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California taxes SaaS 8 - 10%, AI Mode shows pricier goods, China hands out tokens with dumplings
California signed SB 122 and from January 1, 2027 will apply a 7.25% - 10.75% sales tax to SaaS and AI tools, with the state projecting about $2B a year in …
Liquid Network Freezes After $320M Hack; Solana's Agent Micropayment Test Hits 1M/sec
The Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network went dark over the weekend after roughly 4,000 BTC ($320M) was withdrawn by purported white-hat hackers using the SideSwap …
Meta cuts ZippyDB connection sprawl by 19x, Cloudflare ships AI vulnerability hunters, ClickHouse pipes your SQL
Meta's ZGateway now fronts 40% of ZippyDB traffic at ~1 billion ops/sec, cutting persistent connections by 19x and turning a million-host TLS mesh into a …
OpenAI opens the RSI window, Cook's pay package locks him in, and a Cybercab costs $14.87
OpenAI published details on its recursive self-improvement research and called for public tracking of the same work at peers. Apple gave Tim Cook a $2M base …
NVIDIA buys the model hub, Microsoft attacks the transcription API, and the frontier has a bad uptime day
NVIDIA's $12.93B agreement to acquire Hugging Face is the day's real event: the model-distribution layer consolidating under the dominant accelerator vendor, …
NVIDIA buys Hugging Face for $12.93B, OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra
NVIDIA confirmed a $12.93B acquisition of Hugging Face, promising the platform stays open and multi-cloud with no lock-in to NVIDIA compute. OpenAI rolled out …