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SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.

Have politics finally come for the National Academies of Science?

A pending report on climate attribution may be setting the stage for conflict.

Ukraine's one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers

Full autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots.

When PyMuPDF Can’t See the Table: Parse PDFs for RAG with Azure Layout

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #5bis] - The same relational tables. Native table cells. OCR for scanned pages and images. Captions and headings without regex. The post When PyMuPDF Can’t See the Table: Parse PDFs for RAG with Azure Layout appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation

The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion.

Google sues alleged Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to send scam texts

The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.

$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year

Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.

Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.

Why Decade-Old Residual Connections Still Power All of AI (And Why That’s a Problem)

For nearly a decade, this part of neural networks barely changed. DeepSeek is trying to reinvent it. The post Why Decade-Old Residual Connections Still Power All of AI (And Why That’s a Problem) appeared first on Towards Data Science.

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same wi...

RFK Jr. melts down over NYT report, admits he blacklists reporters

NYT reported Kennedy is disengaged. Kennedy's response seems to show NYT is right.

OpenAI Acquires Startup to Boost Codex

The move is part of the generative AI vendor’s campaign to keep up with rival Anthropic and its Claude Code agent in the hot AI coding market.

‘You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting

"I’ve spoken. I’m not debating this."

olmo-eval: An evaluation workbench for the model development loop

It’s hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same wi...

Prompt: AI IPOs Raise a Question Enterprises Are Still Trying to Answer

AI adoption continues to accelerate, but organizations are finding that turning experimentation into measurable outcomes is a much harder challenge.

The biggest race in the world? The 24 Hours of Le Mans is this weekend.

More than 350,000 spectators will watch 62 cars compete, day and night.

Coinbase for Agents: Automating portfolio trading with AI

Coinbase for Agents connects AI to financial execution channels to automate trading and payments directly from user portfolios. Large language models process vast quantities of data but lack direct integration with active financial portfolios. Individuals frequently employ these models to evaluat...

ChatSee raises $6.5M to build ‘failure memory’ for enterprise AI agents

ChatSee.AI Inc., a company that provides a failure intelligence layer for autonomous artificial intelligence systems, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding. True Ventures led the round, announced Thursday, with participation from First Rays Venture Partners, Seven Hills Ventures and other indus...