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Elon Musk's xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity as it steps up challenge to OpenAI

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-08-22 15:37:27

Elon Musk announced his new company xAI, which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. XAI, the artificial intelligence startup run by Elon Musk, raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley said. Half of that sum was clinched through secured notes and term loans, while a separate $5 billion was secured through strategic equity investment, the bank said on Monday. The funding gives xAI more firepower to build out infrastructure and develop its G

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I just can’t imagine using YouTube Music, so why do you?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-22 17:45:02

Joe Maring / Android Authority 🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. Not too long ago, I was a loyal Google Play Music user. It was an app that I loved dearly, offering great usability and a wide range of music. However, when the vastly different YouTube Music arrived and Play Music departed, I sought another service. I couldn’t quite get to grips with the changes, a

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Can this cheap Amazon multitool get the job done? Here's my expert advice

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-22 15:30:15

ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon Basics' 15-in-1 stainless steel multitool is available at Amazon for about $13. It's a well-made 15-in-1 with a myriad of useful tools, and the price can't be beat. Not every tool will be useful for everyone - I've never used a fish scaler or hook remover. $11.89 at Amazon The Amazon Basics 15-in-1 stainless steel multitool with a pocket knife is currently on sale for $10, or 22% off its original price. I've been covering lots of budget multitools lately -- the s

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Apple Music just dropped 10 years of your favorite jams into one playlist - how to listen

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-08-22 19:00:19

Apple / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Apple is launching a new version of its annual Replay playlist called Replay All Time. Interestingly, instead of only tracking the tunes you've streamed most in the past calendar year, it goes all the way back to when you first subscribed. Also: iOS 26 just solved one of my biggest pain points with Apple Music So, if you've been an Apple Music user since the service first launched, you should see a consolidated view of your decade-long listening habits. Th

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Tesla's Robotaxi Program Is Failing Because Elon Musk Made a Foolish Decision Years Ago

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-22 20:51:55

A shortsighted design decision that Elon Musk made more than a decade ago is once again coming back to haunt Tesla. As The Guardian reports, the company's Robotaxi rollout has been a massive bust — due, in at least in part, to Musk's long-ago bet against the light detection and ranging sensors known as lidar, which are hardware that allow cars to "sense" their surroundings far more sensitively than the visual cameras that Tesla is instead using as the inputs for itse self-driving software. Way

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Elon Says He’s Launching ‘the America Party’ to Compete With Democrats and Republicans If Budget Bill Passes

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-08-22 21:36:18

Elon Musk is threatening to launch his own political party called the America Party if President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” passes. And while the billionaire oligarch already suggested the idea almost a month ago after his falling out with Trump, he seems serious this time. “If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day,” Musk tweeted on Monday. “Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people actual

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The Real Emotion That Brought the Earworms of ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ to Life

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-08-23 05:15:53

Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix have a hit on their hands with KPop Demon Hunters, the fantasy action film that’s given us a trio of new heroines who slay evil while singing truly infectious music. The pop tracks stay with you long after the movie’s over, and it’s a testament to the incredible collaboration between the filmmakers, Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, and songwriter EJAE. The musician known for her work with K-pop artists TWICE and Red Velvet, among others, had been tapped to wo

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Instagram now lets you share Spotify songs with sound to Stories

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-08-23 13:48:24

Instagram announced Monday that it’s finally adding the ability for users to listen to previews of songs that they’ve shared from Spotify to Stories. While Instagram has long allowed users to share Spotify songs to their Stories, it would do so without sound, and simply provide a link to the song on the streaming platform. Now, when a user posts a song to their Story, viewers will be able to listen to a preview of the song right within Instagram. The small change, yet notable change makes it e

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Here's How to See Your Most-Played Songs of All Time on Apple Music

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-23 16:01:00

Apple Music is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with a few nostalgic gifts for longtime listeners. On Monday, the music service launched a new Replay: All-Time feature that shows you your most-streamed songs, albums and artists. The new personalized section expands on Apple's annual Replay summaries by tapping into your full listening history since you first subscribed. For me, that was over a year ago when I bought a pair of Beats Studio Pro and received 3 months of Apple Music for free. An

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Songscription launches an AI-powered ‘Shazam for sheet music’

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-23 17:41:19

A small company called Songscription launched last week with AI models that automate music transcription, turning an audio file of a song into sheet music within minutes. Operating on a freemium model, the product is geared toward both professional and hobbyist musicians. “We hope to make playing music more enjoyable,” Andrew Carlins, CEO of Songscription and a student in Stanford’s MBA/MA in Education program, told TechCrunch. “We imagine a future where a rural Nebraska high school band teache

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An "Indie Rock Band" That Appears to Be Entirely AI-Generated Is Making Alarming Amounts of Money on Spotify

