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Despite ‘misgivings,’ judge approves Elon Musk’s $1.5 million SEC settlement

2 hours 8 min ago
The saga of Musk's tussle with the SEC over how he disclosed his growing stake in Twitter (now called X) has come to an end.
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Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B

2 hours 39 min ago
The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.
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Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders

3 hours 31 min ago
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said emergency scenes are not "edge cases."
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Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic

4 hours 43 min ago
Earlier this week, a picture that seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.
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With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing

4 hours 50 min ago
The race to produce more chips is on, and Europe is in. ASML, the Dutch company that has a near-monopoly on manufacturing the machines used for chipmaking, may soon no longer be an isolated success story. Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor industry — in part thanks to […]
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Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major US expansion

5 hours 13 min ago
Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will eventually employ 1,000 people.
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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’

5 hours 50 min ago
Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.
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‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon

5 hours 58 min ago
This developer didn't expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it's an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online culture.
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This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

6 hours 1 min ago
General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.
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Elon Musk says X will send DMs when posts you’ve engaged with are corrected

6 hours 34 min ago
X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that the platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation.
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Google Photos adds a new AI ‘Video Remix’ tool

6 hours 50 min ago
The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to videos.
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Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet

7 hours 32 min ago
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a […]
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Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.

8 hours 9 min ago
Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.
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OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations

8 hours 20 min ago
OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.
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Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups

8 hours 50 min ago
Paradigm, the VC firm founded in 2018 to back crypto startups, raised a $1.2 billion Fund III.
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Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents

8 hours 57 min ago
The round, led by Radical Ventures, values the two-year old startup at $1 billion.
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Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver’s license numbers

9 hours 5 min ago
The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver's license numbers so far in 2026.
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These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates

9 hours 39 min ago
There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.
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Solo GP Ashley Smith announces second $25M fund to back startups in AI, security and more

10 hours 20 min ago
Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II.
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Apple to produce Made in America wireless chips with Broadcom

10 hours 37 min ago
Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products. 
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