California, an Environmental Bastion, Warms to Nuclear Energy

The state is considering extending the life of its last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, and allowing construction of new reactors to help meet its clean energy goals.
How Amazon’s Zoox Is Taking On Waymo in San Francisco

The Amazon-owned driverless car company is a distant second to Waymo. Its pitch to riders? Wine pop-ups, festival sponsorships and a car built to be filmed.
Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid

Fusionality is developing control systems and simulation environments to help fusion power startups move faster.
CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecks

UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced Wednesday a $20 million B extension round, bringing its lifetime total raised amount to $128 million.
Meta continues to run ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India – report

The report follows a BBC Eye investigation that found Instagram running paid ads promoting such material in India.
White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complains

The Trump administration’s short-lived arcade game “Build the Wall” is now nowhere to be found after the Tetris Company posted that it takes “copyright infringement very seriously.”
Should promotion depend on how workers use AI?

More companies are tying career progression to AI use: is that fair?
Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn’t working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.
Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

Cognition’s valuation multiple is higher than Cursor’s was before selling to SpaceX.
OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.