SpaceX’s data centers and Grok agents were more profitable than investors expected in the third quarter of the year, as the company leaves its roots as a space company behind to focus on artificial intelligence, which now makes up 52% of its income. CEO Elon Musk’s deep tech conglomerate reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue…
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Dennis Crowley says Foursquare shareholders received no payout from the Infillion deal. The transaction price was not publicly disclosed.
Pakistani players celebrate after winning the fourth match of the ODI tri-series against England at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on October 25, 2026. — Reuters Pakistan were nine wickets down for 154 at one stage. Shadab, Rauf share crucial 89-run tenth-wicket stand. Shadab survives LBW scare after last-ditch review. Shadab Khan smashed his maiden ODI century…
The ITF W15 Islamabad tournament brought international players to Pakistan. Here are the confirmed results and remarks about women’s tennis.
UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab built LEANN, an open-source vector index that stores almost no embeddings. The LEANN vector index recomputes embeddings at query time instead of saving them to disk. The repo benchmark shows a 60 million chunk Wikipedia index dropping from 201 GB to 6 GB. The research…
Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers released TokenGate, a module for long-context prefill. TokenGate learned token pruning lets an existing LLM skim its input. Only the tokens that matter get full processing. The research team reports 1.4x to 11.3x faster time-to-first-token (TTFT) with no accuracy loss. Peak prefill memory drops 1.5x…
Jack Dorsey’s Block released a new voice model out of the company’s research lab that runs locally and sounds strangely human with its expressions like laughs, pauses, and cries. The company said the model, called Dessa, is trained fully on human speech and a single NVIDIA GPU. Dessa is a full-duplex model, which means it…
BERLIN: Newly-crowned Ballon d’Or winner Harry Kane was left on the bench as Bayern Munich sailed to a 6-1 win over second-tier Magdeburg in the German Cup last 32 on Wednesday. Bayern had no difficulty without their star striker, with Michael Olise grabbing a double and Ismael Saibari, Alphonso Davies, Nathaniel Brown and teenager David…
Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. New research shared exclusively with Kernel Panic shows that hackers have started adding AI functionality into a new strain…
