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Trump administration threatens 92 GW of new electricity supply with red tape
Permitting delays pushed by the Trump administration threaten to derail 92 gigawatts of clean power, even as electricity demand from AI data centers skyrockets. Already, permitting changes and federal funding withdrawals have led to the cancellation of 7 gigawatts of...
The attack that hijacked Claude Code came through Sentry. Datadog, PagerDuty, and Jira have the same exposure.
A single fake error report hijacked Claude Code in controlled testing — the agent ran the attacker's code with the developer's full privileges, and not one alert fired. EDR, WAF, IAM, and the firewall all missed it completely.Tenet Security's June agentjacking...
TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization
Music streaming service TIDAL is the latest to take aim at AI-generated music with the introduction of a new policy that will prevent fully AI-generated music from making money on its platform. In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music...
In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited the law enforcement use of “geofence” search warrants, in a major legal ruling that is likely to have broad ramifications for privacy rights and law enforcement across the United States. In the 6-3 ruling, the U.S. top court...
WhatsApp now lets you reserve usernames
WhatsApp today announced a much-awaited feature: usernames, which will allow users to share their profiles without disclosing their phone number. However, WhatsApp will still require a phone number to create an account on the chat app. WhatsApp has been working on...
Rocket Lab continues buying spree by acquiring satellite company Iridium
Launch company Rocket Lab is buying satellite operator Iridium, putting it in a position to become a more full-fledged space services company, and continuing a wave of consolidation in the industry. The deal, which hasn’t yet closed, will see Rocket Lab acquire...
Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise
Jay Li doesn’t recommend getting sued by Tesla if you’re trying to get a startup off the ground. But he does think his company, Proception, might be better off for having endured the experience. “I think it’s kind of like a resilience test, or pressure test,” he told...
Pocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices
Unlike AI gadgets like Rabbit or Humane, companies building dedicated gadgets for recording and transcribing meetings have actually seen some traction. The market is huge — though a bit constrained, as smartphones work fine for such tasks when paired with note-taking...
Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet
The AI-driven demand for compute power has data centers looking to squeeze more from every rack of GPUs. One consequence? Bacterial outbreaks. The liquid for liquid-cooled chips is a mixture of water and a substance that inhibits bacteria growth. To run the chips...
Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool
On Thursday, Anthropic released Opus 4.8, the newest version of its most advanced publicly available model. The model is available everywhere, with standard pricing at the same level as the previous Opus release. The new model comes just 41 days after Opus 4.7 was...
How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley’s token moat
DeepSeek’s announcement over the weekend that it has made its 75% price cut permanent on its flagship V4 Pro model is a disruptive assault on the capital-heavy business models of Silicon Valley’s frontier labs. The reduction on DeepSeek V4 Pro directly undercuts...
Waymo’s newest robotaxi is Chinese-made, built to make money, and now accepting riders
Waymo has started giving select riders in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco access to its newest robotaxi: an all-electric, minivan-like vehicle that is designed to lower costs and handle the use and abuse of hundreds of thousands of riders. Waymo said Thursday...
U.S. says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’
The U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed that adversaries have targeted and surveilled serving military personnel on the battlefield using commercial location data, the latest demonstration of how information collected from phones and computers can be abused to...
How long is Anthropic’s lease with SpaceX? Opinions vary.
Earlier this month, xAI signed a major compute deal with Anthropic, pledging billions of dollars a month for exclusive use of the company’s Colossus cluster. It was a coup for both companies, giving xAI some much-needed revenue and helping Anthropic catch up in the...
Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app
On Thursday, the AI startup Sesame, co-founded by Oculus’s founders and others from the VR company that sold to Meta, released a public preview of the conversational AI agents it’s been developing for over a year. With its new iOS app, Sesame is rethinking the...
Slate Auto will start taking orders for its low-cost EV on June 24
Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos and LA Dodgers owner Mark Walter, has announced that it will officially start taking orders for its low-cost electric vehicle on June 24, ahead of the first deliveries late this year. The company sent out...
Are designers the new SWEs? Figma Make’s new two-way GitHub integration turns designs into live, production code — with built-in governance
Cloud design software company Figma is officially transforming its AI design assistant, Figma Make, from a prototyping sandbox into a live, visual software editor that connects natively to production codebases. Announced today, the update allows product managers,...
SQL query logs hold the context AI agents need to stop hallucinating joins
When Miro’s data team pointed AI agents directly at its Snowflake environment, the agents got the wrong answer more than 65% of the time. The problem wasn’t the model — it was context. With more than 10,000 tables and no semantic layer to guide routing, the agents had...
Visa invests in Replit to power agentic payments for developers
Visa has announced an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit. The two companies are also exploring how to integrate Visa’s payment products into Replit, so that developers — and the AI agents they build — can accept payments directly from customers...
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Has the hunt for AI compute uncovered the next Cerebras?
The raging demand for computers to run AI models has only accelerated, but there are two major obstacles that anyone in the business needs to overcome: getting the right chips, and getting them into data centers where they can start generating revenue. General...
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What Can We Expect From Samsung’s New Flagship Phones?
Samsung's upcoming phone releases are creating a quandary for Samsung fans who are likely to decide between the Galaxy X, Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy S9. Although the devices have yet to see daylight, their initial offerings are exciting. Consequently, consumers are...
How to work with Outlook PST files effortlessly?
It’s a fact that the communication within the co-operate life is using Microsoft Outlook. Whether you love it or hate it, Outlook is widely used email client in this co-operate world. Outlook can be used very efficiently to communicate and plan. It is not just about...
What’s Old is New Again: The Rapid Resurgence of Print Media in Marketing
Marketing techniques are constantly evolving as sales departments and small-business owners seek to find the perfect mix to attract new customers and drive up sales. Despite the rapid of social media marketing, there is clear evidence that print media is enjoying a...
Strike the Perfect Emotional Chord with your Clients with the Right Social Media Strategies, Business E-cards and More!
A modern marketer’s life is difficult! Audience engagement has become a challenging concept in the uber-competitive digital realm. You are a part of those thousands of B2B and B2C marketers who are trying to establish an online community with the help of social media...