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Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws — The increa

Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on “availability first, then capacity, then new features” — Here'

GitHub is transitioning GitHub Copilot to a usage-based billing model to manage escalating AI inference costs. Effective June 1, subscribers will receive a set allotment of 'AI Credits'

Google has signed a classified deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for 'any lawful government purpose,' The Information reports. The agreement was reported less than a d

This post discusses how large language models (LLMs) could serve as future chief financial officers, with Mercury as a platform enabling AI systems to manage finances and financial operations. The con

Japan Airlines and GMO AI & Robotics announced a three-year demonstration experiment to test humanoid robots for ground handling tasks at Tokyo's Haneda Airport beginning in May 2026, aimed at reducin

About 600 employees at Google LLC have signed a letter urging Chief Executive Sundar Pichai not to make the company’s artificial intelligence tools available to the Pentagon in classified settings. Th

A Reddit user asked ChatGPT to look them in the eyes and describe what they might see, requesting an unbiased picture of the AI's whole self. ChatGPT produced a beautiful digital image with a bright o

I post-trained Qwen3-Coder to fix bugs using an actual debugger. The result: Solve rate: 70% → 89% Median turns to fix: 46 → 19 (-59%) Instead of just reading code or print-debugging, it: - reasons fr

In 2016, David (likely referring to David Silver, DeepMind's lead researcher on AlphaGo) wrote in his private journal that the motivation for building AlphaZero was aesthetic—he sought to create a bea

Incredible. What a great reminder that is really hard to predict the unpredictable. New work with @AlecRad and @DavidDuvenaud: Have you ever dreamed of talking to someone from the past? Introducing ta

Integrating Starlink with @TMobile’s 5G network will provide reliable, high-speed broadband for millions of businesses, including those in rural and remote locations across the country 🛰️❤️ .@TMobile

Alice Hancock / Financial Times: Kpler, an online analytics platform tracking global maritime traffic and energy flows, says it has gained millions of new users since the war in Iran began — Kpler rep

Let me get this straight: > the top 1% earners in CA pay a cumulative 40-50b/yr in income tax > yet CA Medicaid alone loses 50b/yr in fraud So, you can work your whole life to be incredibly successful

Software-defined test and measurement startup Liquid Instruments Pty. Ltd. today announced that it has raised 50 million in new funding to accelerate product development, scale up its artificial intel

Made by a single person in 4 days. If you think about how something like this would have been made 10 years ago (or even like, 1 year ago) 250K Runway credits and 4 days of time is the equivalent of a

Financial Times: Many US rural communities oppose the AI data center buildout; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are rural, while 87% of existing ones are in urban areas — Many rural communities ar

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Match Group invests 100M in Seattle-based Sniffies, a web-only platform for queer men with ~3M MAUs worldwide, paving the way for a possible acquisition — Match Group Inc.,

Mercury is the single “product” that has improved my life the most. I have always hated banks, invoicing platforms, and corporate cards. They make all of these things so incredibly easy. I haven’t had

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. —

The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI is officially upon us. And it is going to be a mess. As the two sides fight over the early days of AI, who deserves credit and cash for what, and more, we're lik

Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because “it is not okay to steal a charity” and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts — Elon Musk testified Tuesda

Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: the judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse”, as opening statements begin — The judge ove

Neanderthal and modern human brains from the same time period had similar sizes , though average Neanderthal brain volume was roughly 1410 cm³, higher than the mean value for humans today . However, w

No matter what kind of company you are...start making your internal company data legible to AI. Today. As a founder, you are essentially building two versions of your company: the one humans work in a

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to 3.18B, vs. 3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; NXPI jumps 13%+ after hours — NXP Semiconductors NV jumped in l

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 gobl

This article discusses the practical implementation of AI systems in government agencies to detect and prevent fraudulent activities, likely covering deployment challenges, best practices, and real-wo

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

NASA officially delayed Artemis III to no earlier than 2027 in December 2024 , with the launch currently targeted for Q2 2027 . The mission will launch crew on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket car

Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter: Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a “crucible” moment for Snap, and more — Snap's

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more — As I noted yesterday, today's Strate

Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to 1.07B, vs. 1.14B est., and crypto revenue down 47% to 134M, vs. 147.6M est.; HOOD drops 6%+ after hours — The brokerage just repor

Shares in Robinhood Markets Inc. fell more than 8% in late trading today after the financial services company reported earnings and revenue below analyst expectations in its fiscal 2026 first quarter.

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to 3.11B, vs. 2.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; STX jumps 13%+ after hours — Seagate Technology (S

This Databricks resource explains how to securely transmit first-party conversion data to Snapchat using the Snapchat Conversions API through the Databricks Marketplace. It likely covers integration s

Erin Woo / The Information: Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for “any lawful government purpose”; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract — Google and

Financial Times: Sources: Goldman Sachs stopped its bankers in Hong Kong from using Anthropic's models; Anthropic says its models were never officially “supported” in Hong Kong — Employees were unable

Bloomberg: Sources: Polymarket has discussed lifting the prohibition on US-based customers with the CFTC, as it seeks to bring its main exchange back to the US — Polymarket is taking steps to try to b

Karen Freifeld / Reuters: Sources: the US Commerce Department last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China's second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong — The U.S. Depart

South Korean reporter after experiencing @Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the country for the first time: 'It flawlessly performed all tasks, including obeying traffic signals, staying in lanes, adhering to

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 12% to 761M, above 759M est., and forecasts Q2 operating income below est.; SPOT falls 10%+ pre-market — Spotify Techn

Zoox approached robotaxi design by prioritizing autonomous operation requirements over traditional vehicle constraints, with sensor placement as a foundational design decision. Sensors positioned on t

The beauty of @cybertruck is that it’s a robotaxi and joy machine in one Handles traffic for hundreds of miles without me touching the wheel But when I want to send it in the desert, offroad mode is j

the culture it takes to do these two things in the same week (national bank charter conditional approval + banking cli) is remarkable some banks will thrive post AGI…. deposit account for tokens wen 🙂

The expansion of AI infrastructure across the United States has sparked significant debate between urban and rural areas, with large tech companies and the federal government advocating for data cente