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Reuters: Report: the EU plans to fine Google a high triple-digit million euro amount as part of a 2025 probe over concerns it favors its own services in search results — The European Union is planning
Bloomberg: SoftBank stock jumped 4.6% to a record high on Monday, spurred by hopes of big returns from the company's stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp if they go public — SoftBank Group Corp. shares
Océane Herrero / Politico: Sources: Meta, Google, and Amazon execs met Vatican officials on April 29, as part of a quiet lobbying push ahead of Pope Leo XIV's first AI encyclical — As Leo XIV prepares
Sophie Shulman / CTech: Sources: Wix is expected to cut ~1,000 jobs in the coming months, or ~20% of its workforce, after weak Q1 earnings and a ~50% collapse of its stock in 2026 — The company will r
Jennifer Maas / Variety: Star Citizen, a video game in development since 2012, has reached $1B in lifetime funding; it remains in alpha and does not have a confirmed release date — Cloud Imperium Game
Tristan Bove / Fortune: Study: rate of fabricated references in biomedical papers has grown 12x+ since 2023; in early 2026, one in 277 papers had at least one non-existent reference — It was a process
Reuters: Tether plans to launch GELT, an “official” stablecoin representing the Georgian lari, with the support of Georgia's government in an unusual partnership — Tether, the world's biggest stableco
Adi Robertson / The Verge: The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting — More specific
I spent five years inside Microsoft Corp.’s Windows business during an era when Dell Technologies Inc. was a top-volume partner. These two companies sold in lockstep. Every Dell personal computer ship
Charles Clover / Financial Times: The UK, outpaced by the US and China in AI, is turning to experimental technologies like neuromorphic computing in search of computing sovereignty — Military capabili
Sonia A. Rao / New York Times: Visually impaired Waymo users in California say riding in a Waymo gives them a feeling of independence and spares them from discrimination from human drivers — Ruben Bru
Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider: X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by “programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts” — X
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A deep dive into Apple Watch and Health efforts; sources: iOS 27 to get a revamped AirPods control panel and default support for AirPlay rivals like Google Cast — Also: iOS 27
New York Times: A look at the scourge of smartphone thefts in London, as victims describe receiving texts threatening them into unlinking Apple IDs from stolen iPhones — Tens of thousands of smartphon
Nikkei Asia: At an IEEE conference, Huawei proposed a new chip scaling law and said it aims to design chips with transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm by 2031 — TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies on Monday
Release: datasette 1.0a30 The big new feature in this alpha is a new customizable 'Jump to...' menu, described in detail in The extensible 'Jump to' menu in Datasette 1.0a30 on the Datasette blog. You
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a4 Taking advantage of the new makeJumpSections() JavaScript plugin hook added in Datasette 1.0a30, datasette-agent now presents this 'Start a new agent chat' interface as
Release: datasette-fixtures 0.1a0 One of the smaller features in Datasette 1.0a30 is this: New documented datasette.fixtures.populate_fixture_database(conn) helper for creating the fixture database ta
Bloomberg: DeepSeek says it will lower V4 Pro API prices by 75% to 0.435/1M input and 0.87/1M output tokens, making permanent the discount prices set to expire on May 31 — DeepSeek said it will make p
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Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers — A
Financial Times: How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity — Deals hit record highs, unloved
Tool: Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games Via Hacker News I learned that UK publisher Usborne published free PDFs of their 1980s Computer Books, some of which I remember working through on my Co
Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating — Moment, the fina
Melissa Shin / Bloomberg: Plenary Americas LP, La Caisse's infrastructure arm, agrees to acquire and take private Canadian database company ISC for $872M, expected to close in Q3 — The infrastructure
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Quartermaster, which is building an analytics platform and a SmartMast, with sensors on a ship's mast to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $43M Series A — Oceans — to s
The most frustrating failure mode right now is that people submit issues that are not in their own voice. They contain an observed problem somewhere, but it has been thrown into a clanker and the clan
David Oks: Rising DRAM prices are driving “forced premiumization” in the smartphone market in India and Africa, as consumers in the sub-$200 segment risk being priced out — The global memory crunch an
Financial Times: Sources: Princeton Digital Group to sell its Chinese data center assets for as much as $1B, capping global buyout firms' retreat from China's data center market — Princeton Digital Gr
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking Tether's stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M — Tether has bought ou
