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Google Declaring War on the Web

Google's latest AI search initiatives represent a shift away from linking to external web sources toward providing…

Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute

Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.

Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos

Yapsnap is a CPU-based transcription tool that converts video URLs (YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram) and audio files into…

Sam Altman makes ‘mic drop’ offer to every Y Combinator startup

Altman offered to have OpenAI invest in every single startup in this Y Combinator class: tokens for equity.

You don’t need to be an AI startup to raise. Lucra has $20M to prove it. 

Slapping “AI” on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now.

GitHub's take on age assurance for developers

GitHub warns that poorly designed age assurance laws aimed at protecting minors online could impose burdensome…

PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play

PopuLoRA introduces a population-based framework for training large language models through reinforcement learning with…

Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

The SpaceX IPO filing has arrived

SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO…

SpaceX S-1

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Microsoft’s carbon removal plans aren’t dead after all

Microsoft is responsible for over 90% of the carbon removal market, and reports suggested the company was pausing…

In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google Declared War on the Remnants of the Web

OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the…

Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects

Moment Cybertruck driver intentionally drives into Texas lake

Rescuers removed the vehicle from near the shoreline and police arrested the driver, who was attempting to use the…

Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door

The 0–60 time is impressive, the miles/kWh number even more so.

IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed

Initially billed as an "AI butler," Iris watches what happens on a user's desktop and automatically learns how to do…

"Ryzen 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition" may help you avoid paying for a new PC

It could be one way to make your old PC play nicely with a high-end GPU.

Qwen 3.7 Max Preview: What Alibaba's New AI Gets Right and Where It Falls Short

Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max landed on Arena AI five days before the Cloud Summit and earned its spot.

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 29 months earlier, is fixed.

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

Hulu set to keep existing as standalone streaming service and app (for now)

Disney still has a lot of tech to unite and bundles to push.

Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)

Node.js 26.0.0 has been released with the Temporal API now enabled by default, providing a modern alternative to the…

OpenAI Set to File for IPO Within Days, Targeting September Listing: WSJ

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is reportedly targeting a September public debut after the Elon Musk lawsuit dismissal clears legal…

Flipper One Tech Specs

The Flipper One is a portable device featuring a 155mm x 67mm x 40mm form factor with a 256 x 144 pixel monochrome LCD…

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe

First came the Netherlands, now it's Lithuania.

Airbnb gets into hotels, expands AI for host onboarding and customer support

Airbnb will soon let you book luggage storage and car rental services on its app

Google's Stock Fell on Its Best I/O in Years. Here's Why BofA Is Still Buying

Bank of America analysts believe Alphabet is still a buy, seeing potential 10% upside in stock price following Google…

Truecaller gets into the eSIM business to diversify its revenue streams

Truecaller's eSIM product will initially launch in 29 countries