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My thanks for WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring Daring Fireball for the last week. If you’re ready to sell to enterprise customers, your product may be ready — but is your auth infrastructure? If you’re building B2B SaaS, especially AI, you quickly need enterprise features like …
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Last Tesla Model S and X Roll Off Production Line
The quiet death of Tesla's high-end models marks the end of Tesla as a relatively ordinary car company.
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The hottest place for startups to strike a deal? The F1 paddock
F1 Grands Prix have emerged as a new place to see and be seen if you are a founder or investor.
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Fintech startup Parker files for bankruptcy
Parker, a well-funded startup offering corporate credit cards and banking services, has filed for bankruptcy and is widely reported to have shut down.
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So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
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Meta to Start Capturing Employee Mouse Movements, Keystrokes for AI Training Data
Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for Reuters in late April: Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to b…
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Neolix, TELD Launch 'Power Island' to Build AV Charging Infrastructure
Neolix and TELD unveil the world's first autonomous vehicle charging hub, marking Neolix's strategic shift from vehicle manufacturer to mobility service provider. The partnership targets 100 cities globally within three years.
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SynapX Launches SYNData: Multimodal Data Collection System for Embodied AI Era
SynapX has released SYNData, a multimodal data collection system for dexterous manipulation. The system covers ego vision, EMG signals, and exoskeleton data gloves, enabling scalable collection of human manipulation data for robot learning.
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Psychology says the cruelest thing about being raised by a narcissistic but charming parent isn’t anything they did at home — it’s the structural impossibility of being believed by anyone outside the house, and a child who learns early that the world will never see what they see grows into an adult who has stopped trying to be understood by people who weren’t there
She is nine years old, standing at her teacher’s desk after school, trying to explain why she didn’t want to go home. The teacher listens with the soft, patient face teachers use when they think a child is being dramatic. Then the teacher says, kindly, that she met the girl’s mot…
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Cloudflare cuts 20% workforce despite record $639Mn revenue amid rapid AI adoption
Cloudflare is cutting more than 1,100 jobs, about 20% of its total… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Xiaoyubot Raises New Round, Backed by Xiaomi, Didi, BAIC
Xiaoyubot, China's leading industrial embodied AI company, has secured a new multi-hundred-million yuan funding round. Five major industrial capitals — Xiaomi, Didi, BAIC, Fosun, and CCDC — participated, with Lei Wanqiang investing for the fourth consecutive round.
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People in their 60s with no close friends didn’t lose those friendships through any failure of character — the friendships were structurally maintained by a workplace, a school run, a neighborhood, or a marriage, and when the structure ended the friendships ended with it, and what looks like a personal deficit is actually the silent collapse of an architecture nobody told them was holding their social life up
On Saturday morning, Margaret stands at the kitchen counter with a cup of coffee that has gone cold while she was looking at her phone. There are no messages. The calendar for the weekend is empty, except for a dentist appointment on Monday she has already moved twice. She is six…
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iBuyPower’s Trace X Gaming PC Is the Fishbowl You Want to Swim In
At this point, buying a prebuilt PC may cost the same as building it yourself.
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GM agrees to pay $12.75M in California driver privacy settlement
General Motors has reached a privacy-related settlement with a group of law enforcement agencies led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
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Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway.
Wispr Flow says growth accelerated in India after its Hinglish rollout, even as voice AI products continue to face challenges.
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