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Drone strikes damaged three Amazon Web Services data centers in the Middle East during military conflict, with two facilities in the UAE directly struck and a facility in Bahrain damaged by proximity

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to 3.18B, vs. 3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; NXPI jumps 13%+ after hours — NXP Semiconductors NV jumped in l

Financial Times: China blocks Meta's 2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 — Regulators had reviewed

arXiv:2604.22235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial robots are widely used in manufacturing, yet most manipulation still depends on fixed waypoint scripts that are brittle to environmental ch

German robotics startup Sereact GmbH announced today that it has raised 110 million in new funding to scale up its artificial intelligence “robotic brain” platform and expand into the U.S. Founded in

Financial Times: Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation — Officials concerned a

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, discusses best practices for releasing model weights in the open-source AI community and advocates for other AI organizations to follow suit in making their models

Clem Delangue argues that the United States should increase investment and policy support for open source AI models to maintain competitive advantage and reduce dependence on proprietary systems contr

With the release of the newest version of its Experian Virtual Assistant, Experian plc is leveraging artificial intelligence to advance its broader goals of expanding beyond credit reporting to become

Financial Times: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal — Canadian and German s

Emma Dunkley / Financial Times: EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions — Gen Z and mi

NASA successfully rolled out the Artemis III core stage on April 20, 2026, delivering it from Michoud Assembly Facility to Kennedy Space Center . The revised mission plan calls for a crewed test in Ea

Aroon Deep / The Hindu: Source: Meta has a system in India to “automatically restrict content, at scale” to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers — India is now part of a

Bloomberg: Sources: China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition — Chinese regulators plan to re

The base model $599 M4 Mac mini with 256GB storage is now completely out of stock on Apple's Store with no option to order it. Other Mac mini configurations face significant delays, with wait times ra

DigitalOcean transitioned from traditional incident counting metrics to Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for measuring and managing availability, adopting a more nuanced approach to understanding syste

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible — Microsoft will off

Kyle Jahner / Bloomberg Law: Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit — Publishers

Sam Altman praises the inference team's work on efficiently serving a model, suggesting that becoming proficient in AI inference is crucial to the field's progress. The post appears to highlight the t

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods — App and website ho

Today, we announced the preview of Spanner Omni, a downloadable version of Spanner, that expands its industry-leading distributed database capabilities beyond Google Cloud. This enables enterprises to

MIT researchers just replicated human muscles with AI-controlled fibers. Inside each fiber is a sealed tube of electrically charged liquid and a tiny electric pump. When the pump activates, one side c

arXiv:2604.18611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Anomaly detection in nuclear industrial control systems (ICS) requires continuous, energy-efficient monitoring across multiple subsystems that are oft

Ian King / Bloomberg: Texas Instruments reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to 4.83B, vs. 4.52B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 10%+ after hours — Texas Instruments Inc. shares sur

arXiv:2604.17998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anomaly detection in multivariate time series is a central challenge in industrial monitoring, as failures frequently arise from complex temporal dynami

Bloomberg: Filings: crypto PACs amassed a ~180M war chest for the 2026 midterms, including Fairshake's 166M, giving them the ability to outspend some GOP super PACs — Political groups tied to the cryp

Sam Altman shared a manga-style image created by ChatGPT's image generation model, featuring himself and another person (@gabeeegoooh) humorously searching for GPUs, highlighting the significant compu

Financial Times: Top law firm Sullivan & Cromwell told a US federal bankruptcy court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained multiple AI hallucinations — Firm whose partners bill

Yelp is giving its chatbot assistant a major upgrade, turning the platform into something closer to a digital concierge with a suite of new features designed for 'getting things done.' The move, one o

Sonya Huang spoke at Sequoia's AI Ascend event about Starcloud alongside notable AI figures including Andrej Karpathy, Greg Brockman, Demis Hassabis, and others, highlighting significant perspectives

Financial Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is close to a 10B fundraising deal, which includes an initial 6.2B raise in November, at a 38B post-money valuation — Company code-named Projec

Kevin Roose / New York Times: A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems — A chart cr

This post from fashion commentator Allie K. Miller on X (formerly Twitter) appears to offer observations or commentary on current trends and events in New York City's fashion scene, likely with a humo

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: India produces 1.5M+ computer science graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI — Companies lik

China successfully tested an advanced device capable of cutting underwater structures like submarine cables at depths of 3,500 meters , raising global security concerns. Since more than 95% of global

Cristobal Valenzuela, co-founder and CEO of Runway, posted a cryptic and anticipatory message on X suggesting that something significant is imminent or that current expectations about 2026 may be prem

Allbirds, the sustainable footwear company known for its wool and eucalyptus-based sneakers, has reportedly rebranded or pivoted to position itself as an AI compute company, reflecting a broader trend

Cybersecurity asset management startup Axonius Inc. today unveiled three expansions to its Asset Cloud platform that see the addition of artificial intelligence-driven remediation, extended coverage t

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, who are building the future on our platform, there would be no Google Cloud. In this regul

The European Union is taking ambitious steps to coordinate efforts by its member countries to achieve global leadership in quantum computing. The EU Quantum Computing Act, which is scheduled to take e

This Reddit post from r/ChatGPT is a community discussion thread where users ask for and share recommendations on YouTube channels that provide brief, digestible AI news and updates. It reflects the r

Cristobal Valenzuela, co-founder and CEO of Runway, posted a social media comment suggesting that 'world models' — a major AI topic of early 2026 — are already becoming passé, using the footwear brand

Emirates executive Patrick Brannelly in new interview on why they adopted @Starlink: 'The legacy systems weren’t working. No matter how much money we threw at them, passengers still complained, and it

It’s fascinating how everyone who has something negative to say about Elon Musk bases it entirely on politics or recycled false accusations. They completely ignore the actual reality: the groundbreaki

The Information: Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~1B, vs. 550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B+ gross annualized revenue pace this year — AI firms' voracious appet

What happened to all the Tesla killers that legacy press and hedge fund short sellers predicted were coming? 🤔 Tesla alone sold 117,300 EVs in the US — more than ALL other EV makers combined (99,099).