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David Welch / Bloomberg: GM plans to lay off IT workers in an effort to trim costs and bring in staff with skills in other tech areas; sources: the cuts will affect 500 to 600 employees — General Moto

Criminal hackers have used artificial intelligence to develop a working zero-day exploit, the first confirmed case of its kind, according to a report released today by Google LLC’s Google Threat Intel

For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), 'prominent cyber crime threat actor

Dustin Volz / New York Times: Google's TIG reports the first known example of hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day; TIG's chief analyst says “this is the tip of the iceberg” — The com

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Google's TIG says it likely thwarted the use of an AI-generated zero-day in a “mass exploitation event” and tools like OpenClaw are being used to find exploits — Google's Threat

Executive Summary Since our February 2026 report on AI-related threat activity, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track a maturing transition from nascent AI-enabled operations

Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called 'interaction models.' The idea behind interaction models, according t

In early 2026, ChatGPT expanded its user base across broader demographics and industry sectors, moving beyond early adopters to mainstream adoption. The report likely documents growth metrics, new use

This guide from OpenAI outlines strategies and best practices for enterprises implementing and scaling artificial intelligence across their organizations. It likely covers topics such as infrastructur

In this post, we dive deep into the architecture and techniques we used to improve Miro’s bug routing, achieving six times fewer team reassignments and five times shorter time-to-resolution powered by

Netherlands- and Belgium-based imaging technology startup eyeo B.V. said today it has closed on a €40 million ($47.07 million) Series A round of funding in order to try to fulfill its mission to enhan

In finance departments that have long been defined by precision and control, AI has arrived less as a neatly managed upgrade than as a quiet insurgency. Employees are already using it while leadership

This newsletter covers three main topics: the relationship between AI capabilities relative to human intelligence (RSI) and its potential economic impacts, regulatory approaches that emphasize flexibi

Sam Tobin / Reuters: In a two-week UK High Court trial, Shein accuses Temu of “industrial scale” copyright infringement of its photos; Temu says Shein is suing to stifle competition — Online fast-fash

The changes may be less perceptible than in smartphones, tablets, or wearables, but chargers have also been quietly reinvented over the last decade. At one time a bulky mix of tangled cables and conne

Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Platform on AWS is a new service that gives customers direct access to Anthropic's native Claude Platform ex

iOS 26.5 introduces end-to-end encryption for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users, with encryption requiring both participants to have a carrier that supports the feature. The upda

CTech: Israeli startup Frame Security, which protects organizations from AI-powered social engineering attacks, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index and others — The Israeli firm aims to modern

My guest today is longtime friend of the show Joanna Stern. You all know Joanna: she is the former senior personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, a former Decoder guest host, one of

Learning on the Shop floor Tobias Lütke describes Shopify's internal coding agent tool, River, which operates entirely in public on their Slack: River does not respond to direct messages. She politely

In April 2026, researchers disclosed CVE-2026-31431 ('Copy Fail'), a highly reliable local privilege escalation vulnerability allowing unprivileged attackers to escalate to root across virtually all m

In this post, we build a multimodal retrieval system for aerospace manufacturing documents using Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon S3 Vectors. We evaluate the system on 26

Managing a modern database fleet is both a scale and cognitive problem. As database estates grow, the effort required to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize them often outpaces teams’ capacity, who fi

MIT and IBM have renewed their long-standing research collaboration, focusing on advancing computing research and technology development. The partnership brings together expertise from both institutio

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Ilya Sutskever testifies that his OpenAI stake is worth ~7B and he had concerns about Altman for a year before Altman's brief ouster as CEO — OpenAI co-founder

CNBC: Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella says Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI violated any special terms or commitments — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took

CNBC: Nvidia embraces its role as an AI investor in 2026, committing 40B+ to equity investments including a 30B stake in OpenAI, 3.2B in Corning, and 2.1B in IREN — Nvidia stepped on the gas last year

IBM Think saw Big Blue grab its place in the artificial intelligence spotlight. In a week full of notable, and surprising, AI news, IBM Think saw CEO Arvind Krishna emphasize AI as the operating model

The OpenAI Campus Network is a program that facilitates student engagement with OpenAI's technology and research on college campuses. This interest form allows students to express interest in starting

OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create

Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog AI News: OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities — OpenAI launches Da

OpenAI launched DeployCo, a new service designed to assist businesses in building and deploying applications leveraging OpenAI's AI models and intelligence capabilities. The offering appears to focus

OpenAI Group PBC today unveiled a new business unit, The OpenAI Deployment Company, that will help companies adopt its artificial intelligence models. The subsidiary is launching with 4 billion in fun

Reuters: OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a 4B+ investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acquires AI consulting firm Tomoro — OpenAI said on Monday it is set

Eighteen U.S. cruise passengers from the MV Hondius returned to the U.S. on May 11, 2026, after weeks aboard the ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. One passenger tested 'mildly' posit

Predictive quality extends beyond traditional defect detection by using data analytics and machine learning to anticipate quality issues before they occur rather than simply identifying existing defec

Jeremy Stern / Colossus: Q&A with Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which hit a $445M revenue run rate in its first 18 months, on his math competition roots, the Devin AI coding agent, more — An afternoon w

Qdrant 1.18.0 is out! Let’s look at the main features for this version: TurboQuant: A new quantization method that, at twice the compression ratio of scalar quantization, delivers similar recall and s

Artificial intelligence customer service platform provider Quiq Inc. today launched a new voice product and refreshed its brand, betting that customer experience teams are ready to move beyond isolate

Your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance

Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. is expected to increase the size and price of its initial public offering later today as investor demand for access to its shares continues to r

This Databricks resource examines retail markdown optimization strategies, contrasting reactive markdown approaches (responding to inventory issues after they occur) with proactive markdown strategies

Dua Lipa filed a $15 million lawsuit against Samsung, alleging the electronics company used her photograph to sell televisions without permission or payment. Samsung began featuring Lipa's image on TV

This tutorial demonstrates how to implement full-text search functionality using Pinecone's vector database, using bird-related data as a practical example. It likely covers setting up Pinecone, index

Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: SEC filing: Cerebras upsizes its IPO to 30M shares at 150-160 each, up from 28M shares at 115-125, aiming to raise up to 4.8B at an up to 34.4B valuation — Cerebras System

Socket: Several npm packages for the TanStack web development tools were compromised in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack; Mistral packages were also affected — - Immediate triage: Run shasum -a