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Jared Perlo / NBC News: OpenEvidence, an AI-powered medical search tool, says it's used by two-thirds of US physicians, or ~650K doctors, and an additional 1.2M doctors internationally — OpenEvidence,

This post describes the experience of using Starlink satellite internet service while flying at 30,000 feet on a United Airlines flight, highlighting the capability to post on X (formerly Twitter) fro

Analysis of proteins in six 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China identified genetic variants shared with Denisovans, providing the first evidence of genetic mixing between the two groups. On

Ashlee Vance / Core Memory: Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stack, launching Muse Spark, personal superintelligence, acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence, and more — Last June, Meta pri

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Q&A with Amazon SVP of Devices and Alexa Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, its Leo satellite broadband business, and more — Execu

Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the “cone of uncertainty” in AI, allocating compute, returns to frontier intelligence, platform vs. application, and more — In th

Rivian released its new Rivian Assistant AI feature as part of software update 2026.15, enabling owners to interact more naturally with their vehicles through voice commands. Unlike phone-mirroring vo

OpenAI Group PBC co-founder and Chief Executive Sam Altman faced the witness stand today in the high-stakes trial that could determine the future of the company. Elon Musk is suing the company and its

David Keohane / Financial Times: SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~11.6B, above ~1.5B est., driven by a 25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit 64.6B — Japanese

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Source: Cerebras priced its IPO at 185 per share, above the expected range of 150 to 160, raising at least 5.55B and valuing it at 56.4B fully diluted — Cerebras Systems, a maker

Bloomberg: Sources: Arm and SoftBank expressed preliminary interest in acquiring Cerebras weeks before its expected IPO; Cerebras rebuffed them — Arm Holdings Plc and its majority owner SoftBank Group

Reuters: Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is shopping for artificia

Elon Musk posted on X claiming that Starlink internet connectivity is United Airlines' top feature and significantly enhances the flight experience at no cost to passengers. The post suggests Starlink

Bloomberg: Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~28.9B, below ~29.4B est., and net income of ~$8.5B, meeting est., amid a costly AI pivot; its stock is down 23% YTD — Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported

The Information: Tencent says it plans to spend significantly more on AI infrastructure in H2 2026 as more China-designed AI chips become available “month by month” — Tencent Holdings is gearing up to

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: The FTC says Shutterstock will pay 35M to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel — Shutterstock

Shiona McCallum / BBC: The Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Project Intercept, a partnership with Google, TikTok, and Meta, sent 70M+ warning messages to users seeking CSAM in two years — More than 70 mill

Claroty developed an AI-powered library that serves as a translation tool for industrial control system (CPS) protocols and communications, helping security teams understand and analyze diverse indust

There was no award when Newton discovered three laws of forces, nor when da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. There was no Grammy for Beethoven or Chopin, nor a Nobel Prize in Literature for Homer. Masterp

A researcher or company developed an innovative hearing aid design by studying human ear anatomy, reportedly achieving significant miniaturization or efficiency improvements—reducing a key metric from

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: UK chip startup Fractile raised a $220M Series B led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Founders Fund to make specialized logic and memory chips for inference — Factori

Veeam Software Group GmbH today debuted new features that will make it easier for enterprises to back up their records and protect them from hackers. Some of the capabilities are rolling to the compan

This post links to a live broadcast of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. The broadcast was shared by Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter), allowin

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We asked the CEO of HuggingFace @ClementDelangue what the risks of releasing powerful open source models are. He says restricting AI creates more risk than openness. 'Six, seven years ago, at the time

This article argues that infrastructure quality and architecture are more critical to AI/ML project success than the choice of underlying model. It likely explores how proper deployment, scaling, moni

Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1

AfD bei 28%, inzwischen hat sich der Abstand zur Union (22%) auf 6 Punkte vergrößert. Gleichzeitig sinkt auch das Verständnis für die 'Brandmauer'. Deutschland will den Wandel - wir sind dafür bereit.

After seeing the new OpenAI and Thinking Machines voice APIs, I did finally order a Reachy. Way more excited to talk to this thing than a Google puck Reachy is mad, but RAM costs + tariffs are forcing

Artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Grego AI formally launched today with a claimed method of using existing AI models to find critical software vulnerabilities that human auditors and other

Amazon employees are reportedly using the company's internal AI platform MeshClaw to automate routine or unnecessary tasks as pressure grows to demonstrate AI adoption, in a practice known as 'tokenma

Google announced a slew of upcoming features for Android 17 operating system, including advanced capabilities for the company's Gemini AI assistant, redesigned emoji and video improvements. The event

Databricks announced a Student Fellows program designed to provide educational opportunities and professional development for undergraduate and graduate students interested in data engineering, data s

Databricks announced a new feature called Native Lakehouse Sync, which enables seamless synchronization of data between external data sources and Databricks' lakehouse platform. This capability likely

Bloomberg: Anthropic In Talks to Raise 30 Billion at 900 Billion Valuation — Anthropic PBC is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, according to people famili

Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to get rid of the bottleneck between architectural planning and code execution with a number of upgrades to its artificial intelligence software development tool Kir

BREAKING: SpaceX has once again broken the record for the tallest rocket ever built. For the third time in just three years, a new version of Starship has been stacked at Starbase in South Texas near

Clem Delangue of Hugging Face expresses satisfaction with their AI product, highlighting a personal moment where his child interacted with it as a meaningful validation of the investment. The post sug

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Elon Musk posted a congratulatory message to the Tesla Giga Berlin team on X (formerly Twitter), likely celebrating a significant milestone or achievement at the German manufacturing facility. The pos

Runway ML announced the winners of its inaugural Big Pitch Contest, a competition for television show concepts that have not yet been produced, with twenty total winners selected. The announcement hig

Space technology startup Cowboy Space Corp. today disclosed that it has raised 275 million in funding at a 2 billion valuation. Index Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by NEA, IVP and sev

eBay rejected GameStop's unsolicited 56 billion takeover bid, with eBay's board declaring the offer 'neither credible nor attractive.' The proposal called for purchasing eBay shares at 125 apiece with

Elliptic Enterprises Ltd., a startup that helps crypto industry players detect illicit blockchain transactions, has raised 120 million in late-stage funding. The startup stated in its announcement of

Elon Musk shared a post expressing that having children contributes to happiness and citing commentary from @ZubyMusic about the need to culturally elevate the status of parenting. The post appears to

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Exaforce, which uses AI agents to detect and thwart cyberattacks, raised a 125M Series B at a 725M valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M — As bad actors weaponize