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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

Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices I just encountered this feature via a 'try this out now' prompt in a Google Meet meeting. It kind-of worked! This is Google's imp

Bloomberg: Spotify partners with Peloton to offer Premium subscribers access to curated playlists and 1,400+ ad-free fitness classes, its first foray into fitness content — Spotify Technology SA is no

Recent research found that participants exposed to infrasound reported increased irritation, unease, and elevated stress levels regardless of other conditions. While infrasound appears to be one contr

Super ZSNES is a modern SNES emulator created by two of the original ZSNES developers, zsKnight and _Demo_, which has been rewritten from scratch as a GPU-powered successor. The emulator uses GPU acce

The agentic AI boom has an inconvenient truth: Without a solid data foundation, the revolution stops before it starts. Conversations surrounding an emergent agent control plane signal that agentic AI

The auto design world is full of advanced 3D visualization tools and VR sculpting platforms, but your average new car still enters the world as a sketch. Those sketches traditionally see endless itera

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. Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters On Friday, Chin

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are “unwarranted intervention” — Google was targeted

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In February, I picked up a flyer at an anti-AI march in London

Microsoft and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership extending their collaboration on AI development and deployment. The partnership likely involves increased investment from Microsoft, expanded int

The artificial intelligence arms race has spent the last two years obsessed with a duopoly of constraints: the desperate hunt for Nvidia Corp. silicon and the grueling wait for grid-scale megawatts. I

For many years, Microsoft and OpenAI's relationship has included a weird clause saying that, should AGI be achieved, Microsoft's commercial IP rights to OpenAI's technology would be null and void. Tha

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features — Truecaller

NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission, comprising astronauts from the

Without trusted data as the foundation, even the most sophisticated models will produce outcomes that enterprises can’t act on with confidence. As a matter of fact, enterprises are paying a steep pric

As enterprises navigate the complexities of scaling AI initiatives, the agentic AI blueprint for success lies in combining deep process intelligence with powerful cloud platforms, enabling organizatio

Benjamin Wallace / New York Times: A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg — Dwarke

Stephen Totilo / Game File: An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and EVP Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S the “first-class experience again”, and more — In an excl

Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its standard EUV machines this year, 36% more than it sold in 2025, as it races to meet demand for making AI chips — ASML

Chris Metinko / Axios: Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a 23M Series A — Collov Labs, which tu

Stephen Morris / Financial Times: Epoch AI: Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend — Thomas

Heather Knight / New York Times: Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique — Andon

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OpenAI's core principles outline the company's commitment to developing artificial intelligence safely and beneficially, emphasizing responsible AI development and deployment. These principles likely

Makena Kelly / Ars Technica: Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more — It took jus

Prime Video released the official full trailer for Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir TV show, a live-action series about Ben Reilly . The eight-episode series premieres on MGM+ May 25, 2026 before rolling ou

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~1B valuation; it raised a ~50M seed in 2025 — Genki Robotics, a h

The teaser for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 boasts a decidedly more adventurous vibe. The teaser has a much more traditional Trek feel with a voice-over about the power of exploration and sh

Databricks Genie is an AI-powered assistant that enables users to query data and generate insights through natural language interactions, reducing the need for SQL expertise. The next generation updat

Eli Rosenberg / The Information: 33% of S&P 500 companies provided security perks for execs in 2025: Jensen Huang's security cost rose from 690K in 2023 to 3.5M in 2025, Zuckerberg spent $22M — Nvidia

Bloomberg: A 16B financing for a giant Oracle data center in Michigan has closed, with BofA selling 14B in bonds; Oracle plans to use the campus to power apps for OpenAI — A $16 billion financing for

Theo Baker / The Atlantic: A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit — Silicon Valley

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: A look at Tin Can's $100 retro-style, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone, and how some schools are seeding the device to students in an attempt to curb smartphone use — The Tin C

Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: A profile of Strider, an intelligence firm that leverages agentic AI and public records to help the US Air Force, NATO, and others identify foreign state actors — Trump's ec

PYMNTS.com: Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 — Adyen plans to acquire Talon.O

Artificial intelligence startups Cohere Inc. and Aleph Alpha GmbH today announced that they intend to merge. The transaction is backed by Schwarz Group GmbH, Germany’s largest retailer. It plans to le

DeepSeek released V4 Pro (1.6T-A49B) and Flash (284B-A13B) models in both base and instruct variants, with optimizations enabling them to run on Huawei Ascend chips. These releases represent updates t

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on Monday, accusing Altman of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit — A yearslong legal brawl

Bloomberg: Analysis: Taiwan's stock market value has surpassed the UK's at ~$4.3T, with South Korea close behind, driven by massive gains in TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix — The artificial intelligence b

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen surpassed the record for human spaceflight's farthest distance from Earth on April 6,

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locati

DigitalOcean's Dedicated Inference offering provides cloud infrastructure optimized for running machine learning inference workloads with guaranteed resources and performance isolation. This technical

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

Enterprises are rapidly moving from an artificial intelligence that answers questions and generates content to one that performs tasks and takes actions. According to Google Cloud Chief Executive Thom

GPT-5.5 prompting guide Now that GPT-5.5 is available in the API, OpenAI have released a wealth of useful tips on how best to prompt the new model. Here's a neat trick they recommend for applications