Two college students raise $5.1 million pre-seed to build AI social network on iMessage
Social networking app Series announced it has raised $5.1 million in a pre-seed round with investors including Venmo co-founder Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Pear VC, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and GPTZero founder Edward Tian. The company was founded early last year by Yale University students Nathaneo Johnson and Sean Hargrow. Both are still fourth year university students. […]
The meta’s loss is the thinking machine’s gain.
Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta, his first job out of college, where he helped build multimodal perception systems and contributed to open-world segmentation projects, including SAM3D. His last day at Meta was last week, and he has since joined the Thinking Machines Lab (TML). His move to TML comes as the AI startup […]
Google invests up to $40 billion in cash and compute in Anthropic
Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic to support the AI company’s growing computing needs, Bloomberg reports. According to Anthropic, the Alphabet subsidiary currently plans to invest $10 billion at Anthropic’s valuation of $350 billion, and an additional $30 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance goals. The investment commitment comes after Anthropic […]
Scientists say building a massive dam between Alaska and Russia could prevent AMOC from collapsing
Building a giant dam between Russia and Alaska could save Atlantic flow, which is important for regulating northern Europe’s climate. But that massive undertaking comes with other risks, researchers explain in a new study. By cutting the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic Ocean across the Bering Strait, the giant geoengineering project could buy more time […]
FIRESTARTER backdoor hits federal Cisco Firepower devices, survives security patch
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed that Cisco Firepower devices at an unnamed federal civilian agency running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software were compromised by malware known as FIRESTARTER in September 2025. According to CISA and the UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), FIRESTARTER has been assessed as a backdoor designed […]
Marked-up Mac minis flood on eBay amid AI-induced shortage
Amidst a shortage of sold-out machines, overpriced Mac minis are flooding eBay, making them a popular tool for running on-device AI models like OpenClaw. According to reports this week, the $599 M4 Mac mini base model with 16GB RAM and 256GB of storage is sold out on Apple’s retail website, with no delivery or in-store […]
“Brain-eating” amoebas are almost always fatal. A new treatment could change that.
On a hot Saturday in San Antonio more than 10 years ago, an 8-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital with several days of fever, headache, vomiting, and sensitivity to light. The child’s mother, who lived near the Texas-Mexico border, took her son to multiple clinics in Mexico, but his condition worsened. The child became […]
New York City is at great risk of flooding, study finds 4.4 million people could be exposed to extreme damage
Eight cities on the U.S. East Coast are at high or very high risk of “extreme” flooding based on current scenarios, with New York and New Orleans facing some of the greatest risks, a new study has found. Fifty percent of New York City’s population (approximately 4.4 million people) is most likely to be affected […]
Nuclear startup X-energy raises $1 billion in data center-led IPO
Nuclear startup X Energy raised $1 billion in an initial public offering yesterday, selling 44.3 million shares for $23 per share, a hefty premium over the $16 to $19 per share the company was seeking. The company originally hoped to raise about $800 million. The stock is scheduled to begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange […]
‘A whole new reality’: Bolder measures needed to prevent extreme water shortages in cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas that depend on the Colorado River
A recent study found that even if cities in the region such as Denver, Phoenix and Las Vegas drastically cut back on water use, the 40 million people who live in areas served by the Colorado River would face catastrophic water shortages. Water shortages could begin as early as this summer, experts told Live Science, […]