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In a sign that crypto and blockchain-focused investing has receded in importance, Andreessen Horowitz announced Thursday that it is renaming its digital asset unit from a16z Crypto to a16z Frontier. The practice, helmed by Chris Dixon, has raised nearly $10 billion across five fu

French President Emmanuel Macron said protests not organized by trade unions would be banned, as the Élysée braces for further unrest ahead of demonstrations planned for Saturday. French cities have been shaken in recent weeks by vandalism and looting sparked by cost-of-living de

Chinese medical equipment makers are increasingly challenging US, European, and Japanese competitors in hospitals around the world, extending Beijing’s technological prowess to yet another industry. While treatment centers long relied on machines from GE, Siemens, and Philips, so

Austin track bumps out of control - Verstappen - Published Max Verstappen says the bumps on the track that hosts this weekend's United States Grand Prix are "unacceptable" and "out of control". The Dutchman said drivers had complained about the condition of the Circuit of the Ame

Partisan actors are gaming AI platforms to regurgitate misleading information ahead of critical elections in Brazil, Israel, and the US. Cybersecurity firms identified thousands of AI-generated websites purporting to be local US news sites, but “the sites are not written for vote

The Trump administration accused Canada of election interference, as politically-charged fears swirled over potential meddling ahead of the US midterms. Ottawa denied the charges and banned its diplomats from being seen with US candidates. Democrats on intelligence committees tol

A security researcher has demonstrated a software-only partial jailbreak of the Switch 2, gaining “userland” access that he says “lets us run homebrew, reverse engineer and mod Switch 2 games, back up save files off the Switch, and access most of the Switch 2’s peripherals throug

Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox This is the follow up to our first blog post, The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed. ThinkingBox-Training is now available on GitHub. We built ThinkingBox to evaluate an agent's work by c

In case there were any doubts, Mark Zuckerberg is staying in California. Meta was apparently concerned enough that its founder and CEO might depart its home state that the company put in place a new stock plan that could help offset the burden of higher taxes should a billionaire

In case there were any doubts, Mark Zuckerberg is staying in California. Meta was apparently concerned enough that its founder and CEO might depart its home state that the company put in place a new stock plan that could help offset the burden of higher taxes should a billionaire

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday dismissed the possibility of “systemic” economic risks stemming from the AI boom, the Financial Times reported, as a global tech selloff fueled by AI spending fears continued into Thursday. Meta stock plunged after the hyperscaler

Personalized mRNA vaccines against melanoma—the deadliest form of skin cancer—reduced the risk of death or recurrence by 42 percent compared to standard treatment in a late-stage trial, pharmaceutical partners Merck and Moderna announced Thursday. The results are a significant ad

Personalized mRNA vaccines against melanoma—the deadliest form of skin cancer—reduced the risk of death or recurrence by 42 percent compared to standard treatment in a late-stage trial, pharmaceutical partners Merck and Moderna announced Thursday. The results are a significant ad

OpenAI is reportedly close to securing another mega round of private funding, rather than plowing ahead with an IPO. The AI lab is working on raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation in a round led by Coatue and investors in UAE, sources told CNBC. This f

A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses President Donald Trump and his family's crypto company of "corruptly profiting" off more than $2 billion in digital currency-related deals, violating constitutional restrictions on accepting foreign money. "No president in American history has pro

Mistral's Timestral Beats Larger Rivals at Zero-Shot Forecasting on CPUs Mistral's first time-series foundation model family runs on CPU, hits #1 on three forecasting benchmarks, and ships under a Modified MIT license. - Mistral released Timestral, its first time-series foundatio

Anthropic's Claude Proves 239 Open-Source Libraries Crash-Free, Exposing Fuzzing Blind Spots Anthropic and Theorem used Claude to produce machine-checked no-crash proofs for 123 open-source libraries at the assembly level, uncovering long-latent bugs. - Anthropic and Theorem used

Elon Musk's business empire is tying itself ever closer to the federal government just as he spends record sums to help decide who controls it in the 2026 midterm election. SpaceX has racked up at least $6.78 billion in federal work so far through Oct. 1 this year, according to F

Elon Musk's business empire is tying itself ever closer to the federal government just as he spends record sums to help decide who controls it in the 2026 midterm election. SpaceX has racked up at least $6.78 billion in federal work so far through Oct. 1 this year, according to F

NASA does not have, nor want, nuclear weapons. But when it comes to a particular metric that is part of the Artemis Program to land people on the Moon, NASA guards a particular number like they are trying to prevent outsiders from cracking nuclear codes. I am speaking of the numb

Moderna shares dropped as much as 25% on Thursday following the leak of partial data on its closely watched cancer vaccine developed with Merck. Shares of both drugmakers fell even though the data, released in full later Thursday following the leak, appeared meaningful for patien

Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generating an image, allowing

Trump says Musk has restored access to Ukraine's Starlink network - Published Elon Musk has restored Ukraine's Starlink internet access, US President Donald Trump has said after restrictions hampered Kyiv's armed forces. Trump made the comments after Ukrainian President Volodymyr

UK to draft in military aircraft to fight wildfires, Burnham says - Published Military planes and helicopters will be drafted in to tackle wildfires, Prime Minister Andy Burnham is to tell the UK's first summit on the issue. Civilian fire services in all four nations will be able

Dream night for Bournemouth - win over Milan a sign of Premier League power - Published At times, being a Bournemouth fan must feel like living in a simulation. That was certainly the case on Thursday night as the Cherries beat seven-time continental champions AC Milan 3-0 in onl

Prepare for supply chain disruption from cyber or climate emergencies, Streeting warns - Published Members of the public and businesses need to think more about how they would cope with natural disasters, cyber-attacks or state-sponsored terrorism, the defence secretary has said.

Ant Group's Ming-3.0 Beats Larger Voice Models at Just 0.5B Parameters Ant Group's Ming-3.0-tts packs top-tier speech synthesis into just 0.5B parameters, released MIT-licensed and holding its own against 3.5B+ rivals. - Ant Group released Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B, a dense MIT-licensed