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Final GOP bill kneecaps renewables and hydrogen, but lifts nuclear and geothermal

The final bill is largely what emerged from the Senate Finance Committee in mid-June.

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Stripe’s first employee, the founder of fintech Increase, sort of bought a bank

Competitors to Darragh Buckley’s Increase are so nervous about his ambitions to “own” a bank, someone has been trying to stop him.

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Ilya Sutskever will lead Safe Superintelligence following his CEO’s exit

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says he stepping into the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he launched in 2024.

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Meta has found another way to keep you engaged: Chatbots that message you first

Meta is experimenting with having customizable chatbots messaging users unprompted and follow up on past conversations.

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Trump admin unlawfully killed health websites related to gender, court rules

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration’s Office of Personnel Management did not comply with all necessary laws when it ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to speedily comply with the president’s … Continue reading

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Castelion is raising a $350M Series B to scale hypersonic missile business

A hypersonics weapon startup is lining up a massive new funding round to scale its business with the U.S Department of Defense.

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Pinwheel introduces a smartwatch for kids that includes an AI chatbot

The Pinwheel Watch is designed specifically for kids aged 7 to 14, offering parental management tools, GPS tracking, texting, and more.

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xAI gets permits for 15 natural gas generators at Memphis data center

Elon Musk’s AI company has been operating more than twice that number without permits for months, a legal group alleges.

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Ransomware gang Hunters International says it’s shutting down

The cybercriminal group, which said it’s releasing its decryption tools to victims, may be transitioning to new infrastructure under a different name.

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Israeli quantum startup Qedma just raised $26 million, with IBM joining in

Qedma specializes in error mitigation software. Its main piece of software, QESEM, standing for Quantum Error Suppression and Error Mitigation, analyzes noise patterns to suppress some classes of errors while the algorithm is running and mitigate others in post-processing.

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