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Scale AI wins a $500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a $100M deal in 2025

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced

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Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced

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Google Chrome Might Have Installed an AI Model Onto Your Device Without You Knowing

Here's how to figure out if you have the 4GB AI model and how to get rid of it. 3 min read You might not have asked for an AI model on your computer, but you might have gotten it anyway. Google Chrome has been installing a 4GB

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Knowledge 2026 - CEO Bill McDermott was playing chess last year. Now he says ServiceNow manages everyone else's board

Last year at Knowledge 2025, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott told me his company was "playing chess, not checkers." I took that to mean a game of strategic patience - ServiceNow thinking several moves ahead while competitors reacted to the every latest update in the generative AI boom. He

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Google is not building a consultancy. It is writing a licensing agreement. That may be the smarter play.

TL;DR Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies access to Gemini models through omnibus licensing agreements. The approach is fundamentally different from OpenAI’s ten billion dollar Deployment Company and Anthropic’s 1.5 billion dollar Blackstone joint venture, both of which

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The UAE’s AI champion just leased a converted Minneapolis office. The irony writes itself.

TL;DR Core42, the cloud subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s G42 Group, has leased 20 megawatts in a converted office building in downtown Minneapolis. The company building the Stargate UAE campus is now filling American offices-turned-data-centres, part of a broader pattern in which the same AI systems emptying offices are

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Snap lost a 400 million dollar AI deal, 20 million dollars a month to the Iran war, and 24 per cent of its stock price. The AR glasses had better work.

TL;DR Snap’s Q1 revenue grew 12 per cent to 1.53 billion dollars but the stock fell four per cent after the company disclosed that the Iran war cost it 20 to 25 million dollars in advertising revenue in March alone and confirmed it has ended its 400

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North Korean hackers target gamers with trojanized platform - here's what to look out for

* North Korean APT37 (ScarCruft) gang compromised a Yanbian gaming platform to deliver the BirdCall backdoor * On Windows, it enabled data theft and command execution; on Android, it exfiltrated contacts, messages, media, and ambient audio * The malware is actively maintained, with Android versions still hosted, targeting ethnic Koreans and defectors in

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Filing: Meta asks a judge to overturn the jury's verdict in the Los Angeles social media addiction trial or order a new trial, citing Section 230 protections

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced

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264 Blog Posts To Learn About Futurism

Let's learn about Futurism via these 264 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Pigs may not fly but cars will drive autonomously. 1. The Long Now

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Is xAI a neocloud now?

On Wednesday, xAI and Anthropic announced a surprise partnership that has the Claude-maker buying out “all of the compute capacity at [xAI’s] Colossus 1 data center,” roughly 300MW that allowed Anthropic to immediately raise its usage limits. It’s a huge deal for xAI, likely worth billions of dollars.

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Agent Factory Recap: How Gemma 4 Taught Itself Physics

In this episode of The Agent Factory, Vlad Kolesnikov and I sat down with Omar Sanseviero from the Developer Experience team at Google DeepMind. We explored the groundbreaking release of Gemma 4: a new family of open models designed to bring high-level intelligence and agentic capabilities directly to consumer hardware