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Nvidia unveils Isaac GR00T N1.5, an open, customizable AI model for humanoid reasoning and skills, and GR00T-Dreams, a tool for generating synthetic motion data (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Nvidia unveils Isaac GR00T N1.5, an open, customizable AI model for humanoid reasoning and skills, and GR00T-Dreams, a tool for generating synthetic motion data — Nvidia said it is racing ahead with humanoid robotics technology, providing a custom foundation model for humanoid reasoning … Source link
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Galaxy S25 Edge hands-on: the thin design is a breath of fresh air, sturdy, many specs match other S25 phones, but has a 3,900 mAh battery vs. S25's 4,000 mAh (Abrar Al-Heeti/CNET)
Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: Galaxy S25 Edge hands-on: the thin design is a breath of fresh air, sturdy, many specs match other S25 phones, but has a 3,900 mAh battery vs. S25’s 4,000 mAh — At 5.8mm thick and 163 grams, this slim phone packs many of the features you’ll find on other S25 series devices. Source link
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Sources: Microsoft remains the biggest holdout among investors in OpenAI's restructuring, and is seeking assurance that changes will protect its $13.75B stake (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft remains the biggest holdout among investors in OpenAI’s restructuring, and is seeking assurance that changes will protect its $13.75B stake — After months of public pressure, OpenAI walked back part of its effort to create a more conventional for-profit company … Source link
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Critics fear the Take It Down Act, one of the few online safety laws to pass in years, could be weaponized against content the Trump admin or its allies dislike (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Critics fear the Take It Down Act, one of the few online safety laws to pass in years, could be weaponized against content the Trump admin or its allies dislike — Critics warn it could have grave consequences for online speech and encryption. Source link
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Crypto casinos rival traditional betting groups in scale despite being illegal in most countries, with $81.4B in gross gaming revenue in 2024, up 5x since 2022 (Marianna Giusti/Financial Times)
Marianna Giusti / Financial Times: Crypto casinos rival traditional betting groups in scale despite being illegal in most countries, with $81.4B in gross gaming revenue in 2024, up 5x since 2022 — Platforms now rival traditional betting groups in scale despite their services being illegal in most countries Source link
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Science Corp., which was started by Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak to develop a retina and brain implant system, raised over $100M led by Khosla Ventures (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)
Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg: Science Corp., which was started by Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak to develop a retina and brain implant system, raised over $100M led by Khosla Ventures — “We have a philosophy of investing in companies that are early and make bold bets and can be impactful for the future,” said Shernaz Daver … Source link
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How LLMs, unlike previous transformative tech like the internet, disproportionately benefit regular people, with slower impact in corporations and governments (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
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Coinbase's stock fell 31% in Q1 2025, its worst quarterly performance since FTX collapsed in 2022; nearly every major crypto-linked stock plunged alongside it (Matthew Griffin/Bloomberg)
Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg: Coinbase’s stock fell 31% in Q1 2025, its worst quarterly performance since FTX collapsed in 2022; nearly every major crypto-linked stock plunged alongside it — Coinbase fell 31% in the worst quarterly performance since FTX collapsed near the end of 2022. Source link
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Samsung says its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died at 63 from cardiac arrest (Reuters)
Reuters: Samsung says its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died at 63 from cardiac arrest — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died from cardiac arrest. Han was 63. Source link
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Some owners of devices running Roku OS report seeing autoplaying video ads before they can access the home screen; Roku says it is just a test (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Some owners of devices running Roku OS report seeing autoplaying video ads before they can access the home screen; Roku says it is just a test — Now, Roku is testing what it might look like if it took things a step further and forced people to watch a video ad play before getting to…
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