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Russell Contreras / Axios: How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more — The Vatica
the power of open source, open harnesses, open agents, and communities 🔥 super fun to be a part of a community of builders who share cool work like this in the open. also been fun to see builders shar
There is also too much focus on two issues in discussions of paper reviewing: hallucinations & privacy. Hallucinations are not gone, but the latest models rarely hallucinate sources (& it is relativel
An update on recent Claude Code quality reports It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality results over the past two months was grounded in real problems.
Amazon Web Services Inc. has inked a multiyear deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with cloud infrastructure. Bloomberg reported today that the agreement is worth billions of dollars. The deal centers
In the first 24 hours of the assault on Iran, the US military struck more than 1,000 targets, nearly double the scale of the 'shock and awe' attack on Iraq over two decades ago. This acceleration was
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
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
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
@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
GPT-5.5 is out. It's available in OpenAI Codex and is rolling out to paid ChatGPT subscribers. I've had some preview access and found it to be a fast, effective and highly capable model. As is usually
Customer engagement platform company Braze Inc. today announced a new pair of agentic artificial intelligence tools for marketers and launched a new Creative Studio that links design software directly
By end of next year. End of year after for 16gb vram. Do folk really need more for most things? Not really. But just call the cloud models when you do. What's a reasonable timeline for a GPT 5.4/Opus
Thinking Machines Lab Inc. will expand its use of Google LLC’s cloud platform as part of a partnership the companies announced this morning. TechCrunch cited a source as saying that the deal is valued
If you can’t stop small teams from using your API for distillation, then you’re definitely not stopping criminals, biohackers, or adversarial states from using AI through it. Those actors are much mor
Prediction market platform Kalshi said today that it has suspended and fined three congressional candidates from Minnesota, Texas and Virginia for “political insider trading” relating to wagering bets
Mozilla says Mythos helped identify 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150. I went through the commits, CVEs, and bug links to see what that number really means. My takeaway: relax folks. https://xark.es/
Omni Analytics Inc. today announced that it has closed a 120 million funding round at a 1.5 billion valuation, more than double what it was valued at last year. ICONIQ led the Series C investment. It
Reuters: Sources: Thoma Bravo prepares to hand over customer experience management company Medallia to creditors, leading to a ~$5.1B wipeout for Medallia's investors — Private equity firm Thoma Bravo
Andrew Wilks / Associated Press: Turkey's parliament passes a bill requiring social media and online game companies to restrict access for children under 15, following a school shooting — Turkish lawm
we burned through 5 billion tokens in 48h. turns out giving everyone unlimited access to the most expensive model on the planet is not a great business strategy 🙈 So now we have 2 free opus sessions/d
Earlier this month, millions of OpenClaw users woke up to a sweeping mandate: The viral AI agent tool, which this year took the worldwide tech industry by storm, had been severely restricted by Anthro
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today expanded its Cloud Detection and Response service to Google Cloud Platform, adding runtime protection for Google workloads as attackers lean on artificial intelligence
This post likely references a humorous or unexpected use case involving a rear brake lever, possibly demonstrating an unintended design flaw, unconventional application, or double meaning related to b
OpenAI: OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Clinicians, a tool for medical tasks like documentation and research, free for verified physicians, pharmacists, and more in the US — Built for clinical work, ChatG
The 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to researchers who measured the magnetic 'wobble' of the muon subatomic particle with exceptional precision over more than 60 years of ex
ServiceNow Inc. today delivered first-quarter results that surpassed Wall Street’s expectations, but its stock fell hard in late trading after it said the ongoing war in Iran was dragging on its subsc
Shopify's CTO Mikhail Parakhin discusses the company's transition into an AI-centric phase, highlighting anticipated AI usage explosion in 2026, the adoption of unlimited Claude Opus-4.6 token budgets
The fight for the agent control plane is underway — and it might determine who controls enterprise artificial intelligence for the next decade. Google LLC came into Google Cloud Next 2026 with a clear
