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A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product (Washington Post)

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Washington Post : A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product   —  State Affairs combines media and technology at a time when tensions between the two industries are at a fever pitch.  —  Summary from Techmeme https://ift.tt/pNmBgLj
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TerraFirma, a construction tech company founded by two former SpaceX engineers to build remote-controlled construction equipment, raised $115M (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Samantha Subin / CNBC : TerraFirma, a construction tech company founded by two former SpaceX engineers to build remote-controlled construction equipment, raised $115M   —  As SpaceX's Elon Musk sells investors on a space economy with life beyond Earth, a two-year-old construction startup founded … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/bhgwoVs
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Jay-Z's final Yankee Stadium show was a trip down memory lane. See the surprise celebrity guests he brought onstage.

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Pharrell Williams and Jay-Z. Courtesy of Roc Nation Jay-Z concluded his star-studded three-night residency at Yankee Stadium on Sunday. The final show, titled "Extra Innings," featured musicians from across the rapper's long career. Beyoncé, Usher, and Rihanna were among the guests brought onstage. On Sunday, New York City's Yankee Stadium was certainly a concrete jungle where dreams are made of — at least, for the thousands of Jay-Z fans who waited hours to see the rapper take the stage for the third and final night of his residency there. A four-hour delay caused the show to kick off around 12:15 a.m., instead of the scheduled 8 p.m. In a joint statement, Roc Nation and Yankee Stadium told Business Insider that "hundreds of individuals in large groups — who did not have tickets to tonight's performance — stormed over peaceful ticketholders, and in some cases, breached security," which led to the gates being closed for "an extended period of time....
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Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Zac Bowden / Windows Central : Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders   —  Windows 11's search user experience is getting a big update, with Microsoft moving to prioritize local results, remove promotional content, and much more. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/t29ExGI
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Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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Nilay Patel / The Verge : Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more   —  Xinzhou Wu on autonomy, Chinese cars, and if we really need lidar  —  Today, I'm talking with Xinzhou Wu, who is the head of automotive at Nvidia. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/tUGW48R
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Sam Atman shares the 'most reliable' way to tell that ChatGPT 5.6 is now the best model in the world

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have a troubled relationship. Fabrice COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting again. The two AI leaders went at it on social media after an Apple lawsuit against OpenAI became public. Musk and Altman's troubled relationship dates back to when they cofounded OpenAI in 2015. It's Altman vs. Musk yet again. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the recent bout of attention he's received from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk must mean his company is doing good work. "There are a lot of benchmarks that suggest 5.6 sol is the best model in the world right now," Altman wrote on X on Saturday, referring to his company's latest model. "But the most reliable way to tell is that elon is obsessed with me again." Musk turned his attention back to Altman after Apple filed a bombshell lawsuit on Friday, accusing OpenAI, its hardware partner io, and two former App...
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OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg : OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending   —  Three prominent artificial intelligence developers released new models over the past week.  They all promise to be more advanced … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/d0X49Kg
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