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Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg used mortgages to buy multimillion-dollar mansions. Here’s why that’s a savvy financial decision
Even the world’s richest people borrow money to buy homes. Financial experts say mortgages can actually be a strategic wealth ...
Elon Musk Wants a Do-Over on Twitter Trial After Jury Pool Couldn’t Hide Its Disdain
Elon Musk’s legal team filed a motion for a mistrial in the case, a move that often hints the defense thinks the trial isn’t going its way.
Elon Musk’s Grok Faces UK Backlash After AI Posts Mock Football Tragedies
Liverpool and Manchester United have complained after Grok mocked the Hillsborough and Munich tragedies on Monday.
An iPhone-hacking toolkit used by Russian spies likely came from U.S military contractor
Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs.
Electric air taxi maker Archer hits back at Joby in countersuit alleging concealed Chinese ties
Archer's countersuit comes four months after Joby sued its rival for alleged 'corporate espionage.'
Founders Fund nears $6B close for latest growth fund, sources say
The fresh fundraise comes less than a year after Founders Fund closed its third growth fund, a $4.6 billion vehicle intended primarily for follow-on investments in its successful late-stage companies.
Andrej Karpathy's new open source 'autoresearch' lets you run hundreds of AI experiments a night — with revolutionary implications
Over the weekend, Andrej Karpathy—the influential former Tesla AI lead and co-founder and former member of OpenAI who coined the term "vibe coding"— posted on X about his new open source project, autoresearch. It wasn't a finished model or a massive corporate product: it was by his own admission a simple, 630-line script made available on Github under a permissive, enterprise-friendly MIT License. But the ambition was massive: automating the scientific method with AI agents while
Electric air taxis are about to take flight in 26 states
The federal government has selected eight proposals to test electric aircraft across 26 states.
OpenAI and Google employees rush to Anthropic’s defense in DOD lawsuit
More than 30 OpenAI and Google DeepMind employees signed onto a statement supporting Anthropic's lawsuit against the Defense Department after the agency labeled the AI firm a supply-chain risk, according to court filings.
How to make your e-commerce product visible to AI agents? Use this new system trusted by L’Oréal, Unilever, Mars & Beiersdorf
For future-focused e-commerce brands, the primary customer is rapidly changing from a person behind a screen to the AI agents that said human customer deploys on their behalf to research and, if projections are correct, purchase the product on their behalf. Investment banking and financial services giant Morgan Stanley, for instance, has published research suggesting 10-20% of the entire U.S. commerce spend could be agentic by 2030 — amounting to $190 billion to $385 billion.In response to this
Anthropic launches code review tool to check flood of AI-generated code
Anthropic launched Code Review in Claude Code, a multi-agent system that automatically analyzes AI-generated code, flags logic errors, and helps enterprise developers manage the growing volume of code produced with AI.
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber steps down
Bluesky's board will search for a replacement while Graber becomes Chief Innovation Officer.
Anthropic rolls out Code Review for Claude Code as it sues over Pentagon blacklist and partners with Microsoft
Anthropic on Monday released Code Review, a multi-agent code review system built into Claude Code that dispatches teams of AI agents to scrutinize every pull request for bugs that human reviewers routinely miss. The feature, now available in research preview for Team and Enterprise customers, arrives on what may be the most consequential day in the company's history: Anthropic simultaneously filed lawsuits against the Trump administration over a Pentagon blacklisting, while Microsoft announ
It looks like the DOJ isn’t going to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster
The DOJ and Live Nation agreed to a tentative settlement, but dozens of State Attorneys General don't want to drop the lawsuit.
Periwinkle is making self-hosted social media on Bluesky’s AT Protocol even easier
Periwinkle offers managed hosting for AT Protocol users who want social media accounts on their own domains, with backups, storage, and migration tools.
OpenAI acquires Promptfoo to secure its AI agents
This deal underscores how frontier labs are scrambling to prove their technology can be used safely in critical business operations.
The open-source AI red-teaming tool used by Fortune 500 companies is now part of OpenAI
The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI’s most direct move yet into AI application security. Its technology will go into Frontier, the company’s enterprise agent platform launched just a month ago. When Ian Webster was leading the LLM engineering team at Discord, […]This story continues at The Next Web
Q&A: Avalo, The David & Goliath of Large Genome Models
Of all the languages an AI could master, without a doubt one of the hardest and most impactful is the genetic language of life itself. So while our world is enthralled with the ability of LLMs to understand all human languages and programming languages, these LLMs also now understand the symbolic languages of math and musical notation and chemistry, and can infer the structure of proteins. But a little away from that action is a giant push to master the grandaddy of them all, the lang
GM figured out how to navigate EV uncertainty with the Chevy Bolt
The 2027 Chevy Bolt might not be a groundbreaking new EV, but incremental improvements have made it better without inflating the price.
Anthropic sues Defense Department over supply-chain risk designation
Anthropic filed suit against the Department of Defense on Monday after the agency labeled it a supply-chain risk. The complaint calls the DOD's actions "unprecedented and unlawful."