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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economic

This article describes a project using Databricks technology to convert unstructured archival documents into a searchable database to facilitate groundwater research and discovery. The work likely dem

TIL: Using LLM in the shebang line of a script Kim_Bruning on Hacker News: But seriously, you can put a shebang on an english text file now (if you're sufficiently brave) [...] This inspired me to loo

Jay Peters / The Verge: Venmo implements a major privacy measure, setting new users' posts to “friends only” by default during onboarding; in 2021, a reporter found Joe Biden's Venmo — As part of a b

Vercel has enhanced its Sandbox firewall feature to include request proxying and filtering capabilities, allowing developers to have greater control over network traffic within their sandboxed environ

Human risk security startup Frame Security Ltd. launched today with an announcement that it had raised 50 million in funding to build out its platform that uses artificial intelligence to harden emplo

Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain Excellent, angry piece by Jason Koebler on how AI writing online is becoming impossible to avoid, filtering it is mentally exhausting and it's even starting to distort

Anna Tong / Forbes: A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women — Despite its name,

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: A profile of Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, a Palantir alum and self-identified Democrat, as Anduril's defense tech shakes up the US military-industrial complex — “The question

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate rose from 3.6% in March to 3.8% in April, as the sector shed 13,000 jobs amid AI uncertainty — The job ma

This article likely examines the relationship between Arm Holdings (the British semiconductor design company), the UK government, and Apple, possibly covering topics such as Apple's use of Arm-based c

Sarah Kessler / New York Times: Corporate lawyers say AI-transcribed meeting notes may not have attorney-client privilege, making otherwise protected conversations discoverable in lawsuits — A trendy

Jennah Haque / Bloomberg: Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading cause of data breaches in 2026 — A few months ag

Superset developed an integrated development environment (IDE) for AI agents deployed on Vercel's platform, enabling developers to build, test, and manage AI agent applications more efficiently. The s

On August 10, 2025, a massive landslide struck Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska, preconditioned by glacial retreat caused by climate change, resulting in a 481-meter-high tsunami . The fjord is a popular des

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: Inside Consensus Conference, one of the biggest crypto conferences, which had a decidedly corporate sheen in 2026 amid Wall Street's embrace of digital assets — I

MachinaCheck is a multi-agent AI system designed to assess the manufacturability of parts for CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machining, built on AMD's MI300X GPU architecture. The system likely leve

Bloomberg: Microsoft and G42's $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya stalls after the government couldn't provide annual payment guarantees that Microsoft requested — A major Microsoft Corp. dat

Jack Kubinec / Fortune: MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for 100M in stock; DFlow had raised 7.5M across two rounds — The crypto paymen

Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal: Most of the tech on display at this year's Border Security Expo was autonomous and AI-equipped, driven by the Trump administration's focus on US border securit

Golnar Motevalli / Bloomberg: NetBlocks: Iran's 70+ day internet blackout is “the longest recorded national internet shutdown in a connected society”, as businesses warn of layoffs, closures — Iran's

The market is trying to price a transition it hasn’t fully internalized. It sees Nvidia Corp.’s market cap with a five-handle and assumes the valuation is too high to grow further. We believe that’s t

FinTech Global: NYC-based Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a 125M Series C led by KKR — Reserv, an AI-native third-party

Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed the discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital — Lithosquare, a

Fortune: Q&A with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on 2026 as “year of agents”, the end of the smartphone-centric world, 6G turning humans into “walking cameras”, and more — Cristiano Amon's pitch is that

One could say in the first quarter-century of my life, that while I was always fascinated by programming, I could never overcome the guilt of not really knowing whether the tool I am building right no

This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is working on a “slight redesign” for macOS 27 to address Liquid Glass issues, plans a feature to automatically group Safari tabs in “27” OSes — Also: The lates

Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from 115-125 per share to 150-160 per share, potentially raising ~$4.8B at the top of the new range — Cerebras Systems is set

Bloomberg: Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising a ~300M round led by a16z crypto at a ~2B valuation — Digital Asset Holdings LLC,

Shane Snider / Data Center Knowledge: Sydney-based AI data center operator IREN agrees to acquire Mirantis, which offers Kubernetes management and cloud infrastructure software, for 625M in stock — Th

“You are entering the world at an extraordinary moment,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates as he delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon University’s 128th commencement cerem

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao, who tends to take a conservative approach to revenue projections and has chosen to raise less money than is available — Krishn

Anthropic is experiencing rapid workforce expansion at a 10x annual growth rate, contrasting sharply with major tech companies that are conducting significant layoffs exceeding 10% of their staff. Thi

RingCentral Inc.‘s latest quarter shows a company that has quietly turned artificial intelligence from a future story into its primary engine for product differentiation, operational leverage and, inc

Isomorphic Labs Inc., an Alphabet Inc. unit using artificial intelligence to speed up drug development, is reportedly in talks to raise a new funding round. Sources told Bloomberg today that the inves

Anthropic: Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers — Last year, we released a case study on

Krysta Fauria / Associated Press: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality — As conce

Ben's Bites featured a third installment in the 'Ben's Builds' series, showcasing an email application project. The article likely discusses the development, features, and technical implementation of

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens — In

Ken Macon / Reclaim The Net: FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears — The era of

David Shepardson / Reuters: GM agrees to pay 12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers — GM (GM.N)

Rick Findlay / Reclaim The Net: Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues — Google has

Bloomberg: How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period — Championed by a guru known

Zack Abrams / The Block: LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup — Quick Take —

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA — The Natio