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June 26, 2025Ravi LakshmananArtificial Intelligence/Data Protection Popular messaging platform WhatsApp has added a new AI-based feature that leverages internal solution meta AI to summarise unread messages in chat. Called a Message Summary, this feature is currently rolling out in English to US users, with plans to bring it to other regions and languages later this year. “Using meta AI, you can quickly summarise Unread messages in chat personally, so you can know what’s going on before reading the details of unread messages,” WhatsApp said in the post. Message summary is optional and is disabled by default. The meta-owned service said…
Indian drone startup Raphe Mphibr has raised $100 million in all Equity Series B rounds led by General Catalyst, as Startup aims to boost R&D and local production capacity and increase demand for drones and border surveillance on the battlefield. Drones are increasingly ubiquitous in global military operations. In recent ongoing conflicts, countries have turned into drones due to rapid penetration and shocking strikes. The recent Indian and Pakistan wars are a prime example of both troops deploying drones on a large scale despite having advanced fighter jets and missile systems. The conflict has tripled New Delhi’s drone spending to…
A federal judge sided Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit against the company by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman. Federal judge Vince Chhabria issued a summary judgment. That is, the judge could decide on the case without sending it to the ju judge – in favor of Meta, training the AI model for copyrighted books in this case falls under the doctrine of “fair use” of copyright law and is therefore legal. The decision comes just days after a federal judge sided with humanity in a similar case. Together, these cases are becoming a victory for the high-tech industry…
Brad Feld has been run by simple principles for decades. It’s about giving it without expecting anything in return. This philosophy goes beyond traditional wage thinking, he says. It’s about helping others. If so, knowing that only meaningful connections and opportunities will emerge organically over time. The entrepreneur and VC, who began investing in angels in the 1990s, became prominent through his candid blog Feld Thinking, pulling back the curtains of the secretory venture industry of the time, sparking countless debates across Silicon Valley. After co-founding both Techstars and venture company Foundry Group, which supported hundreds of companies for over…
The ancient DNA of a man buried in a monumental stone age tomb in Ireland revealed that he was born from incest five,000 years ago. However, this fact does not mean that, according to new research, he was, as he previously argued.”There is nothing in the Neolithic Irish archaeological record that indicates that there was a ‘king’ or any kind of royal hierarchy at the time,” Jessica Smith, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Dublin, told Live Science in an email. “This is a social category from a much later period when it is applied improperly.”In a…
From the moment Openai CEO Sam Altman stepped onto the stage, it was clear that this would not be a normal interview. Altman and his chief operating officer, Brad Wrightcap, awkwardly stood towards the back of the stage at a jam-filled San Francisco venue where jazz concerts are usually held. Hundreds of people filled the steep theatre-style seat on Tuesday night, documenting live episodes of New York Times columnist Kevin Loose and platformer Casey Newton, a popular technology podcast, Hard Fork. Altman and LightCap were the main events, but they were leaving too early. Loose explained that he and Newton…
Kalshi has raised a $185 million round led by a crypto-centric VC company paradigm, bringing the company’s valuation to $2 billion in money, with representatives from Paradigm and Kalshi confirmed to TechCrunch. “The forecast market reminds me of Crypto 15 years ago,” said Matt Fan, co-founder and managing partner of Paradigm. “There’s no better team to expand the forecast market than calci and reshape what people think about everything, from elections and economic markets to weather and sports.” The Wall Street Journal first reported on the round. The news comes a day after Bloomberg reported that Calci’s biggest but regulatory…
New research suggests that the mystical “rogue” pair of Jupiter-sized objects discovered by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are only a small part of what was originally formed. This finding suggests that these enigmatic entities, called “Jumbos,” are rarer than previously thought, and raise questions about their very existence.Jumbos, short for “Jupiter-Mass binary object,” is a pair of planet-like Jupiter-sized objects discovered by JWST in the trapezoidal region of an Orion Nebula cluster in 2023. Jumbo members do not bring stars into orbit. Instead, they rotate towards each other at a distance of about 25 to 400 astronomical units, floating…
Elon Musk’s Xai is subject to scrutiny in Memphis, where the natural gas turbine running the Colossus Data Center is causing vigilance among residents concerned about air pollution. On Tuesday, the city of Memphis released the results of a third-party initial air quality test, saying the levels of the 10 pollutants they tested were not dangerous. However, the Southern Environmental Law Centre (SELC), which threatens to sue Xai on behalf of the NAACP, said ozone, a key pollutant, also known as smog, was omitted in the test. “It is unclear why the city does not test this harmful contaminant,” SELC…
The rare mammoth fang boomerang discovered in a Polish cave is 40,000 years old. New research finds Europe’s first example of this complex tool and perhaps the oldest boomerang in the world.”The Ivory Object has all the features of the boomerang used by Aboriginals in Queensland today,” co-author Paweł Valde-Nowak, an archaeologist at Jagielonian University in Krakow, Poland, told Live Science in an email. “Its arched shape, flat convex surface and dimensions match the Queensland boomerang that doesn’t return to the thrower,” he said.A new study published on Wednesday (June 25) in Journal Plos One shows that the curved throwing…