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A profile of TP-Link, whose share of the US consumer router market grew from 10% to 60%+ between 2019 and 2025, as it seeks to rebut national security concerns (Noah Berman/The Wire China)

Noah Berman / The Wire China: A profile of TP-Link, whose share of the US consumer router market grew from 10% to 60%+ between 2019 and 2025, as it seeks to rebut national security concerns — When Jef

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As the US House probes Airbnb's use of Chinese AI models, CEO Brian Chesky says the company is not sharing data with Chinese firms and uses open-source models (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: As the US House probes Airbnb's use of Chinese AI models, CEO Brian Chesky says the company is not sharing data with Chinese firms and uses open-source models — Airbnb Inc. C

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI won't replace builders or sellers, but it will affect middle managers, operations jobs, and other 'measuring' positions (Matthew Prince/Wall Street Journal)

Matthew Prince / Wall Street Journal: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI won't replace builders or sellers, but it will affect middle managers, operations jobs, and other “measuring” positions — Th

Delivery Hero says it received a takeover offer from Uber for €33 per share, a discount of 1.76% from Delivery Hero's close on Friday (Anusha Shah/Reuters)

Anusha Shah / Reuters: Delivery Hero says it received a takeover offer from Uber for €33 per share, a discount of 1.76% from Delivery Hero's close on Friday — German food delivery service Delivery Her

FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all 'treasury.gov' email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020 (Jordan Robertson/Bloomberg)

Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg: FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all “treasury.gov” email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020 — New detai

For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)

Alexandra Alter / New York Times: For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down — Illegal,

How AI stacks are rewriting the rules of business

The shift from on-premises computing to software as a service changed the technology model and forced information technology organizatios to modernize how it builds, buys and operates software. It als

Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing — Patients at th

Samsung's bonus deal is fueling employee resentment over a 100x payout gap between memory division staff and those making smartphones, TVs, and home appliances (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung's bonus deal is fueling employee resentment over a 100x payout gap between memory division staff and those making smartphones, TVs, and home appliances — Samsung Electr

Scaling for MHHS: how Octopus Energy achieved a 50x cost reduction in margin data engineering

Octopus Energy reduced margin data engineering costs by 50x through scaling improvements implemented on the Databricks platform for MHHS (Metering, Half-hourly Settlement) operations. The case study d

SpaceX's Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight

SpaceX successfully launched an updated version of its Starship V3 on May 22, 2026, the first test flight of the upgraded booster and upper stage designed as part of NASA's Artemis lunar program. The

Two space shuttle-era spacewalkers enter Astronaut Hall of Fame

Tom Akers and Joe Tanner, veteran space shuttle astronauts who each flew four missions, were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 16, 2026. Tanner logged 1,069 hours in space and more

18 ways AI is rewriting the future of financial services: Key insights from the AWS Financial Services Symposium

AI in financial services has stopped being just another technology tool and started becoming a measure of operational readiness. In 2025, 45% of IT decision-makers ranked generative AI tools as their

A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale

Cybercriminal group TeamPCP is executing an unprecedented wave of software supply chain attacks, compromising hundreds of open source tools and breaching organizations through poisoned code. The incid

Accelerating LLM Inference with Prompt Caching for Open‑Source Models on Databricks

This article describes techniques for using prompt caching to improve the inference speed and efficiency of open-source large language models when deployed on Databricks' platform. Prompt caching redu

AI put 'synthetic quotes' in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.

Author Steven Rosenbaum's book 'The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality' was discovered by The New York Times to contain multiple misattributed or synthetic quotes generated by AI tools, which Ro

Before it comes down, what should be saved from the International Space Station?

NASA is in the early stages of identifying what small parts of the International Space Station to bring back to Earth before its scheduled deorbit around 2030 . As the station descends through the atm

Blockchain.com files confidentially for US IPO amid growing crypto listings

United Kingdom-based Blockchain.com Group Holdings Inc., a cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service, announced Thursday that it has filed confidentially for an initial public offering in the United

California to explore possible subsidies for companies that don’t replace workers with AI

California is trying to prepare itself for artificial intelligence job disruption ahead of time. Governor Gavin Newsom today ordered state officials to begin exploring a massive overhaul of its labor

Ebola outbreak now third largest recorded and 'spreading rapidly'

A May 2026 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda involves the rare Bundibugyo virus , with 575 suspected cases, 51 confirmed cases, and 148 suspected deaths reported as of May

Elon, stop trying to make Grok happen

There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk's 'truth-seeking' AI chatbot Grok: It's not very good, and not many people are using it. That's the takeaway of a new Reuters report, which found that Grok barel

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Filing: Zoom's stake in Anthropic is worth ~1.27B based on a February round which valued Anthropic at 380B; Zoom invested an additional $46M in recent months (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Filing: Zoom's stake in Anthropic is worth ~1.27B based on a February round which valued Anthropic at 380B; Zoom invested an additional 46M in recent months — Zoom Communicatio

First vaccines, now mammograms? RFK Jr.’s latest firings have doctors outraged.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed the two leaders of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which makes recommendations on preventive care such as mammograms and colonoscopies. Kennedy

Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised 80M from KKR's growth equity arm at a 1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $285M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised 80M from KKR's growth equity arm at a 1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to 285M — Beaut

Generic LLMs won’t cut it — AI agents demand unified context

Unified AI service management lives or dies on context — and that context demands consolidating fragmented tools, data and operations into a single foundation. That consolidation imperative is now the

