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Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
Hugging Face has been approached to sell at a valuation of $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported…
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X open sources its ranking algorithm, letting users see if they’ve been ‘shadowbanned’
X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app’s “For You” algorithm and its core…
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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
As policymakers debate how to govern increasingly powerful AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos, a…
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Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
The market for AI-generated voice models is massive. Creative use cases require AI voice models to be more…
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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent doubled down on his warnings to Chinese AI companies on Wednesday, saying that…
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The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
For several weeks this summer, the AI industry was fixated on Anthropic’s latest frontier models and Washington’s fight…
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Let’s explore the best alternatives to Discord
Social community platform Discord is preparing to require users to verify their age by the second half of…
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A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source’s funding problem, permanently
A group of notable open source programmers are joining with a VC investor to launch a nonprofit called…
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Notepad++ says Chinese government hackers hijacked its software updates for months
The developer of the popular open-source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver…
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OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network
The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new name — again. After a legal…