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A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit after San Diego Police misinterpreted a Flock license plate reader hit. The man was five miles away from the crime scene at the tim
Meta has asked a federal judge to hold Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in contempt of court after claiming it caught the surveillance vendor targeting WhatsApp users again despite a permanent injuncti
Wall Street Journal: Meta puts $115M toward a “workforce academy”, a free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees at Meta construction sites — Five-week progra
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: Meta Says 20,000 Instagram Accounts Hacked Via AI Tool Abuse — The social media giant has informed authorities about the impact of the recent attack involving an account
Michigan lawmakers Elissa Slotkin and Haley Stevens announced a joint effort to ban all entry of Chinese nameplate vehicles from Canada and Mexico into the United States, even for temporary visits to
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Microsoft disabled 70+ of its repos on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them — Microsoft
Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. And I’m actually going to keep today’s intro short — I’m working from my wife’s family farm this week, as you’ll see in the video, but
In clinical informatics, every second counts. For Alcidion, a global leader in smart health solutions, the mission is simple but critical: use technology to reduce cognitive load for clinicians and pr
Google is rolling out 'across the board' updates to NotebookLM. The AI-powered note-taking app now uses Google's upgraded Gemini 3.5 model, which will allow it to respond with 'more accurate and relia
Choi Eun-Kyung / The Chosun Daily: Nvidia and LG expand their partnership in AI, robotics, and mobility tech, including building an AI factory and co-designing future data center architectures — Jense
NVIDIA and LG Group are building an AI factory to accelerate LG Group’s next wave of AI-driven businesses, spanning robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services. The A
Artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia Corp. today announced a slate of new partnerships with some of South Korea’s biggest technology, including the memory chip supplier SK hynix Inc., internet gia
Artificial intelligence companies are competing for dominance over the emerging AI stack, and it’s anyone’s game. The AI market is maturing. SpaceX Corp. wants to raise $75 billion to go public, and A
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO, says it has “not decided on timing yet”, as “there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company” — OpenAI has conf
OpenAI on Monday checked off a preliminary step in the IPO race that it and rival Anthropic have been competing in for the better part of a year: The company announced it has confidentially submitted
U.K. photonic networking startup Oriole Networks Ltd. today announced that it will deploy what it describes as the world’s first large-scale artificial intelligence system running on a pure photonic n
Workflow automation vendor Pegasystems Inc. today unveiled a broad set of artificial intelligence enhancements aimed at helping enterprises deploy AI agents in mission-critical business processes whil
Phoenix crossed 10,000 GitHub stars. Here is how the open-source AI observability project grew from a Jupyter notebook extension into a community-shaped platform for traces, evals, OpenInference, and
PhysicsX Ltd., a startup using artificial intelligence to speed up hardware design projects, today announced that it has raised 300 million in funding. Returning investor Temasek led the Series C roun
Reuters: Report: UK PM Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on “harmful” online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some “safer” social media — British Prime Minister Keir Sta
OpenAI: Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki claim OpenAI is “entering the third phase”, aiming to automate AI research, boost the economy, and give everyone a personal AGI — Every few generations, a new tec
Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026, a completely rebuilt digital assistant designed to move beyond traditional voice commands and become a more conversational assistant capable of understanding perso
Identity security company Silverfort Inc. today launched an integration that applies its identity and access controls to artificial intelligence agents built into Microsoft Corp.’s Copilot Studio, enf
Given how badly burned anyone who took Apple's 2024 WWDC Apple Intelligence announcements at face value was, I'm holding to a strict 'I'll believe it when I see it' policy for everything they announce
As AI agents gain access to sensitive enterprise data, AI agent security is becoming a top priority for organizations. The challenge is no longer just protecting systems, but ensuring autonomous agent
Richard Nieva / Forbes: Source: Cursor, which is prepping for an expected acquisition by SpaceX, passed 4B in annualized revenue in the last week, up from 3B in April and $2B in Feb. — Elon Musk's roc
Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: Sources: former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, has $20B+ AUM, after launching less than two years ago —
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University identified Russian early-warning satellites in Molniya orbit as the source of GPS interference affecting Europe, Canada, and
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. Why this year’s World Cup ball may not fly as far Much is new
NASA's Artemis II crew are the fastest people alive and now have the patch to prove it. The Mach 39 patch updates the 40-year-old original Mach 25 patch, an honor given to astronauts who achieve extre
