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AMI Labs, the new venture cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation. AMI is working on world models, or AI that learns from reality, not just from language. This category has fewer players than generative AI, but maybe not for long. “My prediction is that ‘world models’ will be the next buzzword,” AMI Labs CEO Alexandre LeBrun told TechCrunch. “In six months, every company will call itself a world model to raise funding.” LeBrun said this with a smile because he thinks AMI Labs is fundamentally…

Gillingham manager Gareth Ainsworth has spoken of the ‘seemingly endless resources’ available to midweek visitors MK Dons.While the Gills aren’t short of funds themselves, the Dons have been big spenders in the division this season – and they look like they’ve made it count.Ronan Hale gets to grip with an opponent in Gillingham’s game against Fleetwood Town on Saturday Picture: @Julian_KPIMK Dons are second in the League Two table ahead of their visit to Priestfield, five points behind leaders Bromley and with a game in hand.They’ll be looking to narrow that gap at the top tonight (Tuesday) while the Gills battle…

The Berlin-based startup Periwinkle is offering a new avenue for those wanting to leave centralized social media operated by Big Tech companies. Instead of joining a decentralized, open social networking app like Mastodon or Bluesky, Periwinkle allows anyone to set up a social media account on their own domain, under their own control. Built on top of the AT Protocol, the same open source technology that powers the X alternative Bluesky, Periwinkle aims to provide the infrastructure you need to run your own social media. That means you can have an account on your own domain on sites like Bluesky,…

For all of bitcoin’s life, it has been fighting an uphill battle against fiat currencies that mostly do the job of being money. Obviously, fiat has plenty of issues, but when it comes to impacts immediately visible to everyday people in much of the world, bitcoin isn’t 10x better. Some may even conclude that they would prefer a system based on neutral money to government-rigged ones, but entrenched fiat systems work well enough that few want to deal with the hassle of constant conversion. With the rapid growth in agents’ capabilities, a huge gap has opened that bitcoin has a…

Abdulhamid Alammar, 34, of the Baldslow area in St Leonards, picked up the woman in her 30s who requested a taxi from a friend’s address on November 29, 2024. Alammar drove her to a secluded location where he sexually assaulted her. The offences came to light when officers were investigating a separate sexual assault reported in April 2025 by another woman in Hastings. Once the November incident was disclosed to police, the victim was supported by specially trained officers and an investigation was launched. Alammar was arrested and charged in relation to the November incident. At the time, he was…

Data storage company Seagate has introduced a new generation of high-capacity hard drives built on its Mozaic 4+ platform. The drives can store up to 44TB of data on a single unit and are already being used by two hyperscale cloud providers. The company announced that these drives are now in production and shipping in volume to those clients. The new products rely on heat-assisted magnetic recording, known as HAMR. This technology increases how much data can be written onto a disk. Higher density allows a single drive to hold far more information than earlier designs. Seagate said the Mozaic…

Electric air taxi developer Archer Aviation responded to a lawsuit Monday with its own counterclaims that rival Joby Aviation allegedly defrauded the U.S. government and its competitors by falsely presenting itself as an American-made company. The counterclaim, filed in federal court, alleges Joby relied on a Chinese manufacturing subsidiary to source critical components from Chinese suppliers with Chinese government support. Archer further alleges that Joby tried to conceal its “deep ties” to China by fraudulently misclassifying thousands of pounds of Chinese-origin aircraft materials as consumer goods — labeling them as hair clips, socks, and photo albums — to evade U.S.…

A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine and China used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned. The tools, which were intended for Western spies, wound up in the hands of various hacking groups, including Russian government spooks and Chinese cybercriminals. Last week, Google revealed that over the course of 2025 it discovered that a sophisticated iPhone-hacking toolkit had been used in a series of global attacks. The toolkit, dubbed “Coruna” by its original developer, was made of 23 different components first used “in highly targeted operations” by an unnamed government customer…

Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is nearing the close of its fourth growth fund, Founders Fund Growth IV, with $6 billion in capital commitments, per sources close to the firm. As with most of the firm’s fundraises, demand from outside investors exceeds the fund’s capacity, according to those sources. Additionally, about $1.5 billion of the capital is coming from the Founders Fund’s partners, one of the sources told TechCrunch. The fresh fundraise comes less than a year after Founders Fund closed its third growth fund, a $4.6 billion vehicle intended primarily for follow-on investments in its successful late-stage companies. The 21-year-old…

Location : The M4 eastbound between junctions J11 and J10 . Lane Closures : The hard shoulder, lanes 1, 2 and 3 are closed. Reason : Road traffic collision. Status : Currently Active. Time To Clear : The event is expected to clear between 03:00 and 03:15 on 10 March 2026. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 03:00 and 03:15 on 10 March 2026. Lanes Closed : There are three of four lanes closed. Source link