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Aussie gov’t tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers
Australia’s government disabled thousands of functioning test routers after a broadband measurement program concluded, prompting concerns about electronic waste when the devices could reportedly be repurposed.
ACRouter picks the smartest AI model per task, beating Opus-only setups by 2.6x on cost
Model routing is becoming a key component of the enterprise AI stack, dynamically sending prompts to the right AI model to optimize speed and costs. However, current frameworks mostly treat routing as a static classification problem, which severely limits their...
Investors send General Fusion soaring in debut as first publicly traded fusion company
General Fusion began trading on the Nasdaq today under the ticker GFUZ, becoming the first publicly listed fusion power company, beating competitor and Trump-backed TAE Technologies by several months. And investors seemed to want in. The stock rallied as trading...
Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again
A pattern is emerging among people who’ve already made it big. They’re rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI’s defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money — potentially a lot more. Tom Blomfield, who...
Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”
Uber has spent the last year quietly pushing beyond the two businesses most people associate it with. There’s ride-hailing, of course, and delivery, but spend time in the app and you’ll now find hotel bookings powered by Expedia, “shop for me” concierge features, and...
Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse said today that it has closed its Series C extension, with a total of $439 million raised in the round. The company told TechCrunch that, with the new tranche of funding, its valuation has crossed over $2 billion. With...
X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly, less battleground
X has made a “tweak” to its algorithm to boost the visibility of posts to users’ “mutuals” — the people they follow who follow them back, head of product, Nikita Bier, said Monday. “We noticed this data was missing from the algo and it made your friends appear less in...
Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation
Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors at a $1.5 billion valuation, according to three sources with knowledge of...
The desktop infrastructure problem that Kubernetes finally solves
Presented by Kasm TechnologiesEnterprise infrastructure teams have spent the better part of a decade pushing workloads into Kubernetes. Applications, APIs, batch jobs, data pipelines — if it runs in a container, it belongs in the cluster. The operational benefits are...
SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T
SpaceX passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, after its stock price climbed 20% on Monday and more than 8% in early trading Tuesday, bringing its valuation to more than $2.7 trillion. That’s despite Amazon turning a $78 billion profit in...
Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI
As LLMs have grown more powerful, hallucinations have proven stubbornly difficult to avoid. Errors pop up in even the smartest models, and while there are ways to catch those errors, the industry is still figuring out the best way to do it. Probably, which just raised...
India orders temporary ban on Telegram over exam fraud concerns
India has issued an order to block Telegram until June 22 over concerns that fraudsters are using the messaging platform to target candidates ahead of a re-test of the country’s biggest entrance exam. The move was announced on Tuesday by India’s National Testing...
This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives
How humans alloy metals is essentially the same today as it was in the Bronze Age: Melt some different metals in a pot and mix them until they form a new, better metal. An early stage startup, Foundation Alloy, has developed a new alloying technique that beats the...
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor in a $60 billion stock deal, just a few days after the space company’s historic IPO and less than two months after announcing a tie-up between the two. The deal is meant to help SpaceX’s AI division — built around...
Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users
Nearly three years after launching as a competitor to Twitter (now X), Threads has reaches 500 million monthly active users, the company announced Tuesday. The Meta-owned social platform also announced a series of new features launching today, including a “Your Algo”...
Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions
In 2017, Respond.io set out to solve a simple problem: businesses couldn’t keep up with customers who had moved to messaging apps. Today Respond, with its customer conversation management software, has become one of the tech success stories of Malaysia. The startup,...
Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties
Over the weekend, Google CEO Sundar Pichai faced a small revolt when he delivered his commencement speech at Stanford University, where he earned his graduate degree in materials science and engineering. About 200 students from the graduating class reportedly walked...
The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak
The U.S. government’s enforcement letter to Anthropic, which effectively forced the company to pull its latest AI models offline just before the weekend, should be a wake-up call for any U.S. tech company — AI lab or otherwise. To catch you up on the news blitz: On...
Satya Nadella warns that AI could hollow out entire industries, echoing the damage done by globalization
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a sweeping essay on Sunday laying out what he describes as the defining economic challenge of the AI era: the risk that a handful of frontier models will absorb the expertise of entire industries and commoditize it, leaving...
When deep research isn’t enough for your business: Sakana AI launches ‘ultra deep research’ agent for 100+ page reports in 8 hours
Tokyo-based AI startup Sakana AI has officially launched its first commercial product, Sakana Marlin. Billed as a "Virtual CSO" (Chief Strategy Officer), Marlin is an autonomous, B2B research agent that deliberately abandons the instantaneous text generation of modern...
Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms
As Meta tries to catch up in the AI race and boost engagement with its AI bot, the company announced Monday that it’s rolling out new AI features on Facebook that aim to change how users find information, create content, and interact with the platform. The headline...
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The Best Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) and Cloud Storage Solutions
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