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: The first developer beta of iOS 27 offers the clearest signs yet of Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, with references to folding hardware and flexible displays — Apple Inc.'s
OpenEnv is an open-source framework backed by the community for training and developing agentic reinforcement learning systems. The project represents collaborative efforts within the open-source ecos
Axios: The Trump administration relaunches efforts to block state AI laws; Sen. Blackburn is leading negotiations and pushing KOSA as part of an AI preemption package — The White House is negotiating
Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: The US DOD designates some of China's biggest companies, including Alibaba, BYD, and Baidu, as entities that support the Chinese military — The Pentagon identified some of C
This NVIDIA technical article addresses how low-bit mixed-precision pre-training accelerates large language model training, where optimizing numerical precision can reduce training time across distrib
This article explores how Databricks' Genie product and AI agents can automate and improve the processing of maintenance reports for renewable energy installations, specifically solar and wind facilit
Reuters: UK PM Keir Starmer says tech companies must introduce “device controls” that stop kids from sending and receiving nude images or face laws forcing them to do so — Big tech firms operating in
With access to the latest generative AI models and high-performance accelerated compute in high global demand, AWS customers need tools to take advantage of model availability and capacity across mult
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: watchOS 27 Drops Support for Apple Watch Series 9, Ultra 1, SE 2, and Older — Apple today confirmed that watchOS 27 will not support the Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch
Much is new about this month’s upcoming FIFA World Cup tournament, which will be held in the US, Canada, and Mexico. It hosts more teams than ever before. It’s the first to occur in three different ho
Apple's biggest event of the year is nearly here. The company's Worldwide Developers Conference will spotlight updates to iOS, macOS, and all of Apple's other operating systems, and this year's event
Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new exclusivity strategy, saying new games will be reviewed case-by-case and multiplayer games will stay multiplatform — Today's Xbox
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Xiaomi claims MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed tops 1K tokens/second, a first at the 1T-parameter scale, using a standard 8-GPU commodity node; API trial starts June 9 — Most peop
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Amazing Digital Dentures was a hackathon project showcased on Hugging Face that attempted to apply AI or digital technology to denture design or manufacturing but ultimately did not reach completion o
Bloomberg: As wealth managers confront an AI reckoning, the tech is, for now, easing their workloads by picking up routine tasks, freeing up more time to advise clients — Wealth managers, who can make
Toby Sterling / Reuters: ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet applauds the EU's tech sovereignty plans but says substantial EU involvement in steering “strategic projects” is a cause for concern — The CEO of t
Release: datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 I'm planning several plugins for Datasette Agent which can make edits to existing pieces of text - things like collaborative Markdown editing, updating large SQL qu
Reuters: French carriers Bouygues Telecom, Orange, and Free-iliad sign an MOU with Altice France to acquire SFR for €20.35B, including debt, expected to close in H2 2027 — Bouygues Telecom (BOUY.PA),
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: Fusion energy startup Helion raised a 465M Series G led by Thrive Capital at a 15.5B valuation, nearly tripling the valuation from its January 2025 round — Helion, the fusio
Tanya Pandey / The Economic Times: Industry data: India's six largest IT companies grew combined revenue from 95.9B in FY23 to 103.1B in FY26, while headcount remained broadly steady at ~1.9M — India'
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time — Also: What to
Wall Street Journal: KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing — Only 26% of comp
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Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: Memory chip vendors say CXMT's DDR5 prices match Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, and it has a supply advantage in client markets as it is not prioritizing HBM — CXMT's DDR5 m
The Guardian: Microsoft says it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry found Israel's Unit 8200 violated its ToS — Announcement seeks to close
NVIDIA and Doosan Group are expanding their collaboration to advance new opportunities across physical AI, robotics and AI factory infrastructure, spanning Doosan Robotics, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Enerb
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Nvidia and SK Hynix sign a multiyear chip deal to develop next-gen memory; SK Hynix will diversify into infrastructure, physical AI, and memory for Vera Rubin — Nvidia Corp. an
At GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX last week, NVIDIA unveiled RTX Spark, the superchip that reinvents Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents. On the heels of this announcement, NVIDIA founder and CEO Je
Heekyong Yang / Reuters: Nvidia says South Korea-based Naver will use Nvidia's DSX tech to build AI factories at “gigawatt scale” to meet global demand for AI services and physical AI — Nvidia (NVDA.O