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Finance
Kalshi, a regulated U.S.-based prediction market platform, has secured a significant $185 million funding round led by crypto-centric venture capital firm Paradigm, bringing its post-money valuation to $2 billion. The deal, confirmed by both Kalshi and Paradigm to TechCrunch, marks one of the biggest milestones to date in
Media
Over the past year, Meta's Threads team has been steadily building toward deeper integration with the fediverse, a decentralized network of interconnected social platforms like Mastodon and Flipboard. Now, in what marks its most significant step yet, Threads is launching a dedicated feed for fediverse content and adding
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Groq, a fast-rising startup in the artificial intelligence inference space, has announced two major moves that signal a direct challenge to the dominance of cloud behemoths Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft. The company unveiled support for the massive Qwen3 32B language model — including its unprecedented 131,000-token context window
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Chinese AI startup MiniMax has made a bold move in the global AI race with the release of its newest large language model, MiniMax-M1. Known in the West for its photorealistic AI video model Hailuo, the company is now turning heads with a large language model that not only pushes
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral has officially entered the competitive field of reasoning models with the launch of Magistral, its newest model family designed to tackle complex, multi-step problems across domains like mathematics, physics, and structured decision-making. Introducing Magistral: Mistral’s Reasoning-Focused Models Unveiled on Tuesday, Magistral marks a strategic
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Telegram is diving deeper into the AI race, announcing a landmark partnership with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI. As part of the agreement, xAI’s Grok chatbot will be integrated directly into the Telegram messaging platform and its app ecosystem for at least one year. The deal is
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
French AI startup Mistral is making a bold move into the enterprise AI space with the launch of Le Chat Enterprise, a ChatGPT-style assistant designed specifically for businesses that demand privacy, customization, and seamless integration across workflows. Powered by Mistral Medium 3, the company’s latest proprietary model, Le Chat
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
A team at Hugging Face has unveiled a new web-based AI experiment known as the Open Computer Agent — a freely accessible, cloud-hosted system designed to control a virtual computer in real-time. While still in its early stages, this agent reflects the growing potential of open-source AI tools to mimic human
Cybersecurity
Tools for Humanity, the startup co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has officially launched its World identity verification system across the United States. This marks a significant milestone for the ambitious project, which uses biometric scanning to authenticate human identity in an increasingly AI-dominated digital landscape. During a recent launch
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
JetBrains, the renowned software company behind popular development tools like IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm, has officially released its first open AI model for code generation. The model, named Mellum, is now available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license — a move signaling JetBrains’ deeper commitment to accessible and
Decentralization
The open social web, known as the fediverse — a decentralized ecosystem of apps like Mastodon, Threads by Meta, and Pixelfed — is taking a big step forward in strengthening its digital defenses. On Wednesday, the Nivenly Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to governance in open source, announced a new security fund aimed
Tech Insights
Messaging platform Telegram has officially surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, according to its founder and CEO Pavel Durov — marking a major milestone for the app known for its privacy-first approach and fiercely independent stance. The announcement, made on Durov’s personal Telegram channel, was more than just a victory