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Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence software for robots. The social media giant announced the deal today without disclosing the fina

New York Times: Ripple Labs investor and exec Chris Larsen plans to spend 3.5M to help Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation — Chris Larsen, who hail

/elsewhere/sightings/ I have a new camera (a Canon R6 Mark II) so I'm taking a lot more photos of birds. I share my best wildlife photos on iNaturalist, and based on yesterday's successful prototype I

The Information: Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI inference chips from UK-based Fractile when they become available in 2027 — As Anthropic's sales explode, straining the servers it uses,

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay after quietly building a stake; GameStop had a market cap of ~11B as of May 1, while eBay had ~45B — Retai

Bloomberg: Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing for a US IPO at a $4B valuation with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase advising — Opay Digital Services Ltd. is workin

Robert Booth / The Guardian: Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors — Research

Jonathan Greig / The Record: A bug in popular cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared software has reportedly been exploited since Feb.; CISA it gives a 9.8 CVSS score, tells agencies to patch by May 3 — Federal

A new US-wide cell phone network marketed to Christians is set to launch next week. It blocks porn, which experts in network security say marks the first time a US cell plan has used network-level blo

Sam Tobin / Reuters: A UK court orders Samsung to pay ZTE 392M for patents needed to enable phone network access; Samsung faces similar suits from ZTE in China, Germany, and Brazil — Samsung Electroni

JuliaHub Inc., an “agentic” industrial engineering startup that’s trying to automate complex manufacturing processes with artificial intelligence, said today it has raised 65 million in a Series B fun

On April 7, 2026, Anthropic did something unprecedented in the history of artificial intelligence: The company announced that it had built its most capable model ever and would not be releasing it to

AI is driving healthcare digital transformation at an unprecedented pace, forcing insurance and healthcare organizations to modernize operations and decision-making while balancing speed with strong g

If anyone thought artificial intelligence was running into a slow patch, let alone running into any fundamental technical or financial hurdles, this week quieted the doubters — at least for now. In a

This article examines how value in the AI industry is shifting away from traditional chip manufacturers toward model development labs and companies that build large language models. It likely analyzes

This article discusses the emerging landscape of AI agents specialized for different domains, contrasting Codex's capabilities for knowledge work and structured tasks with Claude's strengths in creati

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Amazon debuts “Join the chat”, an AI-powered feature that lets users ask questions about products and get conversational audio responses generated in real time — Amazon

Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain were directly struck by drones in March 2026, causing structural damage and disrupting power delivery. The facilities were damaged in drone stri

IPhone maker Apple Inc. beat expectations on its second-quarter earnings and sales before offering a better-than-expected sales forecast for the current period, sending its stock higher in late tradin

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says “the iPhone 17 family is now the most popular lineup in our history” and “we believe we gained market share during the quarter” — John Tern

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple has stopped offering a 256GB storage option for the Mac mini globally; Mac mini now starts at 512GB for $799 in the US — Apple this week stopped offering a 256GB stora

During its Q2 2026 earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that Mac mini and Mac Studio may take several months to reach supply-demand balance. Apple underestimated demand for these products, which h

In this post, we walk through the full journey, from setting up your migration workspace in AWS Transform to subscribing to partner agents through AWS Marketplace to unlocking Amazon Quick capabilitie

Media and entertainment is undergoing a structural shift driven by fragmented audiences, new content formats and the growing role of AI in production workflows. The traditional broadcast model — built

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: China's EV makers are competing on in-car AI features; ByteDance says its Doubao AI is used in 7M+ cars across 145 models, including from Mercedes, Audi, and VW — - China's EV pri

In the beginning, platforms like Fiverr were places where people could hire freelancers to do specialized creative labor using skills that took years to develop. In the age of generative AI, though, m

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Eigen AI, which optimizes the performance of chips running AI inference tasks, for $615M in stock and cash — Cloud computing provid

Cybersecurity was already under strain before AI entered the stack. Now, as AI expands the attack surface and adds new complexity, the limits of legacy approaches are becoming harder to ignore. This s

Elon Musk is the one who wanted this trial. He has spent months claiming OpenAI 'stole a nonprofit,' and saying he was the actual driving force behind one of the most important companies currently in

Jessica Lyons / The Register: Experts say supply chain attacks compromised SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the PyPI package Lightning, in a campaign that calls itself Mini Shai-Hulud — The wave of

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Fun, which builds fiat and crypto payment rails for platforms like Polymarket and Aave, raised a $72M Series A in January, co-led by Multicoin and SignalFire — The finer details o

Taylor Lorenz / Wired: How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others — Build American

Tool: iNaturalist Sightings I wanted to see my iNaturalist observations - across two separate accounts - grouped by when they occurred. I'm camping this weekend so I built this entirely on my phone us

Smack dab between Australia and South America, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Rainier is currently on a mission to map more than 8,000 square nautical mi

A 78-year-old man with a 6-month history of progressive skin lesions developed the condition after returning from Florida. The case was diagnosed as disseminated Acanthamoeba infection through PCR tes

Discover how Marketing Architects scaled real-time CTV advertising with Vultr, doubling throughput, reducing latency by 50%, and cutting cloud costs by up to 50% with high-performance Kubernetes and c

Twitter said pick a side. The eval said the question was wrong. Six months ago, MCP (model context protocol) was the hot new thing: tool usage with a built-in discovery... The post MCP vs. CLI Skills

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it — Meta Platforms In

Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that's specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation history, and complex documents to help legal teams handl

Minnesota passed the nation's first ban on 'nudification' apps in a 65-0 Senate vote , addressing nonconsensual deepfake imagery where photographs of fully clothed people are manipulated with generati

Model risk governance and risk intelligence are distinct but complementary practices in machine learning operations. Model risk governance focuses on establishing policies, controls, and compliance fr

In the first week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk took the stand in a crisp black suit and tie and argued that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived h

Nebius Group NV, a Dutch operator of artificial intelligence data centers, today announced plans to buy software maker Eigen AI Inc. for 643 million. The company will finance the acquisition with cash

Companies are taking control of their own data to tailor AI for their needs. The challenge lies in balancing ownership with the safe, trusted flow of high‑quality data needed to power reliable insight

The U.S. Defense Department today announced that it has inked artificial intelligence procurement contracts with seven tech firms. The group includes Amazon Web Service Inc., Google LLC, Microsoft Cor

The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings, according t