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A May 2026 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda involves the rare Bundibugyo virus , with 575 suspected cases, 51 confirmed cases, and 148 suspected deaths reported as of May

There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk's 'truth-seeking' AI chatbot Grok: It's not very good, and not many people are using it. That's the takeaway of a new Reuters report, which found that Grok barel

Ryan Lawler / Axios: Farther Finance, which is building an AI-enabled wealth management platform for financial advisors, raised a 150M Series D at a 1B+ post-money valuation — Farther Finance, which i

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Filing: Zoom's stake in Anthropic is worth ~1.27B based on a February round which valued Anthropic at 380B; Zoom invested an additional 46M in recent months — Zoom Communicatio

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed the two leaders of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which makes recommendations on preventive care such as mammograms and colonoscopies. Kennedy

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised 80M from KKR's growth equity arm at a 1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to 285M — Beaut

As enterprise software companies race to close the gap between product capability and market reach, the distribution scale — a company’s ability to move product through partner networks at volume and

FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Back in 2024 Cox Media Group we

Unified AI service management lives or dies on context — and that context demands consolidating fragmented tools, data and operations into a single foundation. That consolidation imperative is now the

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Google files its appeal of the US federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing it “prevailed in the marketplace fair and square” — It wants to throw out t

During Tuesday’s Google I/O keynote, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, proclaimed that we are currently “standing in the foothills of the singularity.” It was a striking statement—the singul

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google rolls out a Google Wallet redesign, including “dynamic quick access” for favorites, a “View more” floating action button, and more — At I/O 2026, Google Wallet quietly an

Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. Earlier on Friday, if you searched for the term 'disregard,' the AI Overview section would include a response like what you'd s

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including “disregard”, “ignore”, and “skip” — With certain terms, AI Overviews a

SpaceX scrubbed the first launch of its third-generation Starship rocket system from its Starbase, Texas facility. The countdown halted at T-40 seconds due to a hydraulic pin on the launch tower arm f

Hark Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence devices for the consumer market, today announced that it has raised more than 700 million in funding. Parkway Venture Capital led the Series A r

Databricks Genie is a tool designed to democratize data access within financial services organizations by enabling non-technical users to query and analyze data through natural language interfaces. Th

Nikkei Asia: How the global memory chip crunch, driven by AI demand, is hurting China's car industry, squeezing automakers already hit by a price war and razor-thin margins — HONG KONG — The global me

Virgin Atlantic implemented OpenAI's Codex to accelerate software development and deployment processes, enabling faster shipping of features and updates. The case study demonstrates how Codex improved

The World Bank Group leverages Databricks' data and AI platform to enhance its poverty eradication efforts by enabling better data sharing, analysis, and knowledge dissemination across its operations

Companies worldwide are demanding more than regulatory compliance from their technology stacks — they want digital sovereignty with verifiable operational control over AI workloads and the data infras

Disaggregated infrastructure is displacing the all-in-one data center stack — and the economics of AI are making that reality impossible to ignore. The vast majority of enterprise data still resides o

Wall Street Journal: Internal Binance reports and sources reveal Iran moved billions through Binance to fund entities like the IRGC, with some transactions as recent as this month — Transactions on wo

Reuters: Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to 21.6B, above 18.7B est., net profit up 479% to 521M, above 271M est., as the PC maker pushes into AI server markets — Lenovo Group (0992.HK) reported a

CMG and two smaller marketing companies (MindSift LLC and 1010 Digital Works LLC) misled customers by advertising an AI-powered 'Active Listening' service that claimed to use snippets from smart home

Now we know for sure: This will be the year of monster initial public offerings. Elon Musk’s SpaceX filed for an IPO this week, aiming to raise a record $80 billion or more, and OpenAI was expected to

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its consumer chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year — Yusuf Mehdi, on

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Meta, Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, and Synopsys launch a 125M “Semiconductor Hub” at UCLA to advance AI chip research and more — Broadcom, Meta, Applied Materials, G

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Meta releases Forum, a Reddit-like standalone app for Facebook Groups, with a feed showing Group conversations and an AI-powered “Ask” feature, on iOS — It's a new dedicated

NASA announced one of its biggest reorganizations in recent memory on May 22, combining mission directorates and reshuffling personnel . The reorganization is designed to increase the agency's efficie

Databricks provides production-ready observability solutions for AI agents using OpenTelemetry integration and Unity Catalog, enabling comprehensive tracing and monitoring across distributed agent dep

Open-source AI agents are changing software development, empowering both developers and citizen builders alike in a domain once reserved for professional engineers. But the influx of agents now spread

OpenAI has been recognized as a Leader in Gartner's 2026 evaluation of enterprise coding agents, highlighting its competitive position in AI-powered code generation and software development tools. Thi

IT teams are under growing pressure to do more than keep the lights on — employees now expect the same seamless digital experiences at work that they get in their personal lives. Freshservice transfor

France 24: President Emmanuel Macron says France will invest an additional €1B for quantum computing research and a further €550M in state funding for semiconductors — Bruyères-le-Châtel (France) (AFP

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Qualcomm stock closed up 11.6% on Friday and is now up 75% in the past month, as the company increasingly becomes a key player in AI devices — Qualcomm shares surged 12% on Frida

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Reddit stock fell 5%+ on Friday after Meta launched a standalone app for online forums, called Forum; Reddit's stock is now down almost 40% this year — Reddit shares fell about

Justin Papp / CNBC: Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he requested information from Kalshi and Polymarket on their efforts to prevent insider trading — Rep. James Comer, R

DigitalOcean has made request-based autoscaling generally available on its App Platform, enabling applications to automatically scale based on incoming HTTP request volume rather than just CPU or memo

Ars Technica's review describes The Mandalorian and Grogu as an 'average' Star Wars entry that provides solid entertainment but falls short of being spectacular or groundbreaking. Directed by Jon Favr

SpaceX delayed a critical test of its massive Starship rocket just seconds before launch after a pin holding the tower arm in place failed to retract. Starship was slated to take off on its twelfth ma

The AI PC is being fundamentally redefined as agentic workloads push the boundaries of what local compute can deliver — and as runaway cloud token costs force enterprises to rethink where inference ac

Details have emerged about a tentative deal struck between Samsung and semiconductor employees who had threatened to strike. The deal reportedly makes some workers eligible for average annual bonuses

Artificial intelligence startups are facing two massive headaches: There’s too much AI-generated code to deal with, and not nearly enough computing power to run it all on. Modal Labs Inc., which has j

US solar generation surged 35% in 2025 with 27 gigawatts of newly installed capacity, surpassing hydroelectric power for the first time in annual generation. Solar's expansion added roughly 85 terawat

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race — CEO