Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and which offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a $100M Series B at a $2B valuation  —  Parallel Web Systems raised $100 million in Series B funding to continue building web search for AI agents

Will Knight / Wired:
OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures  —  “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely …

Here are all the limited-time event habitats and Pokémon in Pokémon Pokopia and what you need to make them.

Mitchell Hashimoto:
Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages  —  I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008.  —  Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day.  Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years.

In the days since this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner was cut short when shots were fired at the event, there has been a boom of conspiracy theory videos created by people who insist that the entire situation was a false flag operation. These kinds of theories are nothing new, but the way they're spreading […]