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FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary resigned after a rocky tenure marked by complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists, and vaping lobbyists, stepping down after just over a yea

Foundry Local 1.1 adds live transcription, embeddings, Responses API, WebGPU plugin, and download cancellation. The post Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API appeared f

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Foxconn says some of its North American factories suffered a cyberattack in recent days; ransomware group Nitrogen claims it stole 8TB of data — Famous for helping build Apple

Hollywood actors and producers are standing behind a new AI licensing standard that will tell AI systems whether they'll need to pay to use a person's likeness, creative work, characters, and designs.

German defense technology firm Helsing GmbH is reportedly on the verge of securing a bumper 1.2 billion in funding that would bring its valuation to around 18 billion, making it one of Europe’s most v

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google announces Pause Point, an Android 17 feature that forces a mandatory 10-second pause before opening any app a user has labeled as a distraction — An anti-doomscrolling

Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more — ZDNET key takeaways — Google par

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google unveils a “full bleed” Android Auto design that fills unconventionally shaped screens like in the BMW Neue Klasse, plans to add YouTube video streaming — The phon

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Google unveils Android security features, including protection from spoofed banking calls, default theft protection, and biometric protection for Mark as lost — Here

Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: Google unveils Googlebook, its new laptop lineup featuring a unified OS merging ChromeOS and Android, with devices from Dell, HP, and others coming this fall — ZDNET's key take

Google introduced Googlebooks, a new high-end laptop segment that will run Android and prominently feature Gemini artificial intelligence . Googlebooks, launching this fall, are the first laptops desi

Grok, xAI's conversational AI assistant, has been updated with new capabilities or features that expand its functionality. The announcement suggests improvements to Grok's performance or competencies,

This article discusses how Chief Financial Officers at consulting firms can use Databricks' data and AI platform to improve operational margins and profitability. It likely covers strategies for lever

If you want to get a sense of the AI writing gap, just look at the horrible prompting jobs in the replies. “Write a hot take! In all lowercase! Add an analogy to randomly summarize the tweet - which n

This post likely discusses Tesla's autonomous driving capabilities, specifically how some users have become so reliant on autopilot or full self-driving features that they rarely manually control thei

Qasim Nauman / New York Times: Instructure reached a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without disclosing what it gave in exchange — Instruct

Molly Taft / Wired: Internal emails: xAI added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site — Emails show that Elon M

Introducing Flux Matching, a generative modeling paradigm that generalizes diffusion models to vector fields that need not be the score function. Enables structural priors in the dynamics, faster samp

Elon Musk advocates for transparency and reproducibility in scientific or analytical work, emphasizing that third parties should be able to replicate results using identical data and that credible ext

Just ordered Reachy! Can't wait to do some fun projects with my kids. Reachy is mad, but RAM costs + tariffs are forcing our hand. Prices will go up on June 1st! Still at the early bird price until th

Ben Lang / Road to VR: Meta schedules its annual Connect event for September 23-24 and says the event will focus on “the latest in VR, wearables, metaverse, and AI” — Meta's annual Connect event is se

Meta announced on Tuesday that it's testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers to questions or context about a conversation on the platform. If you've spent any tim

'More capitalist countries have lower income inequality, not higher. High income inequality is caused by cronyism which goes hand in hand with highly regulated markets.' More capitalist countries have

Business Insider: Musk v. Altman: Altman faced an intense cross-examination from Musk's attorney, who asked “are you completely trustworthy?”; Altman replied “I believe so” — - Sam Altman faced intens

Emma Roth / The Verge: Nonprofit RSL Media announces the Human Consent Standard, an AI licensing framework for use of people's work or likeness, backed by George Clooney and others — This new standard

SpaceX fueled its new Starship V3 megarocket for the first time, setting a new record as the world's tallest rocket at approximately 408 feet (124.4 meters), surpassing the V2 by 4 feet. The successfu

The family of a 19-year-old college student is suing OpenAI over claims that his conversations with ChatGPT led to an accidental overdose. In the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Sam Nelson's parents allege

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Paymentology, which provides real-time card and payment processing technology for banks and fintechs, raised $175M co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners — Payment

A Reddit discussion from r/ChatGPT where a user shared a prompt experiment asking an AI to generate a photo from a random year with the title 'a few seconds before happiness,' and then questioned what

Reachy is mad, but RAM costs + tariffs are forcing our hand. Prices will go up on June 1st! Still at the early bird price until then though if you were looking for an excuse to get one now: http://hf.

Rivian's AI-powered voice assistant is rolling out today to the company's vehicle fleet. The assistant will be available through a software update to all compatible Rivian Gen 1 and Gen 2 vehicle owne

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did 'huge damage' to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman said Musk required OpenAI president Greg Broc

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has begun his testimony against Elon Musk in a high-profile jury trial in a California federal courtroom. Altman, alongside OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is a primary defendant

After two weeks of hearing from assorted witnesses that he was a lying snake, the jury finally heard from the lying snake himself: Sam Altman. At the end of the testimony, his lawyer William Savitt as

Reuters: Samsung and its South Korean labor union fail to reach a pay deal; the union has said workers will strike for 18 days from May 21 if its demands are not met — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS)

The Information: Source: Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire New York-based Stainless, which helps developers generate SDKs from APIs, for at least 300M — Anthropic is in advanced talks to acqui

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to make the Camera app fully customizable in iOS 27, along with noticeable design changes across Siri, Safari, Weather, and more — Apple Inc. is planning

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Google is in talks with SpaceX and other companies for a rocket launch deal, as Google expands its own efforts to put orbital data centers in space — A deal between the t

Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: Sam Altman recently discussed launching an AI compute company that is majority-owned by OpenAI, similar to Stargate's original data center initiative — Sources say Sam A

Financial Times: Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets — In-house MeshClaw tool

Bloomberg: Sources: Wispr Flow developer Wispr AI is in talks to raise a round that could more than double its valuation to 2B; source: the round is set to total ~260M — Wispr AI Inc., the developer b

SpaceX has just received FCC approval to acquire ~65 MHz of nationwide spectrum from EchoStar for the company's next-gen direct-to-device @Starlink Mobile service. The FCC says the deal gives SpaceX “

SpaceX is considering several locations domestically and internationally to build the world’s most advanced spaceports! It’s no secret that we intend to launch Starship a lot, targeting thousands of f

Starlink is now onboard @GulfAir Experience seamless streaming, gaming, and scrolling from gate to gate 🛰️✈️ We just made history. ✈️🌐 Gulf Air’s first @Starlink flight just took off. Full internet. C

Starlink Mobile V2 coming next year will be a game changer for global connectivity! Thank you @FCC Thanks to President Trump, America is leading the world again. 🇺🇸 Today, the @FCC approved two major

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, shared excitement about seeing Reachy Mini, a small humanoid robot, featured on the cover of Linus Tech Tips' latest video. The post suggests Reachy Mini received n