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Databricks announced the general availability of Catalog Commits, a feature that integrates open table formats with open catalog systems to enable versioning and tracking of catalog-level changes. Thi

Span, Nvidia, and PulteGroup are testing home-based data center nodes that use unused grid capacity to cut costs, ease community pushback, and support growing AI demand. The Span installation bundles

Databricks explores how lakehouse architecture enables sports organizations to process and analyze player tracking data at scale, converting raw motion capture and sensor information into actionable c

Reuters: The US DOD says it is deploying Mythos to find and patch software vulnerabilities across the US government, even as it works on a transition away from Anthropic — WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters)

Christian Martinez / Reuters: The US FCC approves EchoStar's sale of approximately 65MHz of spectrum to SpaceX and 50MHz to AT&T — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunicati

Thinking Machines Lab Inc., the artificial intelligence research startup founded by former OpenAI Group PBC Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, wants to move beyond the era of “turn-based” AI intera

This was posted exactly 3 years ago. What 3 years of progress look like is wild. Can't wait for the next 3 years. guess who has access to runway #gen2 now? 👀 first quick trial for animated #aicinema,

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Threads is testing a Meta AI integration similar to X's Grok, letting users mention Meta AI in a post or a reply to get more context, in five countries — Threads is testing a

Elon Musk advocated for open-sourcing X's recommendation algorithm to provide transparency and build public confidence that the platform is not secretly manipulating content recommendations. This stat

Trial lawyers missed a great chance to ask everyone on the stand, under oath, what their definition of AGI is sam altman, under oath, clarifies that microsoft will lose access to openai’s research IP

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Vancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised an additional 70M after a 130M raise announced in January, giving it a 2B post-money valuation — Vancouver-based Photoni

SpaceX launched Falcon 9 carrying the NROL-172 national security payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenb

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Waymo recalls ~3,800 robotaxis in the US to fix software issues that may cause them to drive onto flooded roads, after some were seen stalled on flooded streets — Waymo is recalli

We just crossed 1,000,000 public datasets on Hugging Face! That's petabytes of data available that millions of AI builders are downloading, analyzing, and training AI models on every day! What's inter

We've just hit 1M open datasets on the Hugging Face Hub 🎉 Open models need open data. Today we hit that milestone, together with the most incredible community in AI! 🤗 Onwards to the next million 🚀 Me

Emad Mostaque discusses popular platforms used by the community for Seedance and Happy Horse, likely referencing tools, services, or applications that have gained user preference within these specific

Data resilience is quickly becoming the line between systems that recover and businesses that stall as artificial intelligence reshapes how data is created, moved and exposed. What’s changing isn’t ju

A California couple is suing OpenAI after their 19-year-old son, Sam Nelson, died from a drug overdose following advice from ChatGPT about combining kratom and Xanax . The lawsuit alleges OpenAI desig

xAI is rolling out Skills on http://grok.com. This new feature lets you create custom skills that Grok can reuse across conversations. Skills run inside Grok’s sandbox environment, so they can edit fi

Skyroot Aerospace, founded by former ISRO engineers, is preparing for India's first orbital launch attempt by a private company with its Vikram-1 rocket, designed to carry up to 350 kilograms into low

The FCC extended its deadline for software updates on foreign-made routers from March 1, 2027, to January 1, 2029 , allowing already-authorized devices to receive critical security patches longer desp

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default — iOS 26.5 is now available to

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics says Grok paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 —

This Reddit post discusses a user request to an AI image generation tool (likely DALL-E or similar) to create an image depicting a biopic movie scene featuring an actor portraying televangelist Kennet

Audi's new Q9 flagship features a spacious, exclusive interior conceived as a sanctuary, offering up to seven seats with electrically powered doors and a large panoramic sunroof with switchable transp

Luke James / Tom's Hardware: Chinese state media: CAS Cold Atom Technology has built the 200-qubit Hanyuan-2, the world's first dual-core quantum computer, with a core for error correction — Metrics a

Shares of Circle Internet Group Inc. closed 15.9% higher today after it reported earnings, announced a token sale and debuted a new set of developer tools. NYSE-listed Circle issues the popular USDC s

Bruce Einhorn / Bloomberg: Cowboy Space, led by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to build data centers in orbit, raised a 275M Series B led by Index Ventures at a 2B valuation — A space unicorn starte

Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se: curl founder Daniel Stenberg says Mythos identified five vulnerabilities in curl, but a manual review found three were false positives and one was “just a bug” — yes,

A data center campus in north-central Georgia consumed more than 29 million gallons of water without the local utility company initially realizing it, triggering low-pressure water flow to the host co

Every ML codebase seems to follow the same arc: hardcoded script → CLI flags → YAML config → YAML-as-a-programming-language nightmare. We replaced thousands of lines of inherited YAML with type-checke

Formula 1 leaders agreed to change engine regulations for 2027 by adjusting the 50-50 power split to increase internal combustion output. The changes aim to address driver concerns about excessive lif

Finding Hugging Face Buckets really, really useful - very easy to mount & write to Probably easiest sort of bucket I've worked with so far, DX is much better than S3, R2, modal, etc. @huggingface team

This Reddit post from r/ChatGPT likely discusses a creative prompt experiment where users attempted to get ChatGPT or similar AI image generation tools to create disturbing or horror-themed content by

David Welch / Bloomberg: GM plans to lay off IT workers in an effort to trim costs and bring in staff with skills in other tech areas; sources: the cuts will affect 500 to 600 employees — General Moto

For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), 'prominent cyber crime threat actor

Dustin Volz / New York Times: Google's TIG reports the first known example of hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day; TIG's chief analyst says “this is the tip of the iceberg” — The com

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Google's TIG says it likely thwarted the use of an AI-generated zero-day in a “mass exploitation event” and tools like OpenClaw are being used to find exploits — Google's Threat

Grok just previewed “Skills” and it's so next level it's not even funny You tell it: “Create a skill that grabs latest AI news from @testingcatalog” @Grok builds the WHOLE thing, behavior, instruction

Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called 'interaction models.' The idea behind interaction models, according t

In this post, we dive deep into the architecture and techniques we used to improve Miro’s bug routing, achieving six times fewer team reassignments and five times shorter time-to-resolution powered by

Netherlands- and Belgium-based imaging technology startup eyeo B.V. said today it has closed on a €40 million ($47.07 million) Series A round of funding in order to try to fulfill its mission to enhan

iOS 26.5 introduces end-to-end encryption for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users, with encryption requiring both participants to have a carrier that supports the feature. The upda

CTech: Israeli startup Frame Security, which protects organizations from AI-powered social engineering attacks, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index and others — The Israeli firm aims to modern

'It would be a mistake for any country to try to slow down open source. A country that leads open source is a country that can lead AI in general' @ClementDelangue, co-founder & CEO @HuggingFace Watch

My guest today is longtime friend of the show Joanna Stern. You all know Joanna: she is the former senior personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, a former Decoder guest host, one of