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Richard Socher has been a major figure in AI for some time, best known for founding the early chatbot startup You.com and, before that, his work on ImageNet. Now he’s joining the current generation of research-focused AI startups with Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco-based startup that came out of stealth on Wednesday with $650 million in funding. Socher is joined in the new venture by a cohort of prominent AI researchers, including Peter Norvig and Cresta co-founder Tim Shi. Together, they’re working to create a recursively self-improving AI model, one that can autonomously identify its own weaknesses and redesign itself…

On Thursday, NASA issued a Request for Proposal (RFP), seeking industry collaboration for the Mars Telecommunications Network. Reliable, high bandwidth communications is necessary to relay science data, high-definition imagery, and critical information during Mars missions. The network will use high-performance Mars telecommunications orbiters at the Red Planet to support future surface, orbital, and human exploration. This RFP builds on a draft released April 2, as well as insights gathered during the accompanying industry day at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where commercial partners provided feedback on agency objectives for the Mars Telecommunications Network. The request seeks responses…

Location : The M6 northbound entry slip at junction J24 . Reason : Road traffic collision. Status : Currently Active. Time To Clear : The event is expected to clear between 06:15 and 06:30 on 15 May 2026. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 06:15 and 06:30 on 15 May 2026. Lanes Closed : All lanes are closed. Source link

The Cerebras Systems IPO was a smash hit on Thursday, generating billions for itself, its founders, and its major investors.  Among the big winners is major shareholder Benchmark, which owns 9.5% of the company. One of the firm’s general partners, Eric Vishria, has been a Cerebras board member since 2016, the year the AI chip maker was founded, having co-led its $25 million Series A round.  But these billions only happened for Benchmark because Vishria met with the startup almost against his will, he told TechCrunch.  “It was five founders and a deck, and it was our first hardware investment…

Key TakeawaysStrive expanded its bitcoin holdings through purchases and the Semler Scientific merger.Medical-device revenue helped lift quarterly sales, while fair-value losses drove a large deficit.Daily SATA dividends are expected to begin soon, pending board declarations. Strive Reports Larger Bitcoin Treasury After Semler Deal Strive Inc. (Nasdaq: ASST) filed its quarterly report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 14, reporting 15,009 bitcoin as of May 12 after additional bitcoin purchases and debt repayment activity. The company listed $929.4 million in digital assets at March 31, before later disclosing updated cash holdings and a $50.5 million position in…

Lost and Found, in Ditchling Road, Brighton, already has a drinks licence to serve customers on the decking outside the business in Fiveways until 10pm daily. But conditions attached to its planning permission mean that customers are currently not able to sit outside. The business owner, Jon Rutter, 56, has submitted a planning application stating that the neighbouring Rustico pizzeria and the Pub at Fiveways both have external terraces, as does Melissa’s café, another premises near by. The application said: “As the tap room has increased in popularity, the outside frontage has been used as additional seating capacity. “The applicant…

Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform, has backed a Danish hardware startup, Atech, that wants to introduce “vibe coding” to the process of creating hardware. Lovable was part of an $800,000 pre-seed round that also included a16z’s scout fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and Nordic Makers.  In a chat with TechCrunch, Atech’s head of customer experience, Gustav Hugod, said the platform’s workings are quite simple. Users buy a starter hardware kit for whatever they are trying to build from Atech’s site. Then, they open a tab at the site, talk to an AI chatbot, describe the hardware concept they’re trying to build,…

A lawsuit filed in California by Dua Lipa against Samsung Electronics has opened a big conversation up, about how image rights work in advertising and entertainment. Reuters reported that Dua Lipa wants at least $15 million in damages after Samsung allegedly used her image on television packaging without permission. The lawsuit says the image featured on cardboard boxes used for retail television sales and created the impression that she endorsed the products. Reuters reported that the image was titled “Dua Lipa – Backstage at Austin City Limits, 2024”. The lawsuit says she owns full rights to the image. Her legal…

Codex is going mobile. The coding tool — which OpenAI launched approximately a year ago — has now been integrated into the ChatGPT app, allowing users to monitor and manage their development workflows remotely. The new function allows users to see their Codex live environments in any devices where it is running. The company announced the changes Thursday; the update, which is currently in preview, is now available to all plans on iOS and Android. “This is more than the ability to remotely control a single task or dispatch new tasks to your computer,” OpenAI said in a statement. “From…

Thursday 14 May 2026 9:06 pm  |  Updated:  Thursday 14 May 2026 9:07 pm First Trust Global Portfolios Management Limited (“FTGPM”) announces the declaration of the monthly distribution for First Trust Vest S&P 500® Dividend Aristocrats Target Income UCITS ETF (the “Fund”). ISIN Fund Name Frequency Dividend per Share IE000SNMGYT5 First Trust Vest S&P 500® Dividend Aristocrats Target Income UCITS ETF Class B Monthly $0.1403 (USD) The Fund’s investment manager is First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”). FTA has appointed Vest Financial LLC to sub-advise the Fund. The following dates apply to today’s distribution declaration: Expected Ex-Dividend Date:   21 May 2026…