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Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - and it's just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, wh

Financial Times: Sources: China mobilizes multiple agencies to probe Meta's 2B Manus deal; some officials worry aggressive measures may send chilling signals to the tech sector — The landmark tech exi

Bloomberg: Sources: Cursor is in advanced talks to raise about 2B co-led by a16z at a pre-money valuation of more than 50B, with Nvidia participating — Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startu

Axios: Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is sc

Reuters: Sources: Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, laying off ~10% of its global workforce, or ~8,000 employees — Meta (META.O) intends to cond

Financial Times: Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised 500M+ — Group founded by former

Bloomberg: Sources: Sequoia raised ~7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a 3.4B vehicle in 2022 — Sequoia Capital, one of the lar

Financial Times: Sources suggest Anthropic is holding off from a wider Mythos release until it can reliably serve it to customers; Anthropic has suffered outages in recent weeks — Dario Amodei met wit

Financial Times: SynMax: ~40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays, with major sites for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others likely set back by more than three months — Delays to a swath of new

Real-time threat intelligence company Team Cymru Inc. today announced the launch of Total Insights Feed, a unified threat intelligence platform that is designed to replace legacy indicator list-based

In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of a

The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a comprehensive overview of the civilizational imp

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. The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal There’s a th

DigitalOcean's Inference Cloud Memory Layer is a technical architecture component designed to optimize database performance by implementing an in-memory caching layer for faster data access and reduce

I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably

Financial Times: Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake in German food delivery rival Delivery Hero from Prosus, which would bring its total stake to ~7% — German delivery group's larg

Running LLMs across Cloudflare’s network requires us to be smarter and more efficient about GPU memory bandwidth. That’s why we developed Unweight, a lossless inference-time compression system that ac

Grinex, a US-sanctioned Russia-linked cryptocurrency exchange, suspended operations after claiming a $13.1 million cyberattack by 'unfriendly states.' The Kyrgyzstan-based exchange, which facilitates

Vercel Flags has reached general availability, enabling developers to implement feature flags and manage application behavior without requiring new deployments. This capability allows teams to control

Vultr CEO J.J. Kardwell discusses the current shortage of AI computing capacity, potential solutions to address infrastructure constraints, and how customer demand patterns for AI services are evolvin

pgvector is an open-source PostgreSQL extension that enables efficient storage and similarity search of vector embeddings within a relational database. It allows developers to build vector search capa

Siladitya Ray / Forbes: What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the “best way”, OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund — Topline — Elo

Axios: White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been “productive and constructive”; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen

Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to identity verification — Honestly, what's ho

Emily Zemler / The Wrap: A look at Doug Liman's 70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated 300M — “Bitcoin: Kill

Oliver Whang / New York Times: A primer on “interpretability” and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models — When De

OpenAI discusses efforts to strengthen collective cybersecurity defenses through collaboration and technology advancement within the broader cyber defense ecosystem. The article likely covers OpenAI's

Three major advertising companies—Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP—settled with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations they colluded on anti-misinformation policies that reduced ad revenue for conserv

Google Research uses AI models to turn microscope images into accurate 3D neuron shapes , and generating synthetic neuron geometries helps AI learn to better classify neurons by their shape, speeding

Anna Tong / Forbes: AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces — Defunct startups are b

AI Search is the search primitive for your agents. Create instances dynamically, upload files, and search across instances with hybrid retrieval and relevance boosting. Just create a search instance,

This article likely discusses the declining relevance or end of pull requests as a software development practice, potentially due to AI-driven code generation and review tools that have made tradition

Qwen: Alibaba unveils Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open-weight MoE model with 35B total and 3B active parameters, saying it rivals larger dense models in agentic coding tasks — · 4355 words · QwenTeam丨Translat

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba's new Token Hub unit releases Happy Oyster, a new AI world model that can create 3D environments, interactive videos, films, video content, and games — Alibaba Group Hold

Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies — Am

Bloomberg: Analysis and filings: Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025's end; if SpaceX hits a 2T IPO valuation, Google's stake would be worth 100B — An early investment in SpaceX ha

Anthropic PBC today opened access to Claude Opus 4.7, the latest addition to its popular line of large language models. The company says that the LLM is significantly better than its predecessor at co

Anthropic has released its most powerful 'generally available' model to date: Claude Opus 4.7. The company called it a step up from Opus 4.6 for advanced software engineering tasks, particularly in co

Antioch Inc., a developer of cloud-based simulation software for artificial intelligence-enabled robots, has raised 8.5 million in funding to accelerate the development of more autonomous systems outs

As organizations transition from experimentation with AI to full-scale production, the demand for mission-critical security and absolute data availability has become the primary benchmark for enterpri

NASA's Artemis II mission took four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby in April 2026, marking the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years. During the mission, the crew documented the Moon's topogr

Oracle Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. seem to be putting their longstanding rivalry aside in favor of a more pragmatic relationship that acknowledges the reality of today’s multicloud technology e

Clara Hernanz Lizarraga / Bloomberg: Big Tech companies say a $90B data center buildout in Spain's Aragón, one of Europe's fastest-growing hubs, should be an EU model, as local residents push back — B

As we gather in Las Vegas for NAB Show 2026, the industry conversation has shifted. We are no longer asking if AI works; we’re now focused on how it scales. The era of AI experimentation is over — pro

We built a custom technology stack to run fast large language models on Cloudflare’s infrastructure. This post explores the engineering trade-offs and technical optimizations required to make high-per