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Jensen Huang pulls out of ElevenLabs Summit amid Nvidia controversy: The Nvidia CEO also pulled out of an Anthropic event earlier. Read More

Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns: Anthropic says the new models "show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision," as well as in communicating more clearly with users. Read More

AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months: Nominal, a startup that offers an AI platform for hardware engineering and claims Anduril as a major customer, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation. Read More

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Musk says Tesla will refund some Cybertruck deposits, defends decision to end production: Elon Musk defended the company's decision to stop making the Cybertruck, which will go out of production in around eight months. Read More

Meet Drops, the new music app bringing back the fun of sharing songs with friends: The new music discovery app lets users scroll through 10- to 30-second snippets of songs, comment, and share with friends. Read More

Uber launches parking service following SpotHero acquisition, with an eye on robotaxis: Uber Parking is the latest example of the company offering products beyond its core ride-hailing service. Read More

Fervo now has $12B in orders for its geothermal power tech: Geothermal company Fervo is targeting natural gas as it brings down geothermal drilling costs at its 8.4 GW resource in Utah. Read More

Automattic debuts a platform to deploy vibe-coding apps amid a changing internet: Automattic aims to compete with the likes of Lovable with Spacefast. Read More

Last but Not Least

Waymo robotaxis kept illegally passing school buses after software fix, feds say: The update to Waymo's self-driving system was rolled out nearly a year ago. Read More