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New York Times: A look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers probe AI models for safety gaps, as its work becomes a blueprint for other governments' AI policies — The government's A.I. Se

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: A look at Xiaomi's AI push to future-proof its hardware and EV ecosystem, as it recently committed ~$8.8B in AI investments over the next three years — Xiaomi is

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg who is leading the gargantuan effort to transform Meta into an AI-first company

Washington Post: A section of the Pope's encyclical describing AI's unpredictability suggests influence from Anthropic, whose co-founder Christopher Olah attended the unveiling — In “Magnifica humanit

New York Times: A surge in AI-generated “pro se” cases, or lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, is democratizing the US legal system but consuming more court resources — For years, courts hav

As enterprises confront spiraling cloud inference bills, on-prem AI computing is emerging as the decisive lever for making agentic AI economically viable at scale. Dell Technologies Inc.’s announcemen

California Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, in San Mateo County, CA, USWe took our new folding kayak out in the harbor and saw sea lions and harbor seals chilling on the d

Chinese electronics giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. today unveiled a new chip design framework that it says will help it to close the gap in the semiconductor industry with global leaders like Taiw

Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which addresses safeguarding human dignity in the era of artificial intelligence . The Pope called to 'disarm' AI and free it 'from log

As organizations push to convert AI ambition into defensible business results, many are discovering that infrastructure alone is not enough. Instead, the real challenge lies in reconciling decades of

Rack-scale infrastructure has become the defining unit of deployment as enterprises shift from individual servers to fully integrated racks to meet the extreme power and cooling demands of production

The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, reportedly plans to issue a record fine to Google LLC over its practices in the search market. German newspaper Handelsblatt today cited so

Written by: Takahiro Sugiyama, Peter Revelant, Mathew Potaczek Introduction In late 2025, Mandiant responded to a security incident involving a compromised web server running KnowledgeDeliver. Knowled

This article defines and clarifies key terminology related to AI agents, including the concepts of 'harness' and 'scaffold,' which are important architectural and operational components in building an

Check Point Research: How Iranian threat actor Nimbus Manticore used techniques like AI-assisted malware development and SEO poisoning to target companies during the US-Iran war — Key Findings — The I

An Ars Technica article examining the cultural pressure to complete highly-acclaimed games like The Witcher 3, arguing that a game being objectively good doesn't obligate players to enjoy it or finish

Joshua McElwee / Reuters: In his ~43,000-word encyclical, the Pope urged governments to slow down AI development and decried “new forms of slavery” in AI and tech supply chains — Pope Leo urged govern

Reuters: Iranian state media reports that President Masoud Pezeshkian has issued an order to reopen international internet access after a near-90-day blackout — Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has

Bryan Hecht / The Boston Globe: Massachusetts formally recognizes the App Drivers Union, which says it represents ~70,000 workers and is the first state-certified rideshare union in the US — Uber and

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: More than 5,500 GitHub repositories were infected with malware in a supply chain attack, dubbed Megalodon, on May 18 that relies on automated commits — Fake automated com

Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting document. It's

OpenAI announced a strategic partnership with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL, major Brazilian media companies, to integrate their content into OpenAI's AI models and products. The partnership enables OpenA

Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks of AI and unconstrained technological power in his first major papal document released on Monday. Magnifica Humanitas is the pope's manifesto on 'safeguarding the huma

Pope Leo XIV today issued an encyclical that contains an extensive discussion of artificial intelligence and its risks. The approximately 43,000-word document is entitled “Magnifica Humanitas,” which

New York Times: Pope Leo XIV presents Magnifica humanitas, his encyclical on AI, calling for AI regulation, protection for children against hypersexualized AI images, and more — The document marks a p

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