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Sam Tobin / Reuters: In a two-week UK High Court trial, Shein accuses Temu of “industrial scale” copyright infringement of its photos; Temu says Shein is suing to stifle competition — Online fast-fash
The changes may be less perceptible than in smartphones, tablets, or wearables, but chargers have also been quietly reinvented over the last decade. At one time a bulky mix of tangled cables and conne
Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Platform on AWS is a new service that gives customers direct access to Anthropic's native Claude Platform ex
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
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
Learning on the Shop floor Tobias Lütke describes Shopify's internal coding agent tool, River, which operates entirely in public on their Slack: River does not respond to direct messages. She politely
In April 2026, researchers disclosed CVE-2026-31431 ('Copy Fail'), a highly reliable local privilege escalation vulnerability allowing unprivileged attackers to escalate to root across virtually all m
In this post, we build a multimodal retrieval system for aerospace manufacturing documents using Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon S3 Vectors. We evaluate the system on 26
Managing a modern database fleet is both a scale and cognitive problem. As database estates grow, the effort required to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize them often outpaces teams’ capacity, who fi
MIT and IBM have renewed their long-standing research collaboration, focusing on advancing computing research and technology development. The partnership brings together expertise from both institutio
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Ilya Sutskever testifies that his OpenAI stake is worth ~7B and he had concerns about Altman for a year before Altman's brief ouster as CEO — OpenAI co-founder
CNBC: Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella says Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI violated any special terms or commitments — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took
CNBC: Nvidia embraces its role as an AI investor in 2026, committing 40B+ to equity investments including a 30B stake in OpenAI, 3.2B in Corning, and 2.1B in IREN — Nvidia stepped on the gas last year
IBM Think saw Big Blue grab its place in the artificial intelligence spotlight. In a week full of notable, and surprising, AI news, IBM Think saw CEO Arvind Krishna emphasize AI as the operating model
The OpenAI Campus Network is a program that facilitates student engagement with OpenAI's technology and research on college campuses. This interest form allows students to express interest in starting
OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create
Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog AI News: OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities — OpenAI launches Da
OpenAI launched DeployCo, a new service designed to assist businesses in building and deploying applications leveraging OpenAI's AI models and intelligence capabilities. The offering appears to focus
OpenAI Group PBC today unveiled a new business unit, The OpenAI Deployment Company, that will help companies adopt its artificial intelligence models. The subsidiary is launching with 4 billion in fun
Reuters: OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a 4B+ investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acquires AI consulting firm Tomoro — OpenAI said on Monday it is set
Eighteen U.S. cruise passengers from the MV Hondius returned to the U.S. on May 11, 2026, after weeks aboard the ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. One passenger tested 'mildly' posit
Predictive quality extends beyond traditional defect detection by using data analytics and machine learning to anticipate quality issues before they occur rather than simply identifying existing defec
Jeremy Stern / Colossus: Q&A with Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which hit a $445M revenue run rate in its first 18 months, on his math competition roots, the Devin AI coding agent, more — An afternoon w
Qdrant 1.18.0 is out! Let’s look at the main features for this version: TurboQuant: A new quantization method that, at twice the compression ratio of scalar quantization, delivers similar recall and s
Artificial intelligence customer service platform provider Quiq Inc. today launched a new voice product and refreshed its brand, betting that customer experience teams are ready to move beyond isolate
Your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance
Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. is expected to increase the size and price of its initial public offering later today as investor demand for access to its shares continues to r
This Databricks resource examines retail markdown optimization strategies, contrasting reactive markdown approaches (responding to inventory issues after they occur) with proactive markdown strategies
Dua Lipa filed a $15 million lawsuit against Samsung, alleging the electronics company used her photograph to sell televisions without permission or payment. Samsung began featuring Lipa's image on TV
This tutorial demonstrates how to implement full-text search functionality using Pinecone's vector database, using bird-related data as a practical example. It likely covers setting up Pinecone, index
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: SEC filing: Cerebras upsizes its IPO to 30M shares at 150-160 each, up from 28M shares at 115-125, aiming to raise up to 4.8B at an up to 34.4B valuation — Cerebras System
Socket: Several npm packages for the TanStack web development tools were compromised in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack; Mistral packages were also affected — - Immediate triage: Run shasum -a
Using SocialReasoning Bench, we observed a stable pattern across models—agents execute competently, but fail to consistently improve the user’s position, even with explicit instructions to optimize fo
Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: SoftBank partners with South Korea's Cosmos Lab and DeltaX to mass produce next-gen data center batteries in Japan at the scale of one GWh per year in FY 2027 — SoftBank Gro
In a 9-0 Supreme Court decision, Cox Communications prevailed against Sony Music Entertainment in a landmark copyright case decided March 25, 2026, with the Court finding that internet service provide
The Information: Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's payments to Microsoft at 38B; they previously could have totaled 135B through 2030 if long-term goals were met — OpenAI Chief Financial
Lucinda Shen / Axios: Source: Robinhood has filed confidentially for its second publicly traded venture fund, Robinhood Venture Fund II, focusing on early-stage startups — Robinhood has filed confiden
Financial Times: Sources: German defense tech startup Helsing is set to raise 1.2B led by Dragoneer and Lightspeed at a valuation of about 18B, up from 14B in June 2025 — German company backed by Spot
The Information: Sources: Kuaishou plans to spin off its Kling AI video unit for an IPO in 2027 and is seeking a $20B valuation in pre-IPO funding talks with potential investors — Chinese social media
Bloomberg: Sources: Masayoshi Son has held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about unveiling a multibillion-dollar AI data center project in the coming weeks — SoftBank Group Corp. founder M
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI facilitated a 6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600+ current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of 30M — Employee
Washington Post: Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and Commerce Department's CAISI are fighting over which agency should lead AI model evaluations — As the White House g
Starlink is shutting down a GPS-style positioning feature that customers could previously access through its local API, with the company having restricted access to this capability that some users had
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Netflix for allegedly spying on consumers by collecting their data without consent, and designing its platform to be addictive — Netflix (NFLX.O) w
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus
Google's AI-powered Google Finance is launching across Europe this week with full local language support. The reimagined platform offers capabilities including AI-powered research that lets users ask
Courtney Rozen / Reuters: The US Commerce Department removed from its website details about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models — The U.S. Commerce Department r
Thinking Machines Lab: Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, which can think and respond in real time, letting users and AI interact continuously for better collaboration — Today, we're an
GitLab Act 2 There's a lot going on in this announcement from GitLab about the 'workforce reduction' and 'structural and strategic decisions' they are making with respect to the agentic era. They're '
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