Startup
Elon Musk’s Boring Company raises $3B at $23B valuation, led by UAE
Elon Musk's Boring Company has closed a $3 billion Series D round led by the United Arab Emirates, valuing the tunneling venture at $23 billion.
AI
DeepSeek's New Model Nearly Matches GPT-6 Astra on Design—at 1.4% of the Cost
DeepSeek has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that reportedly nearly matches OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on design tasks while operating at just 1.4 percent of the cost.
Crypto
ESMA warns growing crypto ties could amplify risks to traditional finance
Europe's securities regulator warned that deepening crypto ties could amplify risks to traditional finance.
Prism
ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver’s licenses stolen
IDScan, a Louisiana-based identity verification company, has confirmed a data breach that involved the theft of more than 150 million driver’s licenses.
Crypto
A “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap
From a cryptocurrency collapse tied to divine revelation to a proposed roadmap for solar geoengineering and a startup's energy-recycling chips, the latest technology developments span faith, climate, and computing.
AI
A Managed Semantic Cache That Cuts LLM API Costs by Up to 90% and Returns Cache Hits Up to 15x Faster
Redis has launched LangCache, a semantic caching service cutting LLM API costs by up to 90% and returning hits up to 15x faster.
Prism
A new Arizona plant is going after the rare earth supply crunch
Cyclic Materials opened the plant, which can process up to 25,000 metric tons of magnet-bearing end-of-life products annually.
Prism
Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography
Apple has introduced Apple Reference Image, a system that cryptographically proves a photo was actually taken by a camera rather than generated by AI.
Prism
LINK spacecraft gets close to NASA's Swift Observatory, but not close enough to save it
The LINK spacecraft made a close approach to NASA's Swift Observatory, but the rendezvous was not close enough to save it, according to a report from Space.com.
Prism
NVIDIA Details BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR): 2.90x Higher Boltz-2 Folding Throughput and 58.5K Residues per GPU-...
NVIDIA has detailed BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR), a Python library designed to accelerate biomolecular structure prediction on NVIDIA GPUs.