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-23 20:13:41

While real artists struggle to earn money on Spotify, a seemingly AI-generated "band" has garnered enough streams to actually make a buck. As Music Ally reports, the act in question, The Velvet Sundown, recently appeared out of the blue on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, and even YouTube — despite having no digital footprint prior to this summer. Despite being so seemingly young, The Velvet Sundown — whose name is a clear ripoff of Lou Reed's legendary psych-rock band The Velvet Un

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Elon Musk Is Back at Tesla, but the Magic Might Be Gone

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-24 05:49:29

Elon Musk and Tesla. Tesla and Elon Musk. The future of America’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer has always been tied to its charismatic and controversial CEO. Conversely, a significant portion of the self-described Techno King’s immense fortune is built on Tesla. Their destinies are linked. As Musk goes, so goes Tesla. A month after his chaotic exit from the Trump administration, the CEO has returned to the company full time, attempting to stabilize a brand whose reputation has been bad

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Apple Music marks 10 years of streaming with a new all-time Replay list

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-08-24 05:25:43

Apple Music is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its streaming service by giving users a throwback to their favorite hits over the last decade. “Replay All Time” — a special version of Apple Music’s annual Replay experience — is being launched for subscribers that allows them to view and listen to their most played songs since joining the platform. The personalized Replay All Time playlist will be available from the Apple Music Home tab. If you joined the service back when it first launche

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Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold’

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-24 05:47:13

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Automattic’s plan to move Tumblr’s backend over to WordPress is now “on hold,” Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg says in a Decoder episode published today. The company announced the plan to move over the more than half a billion blogs on Tumblr last year, saying that the change would “make it easier to share our work across platforms.” But Mullenweg says on Decoder th

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Apple Music launching Replay All Time, revealing your most streamed music ever

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-24 13:20:45

Apple Music celebrates 10 years today since its June 30, 2015 launch. To mark the occasion, Apple has announced several new initiatives, including a ‘Replay All Time’ playlist where users can see their most streamed music since joining Apple Music, plus a new top 500 countdown, an LA-based “global hub for artists,” and more. Apple marks 10 years of Apple Music with several new announcements Today as Apple Music turns 10, Apple has announced several ways it’s marking the occasion. Replay All T

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Louvre shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism

news.ycombinator.com Thomas Adamson 2025-08-25 03:24:54

PARIS — The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror, and pandemic — but on Monday, it was brought to a halt by its own striking staff, who say the institution is crumbling under the weight of mass tourism . It was an almost unthinkable sight: the home to works by Leonardo da Vinci and millennia of civilization’s greatest treasures — paralyzed by the very people tasked with welcoming the world to its galleries. Thousand

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Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 23:37:21

Gridfinity could be your workshop's ultimate modular storage system to keep you productive, organized, and safe. It is free, open source, and almost 100% 3D printable. Alexander Chappels Assortment System, licensed under CC-A-NC-SA, partly inspired Zack Freedman's initial designs of Gridfinity. The Gridfinity designs were first released in the video "Gridfinity: Your Ultimate Modular Workshop is FREE!" as a framework for the community to extend, released under the MIT license. Now Gridfinity i

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‘Tron: Ares’ Will Have Nine Inch Nails at Their Most Industrial Rock

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-08-24 19:50:24

More than anything, folks are excited for Tron: Ares because of its soundtrack. In a first for the duo in their time as film composers, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are going by “Nine Inch Nails” for their work on the threequel, and that means they’re leaning fully into their rock band history. Speaking to Empire Magazine, Reznor said the Ares soundtrack features “not one second of orchestra.” In fact, he went so far as to call the music not just different from the first two films (respectivel

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Tesla's IPO was 15 years ago. The stock is up almost 300-fold since then

cnbc.com Ari Levy Lora Kolodny 2025-08-24 17:00:01

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk waves after ringing the opening bell at the NASDAQ market in celebration of his company's initial public offering in New York June 29, 2010. Brendan McDermid | Reuters At the time of Tesla's IPO 15 years ago, the company had generated roughly $150 million in revenue in its lifetime. That came almost entirely from the Roadster, a two-seat electric sportscar that boasted a range of 236 miles on a s

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‘We are the media now’: why Tesla’s robotaxis were dominated by Elon Musk superfans

theverge.com Mack Degeurin 2025-08-24 18:30:00

Over the years, Tesla has built part of its reputation on hosting big, bold events to generate authentic hype for upcoming releases. The robotaxi launch in Austin, Texas, last week wasn’t one of them. Coverage of the rollout was dominated by a close-knit cohort of Tesla influencers and Elon Musk superfans, many of whom are openly supportive of the CEO’s vision. Journalists and tech bloggers who might have been more critical of the technology were not only excluded but also actively ridiculed an

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Trump says he’s found a buyer for TikTok

