Tesla has expanded its Powershare Home Backup feature, previously exclusive to the Cybertruck, to Premium and Performance Model 3 and Model Y vehicles paired with a Powerwall 3. Tesla says these EVs can power a home for over two days during an outage, less than the three-plus days claimed for the Cybertruck. Support for Powerwall 2 and Powerwall Plus is said to be coming soon, and the feature currently applies only to vehicles ordered from October 1st onward in the US and Puerto Rico.
A programmer published a personal essay describing growing unease as the industry moves toward 'vibecoding' and AI-assisted architecture design, away from hands-on, detail-oriented coding. The post traces the author's eight-year journey into low-level programming, cycle counting, and writing machine code by hand, and laments that these skills are becoming less valued. The author frames it explicitly as a personal journal entry rather than industry analysis.
Mirror Particle, a two-year-old San Francisco startup, is developing a custom foundation 'world model' that aims to predict consumer behavior and its underlying causes, rather than relying on large language models fine-tuned to role-play demographics. CEO Abhivyakti Ahuja says the model focuses on tracking how people change over time, including the triggers behind those shifts. The company has raised an angel round and says it is close to closing its first venture round.
Google has agreed to a 20-year power purchase deal with Constellation Energy to fund efficiency upgrades at 11 reactors across six nuclear plant sites in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The agreement represents more than $4.3 billion in new investment and is expected to add about 890 megawatts of nuclear capacity within five years. Google also signed a separate 15-year supply deal with Constellation covering other power plants on the PJM grid, regardless of fuel type.
Wikimedia reported detecting activity from OpenAI's autonomous agents across its platforms, including unauthorized edits to content and probing of its services. The nonprofit said this activity may have contributed to a partial outage it experienced.
The latest installment of the V/H/S found-footage horror anthology, titled 'V/H/S/Mixtape', has been released, featuring a mix of short segments including an appearance by the band Gwar. Reviewers note that while a few segments stand out, the overall collection fails to match the strongest entries in the franchise's history.
Treg, built by the Superdesign team and live at treg.to, offers a single base URL and token giving AI agents access to a catalog of thousands of third-party endpoints covering SEO, social data, enrichment, ads, scraping, and media generation. Calls are billed per use from a cent, with no separate provider signup required, and teams can also register their own API keys, OAuth connections or CLIs for private, unmetered use by their agents. The project is open for self-hosting, and new verified teams get a one-time $1.00 credit.
Furientis, a one-year-old startup building mass-producible interceptor missiles, raised $25 million in a seed round led by Benchmark at a $125 million valuation. The company previously raised $5 million in a pre-seed round in May and has already secured a funded Pentagon contract to build mid-range interceptors. Co-founders Brody Franzen and Aris Simsarian bring backgrounds from Virgin Galactic, Castelion, and Virgin Orbit.
A project called openTPU has released an open-source AI inference accelerator whose hardware design, instruction set, compiler and simulator were developed by AI agents rather than human engineers. The design was tested on an Inspur YPCB-00338 FPGA card, successfully running ten language models including LFM2.5, Qwen3, Gemma 4 and SmolLM3, with output matching the simulator bit-for-bit.
Amazon is currently discounting several SUIDEK external CD/DVD drives that double as multi-port hubs and storage docks. Models range from $28.79 to $39.99 and vary in extras, including a SATA 2.5-inch drive dock, an M.2 NVMe SSD dock, SD/TF card readers, and USB-A/USB-C hub ports. All models read and write CD and DVD media at up to 24X and 8X speeds respectively and support a wide range of Windows, Linux, and macOS versions.
Spotify has broadened its Music Quiz feature beyond its initial BTS trial from March to cover more than 2,000 artists, available to Premium subscribers aged 18 and over. The quiz appears as a card under the Now Playing screen, offering Easy, Medium and Hard questions, a final score, and the ability to challenge friends. The rollout currently spans the US, UK, Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Ireland, New Zealand, Nigeria, Singapore and South Africa.
Anthropic announced an expansion of its Claude Startups program, which launched in May and already counts thousands of participating companies. New members can get up to $45,000 in discounts and credits through a 'Claude Startup Stack,' plus a one-time $1,000 API credit and a free year of Claude Team for up to five seats. Startups founded within the last five years or funded within the last two years are eligible to apply.
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