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Anthropic is experiencing rapid workforce expansion at a 10x annual growth rate, contrasting sharply with major tech companies that are conducting significant layoffs exceeding 10% of their staff. Thi

RingCentral Inc.‘s latest quarter shows a company that has quietly turned artificial intelligence from a future story into its primary engine for product differentiation, operational leverage and, inc

Isomorphic Labs Inc., an Alphabet Inc. unit using artificial intelligence to speed up drug development, is reportedly in talks to raise a new funding round. Sources told Bloomberg today that the inves

Anthropic: Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers — Last year, we released a case study on

Krysta Fauria / Associated Press: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality — As conce

Ben's Bites featured a third installment in the 'Ben's Builds' series, showcasing an email application project. The article likely discusses the development, features, and technical implementation of

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens — In

Ken Macon / Reclaim The Net: FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears — The era of

David Shepardson / Reuters: GM agrees to pay 12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers — GM (GM.N)

Rick Findlay / Reclaim The Net: Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues — Google has

Bloomberg: How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period — Championed by a guru known

Zack Abrams / The Block: LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup — Quick Take —

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA — The Natio

OncoAgent is a dual-tier multi-agent framework designed to provide clinical decision support in oncology while maintaining patient privacy. The system likely leverages multiple specialized AI agents w

Moneycontrol: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable — On Wall Street, the ann

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023 — The j

Sam Rubin / Palo Alto Networks Blog: Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage — For

WebRTC is designed to degrade and drop my prompt during poor network conditions. wtf my dude WebRTC aggressively drops audio packets to keep latency low. If you’ve ever heard distorted audio on a conf

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors — Fewer

The Information: Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, exited xAI after roughly a month — Cursor is already star

South China Morning Post: Sources: ByteDance plans to increase its 2026 capex to more than $30B, up at least 25% from a preliminary plan, amid the AI boom and rising memory chip costs — TikTok owner B

AI-powered toys are rapidly emerging in the consumer market, including pocket pets, autonomous robots, and AI emotional companions that use advanced language models and adaptive learning capabilities.

AI promised to change everything about how enterprises work — and human-AI collaboration was supposed to be the easy part. But what happens when the technology is ready and the organization isn’t? Tha

Associated Press: A hack of Instructure's Canvas locked out students at schools and universities across the US in the middle of finals period; some US colleges postponed exams — Schools and universiti

This article discusses how AI technologies can help Human Resources departments address growing capacity challenges and workload demands. It likely explores how AI tools can automate routine HR tasks,

This article examines how agentic AI systems are being deployed to edge computing environments, likely challenging common assumptions about what this deployment actually entails. It discusses practica

AI Ascent 2026 is Sequoia Capital's event that convened leading AI researchers and founders including Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, and Demis Hassabis. The event featured discussions on AI agents, s

Neocloud company IREN Ltd. has secured a 2.1 billion commitment from the chipmaker Nvidia Corp. as part of a new data center partnership aimed at artificial intelligence workloads. The partners plan t

OpenAI released three new state-of-the-art voice APIs: GPT-Realtime-2 for low-latency voice conversations, GPT-Translate for real-time multilingual translation, and GPT-Whisper for advanced speech rec

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Akamai says it struck a seven-year cloud computing deal with a “leading frontier model provider”; sources: the deal was with Anthropic and is worth 1.8B — Anthropic PBC has si

Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the w

Money, and desperation, sure can pave over a lot of ill will. This week’s example: Anthropic signed a mammoth deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use all of the computing capacity of SpaceX’s Colossus dat

At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. As AI capabilities increase and become more integrated into people’s daily lives, advancing research in privacy-preserving techniques is incr

Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted a set of features that artificial intelligence agents can use to make purchases. The capabilities are available in preview through the cloud giant’s Amazon Bedro

Du Zhihang / Caixin Global: Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over 200M led by SF Group, after raising ~146M in March at a ~1.47B valuation — Chinese humanoid-robot startup Robot

Microsoft Research is excited to release an open dataset of approximate transmission topology of the U.S. power grid derived from publicly available data. The ability to study transmission-level power

A cyberattack shut down Canvas, an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US on May 7, 2026, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials during final

Vercel's Chat SDK now includes support for a Messenger adapter, enabling developers to integrate chat functionality with Facebook Messenger. This addition expands the SDK's compatibility with popular

Vercel's Chat SDK now includes web adapter support, enabling developers to integrate chat functionality into web applications more seamlessly. This enhancement expands the SDK's compatibility and make

Vercel's Chat SDK has been updated to include conversation history support, enabling developers to maintain and access previous messages within chat interactions. This feature likely allows for improv

Google has offered Gemini Nano for Chrome since 2024 as a lightweight, on-device model , but users reasonably expect the visible AI Mode to use the on-device model with queries staying local, when in

Shares of the cloud data center company CoreWeave Inc. were trading more than 8% lower after-hours following mixed first-quarter earnings results and a lower-than-expected forecast for the current qua

Google is rolling out updates to AI Overviews and AI Mode that include more direct links within responses and previews of websites to help users find trusted sources and original content more easily.

The Court of International Trade ruled that Trump's 10% global tariffs were illegal after small businesses sued, following the Supreme Court's February strike-down of his broader tariff regime. The co

CyberSecQwen-4B is a specialized 4-billion parameter language model designed for cybersecurity defense tasks that can run locally on standard hardware. The model addresses the need for small, efficien

Shares of Datadog Inc. popped after the application monitoring software firm crushed Wall Street’s expectations with its first-quarter financial results today and followed up with strong guidance. The