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The U.S. Senate voted unanimously to ban senators and Senate staff from participating in prediction markets . The action was prompted by insider trading concerns, particularly after Kalshi suspended a

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a “sustained, cross-border attack” — Servers operated by Ubuntu and

Bloomberg: Sources: Cerebras is seeking to raise as much as 4B in its IPO and is targeting a valuation of about 40B — Cerebras Systems Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $4 billion in its initial pub

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that has raised $5.7B via junk bonds — Philippe Laffont'

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised 6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; 4.5B comes from limited partners — Peter T

Standard Intelligence Inc., a six-person artificial intelligence startup, today announced that it has raised 75 million in funding. Sequoia and Spark Capital led the round. They were joined by multipl

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The Academy has reached their Monkey selfie moment The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar. • Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting

Lisa Richwine / Reuters: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issues new rules saying acting and writing must be performed by humans and not AI to be eligible for Oscars — Academy Awards or

Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY —

The Federal Data Paradox examines how U.S. federal agencies accumulate vast amounts of data but face significant barriers to accessing and utilizing it effectively. The article likely discusses challe

Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: The gender gap in AI use may be a matter of visibility more than usage, as data suggests women face more judgment for using AI and are less likely to admit it — Women are u

The Slanic salt mine in Romania features massive underground chambers and caverns that visually resemble the fictional Mines of Moria from J.R.R. Tolkien's works, with its vast architectural scale and

Mike Stone / Reuters: The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz — The U.S. Navy is ra

This post documents technical challenges encountered while redesigning the X (formerly Twitter) ads manager system, suggesting the overhaul of the legacy Twitter advertising infrastructure involved si

Troubling US fertility rates just hit another record low In 2025, the US general fertility rate fell to 53.1 - the lowest level ever recorded Japan, South Korea, and Germany have already been shrinkin

Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack , with the hacktivist group The Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq, aka 313 Team claiming re

Virgin Galactic has completed assembly of its first Delta-class SpaceShip and begun ground testing in April 2026, with a second ship expected to enter service between late Q4 2026 and early Q1 2027. T

Aarian Marshall / Wired: Waymo says it is continuing to “refine” its system preventing kids under 18 from riding alone, after adult riders reported new age-verification checks — As adult riders report

Sam Altman advocates for developing AI tools designed to augment and enhance human capabilities rather than create systems intended to replace people. This statement reflects OpenAI's philosophy of hu

Western Digital Corp. and Sandisk Corp. delivered stellar earnings and revenue beats thanks to the skyrocketing price of memory chips and other compute infrastructure amid a global supply crunch. Both

🚨 WTF?! 20 MAJOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS have CANCELED classes so that students and teachers can attend ANTI-CAPITALISM 'May Day' protests across the country Our public schools are nothing more than taxpayer

OpenClaw now supports ChatGPT account sign-in, allowing users to utilize their existing ChatGPT subscriptions on the platform. This integration simplifies authentication and subscription management fo

SiliconANGLE was able to review an Oracle Corp. security alert that went out to customers this week. We believe it was a direct response to Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos artificial intelligence model, an

Will Knight / Wired: A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a “vision-force-action model” incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation — From sorting chi

Actual feedback we’ve gotten over the last few years: 2019: The what? For what? Why spend time on this? Maybe you should try doing something else. 2020: Why would you keep spending time on this? Will

AI workflow automation is emerging as a critical solution for private markets as they undergo a structural shift. What was once the exclusive domain of institutional investors is now opening to thousa

Alert fatigue occurs when security teams receive excessive alerts, causing them to miss critical threats due to desensitization and reduced response effectiveness. This represents a significant busine

I'm currently wearing a pair of smart glasses called the Even Realities G2. Another two pairs, from Rokid, sit on my desk. A few feet away, I've got the Meta Ray-Ban Display charging alongside their N

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Alphabet's stock climbed 10% on Thursday and 34% in April, its best month since 2004; Meta's stock plunged 8.5% on Thursday, its steepest drop since October — Alphabet's stock sur

Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. delivered a stunning earnings beat as it reported its first-quarter financial results today, with sales also surpassing expectations thanks to rampant growth

Shares of Amazon.com Inc. edged higher in late trading today after the company reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings and revenue, as cloud computing sales topped analysts’ expectations.

Financial Times: Analysis: Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon's combined capex hit a record 130B in Q1, and it is set to reach 725B in 2026, up 77% from $410B in 2025 — Meta stock drops on capex in

And so it begins… LA City Councilmen Hugo Soto Martinez & Ysabel Jurado have unveiled a plan to let 'noncitizens' VOTE in LA elections There are 1.5 million noncitizens in LA 15% of their entire popul

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates and reports Q2 results above projections in China but below expectations in the Americas and Europe regions — Apple Inc. delivered a

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Apple Q2: iPhone up 22% YoY to 56.99B, vs. 57.21B est., Mac up 6% to 8.4B, iPad up 8% to 6.91B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories up 5% to $7.9B — Apple issued a better-than-

Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, and more, grew 16.3% YoY to 30.98B, beating estimates of 30.4B — Apple hit another

Apple: Apple reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to 111.18B, vs. 109.66B est., net income up 19% to 29.6B, and authorizes an additional 100B share buyback program — March quarter records for total company r

Counterpoint Research: Apple shipped 71.6% of all smartphones with satellite connectivity in 2025; smartphones with satellite connectivity to reach 46% of global shipments by 2030 — - Driven by premiu

At @sequoia’s AI Ascent last week, @gdb told me something that stuck: in late 2024, AI wrote ~20% of @OpenAI's code. That number is now 80%. We also got into why human attention, not compute, is the r

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: Atlassian reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to 1.79B, vs. 1.69B est., and raises its annual revenue forecast; TEAM jumps 17%+ after hours — Atlassian (TEAM.O) raised its annual r

Shares of Atlassian Corp., Twilio Inc. and Five9 Inc. all jumped in late trading today after the three software companies posted better-than-expected quarterly results, with each pointing to artificia

Backstage with Lakebase is a Databricks blog post that likely explores the integration or collaboration between Backstage (an open-source developer portal platform) and Lakebase (Databricks' data lake

China will ban the sale of drones in Beijing and require users to apply for permission for all flights in the capital under strict regulations entering force on May 1, 2026. Officials have cited publi

OpenAI released a significant update to Codex, expanding its capabilities beyond programming tasks to handle general computer work and automation. The upgrade was announced by Sam Altman on X (formerl

Blue Origin aims to reuse its New Glenn booster every 30 days or less during 2026 , reflecting aggressive launch rate targets to meet customer demand. New Glenn is scheduled to launch Blue Origin's Bl