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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company’s Grok AI chatbot to generate child
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TL;DR Lu Yaxiang’s sodium battery charges in 4 minutes, retains 90% after 2,000 cycles. CATL and Gotion are scaling production. China imports 75% of its lithium. Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade making sodium-ion batteries commercially
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“We believe in keeping the weirdness alive.” That line comes from a manifesto Mira Murati’s lab published last week. It is also the thinking behind the lab’s first model. Thinking Machines Lab, founded by the former OpenAI chief technology officer, has released Inkling. It is open-weight, so any
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TL;DR ChatGPT now shows Kalshi prediction market odds for World Cup matches, OpenAI’s first deal with a regulated betting exchange. OpenAI has begun displaying prediction market odds from Kalshi inside ChatGPT search results, marking the first time the company has partnered with a regulated betting exchange. The integration,
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No name. No product. No confirmed funding. And, possibly, a $2bn price tag. That is the shape of the newest bet in AI drug discovery. Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is leaving to start his own company, TechCrunch reported. He is in talks to raise about $200m at a
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Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300m and a $1.1bn valuation. The Toyota spin-out builds humanoids for factories, and it left off the legs on purpose. “If you listen to the people on the factory floor, they aren’t ready, and they don’t want them yet.” That
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TL;DR Boston Dynamics is testing Spot with a conveyor belt payload to deliver packages from vans to doorsteps, targeting the last 50 feet of delivery. Boston Dynamics is testing Spot, its four-legged robot, as a delivery worker that rides along in trucks and hops out to carry packages to
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Apple built a trillion-dollar business on chips it designs itself. It cannot design the ones its AI needs fast enough, so it is going shopping. The iPhone maker is hunting for AI chip acquisitions, The Information reported. In recent months it has talked to bankers about deals and approached chip
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President Donald Trump restarted the Iran conflict with days of missile strikes, and US intelligence officials now estimate the total military cost of the war for the Pentagon could exceed $100 billion, according to two people directly familiar with the matter. The officials were tracking the total cost of Operation
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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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Does a software feature exist if its code has been deployed to the devices of millions of people but they can’t use it yet? Not if you work at Meta. The company’s executives have spent the last few weeks making this semantic argument about NameTag, the in-development face-recognition
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OpenAI is building an AI-powered smart speaker nobody wants. That is, if you believe the Bloomberg report from Mark Gurman and you've read his description of said rumored device. According to the report: "OpenAI believes the product’s defining feature will be its personality and ability to
