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Form Energy raises $750M to build more 100-hour batteries for the grid

Form Energy has landed Google and Crusoe as customers.

Pixel Watch 5

Google announced the Pixel Watch 5, featuring Gemini Intelligence for proactive AI assistance and advanced health…

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is a large-scale mixture-of-experts model released on August 12, 2026, featuring a 1 million token…

Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M

This new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue in June, the startup told…

Facebook officially rolls out its standalone Creator Studio app with AI tools for creators

The new app launches with Facebook's AI creator assistant built into it, providing creators with personalized…

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 is SpaceXAI's latest and most advanced AI model, released on August 12, 2026, offering frontier performance in…

How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures

Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav…

Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 has been released with enhanced capabilities for long-running agents and complex interactive and visual work,…

Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books

AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.

After Microsoft threatened legal action, a security researcher publishes a new Windows zero-day bug

This is the latest zero-day released by security researcher Nightmare Eclipse, despite Microsoft publicly threatening to…

Silkroad Innovation Hub’s Road to Battlefield competition continues

The Road to Battlefield competition is now in its second year, and its purpose is to give founders across Central…

Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B

Alibaba has released Qwen3.8, the most capable model in its open-source Qwen family, featuring 2.4 trillion total…

GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineering Managers

GiveCampus, a Y Combinator-backed fundraising platform for educational institutions, is hiring a Senior Engineering…

Google launches Pixel 11 Pro Fold

Google has launched the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, its most advanced foldable smartphone featuring a thinner and lighter design,…

Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C

Hax is a lightweight, terminal-native coding agent written in C that prioritizes minimalism and local model support,…

License Plate Reader Searches Should Require a Warrant

A criminology expert argues that searches of historical automated license plate reader (ALPR) data should require a…

Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug

Tailscale experienced months of service instability caused by a 16-year-old bug in SQLite's Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)…

Google unveils Pixel 11 lineup, new AirTag rival, and Gemini features at Made by Google 2026

From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by…

Google’s Quick Share adds a tap-to-share mode

Google's Quick Share feature is getting a tap-to-share mode for quickly exchanging contacts, photos, videos, and more.

Obituary: AmigaDOS developer Dr. Tim King has passed away

Dr. Tim King, a key developer of AmigaDOS, passed away at the end of July.

German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses

Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

Unknown actors are conducting widespread vulnerability scans on websites by spoofing legitimate AI bot identities,…

Why Tiny JPEGs Look Different in Chrome

Chrome uses a clever JPEG decoding optimization for tiny images that skips decompressing high-frequency details,…

Google reveals 2026 hardware lineup: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, and Pixel Tag

Google focuses more on AI and curated experiences than spec upgrades in 2026.

Kalshi Adds Real-Time Market Data Feed Through DoubleZero

The service gives trading firms access to Kalshi’s sports and crypto order books over DoubleZero’s fiber network.

Qwen 3.8-27B goes openweight in 2 days

Google’s new Pixel 11 Pro Fold offers a stronger build and brighter screens

The Pixel 11 Pro Fold will cost $1,899

Google takes on AirTag with the new $29 Pixel Tag

Google’s new Pixel Tag taps into its Find Hub network to help users track lost keys, bags, and other items.

Google unveils the Pixel Watch 5 with a smarter Gemini and advanced health monitoring

The new smartwatch, which starts at $399, can track blood pressure patterns and insulin resistance, as well as deliver…