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ai and ml The newly renamed SpaceXAI wants you to believe little ol' Grok is all grown up To say Elon Musk's AI company has trained some of the most unhinged models on the internet would be an understatement. Grok’s sordid past includes cosplaying as “MechaHitler”
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If you are specifying an identity system this year, the choice between iris and fingerprint is no longer a simple one. Both modalities are mature, both are independently tested by NIST, and both now run fast enough for real-time use at the edge. The honest answer to “which wins” depends
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Salesforce study: 81% of Indian marketers adopt AI, but unified data remains key to customer engagement While artificial intelligence has become mainstream among marketing teams in India, fragmented customer data continues to limit its full potential, according to Salesforce’s Tenth Edition State of Marketing report. The study finds that
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Elon Musk's SpaceX released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, the first artificial intelligence model the company has trained specifically for coding and autonomous agents — and the first tangible product of its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup Cursor, completed just weeks ago. The launch marks a
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Meta might be the next company to make an always-on AI wearable. The company is working on prototype “super sensing” always-aware smart glasses that could continuously record audio and snap photos “every few seconds,” according to the Financial Times. The wearer could then ask Meta AI about the captured audio
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* YouTuber bitluni has unveiled a RISC-V DIY Graphics Processing Unit * Builder has a library of insane DIY projects on his YouTube channel * RISC-V microcontrollers were sourced from AliExpress YouTuber bitluni has unveiled his latest project, which might put any concerns you have over GPU pricing into context. The German DIYer,
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In Brief 3:41 PM PDT · July 8, 2026 Lovable, a Swedish vibe-coding startup, is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation of $13.2 billion — exactly double the$6.6 billion valuation the company achieved last December, Sifted reported. Menlo Ventures, a firm that announced its latest
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Commvault has introduced Minutes to Recovery, a hands-on cyber resilience simulation designed to help organisations assess their preparedness against AI-driven cyberattacks by allowing security teams to experience the full lifecycle of an attack, from breach to recovery, in a controlled environment. The new simulation comes as organisations contend with increasingly
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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TL;DR Google’s SynthID watermark debunked a viral fake image of Senator McConnell in hospital. The watermark survived screenshots across platforms. First major real-world win. Google’s SynthID watermarking system scored its first high-profile real-world win this week after Snopes used it to debunk an AI-generated image of Senator
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TL;DR Manna is building a US operations and manufacturing centre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, employing 1,000 people. It left Ireland and is targeting six US cities by end of 2027. Manna Aero, the Ireland-based autonomous drone delivery startup, is setting up a US operations and manufacturing centre in Tulsa,
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The breakthrough Bitsec, running as Subnet 60 on the Bittensor network, found more vulnerabilities than a jailbroken instance of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 when both were run against the same client codebase. The test was posted to X by a developer affiliated with Bitsec, with the client’s permission.
