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Enormous black hole unexpectedly found in tiny galaxy

October 30, 2025
An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way’s tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how small galaxies hold themselves together. Segue 1 is an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy located about 75,000 light-years from Earth, making it a very close neighbor of the Milky Way. Advanced modeling technologies revealed that the galaxy appears to…
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AI & RoboticsNews

How AI labs use Mercor to get the data companies won’t share

October 30, 2025
Instead of signing expensive contracts with companies for their data, AI labs these days are trying a new tack: tapping former senior employees from those companies for their industry knowledge, Mercor CEO Brendan Foody said at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 on Tuesday. Speaking on a panel onstage, Foody cast Mercor’s marketplace as one of the main channels connecting the former employees of…
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Character.AI is ending its chatbot experience for kids

October 30, 2025
Teenagers are trying to figure out where they fit in a world changing faster than any generation before them. They’re bursting with emotions, hyper-stimulated, and chronically online. And now, AI companies have given them chatbots designed to never stop talking. The…
AI & RoboticsNews

Phia’s founders on how AI is changing online shopping

October 30, 2025
When Phia‘s founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni decided to build an AI startup, they targeted an area they understood well: online shopping. The founders, who met at Stanford when they were randomly paired up as roommates, understood e-commerce because they had…
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BYD is about to give Toyota a wake-up call with this cheap EV

October 30, 2025
BYD’s new electric car may be small, but it’s expected to be a big problem for Toyota and other Japanese auto brands. BYD’s first EV kei car will give Toyota a wake-up call It’s no secret by now that BYD is best known for its ultra-affordable EVs. It’s cheapest, the Seagull, can be bought for under $10,000 in China. At the Japan Mobility Show on Friday, the Chinese EV giant will unveil…
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DefenseNews

Israel’s IAI shoots for land-based, space-based Golden Dome business

October 30, 2025
WASHINGTON — Executives at Israel Aerospace Industries are awaiting news on the U.S. Golden Dome missile shield architecture, hoping that defense leaders here will consider the company’s Arrow interceptor technology for two layers of the project, according to IAI chief executive Boaz Levy. The hopes extend beyond the land-based capabilities of the currently fielded Arrow-3, which could be…
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