Once close enough for an acquisition, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other
For most of its life, Airwallex and Stripe have mostly operated in different geographies, selling to different buyers. That's changing.
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Who Is Actually Buying the Cybertruck? New Data Shows That It’s Often Elon Musk
Registration data reveals that nearly one in five Cybertrucks sold last quarter went to companies Musk already owns, ...
Tesla’s Cybertruck Sales Have Been Bolstered by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Other Companies
Tesla Cybertruck recent sales don’t appear to be as strong as previously thought. The polarizing pickup’s sales numbers have ...
Elon Musk Drops Design for AI5 Chip, Gives Shoutout to Samsung
A single reveal can reshape an industry, and a recent announcement did exactly that, pulling engineers, investors, and competitors in all at once. Elon Musk pulled back the curtain on Tesla’s AI5 chip design, an intersection of ambition and silicon. However, the announcement came paired with a public nod to Samsung’s collaboration on the project. […] The post Elon Musk Drops Design for AI5 Chip, Gives Shoutout to Samsung appeared first on GameRevolution.
Elon Musk demands banks that want to advise on SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO must buy subscriptions to his AI chatbot, Grok, report says
In an unorthodox move, Elon Musk is making banks involved in SpaceX's initial public offering (IPO) sign up for Grok, X's AI ...
Pentagon Disturbed as Its Fleet of Drones Is Left Bobbing in the Ocean When Elon Musk’s Starlink Fails
"Starlink reliance exposed limitations under multiple-vehicle load." The post Pentagon Disturbed as Its Fleet of Drones Is ...
Elon Musk backs ‘universal high income’ to combat AI job losses
Economists push back on Elon Musk's universal high income proposal, warning it could bankrupt governments and fail to prevent ...
Elon Musk calls for government cash to counter AI job losses
Elon Musk is calling for the government to guarantee "Universal HIGH INCOME" for Americans to offset looming job losses caused by artificial intelligence.
Elon Musk touts universal income as remedy to AI-driven unemployment
Musk’s comments follow rival company OpenAI’s industrial policy proposal released earlier this week that calls for an ...
Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is looking to expand its influence via a bevy of new partnerships.
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI.
Man who hacked US Supreme Court filing system sentenced to probation
Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted victims' personal data on Instagram under the handle @ihackedthegovernment.
Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.
“Tokenmaxxing” is making developers less productive than they think
There's a lot more code—but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.
Anthropic’s Amodei heads to the White House as Washington fights over Mythos access
Summary: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to negotiate access to Mythos, a frontier AI model that can identify and exploit thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser. The meeting follows Anthropic’s blacklisting by the Pentagon after Amodei refused to remove safety […]This story continues at The Next Web
Zoom partners with Sam Altman’s World to verify that meeting participants are actually human
Summary: Zoom has partnered with World, Sam Altman’s biometric identity company, to let meeting participants verify they are human using World’s Deep Face technology, which cross-references iris-scanned biometric profiles with live video to display a “Verified Human” badge. The feature responds to deepfake fraud that cost businesses over $200 million in Q1 2025 alone, including […]This story continues at The Next Web
Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber Eats purchases across 5,000 US cities
Uber has launched a service that sends a gig worker to your door to collect items you want to return to a retailer, for $5 a pickup. The feature, called Return a Package, is available in the Uber Eats app across nearly 5,000 US cities and works with nine retail partners including Target, Best Buy, […]This story continues at The Next Web
Intel’s new Wildcat Lake chips take aim at the MacBook Neo with AI as the differentiator
Intel has launched its Core Series 3 processors, codenamed Wildcat Lake, in what amounts to a direct response to the MacBook Neo. The new chips, announced on 16 April, target the same budget laptop segment that Apple redefined last month with its $599 machine, and they arrive with a familiar pitch: more choice, more AI […]This story continues at The Next Web
Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations
A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to exploit them. Now, hackers are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in real-life attacks, according to a cybersecurity firm.
Train-to-Test scaling explained: How to optimize your end-to-end AI compute budget for inference
The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference costs. This poses a challenge for real-world applications that use inference-time scaling techniques to increase the accuracy of model responses, such as drawing multiple reasoning samples from a model at deployment.To bridge this gap, researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford University have introduced Train-to-Test (T2) scaling laws, a framework that jointly