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In just a short few months, we have witnessed several artificial intelligence technology events that deserve the overused “unprecedented” descriptor: a highly complex supply chain attack by TeamPCP, A

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: The UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £175M deal with London-based Quantexa to use its AI tech to identify fraud incidents and fix tax return errors — HM Revenue and Cus

Every year the World Health Organization publishes a global health statistics report. It features the numbers behind world health trends and, importantly, assesses whether we’re on track to reach ambi

Together AI and Pearl Research Labs announced a partnership aimed at lowering the cost of AI inference through collaborative research and development efforts. The partnership likely combines Together

The Vercel CLI now supports native curl syntax, allowing developers to use standard curl commands directly within the CLI tool instead of requiring alternative command formats. This enhancement improv

Agentic AI might be outrunning the one thing it needs most — an AI trust layer. That challenge is reshaping the ambitions of companies long anchored in data protection. Veeam Software Group GmbH, whic

Volkswagen unveiled the ID. Polo GTI, its first electric GTI model, on May 15, 2026. The vehicle delivers 222 hp from a front-mounted electric motor and offers up to 282 miles of WLTP range. The ID. P

I was unable to find the specific Ars Technica article about a weather-monitoring firm forcing customers to use a new app. Based on the article title, this entry likely covers a weather company discon

Written by: Austin Larsen, Tyler McLellan, Genevieve Stark, Dan Ebreo Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track an expansive extortion campaign by UNC6671, a threat a

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: xAI launches Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows, in beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers — Elon Musk's xAI is rolling out its fir

Mia Sato / The Verge: YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others — Likeness detection,

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18 - meaning just about anyone can have the platform hunt for potential deepfakes of themselves. The likeness detect

At the tech world’s poker table, Coupa Software Inc. is betting that 10 trillion in cumulative spend gives it an edge in artificial intelligence. Who’s to say it’s wrong? That’s how much Coupa’s execu

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A look at GameStop's takeover bid for eBay, a bizarre job application by GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen, who does not have the money to buy eBay, to become eBay's CEO — Also Adani Gr

This article likely provides practical advice on how to effectively give feedback to AI agents or autonomous systems, covering techniques for improving agent performance through constructive feedback

Abridge has developed AI-native healthcare solutions that have facilitated 100 million doctor visits while saving patients and providers 10-20 hours collectively, with particular efficiency gains in p

Wirestock Inc., a startup that provides multimodal training datasets for artificial intelligence developers, has raised 23 million in funding. TechCrunch reported today that early-stage fund Nava Vent

This AINews roundup from Latent Space likely covers updates on OpenAI's Codex model gaining prominence in code generation applications, alongside news about Anthropic's Claude implementing usage meter

Atsuko Fukase / Bloomberg: Alphabet sold 3.6B of bonds in its debut yen-denominated bond sale, the largest by a non-Japanese company, as AI-driven capital spending accelerates — Alphabet Inc. sold ¥57

Over 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their area, according to a new Gallup survey. Just 7 percent said they were 'strongly' in favor of new data centers. According to Gal

Anthropic PBC, the developer and provider of the Claude artificial intelligence model family, said it’s offering a special credit pool for users who want to use agentic tools with its large language m

Anthropic PBC today launched an offering called Claude for Small Business that is designed to expand the adoption of its chatbot among entrepreneurs. The feature bundle is the fifth market-specific ve

This article discusses designing and implementing data pipelines capable of processing large-scale multimodal datasets (combining text, images, video, audio, etc.) using Ray, an open-source distribute

AI trust infrastructure is quickly becoming a critical requirement as enterprises scale intelligent systems across their operations. The focus is shifting from simple data protection to securing, gove

Unified identity security platform provider Permiso Security Inc. today launched AI agent runtime security capabilities that give security teams continuous visibility into agent activity across cloud

Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman's team passed up what looked - from a distance - like a little league trophy. It was not. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had the lawyers rea

Agent governance has gone from niche concern to boardroom prerequisite — and the enterprises that saw it coming are now pulling ahead. The rise of agentic AI across enterprise operations has made gove

U.K.-based artificial intelligence inference chip startup Fractile Ltd. said today it has closed on a 220 million Series B round of funding. The company was founded in 2022 by the Oxford University-tr

Bloomberg: California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes a new 7.25% tax on web-based software sales, targeting $1.1B in state and local tax revenue in the upcoming budget year — California Governor Gavin New

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Cerebras co-founders CEO Andrew Feldman and CTO Sean Lie own stakes worth 3.2B and 1.7B, respectively, representing about 5.5% and 3% of the company — The tech billionaires club has

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cerebras pops 68% in Nasdaq debut, pushing the AI chipmaker's market cap to 95 billion … Cerebras Systems soared 68% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, closing at 311.07 after selli

Cerebras Systems Inc. has officially priced its stock at 185 per share ahead of the most anticipated initial public offering of the year today, well above its expected range of between 150 and 160 per

Bloomberg: Cerebras shares closed up 68% at 311.07 in the company's Nasdaq debut after it raised 5.5B in the year's largest IPO, giving it a market value of 67B — Cerebras Systems Inc. shares jumped 6

Updated with opening stock price: Cerebras Systems Inc. today opened trading as a public company at 350 a share, 89% above its offering price, as it kicked off what looks like a huge year for initial

Cisco announced nearly 4,000 job cuts as part of a restructuring to shift investment toward artificial intelligence while simultaneously raising its annual revenue forecast after strong hyperscaler de

Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witnessed. Steven Molo, Musk's lawyer, stumbled over his words. He

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2026. Today, Vinod D’Souza, director, Office of the CISO, shares highlights from his RSA Conference fireside chat with Anthony Belfiore, chief stra

In this post, you will configure Chrome enterprise policies to restrict a browser agent to a specific website, observe the policy enforcement through session recording, and demonstrate custom root CA

Liquid cooling system startup Iceotope Technologies Ltd. said today it has closed on a 26 million Series B round of funding as it strives to accelerate the adoption of its data center-focused hardware

Financial services companies have unique needs when it comes to business AI. They operate in one of the most highly regulated sectors while responding to external events that are updated by the second

Release: datasette-ip-rate-limit 0.1a0 The datasette.io site was being hammered by poorly-behaved crawlers, so I had Codex (GPT-5.5 xhigh) build a configurable rate limiting plugin to block IPs that w

NV Energy announced it will end power supply to Lake Tahoe's Liberty Utilities after May 2027, citing capacity needed for data centers in Northern Nevada. The region has become a rapidly growing data

When generative AI first moved from research labs into real-world business applications, enterprises made a tacit bargain: “Capability now, control later.” Feed your proprietary data into third-party

Databricks announced expanded interoperability capabilities for Unity Catalog through open APIs, enabling third-party applications and platforms to integrate with and access Unity Catalog's data gover

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Figma reports Q1 revenue up 46% YoY to 333.4M, vs. 313.2M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, citing AI monetization; FIG jumps 8%+ after hours — Figma (FIG.N) r

Shares of Figma Inc. rose more than 12% in after-hours trading today after the design software company beat earnings and revenue expectations in its fiscal 2026 first quarter and raised its full-year