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Dyson’s most overengineered gadget may have a waterproofing problem

There’s always a danger in over-complicating products. Simple is so often best. The apocryphal story of NASA spending millions crafting a space pen while Soviet cosmonauts used a pencil is often cited as a prime example, even if it’s actually not true. Perhaps it’s not surprising that Dyson has got into hot water trying to

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AI Sovereignty: Bargaining with Big Tech and the Promise of Full Stack Open Source AI

The early rapid expansion of AI capabilities that focused on frontier models was largely ushered into the world by a few powerful, US-based AI labs. Open-weight models released from labs in China, early on from DeepSeek, and later from Moonshot, Z.ai, and others, have in part disrupted that dominance. But growing concerns about the concentration

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Timothy Hyde and Jonathan Awad, co-founders of Baselayer.

Exclusive: Can You Trust That AI Agent? Baselayer Raises $35M To Help Companies Decide

Baselayer, an AI-powered startup that helps financial institutions verify businesses and assess fraud risk, has raised $35 million to expand its identity technology to AI agents. M13 led the San Francisco-based company’s Series A, with participation from Picus Capital, Torch Capital, Afore Capital and Matt Thompson of Socure. The financing brings Baselayer’s total funding to

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