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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

Agentic AI is flooding enterprise pipelines with possibility, but regulated industries are learning that the speed of deployment and the discipline of governance cannot be decoupled — and that AI proc

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Quantum Art, a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput using its unique “multicore” architecture, extends its Series A to $140M — Quantum

Quantum Art Ltd., a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput, said today it has extended its Series A funding round to 140 million following a surge of interest from inv

Artificial intelligence may be dominating boardroom agendas, but many enterprises are discovering that the biggest obstacle to meaningful adoption is the state of their data. While consumer-facing AI

Paresh Dave / Wired: San Francisco public records: in 2024, Salesforce and Airbnb were among the top tech spenders in the city's 10B program, which lets them hire police officers — A recent attack on

German robotics startup Sereact GmbH announced today that it has raised 110 million in new funding to scale up its artificial intelligence “robotic brain” platform and expand into the U.S. Founded in

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources detail Microsoft's “Windows K2”, an ongoing initiative to address major Windows 11 user complaints about AI features, OS bloat, performance, and more — Microsoft

Financial Times: Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation — Officials concerned a

Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices I just encountered this feature via a 'try this out now' prompt in a Google Meet meeting. It kind-of worked! This is Google's imp

Bloomberg: Spotify partners with Peloton to offer Premium subscribers access to curated playlists and 1,400+ ad-free fitness classes, its first foray into fitness content — Spotify Technology SA is no

Recent research found that participants exposed to infrasound reported increased irritation, unease, and elevated stress levels regardless of other conditions. While infrasound appears to be one contr

Super ZSNES is a modern SNES emulator created by two of the original ZSNES developers, zsKnight and _Demo_, which has been rewritten from scratch as a GPU-powered successor. The emulator uses GPU acce

The agentic AI boom has an inconvenient truth: Without a solid data foundation, the revolution stops before it starts. Conversations surrounding an emergent agent control plane signal that agentic AI

The auto design world is full of advanced 3D visualization tools and VR sculpting platforms, but your average new car still enters the world as a sketch. Those sketches traditionally see endless itera

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. Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters On Friday, Chin

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are “unwarranted intervention” — Google was targeted

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In February, I picked up a flyer at an anti-AI march in London

Microsoft and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership extending their collaboration on AI development and deployment. The partnership likely involves increased investment from Microsoft, expanded int

The artificial intelligence arms race has spent the last two years obsessed with a duopoly of constraints: the desperate hunt for Nvidia Corp. silicon and the grueling wait for grid-scale megawatts. I

For many years, Microsoft and OpenAI's relationship has included a weird clause saying that, should AGI be achieved, Microsoft's commercial IP rights to OpenAI's technology would be null and void. Tha

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features — Truecaller

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Without trusted data as the foundation, even the most sophisticated models will produce outcomes that enterprises can’t act on with confidence. As a matter of fact, enterprises are paying a steep pric

As enterprises navigate the complexities of scaling AI initiatives, the agentic AI blueprint for success lies in combining deep process intelligence with powerful cloud platforms, enabling organizatio

Benjamin Wallace / New York Times: A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg — Dwarke

Stephen Totilo / Game File: An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and EVP Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S the “first-class experience again”, and more — In an excl

Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its standard EUV machines this year, 36% more than it sold in 2025, as it races to meet demand for making AI chips — ASML

Chris Metinko / Axios: Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a 23M Series A — Collov Labs, which tu

Stephen Morris / Financial Times: Epoch AI: Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend — Thomas

Heather Knight / New York Times: Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique — Andon

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OpenAI's core principles outline the company's commitment to developing artificial intelligence safely and beneficially, emphasizing responsible AI development and deployment. These principles likely

Makena Kelly / Ars Technica: Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more — It took jus

Prime Video released the official full trailer for Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir TV show, a live-action series about Ben Reilly . The eight-episode series premieres on MGM+ May 25, 2026 before rolling ou

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~1B valuation; it raised a ~50M seed in 2025 — Genki Robotics, a h

The teaser for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 boasts a decidedly more adventurous vibe. The teaser has a much more traditional Trek feel with a voice-over about the power of exploration and sh

Databricks Genie is an AI-powered assistant that enables users to query data and generate insights through natural language interactions, reducing the need for SQL expertise. The next generation updat