Sophia Cai / Politico: A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on May 21; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary — The draft also incl
Noah Berman / The Wire China: A profile of TP-Link, whose share of the US consumer router market grew from 10% to 60%+ between 2019 and 2025, as it seeks to rebut national security concerns — When Jef
Latent Space reports on a rebranding or reorganization where Model Labs have been renamed or converted into Agent Labs, reflecting a shift in focus toward AI agent development and capabilities. This c
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: As the US House probes Airbnb's use of Chinese AI models, CEO Brian Chesky says the company is not sharing data with Chinese firms and uses open-source models — Airbnb Inc. C
Matthew Prince / Wall Street Journal: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI won't replace builders or sellers, but it will affect middle managers, operations jobs, and other “measuring” positions — Th
Financial Times: Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin — Threat to code that under
Anusha Shah / Reuters: Delivery Hero says it received a takeover offer from Uber for €33 per share, a discount of 1.76% from Delivery Hero's close on Friday — German food delivery service Delivery Her
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Dell says it has 5,000 clients for its AI Factory, a product line of servers with Nvidia chips, software, and services, including 1,000 new clients last quarter — Dell Technolog
Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg: FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all “treasury.gov” email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020 — New detai
Alexandra Alter / New York Times: For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down — Illegal,
Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was runnin
The shift from on-premises computing to software as a service changed the technology model and forced information technology organizatios to modernize how it builds, buys and operates software. It als
Jack Jenkins / RNS: How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI — (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV
Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang urged Super Micro to tighten up compliance after Taiwan detained three people for allegedly trying to export servers with Nvidia chips to China — Nvidia Corp. Chief
On the <dl> I learned a few new-to-me things about the <dl> element from this article by Ben Meyer: A <dt> can be followed by multiple <dd> You can optionally group the <dt> and <dd> elements in a <di
This Databricks resource discusses how pharmaceutical companies can use analytics to optimize their product launch strategy, focusing on accelerating critical decision-making during the crucial first
New York Times: Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism toward AI, AI agents, AI safety, TPUs, and more — After a busy Google I/O, the c
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing — Patients at th
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung's bonus deal is fueling employee resentment over a 100x payout gap between memory division staff and those making smartphones, TVs, and home appliances — Samsung Electr
Octopus Energy reduced margin data engineering costs by 50x through scaling improvements implemented on the Databricks platform for MHHS (Metering, Half-hourly Settlement) operations. The case study d
Reuters: Sources: the ECB warned EU finance ministers that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins could reduce bank lending and make controlling interest rates harder — The European Central Bank war
SpaceX successfully launched an updated version of its Starship V3 on May 22, 2026, the first test flight of the upgraded booster and upper stage designed as part of NASA's Artemis lunar program. The
Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models represent NVIDIA's approach to achieving faster text generation through diffusion-based architectures, potentially offering significant speed improvements over
Tom Akers and Joe Tanner, veteran space shuttle astronauts who each flew four missions, were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 16, 2026. Tanner logged 1,069 hours in space and more
AI in financial services has stopped being just another technology tool and started becoming a measure of operational readiness. In 2025, 45% of IT decision-makers ranked generative AI tools as their
Cybercriminal group TeamPCP is executing an unprecedented wave of software supply chain attacks, compromising hundreds of open source tools and breaching organizations through poisoned code. The incid
This article describes techniques for using prompt caching to improve the inference speed and efficiency of open-source large language models when deployed on Databricks' platform. Prompt caching redu
Tom Hals / Reuters: Activision shareholders reach a 250M settlement over allegations that Microsoft and Activision underpaid them during Microsoft's 2023 acquisition of Activision — Shareholders of Ac
Author Steven Rosenbaum's book 'The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality' was discovered by The New York Times to contain multiple misattributed or synthetic quotes generated by AI tools, which Ro
This article discusses three AI infrastructure startups—Exa, Modal, and TurboPuffer—that have recently achieved unicorn status (valued at $1 billion or more). The piece likely covers their funding rou