Rainbow Weather raises $5.5M to refine real-time weather forecasting
Warsaw, Poland 26 January 2026 – Rainbow Weather has raised $5.5 million in seed funding to push weather forecasting further into the short-term, high-precision territory
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Synthesia’s valuation jumps to $4B after $200M raise
London-based AI video startup Synthesia has raised $200 million in a Series E round, nearly doubling its valuation to around $4 billion and cementing its
Elon Musk’s X Faces EU Inquiry Over Sexualized AI Images Generated by Grok
Regulators said the company’s lack of controls had led to the widespread use of deepfakes created with the chatbot Grok.
Why AI assistants still face barriers at scale
AI assistants and more advanced agent-based tools are gaining visibility in the workplace, even as most organizations remain cautious about deploying them at scale. Analysts
Silicon Valley Wants to Build A.I. That Can Improve A.I. on Its Own
Ricursive Intelligence, founded by two former Google researchers and valued at $4 billion, is among several efforts to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.
Yann LeCun, an A.I. Pioneer, Warns the Tech ‘Herd’ Could Hit a Dead End
Yann LeCun helped create the technology behind today’s chatbots. Now he says many tech companies are on the wrong path to creating intelligent machines.
This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art
The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago. On a tiny
Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk’s chosen court
Journalists and advocates have been trying to grasp how many victims in total were harmed by Grok’s nudifying scandal after xAI delayed restricting outputs and
Not the Linux You Remember: 16 Every Day Tasks That No Longer Need the Terminal
It’s not that Linux became “GUI only”, but that the Linux desktop has become far more complete. The modern desktop we know today ships graphical
I (Briefly) Tried Proton Lumo's New AI Workspaces
The feline-faced AI assistant just got a neat upgrade. 🐱
A decade of Star Trek-themed fart jokes: The Greatest Generation podcast turns 10
A decade is a long time for a TV series; no single iteration of Star Trek has made it that far. But “a Star Trek
Rocket Report: Chinese rockets fail twice in 12 hours; Rocket Lab reports setback
Welcome to Edition 8.26 of the Rocket Report! The past week has been one of advancements and setbacks in the rocket business. NASA rolled the
Apple’s Siri to see two major AI improvements this year
More details about the expected cadence of Apple’s plans to turn Siri into an AI-driven chatbot are emerging, and Mark Gurman tells us Apple has a two-tier approach
Critical Cisco UC bug actively exploited
Cisco has released patches for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its unified communications products that attackers are actively exploiting. The US Cybersecurity and