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Fusion startup Helion hits blistering temps as it races toward 2028 deadline

Helion's Polaris device hit 150 million degrees C recently, a milestone that nudges the company toward its commercial power plant that will sell electricity to Microsoft.

Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars

If a passenger accidentally leaves a Waymo door open, the vehicle can get stuck in place.

Elon Musk’s X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders

While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk’s X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Check marks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry.

Elon Musk slams Anthropic AI models as 'misanthropic and evil' in scathing social media post

Elon Musk accuses Anthropic of creating "misanthropic and evil" AI models, alleging racial and demographic bias after the company's $30 billion funding round.

Elon Musk Warns Tesla's $25K Cybercab Will Be 'Agonizingly Slow' At First — Even As He Targets 2M Robotaxis A Year

Massive production ambitions are meeting a painfully slow start. "For Cybercab and Optimus, almost everything is new, so the early production rate will be agonizingly slow," Tesla Inc. TSLA CEO Elon ...

For $1M, you can pay Bryan Johnson (or BryanAI?) to teach you how to live longer

The longevity-obsessed investor Bryan Johnson is charging $1 million to sign up for his "Immortals" program.

Amid disappointing earnings, Pinterest claims it sees more searches than ChatGPT

Pinterest's stock tumbles after an earnings miss, with higher-than-expected usage its only bright spot.

IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI

IBM plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, but these jobs will have different tasks than in previous years.

Rivian was saved by software in 2025

The company's annual revenue was boosted by its technology joint venture with Volkswagen Group.

Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha.

"I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space."

Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot

Didero functions as an agentic AI layer that sits on top of a company’s existing ERP, acting as a coordinator that reads incoming communications and automatically executes the necessary updates and tasks.

MiniMax's new open M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning near state-of-the-art while costing 1/20th of Claude Opus 4.6

Chinese AI startup MiniMax, headquartered in Shanghai, has sent shockwaves through the AI industry today with the release of its new M2.5 language model in two variants, which promises to make high-end artificial intelligence so cheap you might stop worrying about the bill entirely. It's also said to be "open source," though the weights (settings) and code haven't been posted yet, nor has the exact license type or terms. But that's almost beside the point given how cheap

Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new value of $380B

The infusion of funding for the AI startup takes place as it is vying for customers and cultural attention with its competitor, OpenAI.

YouTube finally launches a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro

When Apple Vision Pro first came out two years ago, YouTube hesitated to release a dedicated app. Today is the day they officially launch one.

Hacker linked to Epstein removed from Black Hat cyber conference website

Emails published by the Justice Department revealed cybersecurity veteran Vincenzo Iozzo emailed, and arranged to meet, Jeffrey Epstein multiple times between 2014 and 2018.

Trump administration undermines EPA enforcement of Clean Air Act

The EPA's new rule seeks to undo a 2009 finding that allowed the federal government to regulate six greenhouse gases.

Automattic planned to target 10 competitors with royalty fees, WP Engine claims in new filing

WP Engine claims Automattic was going to target more hosting companies with royalty fees.

Freshell – Contributing to Open Source

Dan Shapiro just open-sourced Freshell — a browser-based terminal multiplexer for Claude Code, Codex, and other coding CLIs that lets you detach and reattach sessions, browse your coding history, and access everything from your phone. The tagline is “What if tmux and Claude fell in love?” which is about right. It can be pronounced multiple ways: Free-shell, Fresh-hell, fresh-shell. I’ve been thinking of it as Fresh-hell, which amuses me.As part of my exploration into AI coding, I decided to star

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.

OpenAI deploys Cerebras chips for 15x faster code generation in first major move beyond Nvidia

OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a stripped-down coding model engineered for near-instantaneous response times, marking the company's first significant inference partnership outside its traditional Nvidia-dominated infrastructure. The model runs on hardware from Cerebras Systems, a Sunnyvale-based chipmaker whose wafer-scale processors specialize in low-latency AI workloads.The partnership arrives at a pivotal moment for OpenAI. The company finds itself navigating a frayed r