Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has raised $863 million in a Series B2 round from a broad group of investors including Nvidia, Google and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, bringing its total funding…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary This piece summarises recent progress in wave (blue) energy after a decade of research and pilot projects. A…
Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary Blogger Andy Baio analysed a short clip of Will Smith at a concert and suggests…
Intel amended its CHIPS Act funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to remove earlier project milestones and received about $5.7 billion in cash sooner than planned, Reuters reports.…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Five indie acts have quietly removed their music from Spotify after news that Spotify founder Daniel Ek led…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary The BBC and many users report that Meta has been wrongly suspending large numbers of Facebook and Instagram accounts…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Veteran YouTuber and music educator Rick Beato has publicly called out Universal Music Group (UMG) after receiving…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary This report covers a string of false active-shooter reports at a dozen US universities as students returned to campus.…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline developed by two Israeli security researchers—dubbed Auto Exploit—uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source patches to automatically…
Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void Summary Alibaba, China’s largest cloud provider, has developed a domestically manufactured AI inference chip currently in testing. The move is…
