Alibaba opens RADAR medical CT vision-language model
Alibaba's Damo Academy has open-sourced RADAR, a medical vision-language model that the company says can interpret CT scans and identify about 150 abdominal conditions, including cancers. A study published in Science tested the mo...
Meta challenges Ofcom's WhatsApp and Instagram classifications
Meta is challenging Ofcom's Online Safety Act categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram, a move that could impose additional regulation on the services. Roblox and Quora are also contesting their classifications. The Financial Time...
Crusoe CEO cites nearly $4 billion funding, valuation near $31 billion
Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller said the AI infrastructure company has nearly $4 billion in fresh funding, lifting its valuation to almost $31 billion. He said the capital will support building data centers, cloud computing, and manag...
Sword Health agrees to acquire Headspace for about $300 million
Sword Health has agreed to acquire Headspace in an all-cash transaction valued at roughly $300 million, with closing expected before the start of the fourth quarter of 2026. The deal would bring Headspace's network of more than 1...
CleanSpark plans $2.227B secured notes for Sandersville data center
CleanSpark announced a $2.227 billion senior secured notes offering due 2031 through subsidiary CSDC Finance I LLC, a private placement subject to market conditions. The company said proceeds will fund remaining construction at i...
PlanetScale releases TIN full-text search extension for Postgres
PlanetScale released TIN, a generally available full-text-search extension for its Postgres and Neki databases. The extension supports Boolean, phrase and span queries; fuzzy, wildcard and regular-expression matching; and BM25-sco...
