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Edge-AI chipmaker SiMa.ai closed a $150 million Series C round co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify, with Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, and StepStone Group also participating. The deal values the company at $1.45 billion, up from a $960 million valuation after its July 2025 Series B, and brings total funding raised to over $500 million.
Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien won France's Prix du Roman Fnac for his debut novel 'C'était ça ou mourir,' and the book has also been shortlisted for the Goncourt, Renaudot, Femina and Médicis prizes. A French watchdog group called Balance ton Claude claims AI-detection tests on multiple passages returned '100% AI' results, an accusation Orélien and his publishers have rejected.
Bose is rolling out firmware update 10.12.12 for its QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen), adding Bluetooth LE Audio support that enables Auracast broadcasting and streaming via the LC3 codec. The update also improves USB-C audio for voice calls and gaming microphone use, and adds 5.1 spatial audio support for compatible Android devices, with beta access starting this week through the Bose app.
Instinct, maker of a viral AI assistant that performs tasks like booking travel and making calls on users' behalf, has raised $1 billion in a Series C round led by investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue. The round values the company at $10 billion, just a month after a prior raise valued it at $2.5 billion, and comes roughly a year after its invite-only launch in August 2026.
Bose has opened pre-orders for its first wired earbuds in over a decade, using a USB-C connector instead of Bluetooth or a 3.5mm jack. The earbuds include an in-line remote, IPX4 water resistance, and a carrying case, drawing power directly from the connected device with no app required. They launch October 15 in black, white, and a limited mint color, available via Bose's site and select Best Buy stores.
A visit to the British Interplanetary Society's London headquarters, the world's oldest space advocacy group founded in 1933, finds members like 71-year-old fellow Jerry Stone still preoccupied with the prospect of human missions to Mars. The society's library holds decades' worth of books and speculative literature on Martian exploration, propulsion systems and colonization schemes.
Researchers at Suntory Global Innovation Center in Kyoto inserted genes from Canterbury bells, wishbone flowers and clustered gentian into a pink rose to produce both blue pigments and colorless co-pigment molecules that deepen color. The combination yielded flowers rated violet-blue on a standard color chart, a shade beyond the purplish tone of Suntory's earlier 2004 genetically modified rose. The company announced the results August 25 at the International Horticultural Congress in Kyoto, noting the plants stayed blue through seven years of greenhouse trials in Japan and three years of field trials in Colombia.
A 2013 article originally published in Programista magazine (issue 4/2013) discusses techniques for writing high-performance C++ code, emphasizing that choosing a native language alone does not guarantee efficiency. The piece outlines why C++ occupies a middle ground between high-level convenience and low-level hardware access, citing manual memory management and lack of a garbage collector as key differentiators from managed languages.
A federal appeals court has ruled against Anthropic in its dispute with the Pentagon, upholding the government's designation of the AI company as a supply chain risk. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided 2-1 in favor of the Defense Department, rejecting Anthropic's legal challenge to the label.
Amazon is selling the Razer Kishi V3 Pro XL, a USB-C telescopic game controller for large tablets, at $159.99, a $40 cut from its $199.99 list price. The accessory is designed for iPad and Android tablets up to 13 inches, featuring full-size TMR thumbsticks, passthrough charging and a headphone jack, and supports native mobile games, cloud gaming and remote play.
An educational retrospective on teaching C explains why types like int, short, and long have no fixed bit-width in the language specification. The author recounts how sizeof(int) returned 2 bytes on old 386 machines versus 4 bytes on most modern systems, and recommends students use the stdint.h header for fixed-width types like int8_t and uint16_t when consistent sizes are required.
A programmer wrote a functioning ray tracer entirely in Brainfuck, the minimalist esoteric language with just eight operations and a single tape of byte cells. The project, named rayfuck, was inspired by a CMake documentation aside noting that ray tracers have been implemented in CMake's own scripting language, prompting the author to attempt an even more extreme example in BF. The source code has been published on GitHub under mTvare6/rayfuck.