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The digital legacy problem: what happens to the people behind the memories?

The Pew Research Center’s 2025 survey found that 84% of U.S. adults use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, and 50% use Instagram, illustrating how deeply everyday expression has moved onto digital platforms. The Library of Congress explains that digital materials can be harder to preserve than physical materials because access depends on changing technologies, formats, and […]

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Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck with open-source software

Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and shipping. The Bordeaux company is owned by the AI platform Hugging Face. Its new machine has one eye and 15 motors, stands 25cm tall, and weighs under 800g. Preorders opened on Thursday. Pollen is targeting first deliveries […]

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The stealth model that beat DeepSeek belongs to Zhipu

Z.AI made it. The Beijing company, also known as Zhipu, owns the free model that took the top of OpenRouter’s charts last weekend. It confirmed on Wednesday that Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series, and said it would release the weights the same night. Luz Ding got the confirmation for Bloomberg. […]

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Emerald AI raises $150mn at a $1.05bn valuation to flex data centre power

A two-year-old company is now worth $1.05bn. It writes software that makes data centres use less electricity on demand. Emerald AI raised $150mn in an oversubscribed Series A, the company announced on Tuesday. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led it, and the round takes total funding past $220mn. The investor list is the tell. Nvidia, Siemens, […]

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China called off its ice-hunting Moon shot a day before launch

China called off its most ambitious Moon mission the day before it was due to fly. The announcement runs to a single sentence. Chang’e 7 does not meet the conditions for launch, the China Manned Space Agency said on Sunday. It cannot go ahead in this year’s scheduled window. It gave no reason. What the […]

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Fresh from €1.2bn, NEURA buys its second company in eleven days

NEURA Robotics is buying a company that makes cleaning robots, and says it wants to replace their brains. The German firm is acquiring 100% of Adlatus Robotics, an Ulm maker of autonomous cleaning and sweeping machines. It announced the deal on Monday, datelined Stuttgart, Hamburg and Ulm. Neither company disclosed a price. What Adlatus already […]

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The 28-year fight over who owns Linux is nearly over

A US appeals court has thrown out the last live claim in the long fight over who owns Linux. Simon Sharwood reported the ruling for The Register on Sunday. The dispute began in 1998. The company still fighting it, Xinuos, now has one long-shot move left. What the court decided Three judges of the US […]

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Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads

Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and Olivier Lacombe, a product director there, wrote it. Google calls the […]

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Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks

Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The company says its models learn from 3.8 billion years of biological history. The valuation and the training window are the same number, and nobody has said whether that is a coincidence. Bob Nelsen led the […]

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Starcloud raised $250mn to buy rockets it cannot yet book

Starcloud has raised $250mn to put AI compute in orbit, and a large part of the money is earmarked for rockets it cannot yet book. The Series A extension values the company at $2.3bn post-money, the company said. Its total raised now stands at $450mn. Starcloud was founded in 2024, and its March round valued […]

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