AI & RoboticsNews

Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce

August 7, 2026
Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson, and Shivaditya Sinha spent years building the behavioral intelligence infrastructure behind Spotify’s recommendation engine. Called Vector AI, the system is designed to predict a person’s intent and next actions instead of relying only on their past behavior. It powers about 90% of Spotify’s recommendations to its 800 million users. Now, the three are…
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Scientists capture highest-resolution photos of the Sun’s surface ever, revealing “tiny engines” driving solar activity

August 7, 2026
Scientists have captured the highest-ever-resolution images of the surface of the Sun, with the pictures revealing a solar process that could be key to solving the “puzzle” of how the surface of the star generates heat. Astrophysicists based at the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Boulder, Colorado, used the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), in…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Trump weaponizes FCC to ban new foreign-made connected solar inverters

August 7, 2026
The FCC added foreign-made connected power inverters to its Covered List on July 28, cutting off the federal authorization new models need to be imported, marketed, or sold in the US. It’s aimed at the radios inside modern inverters, not the power electronics. And it lands on a market where US factories are on track to supply just 40% of combined solar and battery demand next year, according to…
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DefenseNews

Boeing wins first production contract for jet-powered JDAM

August 7, 2026
The U.S. Air Force has committed $75 million to an initial production run of a jet-powered guided bomb that can fly more than 300 nautical miles, Boeing said Wednesday. Boeing’s BSU-111/B Payload Delivery Unit is a wing-and-turbojet engine kit that converts a 500-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) into a long-range JDAM (JDAM LR) dubbed the GBU-75. The result is a gravity bomb with the…
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