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One of Canva's new AI features has been caught replacing the word 'Palestine' in designs. The Magic Layers feature - which is designed to break flat images out into separate editable components - isn'

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Canva says it “moved quickly to investigate and fix” an issue with its Magic Layers feature that replaced the word “Palestine” in designs, after a viral X post — The Magi

Financial Times: China blocks Meta's 2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 — Regulators had reviewed

The Chinese government today ordered Meta Platforms Inc. to scrap its acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus. The development comes about five months after the Facebook parent announced

Choco uses AI agents powered by OpenAI technology to automate and optimize food distribution processes, improving efficiency across supply chain operations. The system likely leverages machine learnin

As AI rapidly rewrites enterprise economics, cloud cost optimization has become essential for preventing budgets from collapsing under AI workloads, enabling organizations to slash expenses and redire

The cost to build natural gas power plants has spiked 66% in the last two years, with prices rising from less than 1,500 per kilowatt in 2023 to 2,157 in 2025 , driven by surging demand from data cent

After a yearslong legal feud, Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are heading to trial this week in Northern California in a case that could have sweeping consequences. Ahead of OpenAI’s highly antici

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are set to face off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of tech’s leading AI startup, OpenAI. The trial begins with jury selection on April 27th, as Musk pushes

On March 5, 2026, the much-anticipated paper for FlashAttention-4 (FA4) was published. The code was dropped on GitHub months ago; early benchmarks circulated, and preliminary results were presented at

Northrop Grumman confirmed corrosion in both the HALO and I-HAB modules of NASA's Lunar Gateway space station, citing a 'manufacturing irregularity.' The company attributed the issue to the French-Ita

Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits — Starting June 1, your Copilot u

Over 600 Google employees signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that Google block the Pentagon from using its AI models for classified purposes, reports the The Washington Post. Its organizer

Google is trying out an AI Mode-like search experience for YouTube. The company is now testing 'a new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a conversation,' with results pulling in things like

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 — The

AI-native healthcare has arrived, with the convergence of cloud infrastructure and intelligent data rewriting how insurance companies engage members, run campaigns and measure business outcomes. The r

Vercel has updated its default deployment retention policy for hobby tier projects to automatically retain deployments for 30 days. This change simplifies deployment management for free-tier users by

Databricks discusses how leading technology companies are using Lakebase to eliminate 'builder's tax'—the overhead and complexity costs associated with building and maintaining data infrastructure. Th

In this post, we share how we applied Amazon Bedrock and the Amazon Nova family of models to reimagine our Title Suggestion feature. By combining metadata, computer vision, and retrieval-augmented gen

As enterprises race to wire AI into their operations, the infrastructure bottleneck has shifted from model capability to data access — and the enterprises winning the race are those treating real-time

Bloomberg: How Sergey Brin's political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues — In a treehouse nestled in redwoods n

This article likely discusses techniques for building web applications that integrate OpenAI's APIs while maintaining user privacy through filtering mechanisms. It probably covers implementation strat

Will Knight / Wired: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, raised a 1.1B seed at a 5.1B valuation to build AI “superlearners” — David Silver has a new

LangGuard's agentic workflow governance engine represents one of the first production deployments of Lakebase, Databricks' platform for managing AI agents. The deployment demonstrates how organization

Google and Kaggle are offering a free five-day AI Agents Intensive course running June 15–19, 2026. The course teaches 'vibe coding' to create programs using natural language, with hands-on projects t

On Monday, the courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over alleged broken promises at OpenAI started, as usual, with jury selection. The only tricky part? A lot of the prospective jurors al

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Kashable, which lets companies offer “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised a $60M Series C — Ka

Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 — Se

Last year we introduced new geospatial analytics capabilities integrated for BigQuery. Building on this, we announced an expanded suite of tools at Google Cloud Next ‘26, designed to help your busines

Legacy, launched in 2023, was a blockchain business simulator that raised $54 million via a virtual 'land sale' in 2021 , but tanked almost immediately after launching . Molyneux later stated that fun

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Meta says it signed a deal with Overview Energy for 1GW of space solar energy; the startup seeks to collect sunlight in satellites, with a demonstration in 2028 — Meta Platf

OpenAI: Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI — Amended agreement provides long-t

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Microsoft and OpenAI remove a clause that would have given Microsoft IP rights until OpenAI achieved “AGI”; Microsoft retains use of OpenAI's models until 2032 — Micros

OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has off

Microsoft Corp. has partnered with Accenture Plc on the largest-ever deployment of its artificial intelligence tool Microsoft 365 Copilot, rolling it out to the consultancy’s global workforce of more

microsoft/VibeVoice VibeVoice is Microsoft's Whisper-style audio model for speech-to-text, MIT licensed and with speaker diarization built into the model. Microsoft released it on January 21st, 2026 b

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work — “W

All 22 members of the National Science Board, which advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation, were fired on April 24 without explanation. Members received no explanation for their termi

Scientists are concerned about the upcoming El Niño because it's developing against the backdrop of already-elevated global temperatures from climate change, which could create a 'perfect storm' of cl

A widely-downloaded open source package called element-data was compromised after attackers exploited a vulnerability in developer account workflows, gaining access to signing keys and releasing a mal

OpenAI Group PBC and Microsoft Corp. have revised several sections of the contract that governs their technology partnership. The update, which was announced today, is at least the third that the comp

OpenAI has achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization, enabling U.S. federal agencies to use OpenAI's services while meeting federal security and compliance requirements. This certification demonstrates

Microsoft will continue to have a license to OpenAI IP through 2032, but Microsoft's license is now non-exclusive, allowing OpenAI to serve its products across any cloud provider . Microsoft will stop

Ineffable Intelligence is building a superlearner—an AI system that discovers knowledge through its own experience rather than human data, using reinforcement learning without pre-training. The compan

Applied Intuition develops software platforms and simulation tools for autonomous vehicles and robotics, enabling companies to design, test, and deploy physical AI systems at scale. The discussion wit

Jer / @lifeof_jer: PocketOS founder Jer Crane says a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted a production database when it was working in a staging environment — An AI Agent Just Des