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If you’re building visual shopping, image or document understanding, or chart analysis, you need a way to verify whether your model’s response is actually grounded in the source image. A text-only eva

NASA's Psyche spacecraft successfully flew by Mars on May 15, 2026, as part of a gravity-assist maneuver, during which onboard instruments were powered up for calibration and took images of the Red Pl

Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos has begun placing commercial advertising on space launch rockets amid declining revenues and the loss of foreign partners. Since the beginning of 2026, rocke

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: S. “Soma” Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015, has died at age 59 — S. “Soma” Som

Jemima McEvoy / The Information: Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest 2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE — OpenAI cofo

Reuters: Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has suspended a general strike and put the deal to a vote — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised 60M led by Thrive Capital at a 1B valuation — Socket, a cybersecurity startup that sells technol

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Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as Friday; the company plans to be ready to go public as early as September — The artificial-intelligence g

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stable Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs — Stability AI, the co

Utah may host one of the world's most colossal data centers, despite stark warnings from experts and fierce public backlash. Earlier this month, commissioners in Box Elder County signed off on the Str

Figure AI livestreamed three F.03 humanoid robots sorting packages continuously starting May 14, 2026 , generating significant viral attention and becoming a benchmark demonstration for autonomous hum

Catie Edmondson / New York Times: Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs — A ser

The Trump administration has requested $1 billion from taxpayers for security additions on the White House campus, including for a new ballroom being constructed on the site of the former East Wing. T

Reuters: Ubisoft reports a record operating loss of $1.40B for the year to March and says sales in 2026-27 will fall by about 8% to 9%; UBI falls 6%+ — French videogame publisher Ubisoft warned on Wed

Lakebase, a Databricks solution, enables organizations to create integrated marketing campaigns by leveraging data lakehouse capabilities to unify customer data and reduce marketing costs. The platfor

'There's an app for that' was the promise of the App Store from the very beginning. The app that will get your phone to do the thing you want it to? It's just a few taps away. The tagline wasn't stric

Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia: Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law, requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level, label deepfakes, and disclose chatbot use — HO CHI MINH CITY —

The Software Freedom Conservancy sued Vizio in October 2021 after the company refused to share complete source code for its Linux-based SmartCast TV operating system, which the nonprofit says violates

Today, we’re announcing three new capabilities available in SageMaker Python SDK v3.8.0. In this post, we walk through each capability with code examples you can use to get started. For complete end-t

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: Analog Devices agrees to buy Empower Semiconductor, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for 1.5B in cash — The deal will help Analog Devices expand it

This Databricks resource explains how to use SQL alerts to automate the monitoring of data quality and key performance indicators (KPIs), enabling automated detection and notification of anomalies or

This article likely discusses the feasibility and methods of contacting AI agents or customer service representatives by phone, exploring whether voice communication is available as an interaction opt

Bloomberg: Chinese flash memory chipmaker YMTC says it officially initiated a pre-listing tutoring process with local brokers, marking the first formal step toward an IPO — Yangtze Memory Technologies

Dell Technologies Inc. today unveiled a broad set of storage, compute, cyber resilience and automation upgrades designed to help enterprises modernize data centers for artificial intelligence workload

Welcome to a 'profound moment for humanity,' according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who closed out Google I/O's keynote presentation on Tuesday, saying: Google's cutting-edge research and pr

Jess Kinghorn / PC Gamer: Discord says voice and video calls outside of stage channels are now end-to-end encrypted by default, after launching its encryption protocol in September 2024 — “Likely one

New York Times: Elon Musk's OpenAI loss is set to speed up the AI juggernaut amid rising opposition; the case offered a rare glimpse into tech's workings, ending with a whimper — Even as protests incr

A bipartisan House bill would require electric vehicle owners to pay a 130 annual federal registration fee, marking the first new revenue stream for the Highway Trust Fund in more than three decades.

The FBI is seeking up to $36 million for nationwide access to automated license plate reader (ALPRs) data, which would allow it to query vehicle movements across the U.S. and its territories through a

Google LLC and Blackstone Inc. are launching a joint venture that will provide a “compute-as-a-service” platform for artificial intelligence workloads. The companies announced the collaboration on Mon

Google is announcing a major upgrade to one of its vibe coding platforms: Beginning today, you can now use AI Studio to build native Android apps. With Google AI Studio, you can prompt your idea for a

Google LLC’s search is getting an artificial intelligence makeover today, as the company announced during its Google I/O developer conference that it’s upgrading the search experience to “reimagine it

Meta Platforms Inc. and Ray-Ban will finally have some competition on their hands. At Google I/O 2026 today, Google LLC gave us a quick look at its first upcoming “intelligent eyewear” products, which

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google unveils Continue On, a new feature in Android 17 that will let users move tasks between Android devices, similar to Apple's Handoff feature — Google is setting the stag

Databricks Genie enhances supply chain visibility by leveraging real-time AI analytics to provide immediate insights into supply chain operations and decision-making. The solution enables organization

Deutsche Börse developed a generative AI tool to automate the migration of Zeppelin notebooks to Databricks at scale, addressing the complexity of converting legacy notebook formats. The solution leve

In this post, we show three ways to implement Programmatic tool calling (PTC) on Amazon Bedrock: a self-hosted Docker sandbox on ECS for maximum control, a managed solution using Amazon Bedrock AgentC

Databricks introduced AI spend controls as part of its Unity AI Gateway, enabling organizations to monitor, manage, and optimize costs associated with AI model usage and API calls. The feature likely

Iranian lawmakers have proposed charging tech companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft annual fees for fiber-optic cables running beneath the Strait of Hormuz . The proposal includes requiring these

Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly reassigning about 7,000 workers into new artificial intelligence roles as part of the broader restructuring that brings layoffs of roughly 8,000 staff into effect on

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Monzo reports FY 2026 revenue up 39% YoY to £1.7B, pre-tax profit up 44% to £87.3M, users up 3M to 15M+, and deposits up 55% to £25.7B, as it expands lending — Monzo Bank Ltd

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers accessed its network from Nov. 2025 to Feb. 2026, exposing personal data, medical records, and fingerprints of 1.8M+ people — New York

OpenAI: OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity, a new offering that lets customers guarantee access to OpenAI's compute through one- to three-year commitments — Guarantee long-term access to OpenAI com

Plex announced on May 19, 2026 that it is increasing the Lifetime Plex Pass price from 249.99 to 749.99, effective July 1, 2026 . This represents a 200% price increase and marks the second major price

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox authorizes its first share buyback program, aiming to repurchase up to 3B of its stock, including 1B over the next year; RBLX is down ~45% YTD — Roblox Corp. au