Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time
Practices shifted from individuals buried in coffins to reusing sites for later mummy interments.
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Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains
Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards
[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B
No GPUs, no Agents, just really, really, really good infra and distribution.
US vaccination rates fall again as exemptions continue to rise, CDC data shows
Again, the CDC did not publish a full report and instead simply put the data online.
AI Companies Still Haven’t Delivered on Their Biggest Promises
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the strongest criticism of AI companies is that they still haven’t delivered the enormous benefits they’ve promised—and that no amount of marketing can substitute for real results. His rare public response sparks a larger debate over what the industry must actually do to prove its value. In the headlines: ZAI releases GLM 5.3, Anthropic keeps a powerful new model internal, and investors anticipate a $2 trillion Anthropic IPO.AIDB's AI Summer Adventure:
Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore
Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts
“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”
The Moon's shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it
Here's what it was like watching a total solar eclipse 90 minutes north of Madrid.
As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value
"Network effect" can run in reverse.
Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales
AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration
Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine
Despite loss, carriers still claim selling device-location data isn't illegal.
Petlibro accused of “gaslighting” users over smart pet feeder outage
Petlibro says feeders perform scheduled feedings offline. Users report otherwise.