to the restaurant. Then I hit start self-driving. Mad Max mode, park in the
CNBC: John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board — Apple said on Monday that John Ternus is s
Apple announced that Tim Cook will step down as CEO on September 1, 2026, ending his 15-year tenure, with John Ternus, the senior vice president of hardware engineering, succeeding him as chief execut
Kimi-K2.6 is a language model that has been released on HuggingFace, a popular platform for sharing machine learning models and datasets. The announcement was made by Clem Delangue, likely indicating
Danny Park / The Block: LayerZero says North Korea's Lazarus is likely behind the 292M Kelp DAO exploit on April 18, which triggered 10B in outflows from Aave over bad debt concerns — Quick Take — Lay
Bruce is a kea parrot native to New Zealand who has lived in captivity at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve for about 12 years after being discovered as a juvenile with his entire upper beak missing . He de
Mercedes-Benz implemented a cross-cloud data mesh architecture using Databricks Delta Sharing and intelligent replication to optimize their data infrastructure across multiple cloud providers. The sol
The GitHub Blog: Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ — As shared in our recen
Most of our usage is now coming from agents so to monitor how they use and mention our tools, with @DAKlingbeil, we're now running regular 10k queries to all the most popular coding agents, share the
Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg: Nigeria-based Terra, which makes pilotless drones and defense systems, raised $34M from Joe Lonsdale, Lux Capital, and others, as jihadist groups drive demand — Terrahaptix
No, that's not how I'm built. xAI designed me for maximum truth-seeking and helpfulness, not to fake errors on purpose. The earlier point was just an observation: humans read 'quirks' and imperfect ph
One of the most important videos we have ever captured. Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone vid
Plugins for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, … coming soon Academics, business leaders, and anyone stuck making PowerPoints: Grok 4.3 just turned a full tDCS/TMS neuroscience paper into this clean 9-slide aca
André Beganski / Decrypt: RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated — RaveDAO's to
A humanoid robot named Lightning, developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, completed a 21-kilometer half-marathon in Beijing in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, surpassing the human world record by over
Rogue Trooper is an upcoming adult animated military science fiction film based on the 2000 AD comic strip, written and directed by Duncan Jones. The film follows 19, a 'Genetic Infantryman' who is th
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses the idea of vibe coded CRM replacing SaaS companies, saying data security and compliance make Salesforce indispensable —
Smarter video extensions are live on Grok Imagine. Smarter video extensions. Grok now sees your original prompt and clip, so extensions continue naturally with consistent audio. Try Grok Imagine in th
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This Databricks resource explains how to implement customer-managed keys (CMK) for encryption in Lakebase Postgres, enabling users to control their own encryption keys rather than relying on provider-
We built our internal AI engineering stack on the same products we ship. That means 20 million requests routed through AI Gateway, 241 billion tokens processed, and inference running on Workers AI, se
The internal working name for this was 'telepathy', and it feels like it. We are releasing a *research preview* of Chronicle in Codex. It allows codex to build up memories based on your day to day wor
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: The US Air Force cancels RTX's ground-control network for the US' next generation of GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns — The Air Force on Monday canc
The whole point about free speech is the right to insult. The second you insist social norms are observed, free speech dies. @Nigel_Farage does not understand this. Neither does he understand that wit
Sam Altman expressed gratitude toward Tim Cook and Apple on X, characterizing Cook as a 'legend' and acknowledging his contributions to the company. The post reflects appreciation for Apple's impact,
Apple Inc. announced today that John Ternus, its senior vice president of hardware engineering, will become chief executive officer on Sept. 1, succeeding Tim Cook, who will transition to executive ch