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Eli Tan / New York Times: Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, two days before it is set to lay off 10% of its workforce — The company annou

Introducing Starchild-1 from @odysseyml, the first ever real-time multimodal world model. This a model that can generate interactive simulations of the world that you can—for the first time ever—hear.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers basically waved off Elon’s OpenAI appeal, saying the jury’s statute of limitations ruling is tough to overturn. An activist judge letting Sam Altman skate after he hijacke

In 2023, China's annual energy capacity additions exceeded Germany's total installed energy capacity, highlighting the scale of China's infrastructure expansion and renewable energy deployment. This c

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance — The com

'Moonlit Stroll by Grok Imagine' appears to be an AI-generated image created using xAI's Grok image generation model, shared via X (formerly Twitter). The post likely showcases Grok's capabilities in

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says the judge and jury “never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality” and he will file an appeal — Regarding the Op

CNBC: Musk v. Altman jury unanimously rejects Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman; the judge dismisses two additional claims citing the statute of limitation — After less than two hours of deliberat

The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI, shouldn't direct the future

Clem Delangue reports that his follower count on X (formerly Twitter) is growing faster than on other social media platforms, and credits @nikitabier and their team for this success. The post suggests

Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin Depot, North America's largest bitcoin ATM operator, files for bankruptcy, blaming “increasingly stringent compliance obligations” — Bitcoin Depot, the

Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: NextEra's 67B deal to buy Dominion, the largest utility merger in US history, signals a new era of utility consolidation to accommodate AI-driven power demand — NextEra Ener

Please help make Grok Build great! Much appreciated, Elon. Phew, Grok Build is really thorough, pretty incredible. Relay feature for PasteLocal is done, pushing to Github now. And if you want to know

Bloomberg: Polymarket and Kalshi continue to operate in India despite a government advisory on April 25, directed at VPN providers, labeling prediction markets “illegal” — Polymarket and Kalshi Inc. h

Archaeologists at Pompeii Archaeological Park identified one of the victims of the 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius eruption as a doctor after advanced exams revealed surgical instruments inside a plaster cast.

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Procurement records: the FBI seeks a vendor that can provide access to automated license plate readers nationwide; Flock and Motorola are among the few options — Only a couple

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