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A year ago, the smart move inside a big company was to use as much AI as humanly possible. Some firms even ranked employees on leaderboards by how many tokens they burned, a status game that earned its own name: tokenmaxxing. That era is ending. The same companies are now capping AI use, and the […]
Odyssey, an AI lab building real-time ‘world models’, has raised $310mn at a $1.45bn valuation. The more telling number is whose names are on the round. The Series B was led by Natural Capital, with Amazon, AMD Ventures, Google’s GV, EQT and the CIA-linked fund In-Q-Tel taking part. As part of the d
Jeff Bezos appears to have settled on his AI thesis, and it is not chatbots. It is the physical world. CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge startup that uses AI to design new materials, is in talks to raise about $400mn at a $2.6bn valuation, the Financial Times reports. The round is led by Bezos Expedi
Most cybersecurity startups sell shields. Twenty sells the sword, and investors just valued that at $1bn. The company, which describes itself as America’s first venture-backed cyber warfare firm, has raised a $100mn Series B led by Accel, Axios reported. The round, with Point72 Ventures, Caffeinated
Neuralink has dominated the brain-chip story for two years. It now has a serious challenger with a patient of its own. Paradromics, an Austin neurotech firm, has implanted its Connexus brain-computer interface in the first participant of its FDA-approved clinical study, the company said. The patient
Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.
The Pentagon says Grok helped strike 2,000 targets in 96 hours, and that the polluting power plant behind it is a matter of paramount national security. The two claims belong in the same sentence, and that is the problem. The admission did not come in a press release or a Pentagon briefing, it came
Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.
Like a great many people, I’ve been impatiently waiting to leave the Siri AI waitlist, and that finally happened last night. It’s early, but what I’ve seen so far has me very excited for the future …
Today, Jamf announced the upcoming release of its AI Governance technology, a new capability within Jamf Pro designed to give IT and security teams visibility and control over Gen AI tools running on their managed Macs. The new feature functions as a native, macOS-level control that aims to bridge t
Apple TV aired the Widow’s Bay finale last night, and today in a new interview the show’s creator goes behind the scenes on the finale, the upcoming season 2, and more.
iA Writer, the lightweight text editor for Apple devices, is out with a new Liquid Glass design-focused update for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Google Vids announced today that it’s making AI avatars available to free accounts, with the Workspace video creation tool now used by 7 million users every month.
Xiaomi's upcoming Mix Fold 5 may have just been certified for sale in China with the model number 2608BPX34C. This is interesting because the Mix Fold 5 has reached this step before any of the Xiaomi 18 family members. That could imply that the Mix Fold 5 won't launch alongside those devices in Sept
If you've tried running a GGUF model via llama.cpp on a Jetson Orin Nano Super and hit this error: NvMapMemAllocInternalTagged: error 12 cudaMalloc failed: out of memory ...while tegrastats shows the GPU idle and several GB of RAM free — this post is for you. The Jetson Orin Nano Super (8 GB) uses u
I Built a CRM Template Nobody Asked For — Then 10+ Businesses Bought It How shipping something "boring" taught me more about product-market fit than any hot SaaS idea ever did. I almost didn't build this. CRMs are not sexy. Nobody tweets about their CRM. No one posts "just shipped a killer role-base
If your Node.js service writes to Postgres and publishes events to Kafka or Redpanda, you probably have a silent dual-write bug. I built eventferry to fix it: write your event in the same transaction as your data, and a background relay reliably ships it to the broker. MIT-licensed, zero dep core, #
Quantum computing is buried under hype, but the basics are concrete: a qubit is a vector, a gate is a matrix, and you can simulate small quantum circuits in plain Python with NumPy. You do not need a quantum computer to understand how one works. A classical bit is 0 or 1. A qubit is a combination of
Monte Carlo simulation is one of those ideas that, once you see it, you notice everywhere: finance, physics, engineering, statistics, graphics. The idea is almost suspiciously simple, use randomness to answer a question that is hard to solve directly, and it is worth understanding because it unifies
Mastercard published it plainly: "As AI agents shop and pay on behalf of consumers, the payments ecosystem is tackling challenges around intent, fraud prevention and accountability." The Merchant Risk Council went further: legitimate AI agents and fraudulent AI agents produce identical behavioral si
