Musk weaponizes X algorithm against Altman as OpenAI trial opens in Oakland
Musk boosted the New Yorker's Altman exposé on X as Oakland trial opened, combining legal and PR pressure.
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Strategy buys 3,273 BTC for $255 million pushing treasury to 818,334 BTC
Strategy's 3,273 BTC buy hits 818,334 total, BTC treasury model dominates.
Polymarket launches pUSD stablecoin and CTF V2 in its biggest infrastructure overhaul yet
Polymarket launches native pUSD stablecoin and CTF V2 trading engine in its biggest infrastructure upgrade.
Asimov opensources v1 humanoid to kickstart robot dev ecosystem
Asimov open-sources v1 humanoid specs and sim, $15k DIY kit to accelerate robot dev community.
Strive stacks another $61M in BTC hitting 14,557 total
Strive adds 789 BTC for $61.4M, total 14,557 BTC in treasury push.
Cohere and Aleph Alpha merge to challenge US AI giants
Cohere acquires Aleph Alpha to form transatlantic sovereign AI rival to OpenAI.
Sereact raises $110 million to build robots that predict what happens before they act
Stuttgart-based Sereact has closed a $110 million Series B led by Headline to launch Cortex 2.0, a vision-language-action model that lets industrial robots simulate multiple outcomes and choose the action most likely to succeed , a capability that moves robotics from scripted execution to genuine physical reasoning.
AAVE lands on Solana as the Solana Foundation bets on a DeFi United strategy
Aave's governance token launched natively on Solana this weekend via Sunrise DeFi, supported by a Solana Foundation USDT loan and immediate integration across Jupiter, Backpack, Phantom, Raydium, and Meteora , a coordinated cross-chain move that signals a maturation in how Layer 1 ecosystems approach DeFi competition.
Unsloth's custom kernels make LLM fine-tuning viable on consumer GPUs
Unsloth delivers 2x faster training and up to 70% less VRAM for fine-tuning models like Qwen3.6, Llama, and Mistral, collapsing the hardware barrier that has kept advanced LLM customisation out of reach for most developers.
Samsung chip workers want 15% of AI profits and are ready to strike for it
Up to 39,000 Samsung semiconductor workers rallied in Pyeongtaek on April 23, demanding 15% of the company's $38 billion quarterly operating profit and threatening an 18-day strike from May 21 that could disrupt global AI chip supply.
Apple's next CEO inherits a company that missed the AI moment and has very little time to recover it
Apple's incoming CEO John Ternus inherits a company that has fallen meaningfully behind on AI, forced into a partnership with OpenAI to give its devices a capable language model while competitors have built or deeply integrated their own. Tim Cook's legacy is extraordinary by almost every financial measure, but the AI gap he leaves behind is the defining challenge of the succession and the one that will determine whether Apple remains the world's most valuable technology company through the next
Linux crushes Windows on llama.cpp inference by double digits
Linux crushes Windows on llama.cpp inference by double digits
Stanford's AI virus designs cross from theory to lab reality
Stanford and Arc Institute researchers used genome language models to generate 16 functional bacteriophages, including novel lineages that outperform natural viruses,crossing a line from computational design to lab-tested biology.
Turkey is offering foreign entrepreneurs 20 years of tax-free overseas income and the timing is deliberate
Turkey has launched a 20-year tax exemption on overseas income for foreign nationals who establish residency, offering one of the most aggressive talent attraction packages any major economy has announced in recent years. The scheme targets digital nomads, remote founders, and international investors, exempting all non-Turkish income and capital gains from local taxation for two decades. It arrives at a moment when several competing relocation programs in Portugal and elsewhere are tightening, g
Trump clears out NSF oversight board, shaking up science funding pipelines
President Trump's abrupt dismissal of the entire National Science Board on April 24 upends the independent oversight of the NSF's $9 billion annual budget, leaving AI and deep tech startups to navigate uncertain grant flows and policy signals.
Singapore steps ahead of the global pack with formal governance rules for agentic AI systems
Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority and Cyber Security Agency have jointly addressed the governance and security challenges of agentic AI through two significant policy documents, making Singapore one of the first jurisdictions to move beyond general AI principles toward guidance built specifically for autonomous, action-taking systems. The non-binding IMDA framework focuses on accountability structures while the cybersecurity paper tackles novel attack surfaces including prompt inj
