Science
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70Oura is going public, but these smart ring companies are coming for its crown
While Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, a growing number of rivals are now racing to dethrone it...
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46Life uses 4 DNA letters. Scientists just made 8 work
Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet, doubling the four...
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XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth. Less than three months after emerging from...
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OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control...
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AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming...
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Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now
A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned...
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What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus,...
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No little kids allowed, and other new info about Tesla’s Cybercab
The company says no children under 13 can ride — even with a parent. That’s more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs...
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Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
It’s the latest failure of OpenAI’s internal monitoring and security systems. A group of independent AI researchers discovered that internally deployed OpenAI...
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CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom
U.S. CD revenue jumped 58.6% in the first half of 2026, reversing last year’s decline as interest in retro tech and physical...
