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Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI
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Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans
The company has shifted from making van-life builds to custom outfitting vehicles for small businesses, all while the EV landscape in the US changed dramatically.
Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods appear in leaked video
The AirPods in the video look like a chunkier version of Apple’s AirPods Pro 3. | Image: Apple / MacRumors We may have our first glimpse of Apple's rumored camera-equipped AirPods, thanks to a video that MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate. The short video clip features a man - who is wearing the new AirPods - holding up a book with the cover displayed, so that Visual Intelligence can see the book title. A Siri voice-over plays over the clip, saying "with Visual Intelligence, your world becomes savable. See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later." Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has previously reported that the rumored AirPods with cameras are designed to take in "visual information in low resolution" and act as eyes … Read the full story at The Verge.
Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API required
The biggest AI model release of the past few days, at least among the developers and AI power users on social media, wasn t a frontier cloud model from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.It was a 27-billion-parameter model from Alibaba: Qwen3.8-27B landed on Hugging Face on Friday under an enterprise-friendly, open source Apache 2.0 license, giving developers downloadable weights for a dense multimodal model.But Qwen3.8-27B isn t a garden variety small local model: it includes native image and video understanding, a 262,144-token context window, configurable reasoning and support for coding and agentic workflows — a “compact, deployment-friendly” version of the capabilities developed for its Qwen3.8 generation.That unusually small hardware footprint is a major part of Qwen3.8-27B’s appeal. Running the model at full 16-bit precision requires roughly 56GB of GPU memory, while an FP8 version needs about 28GB. But 4-bit quantization cuts the model itself to roughly 17GB, putting it within reach o
Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B
The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.
Reddit’s AI is turning posts into podcasts and short videos
Reddit is trying out a new way for people to take in content on Reddit: by turning text posts into audio / video content. As part of an experiment, some posts are being adapted into videos that use AI voices to read the text of the main post and some comments. The video highlights the text as it's read by the AI voice, and under the video, a note says that it's a "Real conversation voiced by AI." An old post in r/boardgames from eight years ago with 101 responses to a request for good road trip games that adults will like is an example of Reddit's AI at work. Instead of the usual text thread, it has the main question above a three-minute vi … Read the full story at The Verge.
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
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Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race
Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Roughly three and a half hours later, GitHub s status page lit up with what became a six-hour-and-forty-two-minute global degradation — error rates near 20% across pull requests, issues and the API, and near 50% on archive and raw file downloads, according to GitHub s incident log. Enterprise single sign-on went down with it: SAML, OIDC, SCIM provisioning and Team Sync all failed. So did Copilot.The developer internet did what the developer internet does. You can now host your repos in Cursor Origin and deploy to Vercel via Cursor Origin which is itself hosted on Vercel, Vercel chief executive Guillermo Rauch posted on X. And unlike GitHub, it s online 😁 Asked why he was smiling, Rauch replied: trying to make light of the situation. We ourselves are stuck because of github rn! Matt Palmer, who works at Cursor, quote-tweeted his own company s launch with the day s best line: We were going t
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
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ABC’s livestreamed news show is powered by trending topics
ABC News has officially introduced Searched, a livestreamed show that highlights stories people are discussing on social media and searching on the web, as reported earlier by Variety. Though the network just announced the show now, Searched began airing on the ABC News Live streaming channel in April, which appears on both Disney Plus and Hulu. In the press release, ABC News says Searched "pulls real-time data from the top search engines and social media platforms to provide topical news for the audience." A recent episode of Searched highlighted an Illinois Powerball winner, NBA star Russell Westbrook's retirement, and Tropical Storm Lala … Read the full story at The Verge.
‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators
Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.