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Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.

It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.

Claude in Chrome is now Claude Cowork.

Anthropic updated its Chrome extension so using the side panel bot now saves chats to your history, where you can continue them outside in the browser in Claude’s desktop, web, or mobile apps.

Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now

Streaming platform says user-generated content “may be used for future Gen AI model improvements.”

Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out

"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."

This 2020 Nvidia chip is still going strong. That matters for the AI boom.

CoreWeave recently rented Nvidia A100 GPUs into 2029, suggesting AI chips stay useful and hold their value far longer than critics feared.

AI & Tech Brief: The Memory Crunch

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It looks like Apple’s iPhone 18 really will skip the fall launch this year

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AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation

Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise

Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.

Tyga is the first artist to get a 0.0 from Pitchfork in 20 years for his AI synth-slop album.

The rapper admitted to using AI on his ’80s-tinged $TARFACE project and received a rare zero. Jet was the last to receive the dishonor in 2006 for Shine On. Pitchfork pulls no punches, saying:

Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI

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Can robotaxis think more like humans?

How do you build an autonomous vehicle? Most self-driving car companies teach their models the rules of the road and pack cars with sophisticated sensors. But Wayve, a British startup, has a different approach. The company uses deep learning to train an “AI driver” for autonomous vehicles. In recent days, Wayve, in partnership with Uber, has been granted the first licences to operate robotaxis in London. Will their human-inspired cars finally transform city streets? We sit down with the company’s CEO, Alex Kendall, to find out.