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A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
27 days ago

Humanoid Robots Controlled By Surgeons Did World-First Operation On Live Pigs (hardware.slashdot.org)
27 days ago Robot

Sources: Manus investors and management are discussing unwinding Meta's $2B buyout at the same valuation, with Tencent in talks to become the largest investor (www.ft.com)
27 days ago Tencent

Enterprise AI agent startup Lyzr is raising a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation, up from $250M in March, and says its agents ran outreach for the round (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago Startup AI

Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a fivefold return for Carlyle (www.ft.com)
27 days ago

Oxylabs, which develops web data scraping infrastructure, received a $130M investment at a $3.6B valuation from Warburg Pincus, its first outside investment (siliconangle.com)
27 days ago

MiniMax is looking to raise as much as $1.9B by selling 35.6M shares at ~$34 each and offering ~$830M in convertible bonds due 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago

1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give it 25 degrees of freedom of movement, nearly the same as a human hand (www.wired.com)
27 days ago Robot

How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books (www.theatlantic.com)
27 days ago AI

SAP will make it easier for customers to switch to rival service providers or end contracts, averting a possible EU antitrust fine after a September 2025 probe (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for $149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago

Fidji Simo says she has decided to leave her full-time role at OpenAI and transition to being a part-time adviser after her medical condition worsened (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago

Lawmakers Probe Growing Use of Chinese AI Models In US Companies (news.slashdot.org)
27 days ago China AI

OpenMandriva Linux says contributor tried to sabotage the project (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago Linux

Google Search Hits All-Time Usage Record (tech.slashdot.org)
27 days ago Google

Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A (fortune.com)
27 days ago AI

Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago Netflix

Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is stepping down after six years; VP of legal Molly Abraham moves into his role with the title of general counsel (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago Coinbase

Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds (yro.slashdot.org)
27 days ago AI

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI (www.washingtonpost.com)
27 days ago AI Xbox

Injective SDK on npm infected with cryptocurrency wallet stealer (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago Cryptocurrency

Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago Google AI

PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds (siliconangle.com)
27 days ago Startup AI

OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.6 After Government Greenlight, Announces 'ChatGPT Work' (slashdot.org)
27 days ago

Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fable 5 on July 12, aims to return the model to Claude's subscription plans “when sufficient capacity allows” (www.wired.com)
27 days ago

Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing raising new funds at a roughly $20B valuation, less than a year after raising money at a $10B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago AI

OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app (9to5mac.com)
27 days ago Browser

The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp (www.politico.eu)
27 days ago WhatsApp

Google Hands Open Health Stack To the Linux Foundation (news.slashdot.org)
27 days ago Linux Google

OpenAI merges Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for Mac and Windows under a new ChatGPT desktop app, allowing users to switch between Codex, Chat, and Work (9to5mac.com)
27 days ago

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