In the 215-208 vote, four Republicans joined Democrats to pass the measure, which had failed in three previous attempts.

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Nvidia acquired Kumo, which sells predictive AI software to enterprises, a source says for $400M+; PitchBook: Kumo raised $37M at a $250M valuation in 2022  —  Nvidia has bought Kumo AI, a five-year-old startup that s…

FBI kills hostage-taker in California after 15-hour standoff; President Trump declines to say whether he’s dropped “anti-weaponization” fund plans.

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Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory  —  While many AI open source model providers are pursuing la…