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-08-24 22:53:48

In Brief A group of “very wealthy people” is set to buy short-form video app TikTok, according to President Donald Trump. “We have a buyer for TikTok, by the way,” Trump said in a Fox News interview on Sunday morning. “I think I’ll need probably China’s approval. I think President Xi [Jinping] will probably do it.” Trump declined to share more details about the buyers, saying only that he would reveal their identities in two weeks (apparently his favorite unit of time). Trump has repeatedly

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I can’t believe how far Switch emulation has come in the year since Nintendo killed it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-24 21:30:37

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority It’s been a few weeks since the Nintendo Switch 2 hit shelves, but if we’re being perfectly honest, there’s not much reason to buy one yet. I’ve been revisiting my OG Switch to stave off the FOMO, but I was sad to learn that my left Joy-Con now drifts so badly that Link runs in circles like he’s drunk in Breath of the Wild. Instead of shelling out $40 for another Joy-Con with a ticking drift timer, I reached for something I hadn’t touched in a while: Switch e

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Is being bilingual good for your brain?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 08:50:19

R eams of papers have been published on the cognitive advantages of multilingualism. Beyond the conversational doors it can open, multilingualism is supposed to improve “executive function”, a loose concept that includes the ability to ignore distractions, plan complex tasks and update beliefs as new information arrives. Most striking, numerous studies have even shown that bilinguals undergo a later onset of dementia, perhaps of around four years, on average. But some of these studies have faile

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Community Is Motivation on Tap

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 20:13:43

Community is Motivation on Tap A good community can have tremendous influence on one’s motivation. I never appreciated this fact enough so I wanted to write about it here. Looking at successful athletes, founders, musicians, game speedrunners, or overachievers in any area, they seem to have unlimited motivation to do loads of tedious work or practice. One might say they are interested in the work itself, but how inherently interesting can beating super mario 1ms faster be? The work of a founde

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The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

news.ycombinator.com Luc Rinaldi 2025-08-24 14:06:31

Rollie Pemberton was barely a teenager when he started rapping. His hometown, Edmonton, didn’t have much of a hip-hop scene in the early aughts, so he honed his craft online. He plugged an old-school microphone into his mom’s desktop computer, recorded a few verses, later turned them into tracks, and sent them out into the burgeoning music blogosphere. Within a few years, he’d adopted the emcee name Cadence Weapon and earned a reputation as a shrewd critic and sharp lyricist. This work didn’t p

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The ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Trailer Locks In For the End

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-08-24 15:50:02

Shonen fans have had eyes on Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba since it dropped in 2019, and it’s making its way back to the big screen. Sony and Crunchyroll released the first trailer for the series’ upcoming Infinity Castle movie, which will be the first in a trilogy that’s rtaking big steps toward wrapping things up. Based on the manga’s arc of the same name (which spans Chapters 140-183) and picking up after the end of season four, the members of the Slayer Corps have been transported into the

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I’d give everything for a pre-configured Android gaming handheld

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-24 16:00:34

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority Retro gaming handhelds have come a long way in the past few years, but there’s still one big sticking point: the setup. Every time a new handheld comes in for review, I have to spend hours installing emulators, fixing folder structures, and configuring a frontend. Once that’s done, I still have to configure settings and shaders for each console individually, which requires arcane knowledge in popular emulators like RetroArch. Compared to Linux-based handheld

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Decoding Tesla’s New “Fully Autonomous” Car Video—and What It Isn’t Telling You

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-24 14:50:31

Elon Musk’s Tesla has dropped a 30-minute video designed to electrify fans and stir debate. Posted on June 28, the clip shows what Musk claims is a historic milestone: the first Tesla Model Y to drive itself from factory to customer home, without a person inside, and without remote operation. “The first fully autonomous delivery of a Tesla Model Y from factory to a customer home across town, including highways, was just completed a day ahead of schedule!!” Musk posted on X (formerly Twitter) on

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Robotic sucker can adapt to surroundings like an actual octopus

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-24 13:00:02

Some of the most ingenious tech has been inspired by nature. From color-changing materials that function like cephalopod skin to a tiny biomimetic robot that looks and moves like an actual cockroach, the extraordinary adaptations of some organisms have upgraded our technological capabilities. Now the octopus is lending an arm—or a sucker. Octopus tentacles have remarkably strong suckers with an adhesion power that could be an asset to soft robots that need to pick things up and hold onto them.

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In a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no leader

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-24 15:32:57

It’s a tumultuous time for copyright in the United States, with dozens of potentially economy-shaking AI copyright lawsuits winding through the courts. It’s also the most turbulent moment in the US Copyright Office’s history. Described as “sleepy” in the past, the Copyright Office has taken on new prominence during the AI boom, issuing key rulings about AI and copyright. It also hasn’t had a leader in more than a month. In May, Copyright Register Shira Perlmutter was abruptly fired by email by

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