SpaceX vets raise $50M Series A for data center links

Travis Brashears, Cameron Ramos and Serena Grown-Haeberli began collaborating at SpaceX, developing optical communications links that keep thousands of Starlink internet satellites in constant contact.  Now, the three engineers are co-founders of Mesh Optical Technologies, a Los Angeles startup that announced a $50 million Series A led by Thrive Capital on Tuesday.  Mesh aims to … Read more

Bukayo Saka contract: Arsenal winger signs new five-year deal to keep him at club until 2031 | Football News

Bukayo Saka has signed a new five-year contract at Arsenal, Sky Sports News understands. Saka’s previous deal had been due to expire in June 2027, but he has now committed his future to the Gunners until 2031. Sky Sports News understands clubs across the Premier League and Europe were monitoring his situation at Arsenal, but … Read more

Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models

Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit. The models, dubbed Tiny Aya, are open-weight — meaning their underlying code is publicly available for anyone to use and modify — support over 70 languages, and can run on everyday devices like laptops without … Read more

Ryan Porteous: Los Angeles FC & Scotland defender on facing Lionel Messi, playing with Heung-Min Son in MLS and his World Cup dream | Football News

Ryan Porteous is determined to return to the Scotland squad for this summer’s World Cup in the USA. The 26-year-old centre-back, who is currently playing for Los Angeles FC in Major League Soccer, has not featured for his country since moving to the States. Despite being a regular for Steve Clarke in Euro 2024 qualifying, … Read more

Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’

There’s been a bunch of exciting research-focused AI labs popping up in recent months, and Flapping Airplanes is one of the most interesting. Propelled by its young and curious founders, Flapping Airplanes is focused on finding less data-hungry ways to train AI. It’s a potential game-changer for the economics and capabilities of AI models — … Read more

Sky Sports Golf Podcast | Golf News

The Sky Sports Golf Podcast delivers the latest news from the golfing world, expert analysis and big-name interviews. With episodes released every Monday, Jamie Weir is joined by Sky Sports’ top pundits to chat about what’s happening on and off the course. As well as insight and opinion, you’ll hear from the best players on … Read more

How Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation in 4 months

The co-founders of startup Ricursive Intelligence seemed destined to be co-founders. Anna Goldie, CEO, and Azalia Mirhoseini, CTO, are so well-known in the AI community that they were among those AI engineers who “got those weird emails from Zuckerberg making crazy offers to us,” Goldie told TechCrunch, chuckling. (They didn’t take the offers.) The pair … Read more

Tracey Neville and Tamsin Greenway team up on Sky Sports’ Off The Court netball podcast in huge year for the sport | Netball News

Sky Sports has announced a HUGE new signing with an expert called Neville providing unrivalled analysis this season. Former England Netball head coach Tracey Neville – the sister of Sky Sports football expert Gary – is joining Sky as co-host of the weekly netball podcast Off The Court. Alongside Tamsin Greenway – the former Broadcast … Read more