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Mission Barns is betting that animal-free pork fat will make artificial meat delicious

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It’s the first such product to reach the market, and it could unlock a host of fattened-up meat alternatives.

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A new AI coding challenge just published its first results – and they aren’t pretty

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A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers. On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced the first winner of the K Prize, a multi-round AI coding challenge launched by Databricks and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski. The winner was a Brazilian […]

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Trump’s ‘anti-woke AI’ order could reshape how US tech companies train their models

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When DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese firms released their AI models, Western researchers quickly noticed they sidestepped questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. officials later confirmed that these tools are engineered to reflect Beijing’s talking points, raising concerns about censorship and bias. American AI leaders like OpenAI have pointed to this as justification […]

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Sundar Pichai is ‘very excited’ about Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership

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The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.

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A troubled SPAC plans to buy iRocket for $400M but it already returned most of its cash

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iRocket is aiming to hit the public markets but the SPAC vehicle doesn’t have much cash left.

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YouTube sees a rise in ad revenue to reach nearly $10 billion

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YouTube continues to lead in the streaming market, with ad revenue increasing by 13% to $9.8 billion.

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Tesla profits pulled down by falling EV sales and regulatory credits

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Tesla saw a 17% growth in its services business, but it was not enough to close the gap in falling EV sales, fewer regulatory credits, and a decline in solar and energy storage sales.

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