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Tool: GitHub Repo Stats One of the things I always look for when evaluating a new GitHub repository is the number of commits it has... but that number isn't visible on GitHub's mobile site layout. I b

Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times: Goldman Sachs: Alphabet and Amazon generated “other income” totaling 53B in Q1, or ~60% of their Q1 income; 49B was due to equity stakes in private companies — Th

Cherlynn Low / Engadget: Google launches the Google Fitbit Air, a $100 Whoop-like screenless wearable with Gemini-powered features like Google Health Coach, available from May 26 — The Whoop-like wear

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Google rebrands Fitbit Premium as Google Health Premium, adding Gemini-powered coaching and other features, and raises its annual price from 79.99 to 99.99 — The reb

Google unveiled the lightweight, screenless Fitbit Air on May 7, 2026, priced at $99 with week-long battery life and advanced health tracking capabilities. The company also rebranded the Fitbit app to

It's a Whoop dupe. That was my first thought when I saw the new $99 Google Fitbit Air. You can hardly blame me. The band is screenless with a metallic fabric clasp. My eyes flickered between the Fitbi

The agricultural and crop protection supply chain is one of the most intricate networks in the world. It takes up to two years to turn active ingredients into the final products farmers need, and a si

Databricks' Lakebase architecture optimizes PostgreSQL write performance by achieving 5x faster speeds through architectural innovations. The approach likely leverages optimizations such as improved b

IBM is exploring the application of quantum computing to simulate and model complex physical systems and phenomena in the universe. This research represents efforts to leverage quantum computers' uniq

Infrastructure data management startup OpsMill SAS announced today that it has raised 14 million in new funding to expand its infrastructure data management platform aimed at making enterprise informa

OpenAI introduced a 'Trusted Contact' feature in ChatGPT that allows users to designate emergency contacts who can request access to their account in case of incapacity or death. This feature provides

Porsche's Taycan Turbo GT equipped with a new Manthey Kit set a lap record for electric executive cars on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife with a time of 6:55.533 minutes . The kit features extensive modi

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Kalshi raised 1B led by Coatue at a 22B valuation, its third round in seven months after raising 1B and 300M+, and hits 178B in annualized trading volume — Th

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5, its first model, which can control robotic hands that it designed in-house to do tasks like cooking — Genesis AI, a

Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: Kraken parent Payward agrees to buy Hong Kong-based Reap, which connects financial systems with digital assets, for 600M, and issues stock at a 20B valuation — The owner of cr

Shares of information technology services provider Kyndryl Holdings Inc. closed almost 11% lower today after it posted weaker-than-expected quarterly results. The company generated an adjusted net inc

Lambda Labs secured a $1 billion senior secured credit facility to fund the expansion of its AI infrastructure and meet growing demand for gigawatt-scale computational resources. This financing enable

Less typing, more tanking. Faster logins mean more time in the gaming action — and this week provides GeForce NOW members with a smoother path straight into the battlefield. Cloud gaming is all about

Release: llm-gemini 0.31 gemini-3.1-flash-lite is no longer a preview. Here's my write-up of the Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview model back in March. I don't believe this new non-preview model has chang

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: Lyft reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to 1.65B, vs. 1.63B est., gross bookings up 19% to 4.95B, vs. 4.91B est., and rides up 8.5% to 236.9M, vs. 241.2M est. — The com

Mean time to detect (MTTD) is fundamentally constrained by data access capabilities, as organizations cannot identify security incidents or anomalies faster than they can query and analyze their data.

Sam Tobin / Reuters: Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October — Facebook and Instagr

The week leading up to Thanksgiving 2023 was the AI industry's biggest soap opera moment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abruptly ousted from his role at the ChatGPT maker. The explanation? That Altman was

Post-training quantization is a technique that reduces model size and improves inference performance by converting weights and activations to lower precision formats after training is complete. NVIDIA

Popular NoSQL-based database company MongoDB Inc. today announced a new set of capabilities during the company’s .Local conference in London, bringing together everything software and artificial intel

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Moonshot, the Chinese AI startup behind Kimi chatbot, raised ~2B at a 20B+ valuation led by Meituan's venture arm; Moonshot's ARR topped 200M in April 2026 — Moonshot AI has

Mozilla ran an agentic harness powered by Claude Mythos Preview across Firefox's source code, identifying 271 security bugs fixed in Firefox 150 . The breakthrough was achieved through improvements in

In the high-stakes world of digital infrastructure, speed isn't just a metric — it’s currency. At Google Cloud Next ‘26 we announced the Bigtable in-memory tier, a breakthrough for our fully managed c

A security update for Next.js released in May 2026 by Vercel addressing identified vulnerabilities in the framework. The release likely includes patches for security issues affecting Next.js applicati

This article provides firsthand observations and insights into the operations, research directions, and technical capabilities of artificial intelligence laboratories within China. It likely covers de

There weren't a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday's Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they've struck with SpaceX/xAI to use 'all of the capacity of their

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Nova Intelligence, which is building agentic AI for SAP ahead of a 2030 migration, raised a 31.5M Series A led by Chemistry, taking its total funding to 40M+ — An estimated

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Nvidia and data center operator IREN announce a deal to deploy up to 5 GW of AI infrastructure; Nvidia can invest $2.1B into IREN; IREN jumps 9%+ after hours — IREN shares surg

Chinese artificial intelligence lab Moonshot AI has raised 2 billion in funding at a valuation exceeding 20 billion. TechCrunch reported the deal today, citing a social media post from an investment a

Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool designed specifically for AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, or OpenAI Codex. If you're the kind of person who collects research on a topic, then feeds it

In this post, you will learn how to implement reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) to introduce verification and transparency into reward signals to improve training performance. This

Parloa, an AI company, has developed service agents powered by OpenAI's technology that are designed to provide natural, conversational customer interactions. These agents aim to improve customer expe

AI will help build the energy it needs. That’s the case U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing Ian Buck made Thursday morning at the

This article argues for democratizing public health data analytics by making intelligence and insights accessible to non-technical public health professionals without requiring specialized data scienc

Quantum computer maker Quantum Motion Ltd. today announced that it has raised 160 million in funding to enhance its silicon-based qubit technology. The Series C round was led by DCVC and Kembara. It c

NCCL Inspector is a profiling plugin that provides detailed, per-communicator, per-collective performance and metadata logging, designed to help users analyze and debug NCCL collective operations by g

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Researchers: 5,000+ web apps built using AI coding tools like Lovable, Base44, and Replit have little to no authentication, and ~40% exposed sensitive data — Companies like Lov

This document likely describes OpenAI's implementation of trusted access controls and security features in GPT-5.5 and a specialized GPT-5.5-Cyber variant designed for cybersecurity applications. It p

In this post, you will learn how to secure reserved GPU capacity for short-term workloads using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML and Amazon SageMaker training plans. Th

Simplex is an OpenAI initiative that reimagines software development processes by integrating Codex, OpenAI's AI code generation model, to enhance developer productivity and streamline coding workflow

At this year’s IBM Think, Chief Executive Arvind Krishna’s keynote focused on artificial intelligence’s impact on the modern enterprise. Instead of the usual tour through features and roadmaps, his ta