Vast Data Inc. today said it has raised about 1 billion in a late-stage Series F funding round that values the company at 30 billion amid growing demand for infrastructure to support artificial intell
Todd Spangler / Variety: Trump Media & Technology Group names Kevin McGurn as interim CEO, succeeding Devin Nunes; McGurn previously worked as an executive at Hulu, Vevo, and T-Mobile — Trump Media &
“AI is at best a functional mimic, not a conscious experiencing subject. …. The real moral issue lies not in making AI conscious …. but in avoiding transforming humans into zombies” @GaryMarcus @OEIAC
Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them. As far as I can tel
Deezer announced that AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded to its platform, receiving almost 75,000 AI-generated tracks per day. AI-generated music accounts for only 1-3% of
Emad Mostaque announced the release of Stability AI's first paper, microsite, and integration with NotebookLM, likely detailing new research findings or technical capabilities. The announcement appear
Important to note: that 3x increase for images is entirely due to Opus 4.7 being able to handle higher resolutions. I tried that again with a 682x318 pixel image and it took 314 tokens with Opus 4.7 a
Moonshot AI today released Kimi-K2.6, the latest addition to its popular Kimi series of open-source large language models. The Chinese artificial intelligence startup says that the algorithm outperfor
Aditya Kalra / Reuters: Order: India's CCI sets May hearing on penalties after Apple failed to submit info on alleged app market abuse; Apple said it fears it could be fined up to $38B — Apple has not
some interesting trends in terms of LLM adoption 👀 📊 The latest from the LangSmith Signal: We looked at API call volume and developer adoption trends across LLM providers using LangChain open source t
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
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, promoting hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, while denouncing pluralism and “regressive” cultures — Surveillance and
A major lesson to take away from Opus 4.7 is that, while there is a lot of arguments about implementation choices and personality, models keep improving measurably on economically important tasks with
Zack Abrams / The Block: An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, appears to have drained ~$292M worth of rsETH before Kelp paused all rsETH contracts — Quick Take — An a
Leo Marchandon / Reuters: The EC awards a six-year, €180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech — The European Commis
@opentraces 0.3 is out! Big update: a stronger security pipeline with TruffleHog and LLM review, generation-aware ingest for living traces, line-level attribution + inverse blame with a @gitbutler-sty
Siladitya Ray / Forbes: What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the “best way”, OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund — Topline — Elo
Been having fun with local AI stuff. I don't really like the big models and now that some of them want your ID I'm not sure I'll even stick around to care that much. Local shit is really powerful now,
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
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced an overhaul of how it processes cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its National Vulnerability Database . NIST is abandoning its lo
Open source software will be many times more secure than closed source software in the new Mythos era they: OpenClaw is so insecure look at all these GHSAs! reality: we are just an indicator of the co
George Hammond / Financial Times: Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more — The
Swathi Moorthy / The Economic Times: Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled — W
Bloomberg: Sources: Upscale AI, which builds AI networking infrastructure, is in talks to raise 180M to 200M at a 2B valuation, its third funding round in seven months — Artificial intelligence startu
Rachel Scharf / Billboard: A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated — At least fo
Israeli agentic artificial intelligence security startup Capsule Security Ltd. today launched with 7 million in new funding to expand go-to-market efforts and accelerate product development across its
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Former Mercor staffers describe “operational mishaps” at the 10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration — Founded in
I'm certain this isn't the message they intended to present, but this comes across to me as a company saying 'we no longer trust in our own ability to keep your data secure' Open source is dead. That’
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability — Snap
Open-source is the solution to cyber-security because with new AI capabilities, all of the open-source repos will be inspected and patched 100x faster/better than any closed-source system! Let's take
@pumfleet @calcom Did you see this piece by @dbreunig? He argues that the cost of locking down software through LLM analysis makes open source MORE valuable now: https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/14/cy