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Understanding and predicting motion is a fundamental component of visual intelligence. Although modern video models exhibit strong comprehension of scene dynamics, exploring multiple possible futures

Release: llm 0.31 New GPT-5.5 OpenAI model: llm -m gpt-5.5. #1418 New option to set the text verbosity level for GPT-5+ OpenAI models: -o verbosity low. Values are low, medium, high. New option for se

Jenna Russell / New York Times: Maine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town — Gov. Jan

Fossilized jaws reveal that enormous octopuses growing up to 19 meters long were top predators in the oceans during the Cretaceous Period, potentially making them the largest marine animals and invert

Matt Day / Bloomberg: Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs — Amazon.com Inc. and Met

Ina Fried / Axios: Meta inks deal to use more Amazon chips — Meta on Friday announced a deal to use Amazon-designed chips to help deliver its next generation of AI models. … - The new pact, which buil

Terje Solsvik / Reuters: Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 — Norway said on Friday

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past 5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher — Nvidia shares close

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 model is now available on Databricks' platform with governance capabilities provided through Unity AI Gateway, enabling enterprises to deploy and manage the model within their data in

Organizations racing to deploy agentic AI are discovering that raw model performance is only part of the equation — context engineering is the key to managing decades of unstructured, ungoverned data

Operational databases are designed to manage and power real-time transactions by handling high-throughput Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads. They differ significantly from data warehouses

We love to muse over how 'real' photography is defined here at The Verge now that generative AI is so prolific, and the World Press Photo competition might have the answer. The prestigious award celeb

Pudu Technology Inc., a leading developer of intelligent service robotics, has raised nearly 150 million in a new funding round. With this capital raise, announced Thursday, the company exceeded 1.5 b

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on building infrastructure for AI agents, balancing internal needs and the demands of customers like Anthropic, and more — This week

Samsung's mobile division may record its first-ever annual loss in 2026 , driven primarily by rising memory chip prices, particularly low-power DRAM . Samsung executive TM Roh has warned that a possib

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

russellromney/honker 'Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics' for SQLite, implemented as a Rust SQLite extension and various language bindings to help make use of it. The design of this looks very solid. It

Reuters: S-1 excerpts: SpaceX warns multiple investigations into sexually abusive AI imagery created with xAI's Grok may hurt the company's global market access — The multiple investigations into xAI'

Wall Street Journal: Sam Altman apologizes to a Canadian town for not alerting police to the activity of a mass shooting suspect when her ChatGPT account was suspended — Sam Altman said AI company wil

Shares of the European enterprise software maker SAP SE registered solid gains in late trading today after the company delivered earnings results that beat expectations. The company’s American deposit

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Series, founded by two seniors at Yale to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, raised a 5.1M pre-seed from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others — Series, a

Serving the For You feed One of Bluesky's most interesting features is that anyone can run their own custom 'feed' implementation and make it available to other users - effectively enabling custom alg

Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after 15 years, during which he transformed the company from a 350 billion valuation to a 4 trillion powerhouse. His legacy centers on operational leadership and

For years, AI conversations at major tech events centered almost exclusively on large enterprises, leaving small and medium-sized businesses on the margins of a transformation reshaping the global eco

Cloudsmith Inc., a startup that helps software teams manage application components, has secured 72 million in new funding. The Series C round was led by TCV, which was also the biggest backer of the c

A U.S. Army Special Forces soldier was charged with using classified information about the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to win more than 400,000 in bets on the Pol

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 Information: Sources: Cursor hit 2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a ~900M loss in its last fiscal year on 770M in total revenue — Weeks before Cursor agreed

Reuters: Sources: India is piloting 10 schemes to test whether its CBDC, the e-rupee, can deliver welfare payments more efficiently, as it looks to boost e-rupee usage — In the western Indian village

Wall Street Journal: Sources: JPMorgan Chase and other banks struggled to spread the risk of billions in loans they made for data centers leased to Oracle in Texas and Wisconsin — The AI boom has hit

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sources: Stanford University professor James Zou aims to raise ~100M at a ~1B valuation for Human Intelligence, which aims to use AI to study physiology — Stanford Univer

Ian Duncan / Washington Post: Sources: the WH pushed out the head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Collin Burns, a former Anthropic researcher, after just four days on the job — The Depa

Tanya Pandey / The Economic Times: Staffing experts say India's IT sector is seeing a rise in replacement hiring as companies adapt to Gen Z staff leaving jobs faster than previous generations — India

Bloomberg: The AI boom has pushed the market cap of Shenzhen-listed Zhongji Innolight, a leading optical communications device maker, close to $146B, a record high — Chinese optical stocks are attract

This analysis examines the token consumption and economics of coding assistants, likely comparing different AI models' efficiency and cost-effectiveness for code generation tasks. The piece probably d

Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: The DOJ joins xAI in its legal challenge to a new Colorado law that seeks to prevent discrimination by AI tools in employment and other areas — The Trump administration i

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. We’re in a new era of AI-driven scams When ChatGPT was release

The people do not yearn for automation This written and video essay by Nilay Patel explores why AI is unpopular with the general public even as usage numbers for ChatGPT continue to skyrocket. It’s a

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: The US CFTC sues New York, accusing the state of invading its authority to regulate prediction markets by filing lawsuits against Coinbase and Gemini — The U.S. Commodity F

@themidasproj: The Wire by Acutus, an AI-generated site with articles attacking AI industry critics, appears to be funded by the OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future — The reporters at this news

On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design t

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Thrive is taking a stake in the San Francisco Giants via a new venture that will invest in franchises and cultural institutions that can't be replicated by AI — It's

Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from 16.7B in 2021 to 2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 — Vent

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have spent the last year attempting to weaken the Endangered Species Act, but one major effort faced a significant setback when Republicans in th

A U.S. special forces soldier who was part of the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested and charged for allegedly betting on the operation in the prediction market