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Bitcoin & Crypto
AI illustrationThe feature would let users bundle up to eight transactions, including asset-and-payment transfers, but a brief drop below the network’s 80% support threshold restarted its two-week activation clock.
Chips & Hardware
To demonstrate its capabilities, and perhaps to show off their skills with SQL, a group at CedarDB ported the original DOOM to this language.
AI
As enterprises shift from training to inference (running a trained model to get an answer, rather than training it), neoclouds such as CoreWeave are providing cloud infrastructure tailor-made for AI.
AI
Technology
Apple is expected to announce more hardware before the end of the year following the debut of the iPhone 18 Pro and folding iPhone Duo earlier this month.
Technology
Washington says Brussels overreached when it fined X €120 million under the DSA.
Technology
Apple's SDK allows third party camera apps to implement more granular control of the aperture.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Strategy is seeking shareholder approval to pay daily dividends across its four U.S.-listed preferred stocks.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Aave V4 added Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, and four more tokenized (representing an asset as a tradable entry on a blockchain) stocks as collateral for USDC loans for non-U.S.
Cybersecurity
Anthropic now allows you to run Claude Code via cloud sessions without signing up for the research preview, and it's offering up to $250 in free usage credits, so more users can give it a try.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity
This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s Top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S.
Chips & Hardware
The end goal is finally in sight for Elon Musk, nearly two years after he announced plans to expand the Colossus supercomputer to over a million GPUs. This would bring SpaceXAI’s GB300 GPUs to 1.1 million units, with its total GPUs in operation to 1,440,000 units. Colossus 1 is 150k H100, 50k H200 and 30k GB200. Colossus 2 is 110k GB200 and 440k GB300.
Chips & Hardware
Google is set to launch an experimental satellite, named MVP, into orbit next week to test running an AI data center in space. But it's also something that Google and other companies are set to investigate further.
Robotics
Deborah Lupton / Pop Chips / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 Intrinsic (an AI robotics group at Google) announced that the company is making parts of its platform open source.
Robotics
Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.
Robotics
Rather than training one model to do everything, General Robotics composes specialized capabilities—helping robots adapt across tasks and form factors.
Startups & Business
He joined from Microsoft AI, where he was corporate vice president of product on the Superintelligence team and helped build and launch Microsoft’s first frontier foundation models.
Startups & Business
Tesla's Semi truck, with a 500-mile range, is about to hit the road in big numbers, with the company saying it plans to make 50,000 units a year.
Startups & Business
The App Store launched with over 500 applications, carefully selected and curated to showcase the original iPhone’s latest technology, cue accelerometer.
Science & Space
Medical researchers, clinicians and pharmaceutical scientists often study small molecules called metabolites, which are produced in living cells through a variety of processes, including the breakdown of food, chemicals or drugs.
Science & Space
For many years, antibiotics have been added to animal feed to help control harmful bacteria and improve growth.
Science & Space
Despite the long catalog, most boron allotropes do not simultaneously possess high electrical conductivity and plasticity, but a recent study has expanded the portfolio.
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