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US Treasury Chief Threatens Sanctions on Chinese AI Labs Over ‘IP Theft’ Concerns
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed action in the coming days or weeks.
gizmodo.com
AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app
Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, …
techcrunch.com
Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents
Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.
techcrunch.com
Google Introduces Gemini 3.6 to Remind You It Has an AI Model, Too
Plus: 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
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Dell Technologies Capital: How To Build A Deep-Tech Startup For A Market That Isn’t Ready Yet And Why AI Won’t Kill SaaS
In this interview with Crunchbase News, Daniel Docter, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, discusses how AI is reshaping SaaS and why he doesn’t believe the business model is headed for extinction, why he thinks distribution may ultimately separate the winners from th…
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Bucking EV slowdown, Sila raises $300M to expand battery materials factory
Sila's fresh $300 million round will help it make enough of its silicon-carbon anode material to power more than 100,000 EVs.
techcrunch.com
International tech
LONGi Green Energy Plants a Technology Forest on BC Cells: ACM Silver-Free Contact, Integrated Conductive Backsheet Lead Beyond 690W Modules
LONGi Green Energy unveils eight innovations including ACM nano-alloy contact replacing silver, 672W ACM module, 690W stackable BC technology, and 35.5% crystalline-silicon-perovskite tandem cell world record.
pandaily.com
In 1887, a Scottish veterinarian named John Boyd Dunlop watched his son bounce painfully along a cobbled path on a tricycle and glued strips of rubber into a tube of air around the wheels that night, because the boy had complained of headaches from the ride — and the pneumatic tyre he improvised in his garden was working on Belfast streets within a year
How a Scottish vet's improvised rubber tube — built in a Belfast garden shed to stop his son's cycling headaches in 1887 — became the passive suspension system every wheeled vehicle on Earth still uses.
siliconcanals.com
Tencent ProLaViT Teaches Multimodal LLMs to Reason Step-by-Step in Latent Space, Ending Swallowing-Whole Visual Reasoning Failures
Tencent BAC team proposes ProLaViT framework for progressive latent visual thought, enabling multimodal LLMs to reason step-by-step in latent space without external vision tools, accepted at ECCV 2026.
pandaily.com
Paytm Eyes New Horizons With Enterprise AI & Wallet Revival
Nearly two years after shifting its focus from chasing scale to building a profitable fintech business, Paytm is now laying…
inc42.com
AI Chip Cooling Breakthrough: Scientists Create Theta-TaN Metal With 3x Copper Thermal Conductivity, Ending a Century-Long Record
UCLA and Tohoku University create theta-phase TaN single crystal with 1,100 W/mK thermal conductivity, approaching diamond-level heat dissipation with metal process compatibility for AI chip packaging.
pandaily.com
Many people assume those who build powerful AI must grasp how it thinks, but in an important sense they cannot: even a model’s own creators often cannot fully explain why it gave one answer rather than another
The architects of AI's most powerful systems face a humbling limitation: they cannot fully explain their own creations' reasoning, even when they understand every line of code.
siliconcanals.com

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ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
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Giving Resin 3D Printers Another Shot After Six Years
My initial experience with a 3D printer came in 2020, when I got access to a buddy’s Creality LD-002R SLA printer. This was one of those awkward transition phases for …read more
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OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
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Postal IRCs are Almost a Thing of the Past
Have you ever found out that something you remember from your youth is now gone, and you didn’t even notice? If you are a certain age, you might feel that …read more
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Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
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Counterfeit Retro Mainboards with Fake AGP Slots Are a Thing
Sometimes that retro gaming itch strikes, and you just have to source components for a Pentium 4 build, like [Computer Retro Bus] did recently. Unfortunately, along the way he learned …read more
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Tired of xargs?
What if you want to do something in Linux for a lot of files? [Numerator] was tired of using xarg and other ways to handle this job and created bashumerate. …read more
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FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
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