Mission Burns bets that animal-free pork fat will make artificial meat delicious
My old colleague always had a curious lofcicious request at lunchtime. For health reasons, he was a vegetarian, but he still missed the taste of ground beef. There he asked the cafeteria chef for a vegetable burger cooked next to a beef pate. The permeated grease tasted much better as a plant alternative. People at […]
The new AI coding challenge has revealed the first results – and they are not pretty
The new AI coding challenge revealed the first winner and set up a new bar for software engineers with AI. At 5pm on Wednesday, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced the first winners of the K Award, a multi-round AI coding challenge launched by Databricks and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski. The winner was a Brazilian prompt […]
Trump’s “antiwake AI” orders can reconstruct how US tech companies train their models
When Deepseek, Alibaba and other Chinese companies released AI models, Western researchers quickly realized that they avoided questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. US officials later confirmed that these tools were designed to reflect Beijing’s topics and raised concerns about censorship and bias. American AI leaders like Openai have pointed out that there is […]
Sundar Pichai is “very excited” about Google Cloud’s Openai partnership
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he is “extremely excited” with Openai, the biggest competitor of AI search giants, and as part of his recent partnership, he offers cloud computing resources to train and serve the company’s AI models. “As for Openai, we are extremely excited to partner with them on Google Cloud,” Pichai said Wednesday […]
Tesla profits reduced due to lower EV sales and regulatory units
The decline in EV sales was sacrificed by lower average sales prices, lower cash due to regulatory units, and lower solar and energy storage revenues, as well as Tesla’s revenues in the second quarter of 2025, with a 17% increase in revenues for services businesses, including capital generated from the supercharge network, not enough to […]
Trump’s AI Action Plan aims to block chip exports to China, but there are no important details
The Trump administration hopes that AI technology will be seen as an industry leader both in-home soil and overseas. But it also does not want US AI capabilities to empower or burn foreign enemies. That’s quite a balance. If President Trump’s AI Action Plan released on Wednesday is any indicator, the administration appears to be […]
Former Y Combinator, A16Z Experts Hold an Invitation-Only Summit for Founders
On August 9th, those who previously ran the Startup Incubator Y Combinator events and PR are holding a small invitation-only event with former Andreessen Horowitz social media manager. The To Do List Summit concludes with 80 early-stage founders, and teaches them how to work with the media to run their own social media, organizers promise. […]
Trump’s AI strategy will trade guardrails for racial growth with China
The Trump administration released its highly planned AI action plan on Wednesday. This has stripped a sharp shift from former President Biden’s careful approach to addressing AI risks, instead building AI infrastructure, cutting red tape for high-tech companies, strengthening national security and moving forward with plans to compete with China. This downstream impact of this […]
The UK targets Regulation’s Apple and Google mobile platforms
The UK’s Competitive Markets Agency (CMA) announced on Wednesday a proposal to give Apple and Google’s mobile platforms a “strategic market situation.” This is to allow regulators to create rules that can change how the app store works and change how mobile software works. This move is designed to create a more open and competitive […]
Trick Robotics Using UV Light to Reduce Pesticide Use in Strawberries
Strawberry is the most popular berries in the United States for both consumers and farmers. It is also a consistent list of the environmental working group’s “dirty dozen” list, some of the most pesticide-dependent fruits, and the most contaminated produce. San Luis Obispo, a California-based Tric Robotics, believes strawberry farmers will help reduce chemical use […]