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Google DeepMind's Co-Scientist AI tool helps researchers identify genetic changes that push cells away from senescence toward youthful states in tissues like skin, hair, and muscle. The system scans s

A federal jury today voted to dismiss Elon Musk’s high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI Group PBC. The nine jurors found that the complaint, which Musk filed in 2024, was brought after the statute of li

This guide demonstrates how to fine-tune NVIDIA's Cosmos Predict 2.5 video generation model using parameter-efficient techniques like LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) and DoRA (Mixture of Experts-based adap

Vercel announced that traffic mitigated by its Web Application Firewall (WAF) will not count toward customer billing, reducing costs for users who experience DDoS attacks or other malicious traffic. T

Microsoft has introduced the ability to move the taskbar to any screen edge and added a smaller taskbar option in Windows 11, features previously removed at the OS's 2021 launch. The company also plan

A new report out today from cybersecurity company Forcepoint LLC’s X-Labs research team details a supply chain attack that compromised LiteLLM, a widely used open-source Python library that serves as

Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, in Los Angeles River, CA, USI'm heading home from PyCon US today so I went on a last morning walk to try and spot a pelican. I saw one!

A new Lanterns teaser trailer features Nathan Fillion returning as Guy Gardner , the character introduced in the 2025 Superman movie . Showrunner Chris Mundy confirmed Gardner will 'be in the show a f

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: How Amazon, which took a measured tone to AI, went from an AI also-ran to a real contender, thanks to 200B in spending, custom AI chips, and savvy deals — The pieces

Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs — With Cong

When most people think of A/B experimentation, they think of button colors, landing page layouts, or checkout flows. At Google, many fundamental infrastructure improvements also need the rigor of A/B

Alessandra Ram / Wired: How the AI industry's intense pressure to keep up and its financial rewards are creating “walls of resentment” between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses — Are you marrie

This newsletter explores three AI topics: potential weaponization risks of AI systems (framed as 'AI stuxnet'), issues with the Muon optimizer in machine learning, and progress or approaches toward po

Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier.bsky.social: In a town hall, PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive

Simon Sharwood / The Register: In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says “AI tools are great” but duplicate bug reports have made the security list “almost entirely unmanageable” — Multiple

The defense-tech company Anduril has shared new details about the augmented-reality headset for the military it’s prototyping with Meta, including a vision for ordering drone strikes via eye-tracking

In this post, you will learn how to set up the Confluence Cloud integration with Quick. This includes creating a knowledge base for semantic search, setting up Actions to query and manage Confluence p

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Internal chats: in March, xAI offered employees $420 in exchange for completed tax filings as training data for Grok, but the bonuses haven't been paid out — Elon Musk's xAI

Eli Tan / New York Times: Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, two days before it is set to lay off 10% of its workforce — The company annou

Golnar Motevalli / Bloomberg: Iranian media: Iran launches “Hormuz Safe”, a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies transiting the Strait of Hormuz; ~1,500 ships are trapped — Iran has

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance — The com

Dust, an agentic artificial intelligence startup that’s trying to push enterprise workers away from isolated chatbots into a more collaborative, multiplayer ecosystem, said today it has raised 40 mill

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says the judge and jury “never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality” and he will file an appeal — Regarding the Op

CNBC: Musk v. Altman jury unanimously rejects Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman; the judge dismisses two additional claims citing the statute of limitation — After less than two hours of deliberat

The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI, shouldn't direct the future

Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin Depot, North America's largest bitcoin ATM operator, files for bankruptcy, blaming “increasingly stringent compliance obligations” — Bitcoin Depot, the

Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: NextEra's 67B deal to buy Dominion, the largest utility merger in US history, signals a new era of utility consolidation to accommodate AI-driven power demand — NextEra Ener

Agentic AI inference at one-tenth the cost per token with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72. Agent sandboxes run 50% faster on NVIDIA Vera than traditional CPUs — while enterprise data queries are up to 3x fast

OpenAI and Dell announced a partnership to deploy OpenAI's Codex code generation model in hybrid and on-premise enterprise environments, enabling organizations to use the technology within their own i

PaddleOCR 3.5 introduces a Transformers-based backend for optical character recognition (OCR) and document parsing tasks, enabling improved performance and integration with the Hugging Face ecosystem.

Bloomberg: Polymarket and Kalshi continue to operate in India despite a government advisory on April 25, directed at VPN providers, labeling prediction markets “illegal” — Polymarket and Kalshi Inc. h

Archaeologists at Pompeii Archaeological Park identified one of the victims of the 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius eruption as a doctor after advanced exams revealed surgical instruments inside a plaster cast.

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Procurement records: the FBI seeks a vendor that can provide access to automated license plate readers nationwide; Flock and Motorola are among the few options — Only a couple

In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what t

In this post, you learn how to prompt Amazon Nova 2 Lite for content moderation using structured and free-form approaches, grounded in the MLCommons AILuminate Assessment Standard. The prompting techn

Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: participants earned a total of $1,298,250 for 47 vulnerabilities, with successful exploits of AI products like Codex, Cursor, and LM Studio — Partici

Artificial intelligence agents have a memory problem and now Redis Inc., the database management startup, is trying to fix that with its new, real-time Context Engine. As the company explains, it’s al

This article describes how to run Claude's managed agents within Vercel's Sandbox environment, enabling developers to execute AI agent workloads on Vercel's infrastructure. The integration allows user

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Seagate shares drop 6.87%, leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from its CEO raised concerns it won't be able to meet demand fueled by the AI buildout — Shares of memory chip

John Markoff / New York Times: Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized lax industry attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93 — For decades,

Cloud-native data analytics startup Sigma Computing Inc. has closed on an 80 million Series E funding round that doubles its valuation to 3 billion, almost a year to the day after its previous Series

Cristian Dina / The Next Web: Sigma, which sells a cloud-native analytics platform that sits on top of data warehouses, raised an 80M Series E led by Princeville Capital at a 3B valuation — The round

Jay Peters / The Verge: Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in “select regions”, blaming “ongoing market conditions” — One-month and three-mon

Bloomberg: Sources: AI chip designer Tenstorrent has drawn takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm; Tenstorrent could be valued at more than $5B in a potential deal — Artificial intelligence chip st

Bloomberg: Sources: Analog Devices, one of the largest analog chip makers, is in talks to buy Empower, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for 1.5B in cash — Analog Devices Inc. is in advanced

Julia Love / Bloomberg: Sources: competition for Google's TPUs among its employees and researchers intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research — In the race to