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IrisGo: Andrew Ng–Backed Startup Building a Proactive AI Desktop Assistant
22 sources0IrisGo is an AI startup backed by Andrew Ng’s AI Fund that is building a proactive desktop assistant for macOS and Windows which learns a user’s workflows and automates repetitive tasks across apps after obs...
Sam Altman’s $2M OpenAI Token Offer to YC Startups Explained
17 sources0OpenAI offered each startup in the current Y Combinator batch $2 million in API tokens (not cash) in exchange for equity via an uncapped SAFE that converts at the next priced round—meaning OpenAI’s final own...
Microsoft’s 650,000‑Ton Carbon Removal Deal: What the BioCirc Purchase Really Means for Its AI‑Era Climate Goals
21 sources0Microsoft’s purchase of 650,000 metric tons of carbon‑removal credits from BioCirc shows the company has not abandoned carbon‑removal deals, but its rapidly expanding AI data‑center energy demand—sometimes b...
Did OpenAI’s AI Really Solve an 80‑Year‑Old Erdős Geometry Problem?
15 sources0OpenAI says one of its reasoning models produced an original proof disproving a conjecture tied to Paul Erdős’s 1946 planar unit distance problem—an unsolved question studied for nearly 80 years—though the f...
Anthropic’s $1.25B‑Per‑Month Compute Deal With xAI Explained
20 sources0Anthropic agreed to pay xAI about $1.25 billion per month for the full 300‑megawatt compute capacity of the Colossus 1 AI data center through May 2029, potentially generating over $40 billion in revenue—thou...
Global EV Sales Pass 20 Million in 2025 as Electric Cars Reach One in Four New Vehicles
18 sources0Global electric vehicle sales topped 20 million in 2025—about one in four new cars worldwide—and the International Energy Agency expects roughly 23 million EVs to be sold in 2026, approaching 30% of all new...
Sui’s Gasless Stablecoin Transfers: How Zero‑Fee Payments Work and Which Tokens Are Supported
15 sources0Sui introduced a protocol‑level feature enabling peer‑to‑peer transfers of certain stablecoins with $0 gas fees and no requirement to hold SUI, though official documentation indicates it may still be limited...
SpaceX’s 10,000‑Launch Ambition: Can the Company Really Launch Rockets Every Hour?
18 sources0SpaceX reportedly wants to scale from roughly 160–170 launches per year today to 10,000 annually within five years—about 27 launches per day or roughly one rocket every hour, a more than 60× increase.
Why Elon Musk’s xAI Is Facing Lawsuits Over Gas Turbines Powering Its Memphis AI Data Center
23 sources0Elon Musk’s xAI is facing lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny for powering its Memphis area AI data centers with dozens of trailer mounted natural‑gas turbines—units critics say function as an unpermitted power...
Nvidia’s $81.6B Quarter: Record AI Revenue, $80B Buyback, and Signs Growth Is Slowing
13 sources0Nvidia reported a record $81.6B quarterly revenue driven by $75.2B in data‑center sales, authorized an $80B share buyback, and guided roughly $91B for next quarter—strong growth, but slower than the previous...
Clouted: The AI Virality Engine Turning Long Videos Into Viral Social Clips
14 sources0Clouted is an AI driven “virality engine” that turns long form content into short social clips and distributes them through a network of 100,000+ creators, continuously testing formats, audiences, and channe...
Anthropic Nears First Profit as Revenue Surges Toward $10.9B — But AI Compute Costs Loom
18 sources0Anthropic reportedly told investors it expects about $10.9 billion in Q2 revenue and roughly $559 million in operating profit—its first profitable quarter—driven largely by demand for the Claude AI platform,...