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Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event

Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stacked lineup of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join the rest of the lineup to discuss...

Tim Cook is stepping down. What happens to Apple now?

Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus.   Ternus may be inheriting one of the most durable businesses in tech, but he’s also stepping into a very different ecosystemthan the one Cook spent decades shaping. The App Store’s 30% cu...

As electric aspirations fade, Porsche sells its stake in Bugatti

Porsche's stake in Bugatti and Rimac Group have been sold to private equity.

The AI Compute Crunch Is Here (and It's Affecting the Entire Economy)

Venture capitalists can't subsidize cheap AI forever, and the hunger for more compute is affecting the labor market, the gadget market, and electricity prices.

Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool

Nothing's new on-device dictation tool supports over 100 languages.

Six things I'll remember when I think about Tim Cook's version of Apple

Under Cook, Apple became hugely successful, if not always surprising.

DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.

How to Improve Claude Code Performance with Automated Testing

Learn how to get the most out of Claude Code The post How to Improve Claude Code Performance with Automated Testing appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Trump administration attempt to gut Endangered Species Act hits roadblock

House vote to defang the Endangered Species Act was unexpectedly cancelled

In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs

Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon's homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race has begun.

How to Select Variables Robustly in a Scoring Model

More variables don't make a better scoring model. Stable variables do. Here's how to find them. The post How to Select Variables Robustly in a Scoring Model appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Rocket Report: Artemis III rocket getting ready; SpaceX is now an AI company

"If it doesn’t rely on a solid, there’s no reason why we can’t launch."

How AI models use real-time cryptocurrency data to interpret market behaviour

AI systems are increasingly built around data that does not really pause. Financial markets are an obvious example, where inputs keep updating, not arriving in fixed batches. In that kind of setup, something like the BNB price stops being a single figure and starts to look more like a stream that...

DeepSeek-V4: a million-token context that agents can actually use

Visitors to this private space station won't be wearing shorts and T-shirts

Can you wear white after Labor Day if your destination is Earth orbit?

US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.”

Trump-Xi summit may be rocked by US mulling huge sanctions.

Carbon nanotube wiring gets closer to competing with copper

While this material degrades over time, it could point to better ones.

Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment

Sierra, the AI customer service agent startup founded by technologist Bret Taylor, announced today that it has acquired the YC-backed French startup Fragment.

We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G"

Such experiments bring "order to the universe, whether or not the number agrees with the expected value.”

In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe

Technically speaking, there's no practical benefit to use PQC. So why is it being used?