Google rolls out a Google Wallet redesign, including 'dynamic quick access' for favorites, a 'View more' floating action button, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google rolls out a Google Wallet redesign, including “dynamic quick access” for favorites, a “View more” floating action button, and more — At I/O 2026, Google Wallet quietly an

Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for

Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. Earlier on Friday, if you searched for the term 'disregard,' the AI Overview section would include a response like what you'd s

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Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including 'disregard', 'ignore', and 'skip' (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including “disregard”, “ignore”, and “skip” — With certain terms, AI Overviews a

Ground system issue scrubs first launch of SpaceX's Starship V3 rocket

SpaceX scrubbed the first launch of its third-generation Starship rocket system from its Starbase, Texas facility. The countdown halted at T-40 seconds due to a hydraulic pin on the launch tower arm f

How Databricks Genie democratizes data access in financial services

Databricks Genie is a tool designed to democratize data access within financial services organizations by enabling non-technical users to query and analyze data through natural language interfaces. Th

How World Bank Group uses databricks to eradicate poverty through shared knowledge

The World Bank Group leverages Databricks' data and AI platform to enhance its poverty eradication efforts by enabling better data sharing, analysis, and knowledge dissemination across its operations

Internal Binance reports and sources reveal Iran moved billions through Binance to fund entities like the IRGC, with some transactions as recent as this month (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Internal Binance reports and sources reveal Iran moved billions through Binance to fund entities like the IRGC, with some transactions as recent as this month — Transactions on wo

Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to 21.6B, above 18.7B est., net profit up 479% to 521M, above 271M est., as the PC maker pushes into AI server markets (Reuters)

Reuters: Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to 21.6B, above 18.7B est., net profit up 479% to 521M, above 271M est., as the PC maker pushes into AI server markets — Lenovo Group (0992.HK) reported a

Marketer that claimed it could tap devices for ad targeting will pay $880K settlement

CMG and two smaller marketing companies (MindSift LLC and 1010 Digital Works LLC) misled customers by advertising an AI-powered 'Active Listening' service that claimed to use snippets from smart home

Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its consumer chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its consumer chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year — Yusuf Mehdi, on

Meta, Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, and Synopsys launch a $125M 'Semiconductor Hub' at UCLA to advance AI chip research and more (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Meta, Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, and Synopsys launch a 125M “Semiconductor Hub” at UCLA to advance AI chip research and more — Broadcom, Meta, Applied Materials, G

Meta releases Forum, a Reddit-like standalone app for Facebook Groups, with a feed showing Group conversations and an AI-powered 'Ask' feature, on iOS (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Meta releases Forum, a Reddit-like standalone app for Facebook Groups, with a feed showing Group conversations and an AI-powered “Ask” feature, on iOS — It's a new dedicated

NASA undertakes major reorganization to reduce bureaucracy and move faster

NASA announced one of its biggest reorganizations in recent memory on May 22, combining mission directorates and reshuffling personnel . The reorganization is designed to increase the agency's efficie

Organic adoption becomes the real measure of successful IT platform rollouts

IT teams are under growing pressure to do more than keep the lights on — employees now expect the same seamless digital experiences at work that they get in their personal lives. Freshservice transfor

President Emmanuel Macron says France will invest an additional €1B for quantum computing research and a further €550M in state funding for semiconductors (France 24)

France 24: President Emmanuel Macron says France will invest an additional €1B for quantum computing research and a further €550M in state funding for semiconductors — Bruyères-le-Châtel (France) (AFP

Qualcomm stock closed up 11.6% on Friday and is now up 75% in the past month, as the company increasingly becomes a key player in AI devices (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Qualcomm stock closed up 11.6% on Friday and is now up 75% in the past month, as the company increasingly becomes a key player in AI devices — Qualcomm shares surged 12% on Frida

Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he requested information from Kalshi and Polymarket on their efforts to prevent insider trading (Justin Papp/CNBC)

Justin Papp / CNBC: Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he requested information from Kalshi and Polymarket on their efforts to prevent insider trading — Rep. James Comer, R

Request-Based Autoscaling Is Now Generally Available on App Platform

DigitalOcean has made request-based autoscaling generally available on its App Platform, enabling applications to automatically scale based on incoming HTTP request volume rather than just CPU or memo

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Review: The Mandalorian and Grogu is ... fine

Ars Technica's review describes The Mandalorian and Grogu as an 'average' Star Wars entry that provides solid entertainment but falls short of being spectacular or groundbreaking. Directed by Jon Favr

Rocket Report: Starship launch delayed, German launch company may aid Canada

SpaceX delayed a critical test of its massive Starship rocket just seconds before launch after a pin holding the tower arm in place failed to retract. Starship was slated to take off on its twelfth ma

Samsung’s memory chip employees negotiated $340,000 bonuses this year

Details have emerged about a tentative deal struck between Samsung and semiconductor employees who had threatened to strike. The deal reportedly makes some workers eligible for average annual bonuses

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Serverless AI infrastructure startup Modal Labs seals $355M funding round

Artificial intelligence startups are facing two massive headaches: There’s too much AI-generated code to deal with, and not nearly enough computing power to run it all on. Modal Labs Inc., which has j

Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid

US solar generation surged 35% in 2025 with 27 gigawatts of newly installed capacity, surpassing hydroelectric power for the first time in annual generation. Solar's expansion added roughly 85 terawat