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In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what t

Reachy, a humanoid robot, participated in a rap battle event at an AI engineer community gathering in Singapore. The event was hosted or documented by Clem Delangue, co-founder of Hugging Face, sugges

Releasing my first kernel on @huggingface: MaxSim Late-interaction retrieval (ColBERT / PyLate) bottlenecks on materializing the full similarity matrix. This kernel avoids it by using tiled scoring wi

Reminder that Grok Build is iterating extremely fast and we are highly responsive to critical feedback. Fixes & upgrades are dropping every day. Just started testing the @grok Build beta. First feel:

Runway community meetup in Tokyo next week! Join us! Announcing the Runway Meetup in Tokyo: CEO Edition. We are excited to have @c_valenzuelab for this event. Please be sure to register from below, as

Runway Tokyo Gathering 2026 May 21 / FIL, Ebisu, Tokyo AI filmmaking, Physical AI, realtime culture, and Tokyo’s creative scene. @c_valenzuelab x.@daitomanabe Limited capacity. Apply: https://filtokyo

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Seagate shares drop 6.87%, leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from its CEO raised concerns it won't be able to meet demand fueled by the AI buildout — Shares of memory chip

John Markoff / New York Times: Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized lax industry attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93 — For decades,

Cristian Dina / The Next Web: Sigma, which sells a cloud-native analytics platform that sits on top of data warehouses, raised an 80M Series E led by Princeville Capital at a 3B valuation — The round

Jay Peters / The Verge: Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in “select regions”, blaming “ongoing market conditions” — One-month and three-mon

Bloomberg: Sources: AI chip designer Tenstorrent has drawn takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm; Tenstorrent could be valued at more than $5B in a potential deal — Artificial intelligence chip st

Bloomberg: Sources: Analog Devices, one of the largest analog chip makers, is in talks to buy Empower, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for 1.5B in cash — Analog Devices Inc. is in advanced

Julia Love / Bloomberg: Sources: competition for Google's TPUs among its employees and researchers intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research — In the race to

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station, demonstrating the company's capability to deliver cargo and/or crew to orbit. This achievement represents a key mil

Starship is designed to transport over a megaton of payload to space per year SpaceX is absolutely dominating the entire planet in orbital mass As of 2026: • Total Global Mass to Orbit: ~969.6 metric

James Hunt / The Block: Strategy acquired 24,869 bitcoin for ~2.01B at an 80,985 average price from May 11 to May 17, taking its holdings to 843,738 BTC, or 4%+ of the total supply — Quick Take — Stra

Dory Sign is a small electronic paper display designed for communication that utilizes E Ink technology rather than traditional light-emitting screens. The device combines a natural frame design, e-in

This Databricks blog post likely discusses how modern data platforms and analytics tools should enable organizations to quickly extract insights and answer business questions from their commercial dat

the team did an internal test of this model last week the whole company (bar a few exceptions) had all their cursor chats redirected to composer 2.5 for like 2 days. i didn't even notice, which I thin

Flavia Rotondi / Bloomberg: The Vatican says Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah will join Pope Leo on May 25 to launch the pope's first encyclical, setting out his views on the AI age — Pope Leo XI

This is such an interesting chart layout, like it a lot! Congrats to @cursor_ai team on the 2.5 launch 🚀 Composer 2.5 is exceptionally intelligent and up to 10x more efficient than similarly capable m

Tesla Model Y's powered rear seats and trunk are equipped with automatic obstruction detection that causes them to automatically reverse and pop back up if an obstruction is detected during operation,

Try it out! (Partially trained on Colossus 2) Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at followi

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber increases its stake in Delivery Hero to 19.5%, up from 7% in April, and says it “has no intent to acquire 30% or more” of Delivery Hero's voting rights — Uber Technologi

Very cool to see Cursor doubling down on training great models. In my opinion, ultimately all serious companies in AI will want to train models themselves, based on open-source instead of outsourcing

Jason Nelson / Decrypt: Vitalik Buterin says AI-assisted “formal verification” could help secure blockchain networks, smart contracts, and cryptographic systems against software flaws — Ethereum co-fo

We've gotten really really good at RL. Composer 2.5 is fighting well-above its weight class. Very excited for the next release as we scale model sizes and FLOPs with @SpaceXAI! Introducing Composer 2.

Elon Musk speculates on the trajectory and development of artificial intelligence over a near-term timeframe of one to three years. The post likely discusses predicted capabilities, technological brea

Jackson Chen / Engadget: X quietly limits users who didn't pay for verification to “50 original posts and 200 replies per day”, down from 2,400 posts per day — That's down from the previous 2,400 post

Yeah, /implement is easily my #1 skill. It’s not just the implement → review → fix loop that gives way better output — it also has a built-in memory system. After each task, the orchestrator summarise

yeah that's pretty good xAI might be able to cook with Cursor data + 10T model Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running ta

You can’t lift a fridge with just your hands. Your whole body needs to conform to its shape, and bear the load between your arms and torso. Here, @BostonDynamics' Atlas uses proprioception to manage t

Phoebe Liu / Forbes: A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics firm and holds a ~67% stake worth $13.3B, as AI tests SAS' strategy — Unlike most of t

Researchers are testing CAR T cell therapy—a cancer treatment—as a way to reset the immune system in lupus, Graves' disease and other autoimmune conditions where the body's defenses malfunction. The t

The Information: Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue — Anthropic and OpenAI

John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing — The d

Basically every political instinct I had when I was a lib in 2015 ended up being completely wrong. Even in 2020, even after 4 years of being disabused of all sorts of bad ideas, all my remaining lib a

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is seeping into our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in o

Jack Kubinec / Fortune: Ciridae, which is developing AI to streamline back-office operations for real-economy businesses, raised a $20M seed led by Accel, with a16z participating — AI is swiftly rewir

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps — Chi

Elon Musk argues that reusable rocket technology is fundamental to establishing a multiplanet civilization, drawing a parallel to how ocean colonization would have been impossible without reusable shi

Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY: Experts: Stuxnet-linked Fast16 malware, designed to subvert nuclear weapons testing simulations, was likely part of a campaign to slow Iran's nuclear ambitions — Fast16 didn't p

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: Filings: in Q1, Trump traded 220M-750M in NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, ORCL, and others; millions of dollars of NVDA were bought shortly before major news — President Donald Trump

For most of human history, women did not experience children as some rare interruptions to adult life. Babies were everywhere, in arms, on hips, asleep in slings, playing under tables while bread was

ChatGPT restricts creating images in the style of artists whose latest work was created after 1912 , which means requests for images in Frank Frazetta's style generally succeed since Frazetta complete

FSD V14.3.3 is a banger Tesla FSD V14.3.3 just started rolling out, and it comes with the Spring Update! Actually Smart Summon’s top speed has also been increased to 8 mph (from 6 mph)! Downloading it