Wired
After more than a decade of pushback, farmers and repair advocates have won access to equipment and services John Deere had long kept under its control.
Wired
Experiments in using AI to build AI show that the future doesn’t just belong to the frontier labs.
TechCrunch
Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma that will eventually employ 1,000 people.
Ars Technica
More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.
Wired
Matthew Danzeisen’s lawyer says the case is a “shakedown about a bag” that brushed someone’s leg. Stefanie Bojar says she was injured aboard the jet—and that the lawsuit is a bullying tactic.
TechCrunch
Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.
TechCrunch
This developer didn't expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it's an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online culture.
NY Times Tech
The company’s new A.I. image generator has a surprising twist: It allows people to use images from public Instagram accounts.
TechCrunch
General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.
Ars Technica
Kalshi tried to ignore gambling laws on its prediction market, NY governor says.
Ars Technica
Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.
TechCrunch
X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that the platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation.
TechCrunch
The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to videos.
Ars Technica
But the devices could "easily be reflashed."
Ars Technica
The "not interested" feature is your friend, but users must intentionally and constantly curate their FYPs
Wired
As worries about a growing super El Niño mount, new findings suggest a radical solution to mitigating its impacts.
TechCrunch
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a
Ars Technica
US military drone losses in Iran war spur Pentagon call for cheap replacements.
Ars Technica
"The BOHR mission serves as a pathfinder for future nuclear-powered spacecraft."
TechCrunch
Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.