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Binance lost $6.3 billion, and Mistral opened a trillion-parameter model

LATEST EDITION30 OCT 20267 MIN

Self-custody

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On exchanges
A real split
I'd rather not say

Meta's $825 billion AI bill rattled Wall Street

23 OCT 20267 MIN

Yes, it was amazing

It was good
Could be better

24 SEP 20264 MIN

Meta unveils "muse charm"and everyone is talking about it

Meta Connect 2026 kicked off Wednesday, with Zuckerberg taking several shots at Apple throughout the keynote, and finishing with a classic Steve Jobs one more thing moment.

UK's biggest banks finalize first-ever interbank tokenised deposit transfers
Inside the FBI's Invite-Only Crypto Crime Forum

Robotics: Unitree's founder cut the robot timeline, and his stock hit its daily limit

LATEST EDITION24 OCT 20267 MIN

Yes, it was amazing

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It was good
Could be better
Didn't finish it / not for me

19 SEP 20263 MIN

The Robot Without a Safety Cage Is About to Go Public

Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 on September 15, and the headline feature is what's missing.

Robots are getting their own version of self-driving levels
Unitree is giving away its robot brains

15 AUG 20262 MIN

A $30-an-hour robot that cleans your home in San Francisco. A human is still driving it.

The process is simple: You reserve a robot named Chelsea, Elon, or Tony for a San Francisco home, and it vacuums, wipes counters, takes out the trash, cleans up.

China's BioflexBot stretches 3.5 times more than human hands to reach confined spaces
Samsung's humanoid robot is quietly developing with lower actuator costs: Reports

LATEST EDITION12 SEP 20264 MIN

Apple is Putting a Wearable Aging Score on Your Wrist

Apple's launch this week was the first under new CEO John Ternus.

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Walking faster counts as much as walking more
The four pillars cost nothing
The 117-year-old who out-performed the biohackers

22 AUG 20264 MIN

The VACCINE FOR CANCER: A Personalized Cancer Vaccine Just Passed Its Most Major Test

This week, Merck and Moderna revealed that their experimental cancer vaccine, known as intismeran autogene (or V940 or mRNA-4157), achieved its primary endpoints in a Phase 3 trial for high-risk melanoma.

Two 109-Year-Olds have a simpler answer
The test half the industry relies on just got checked

LATEST EDITION3 OCT 20263 MIN

Quantum money is trading like AI money in 2023

If you want to know where speculative capital went after the AI trade got crowded, look at quantum.

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Europe just put a number on the quantum threat to bitcoin
IonQ is already selling the 2027 model
A 1,000x speedup nobody outside the field noticed

8 AUG 20264 MIN

Scientists Made a Quantum Link Using Only Sunlight

A quick note before this makes sense: entanglement is the odd quantum phenomenon where two particles become so deeply connected that measuring one reveals information about the other in an instant, regardless of how far…

Researchers make air-stable, ultrathin superconductors, for more scalable quantum devices.
Googlers Contend With Exit of AI Pioneer and 'Most Google Person'

Space Special: This Black Hole Has Been Firing at Us for 40 Years and Nobody Noticed

LATEST EDITION26 SEP 20264 MIN

Astronomers discovered a black hole so small that it has been shooting a laser-straight jet towards Earth this entire time, long before most of us on the planet were even born.

An invisible black hole 12,000 light-years away has been unobtrusively pointing a jet of near-light-speed plasma directly at our planet, and nobody had noticed because it was hiding in plain sight behind an opaquely…

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Hubble completed its 200,000th orbit on September 19, more than 36 years after launching aboard Discovery in 1990 aboard a telescope originally designed to last just 15 years.
NASA has named the four-astronaut crew for its 14th commercial ISS rotation, with Kayla Barron and Chris Birch commanding and piloting Crew-14 alongside JAXA's Makoto Suwa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Arutyun Kiviryan,…
Two studies published the same day in Science Advances make Enceladus a more promising place to look for life than previously thought.

29 AUG 20263 MIN

President Trump announces a Space Academy

Trump signed the executive order Friday in front of NASA's astronaut corps at Johnson Space Center and said the new United States Space Academy would be "along with West Point and Annapolis" as one of the nation's…

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers studied 72 young, sun-like stars and found that planet formation is genuinely a race against the clock.
A private spacecraft's attempt to rescue NASA's Swift space telescope has failed, meaning the observatory will eventually fall back to Earth.

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