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NPR: How opposition to data centers, over concerns like power demands, pollution, and water needs, has become a voting issue for many people in the 2026 US midterms — Fifteen minutes after Susan Bourg

This article explains how to ground Korean AI agents in realistic demographic data by utilizing synthetic personas, likely leveraging NVIDIA's Nemotron models available on Hugging Face. The approach e

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Humble unveils a fully electric cabless autonomous truck called the Humble Hauler and comes out of stealth with a 24M seed led by Eclipse — The autonomous vehicle wave has

IBM and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have established a partnership focusing on quantum computing and related algorithmic research. The agreement, discussed by IBM researcher Han

California Attorney General Rob Bonta publicly released unredacted evidence from the state's lawsuit against Amazon for illegal price fixing, detailing how Amazon allegedly coerced vendors to raise pr

ChatGPT Images 2.0 is an updated version of OpenAI's image generation feature integrated into ChatGPT, offering improvements to image creation capabilities for users. The update likely includes enhanc

Today’s developer experience is often spread across dozens of consoles, documentation pages, and sites to stay informed. We know that the friction of jumping between surfaces can slow down the most im

The Databricks Excel Add-in is a tool that enables business users to directly access and analyze data from Databricks within Microsoft Excel without requiring advanced technical skills. This integrati

If you’ve been to an eye doctor and had an image taken of the inside of your eye, chances are good it was done with optical coherence tomography (OCT)—a technology invented by clinician-scientist Davi

Information technology security software company Ivanti Inc. today announced new capabilities that are focused on allowing autonomous IT operations and organizations to secure their environments more

Less than a year ago, Apple made headlines for a lack of AI announcements at its annual WWDC event. Ten months later, the company has announced that hardware executive John Ternus will succeed longtim

A major European study tracking over 10,000 people aged 65-94 for seven years found that lonely older adults performed worse on initial memory tests, though their memory declined at the same rate as t

This DigitalOcean guide covers strategies and best practices for deploying and optimizing very large language models (600 billion+ parameters) on cloud infrastructure, focusing on inference performanc

Reuters: Meta is installing tracking software on US staffers' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in work-related apps for use in AI training — Meta (META.O) is installing new

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft cuts Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price from 29.99 to 22.99/month and PC Game Pass from 16.49 to 13.99, but both tiers won't get new Call of Duty games — After Xbox CEO As

Microsoft reduced Game Pass Ultimate pricing from 29.99 to 22.99 per month and PC Game Pass from 16.49 to 13.99 per month, effective April 21, 2026. Call of Duty games will no longer be available on G

Managed vulnerability management service startup Mondoo Inc. today announced the launch of Mondoo AI Skills Check, a free security checker designed to address the growing supply chain risk posed by AI

As AI assistants and privacy proxies challenge the capabilities of traditional bot detection, the Web needs new models for accountability. We believe that control should remain with the client, and th

Mozilla used Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview AI to discover 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150 , which the company has patched in the browser . The AI was able to reason through code and surface iss

Anthropic PBC’s Claude Mythos model has emerged as the most widely discussed artificial intelligence solution without being fully released. Information about the model, which reportedly has the abilit

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: New York Attorney General Letitia James sues Coinbase and Gemini, claiming their prediction markets violate state laws against illegal gambling — New York's attorney genera

Digiday: OpenAI enables cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT, setting bids at between 3 and 5 per click, in addition to CPMs — The platform that can figure out how to prove AI chatbots can drive an outco

OpenAI Group PBC today launched ChatGPT Images 2.0, an upgraded version of the image generator built into its popular chatbot. The company also debuted a new technical training service called Codex La

OpenAI is rolling out the latest version of its AI-powered image generator with new 'thinking capabilities,' allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt. On Tu

Venti iced coffee, light skim milk. That's what I get at Starbucks. It is what I have gotten at Starbucks every time I've been to Starbucks for as long as I can remember, other than a brief love affai

The Space Force cancelled the Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) contract, a troubled GPS ground control system program under prime contractor RTX , after spending $6.27 billion as of Ja

The Pentagon's 1.5 trillion fiscal 2027 budget proposal allocates nearly 54 billion for military drones and related technology, plus 21 billion for counter-drone weapons systems. At nearly 54 billion,

As enterprises race to adopt AI without sacrificing control or flexibility, open-source infrastructure is the stable foundation that enables organizations to modernize while maintaining full digital s

As hybrid and multicloud strategies evolve, a new reality is coming into focus — one where open architectures are increasingly central to operational resilience, sovereignty and choice. The industry’s

QIMMA (قِمّة) is a quality-focused leaderboard for evaluating Arabic Large Language Models, developed by TIIUAE. The leaderboard benchmarks Arabic LLMs across various performance metrics and tasks to

AI agents are already too human. Not in the romantic sense, not because they love or fear or dream, but in the more banal and frustrating one. The current implementations keep showing their human orig

Real-time decisioning for AI agents requires a foundational customer context layer that provides unified, up-to-date customer data to enable accurate and personalized decisions. Databricks explains ho

ReasoningBank is a memory framework that distills generalizable reasoning strategies from an agent's successful and failed experiences, which the agent retrieves at test time to inform interactions wh

Priority Technologies: Ensuring US Security and Shared ProsperityEdited by Elisabeth B. Reynolds, professor of the practice of urban studies and planning and former executive director of the MIT Task

Meta is installing tracking software on U.S.-based employees' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes for training AI models to build autonomous AI agents . The tool focuses on ar

Listen to the session or watch below Watch a special edition of Roundtables simulcast live from EmTech AI, MIT Technology Review’s signature conference for AI leadership. Subscribers got an exclusive

This article discusses a collaborative approach from Vultr, Supermicro, and SUSE for deploying and managing AI workloads across cloud and edge computing environments using Kubernetes orchestration. Th

OpenAI's Codex, a code generation model trained on publicly available code, was scaled for enterprise deployment to provide developers with AI-assisted coding capabilities across organizations worldwi

scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles I firmly approve of Steve Cosman's efforts to pollute the training set of pelicans riding bicycles. (To be fair, most of the examples I've published count as poisoning

Snowflake Inc. is expanding its push into enterprise artificial intelligence with a set of updates to its Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code offerings, positioning its platform as a centralized co

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: a handful of unauthorized users in a private Discord channel have been accessing Anthropic's Mythos model since the day the company announced it — A small group of una

Sam Sabin / Axios: Sources: CISA doesn't have access to Mythos Preview, even as some other government agencies use it; Anthropic says it briefed CISA before Mythos' unveiling — The Cybersecurity and I

Yueqi Yang / The Information: Sources: Kalshi plans to offer crypto trading in the US, offering perpetual futures, putting it in competition with exchanges like Coinbase — Prediction market Kalshi pla

With an IPO looming for Elon Musk's SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an odd arrangement to either acquire the automated programming platform Cursor for 60 billion or p

New York Times: SpaceX says it's working with Cursor to build “the world's most useful models” and it has the right to acquire Cursor for 60B or pay 10B for the partnership — The potential acquisition

During Supreme Court oral arguments on April 21, 2026, the FCC argued that its roughly 100 million in fines against Verizon and AT&T were 'nonbinding' and did not violate the companies' Seventh Amendm