4+ hour, 10+ min ago  (1129+ words) The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought you there. That was the pitch, anyway. Decentraland, one of the…...

4+ hour, 22+ min ago  (457+ words) During a recent interview on The David Lin Report, Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman responded, "The idea that we would dismiss employees for raising something, it's just actually preposterous on its face, as evidenced by the fact that the…...

5+ hour, 23+ min ago  (959+ words) At 8pm Tehran time on Tuesday, a new kind of front line was drawn, not through desert terrain or along a disputed border, but through the server farms, cloud regions, and corporate campuses of America's largest technology companies. The Islamic Revolutionary…...

5+ hour, 50+ min ago  (627+ words) Six weeks ago, a video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop went viral. It was, of course, not real. It was generated by Seedance 2.0, ByteDance's AI video model, and it set off a firestorm that drew cease-and-desist…...

6+ hour, 8+ min ago  (843+ words) OpenAI closes $122B round at $852B valuation, opens door to retail investors'The Next Web There is a number that keeps getting larger, and on Tuesday it got larger again. OpenAI announced that it had closed its latest funding round with $122 billion in…...

8+ hour, 48+ min ago  (997+ words) For decades, nickel-hydrogen batteries have been the quiet workhorses of space, powering the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope through the extremes of orbit. Now, a California startup wants to put that same chemistry to work on the…...

4+ hour, 35+ min ago  (721+ words) The Brussels-founded, Y Combinator-backed startup counts Orange among its early enterprise customers, which deployed a customer onboarding agent in four weeks. General Catalyst led the round. Nexus, the Brussels-founded AI agent deployment platform backed by Y Combinator, has raised $4.3 million…...

8+ hour, 28+ min ago  (270+ words) n the small hours of Tuesday morning, something unexpected appeared on iPhones across mainland China. Apple Intelligence, the suite of AI-powered tools that the company has spent nearly two years trying to bring to its largest market outside the US,…...

3+ hour, 21+ min ago  (452+ words) The Palo Alto small-EV company raised $200M in a Series C led by Greenoaks, with DoorDash investing alongside a multi-year commercial agreement to deploy purpose-built autonomous vehicles for last-mile delivery. DoorDash co-founder Stanley Tang joins the board as an observer. ALSO,…...

6+ hour, 17+ min ago  (264+ words) German consumers throw away 4.4 million tonnes of food every year, worth roughly "6 billion. Austrian startup Afreshed just bet that the solution is consolidation, not competition, acquiring Munich-based rival Etepetete and raising a mid-seven-figure sum to take its organic rescue-box model…...