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It's possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV's latest encyclical about AI's impact on humanity. An analysis by Linch Zhang posted on the forum LessWrong found certain paragraphs of Ma
Artificial intelligence-native infrastructure provider for identity and fraud prevention Didit today announced it has raised 6 million in seed funding. New and continuing investors joining the round i
Reuters: Document: Samsung plans to invest 1.5B to build a semiconductor testing plant focused on legacy chips in Vietnam; the plant is slated to open in November 2027 — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS
The Porsche Cayenne Coupe Electric is the most powerful production Porsche ever built with up to 1,156 horsepower and a 0–62 mph time of around 2.5 seconds. The vehicle features direct oil cooling tec
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years to become executive chairman, replaced by Ashraf Alkarmi, who is SVP and GM of Dropbox Core — Drew Houston f
Agentic artificial intelligence startup Canyon Code stepped out of the shadows today after closing on a 5 million pre-seed funding round. Its mission is to give enterprises the granular controls requi
Financial Times: Filing: Monzo reports its “refer a friend” payouts grew 40% YoY to £29.5M for the 12 months ending March 2026, as part of a broader £143M marketing spend — London-based fintech record
Firecrawl, a web scraping and data extraction tool, has been integrated into the Vercel Marketplace, enabling developers to easily incorporate its capabilities into their Vercel-hosted projects. This
Building an AI app shouldn’t require a PhD in machine learning (ML) or months of wrestling with complex architectures. Yet that’s exactly what happens when you try to orchestrate multiple API calls, m
Max Buondonno / The Shortcut: Google Fitbit Air review: slim, comfortable, and stylish, robust tracking, seven-day battery life, and cheaper than Whoop, but can only be worn on the wrist — 🏆 Rating: 4
Kate Knibbs / Wired: How AI startups like Altur are using chatbots to help automate debt collection; YC incubated six debt collection and settlement startups in the past six years — There's a mad dash
Most production AI features don't need a frontier model. Here's how capability evals and prompt engineering can help ship a local SLM that matches frontier-model quality with lower latency and cost. T
Over the last 25 years of building Google’s global network, we’ve navigated major architectural eras — from the Internet, to streaming, and the cloud. Today, we are squarely in the midst of a fourth:
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000+ camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more — In the last
Import AI 458 discusses perspectives on AI's future trajectory and potential long-term scenarios, likely including analysis of singularity concepts and their implications. The newsletter entry examine
Michael Larabel / Phoronix: Initial benchmarks show Nvidia's Vera CPU, which features 88 in-house-designed Olympus cores, packs a heavy-hitting punch, beating Intel's and AMD's x86_64 CPUs — NVIDIA's
This article examines the emerging 800V direct current (800VDC) electrical architecture in electric vehicles, which represents a significant advancement over traditional 400V systems by enabling faste
The search results don't contain specific information about the Ars Technica investigation into whether Peter Thiel is the target of the Pope's Gandalf quote. Based on the available information, here'
This article examines whether the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model remains viable and competitive in the current market landscape. It likely discusses challenges facing SaaS companies, such
Artificial intelligence has not so far produced a clean story of mass unemployment. Aggregate employment in developed countries remains broadly stable, and recent assessments have found limited eviden
Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: Kelp DAO says its restaked Ether token has been restored after a five-week recovery effort following a $293M exploit by North Korea's Lazarus Group on April 18 — Coint
Stord Inc., a startup that helps consumer brands deliver their merchandise to customers, has raised 250 million in late-stage funding. The company disclosed in its announcement of the Series F round t
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end AI platform for drug development is being used by top pharmaceuticals, raised a $12M seed led by Accel — A trio of former Palan
This podcast episode discusses Google's release of Gemini 3.5 and its Omni multimodal capabilities, covers recent developments in Elon Musk's AI ventures, and examines tensions or competition between
Vercel has extended its microfrontends routing capabilities to now support vc alias and branch domains, expanding routing functionality beyond the primary domain. This enhancement allows developers to
Samantha Subin / CNBC: Micron hit a 1T market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares jumped 19%, driven by demand for its memory chips in the AI race — Micron topped a 1 trillion market value f
Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files The biggest challenge in designing agentic systems continues to be preventing them from enabling attackers to exfiltrate data. In this case Microsoft Copilot
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-33579, scoring 9.8/10 severity) was discovered in the OpenClaw open source package, allowing attackers with minimal access to silently escalate privileges to full ad
Elon Musk claimed that US military LUCAS suicide drones initially used commercial Starlink instead of the government-specific Starshield network in violation of SpaceX's terms of service, blaming the
NASA is advancing its Artemis program to build a crewed lunar base over the next decade near the lunar south pole , and the base will sprawl over hundreds of square miles with a perimeter marked by ho
The way we work has fundamentally changed. From automated agents to sophisticated AI services, Generative AI (GenAI) has become a daily tool for a vast majority of employees. But with this rapid adopt
There's this alarming trend in the Suno subreddit. People aren't just prompting AI songs; they're sitting around listening almost exclusively to their own slop. And in some cases, they proudly proclai
Artificial intelligence penetration testing startup Novee Cyber Security Ltd. today launched Agentic Fix, a new capability that pushes validated exploit findings directly into the AI coding agents dev
Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia officially retires its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years, following the porting of all of its major features to the Nvidia app — Nvidia has now ported across all
The shift to agentic AI creates a new CPU requirement for the AI factory: fast cores, massive memory bandwidth and the ability to sustain high performance when all cores are active. Initial benchmark
Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as CMO for its business segment; he succeeds Kate Rouch, who stepped down earlier this year to focus on her health — OpenAI has hired
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: OpenRouter raised 113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a 1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400+ models weekly, up from 5T six months ago —
Artificial intelligence inference routing startup OpenRouter Inc. today announced it raised 113 million in new funding led by CapitalG, Alphabet Inc.’s independent growth fund, to push the envelope fo
Physical AI is no longer a concept confined to factory floors and autonomous vehicles — it is reshaping the complex, time-sensitive operations of some of the world’s busiest airports. The operators ma
Bloomberg: Pony AI reports Q1 revenue up 145% YoY to ~34.3M, above 21.7M est., and increases its 2026 robotaxi fleet target by 500 to 3,500 vehicles on fast growth — Pony AI Inc. raised its robotaxi f
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the information ecosystem with Search changes, putting AI agents in everything, when AI will replace him as CEO, and more — Today, I'm t
Qiskit Global Summer School 2026 is an educational program offered by IBM that focuses on quantum computing and the Qiskit framework, with registration now available for interested participants. The s
I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ev
A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize somethin
Rambus Inc. today announced a complete DDR5 9600 client memory module chipset designed to push PC memory speeds to 9,600 megatransfers per second, targeting the bandwidth and capacity demands of agent
Amid rapidly growing adoption of enterprise-level AI agents, there’s a disconnect emerging between ambition and execution. Although 85% of organizations say they want to be agentic within the next thr
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 accelerates genomic sequencing and drug discovery by slashing processing times. This professional desktop GPU features 32GB of ultra-fast GDDR7 memory and Blackwell architectur
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung's largest union approves a pay deal that would give chip workers an average bonus of ~340K, with ~74% of members voting in favor, staving off a strike — Samsung Electro
Vercel has announced that Sandbox persistence is now generally available (GA), a feature that allows developers to maintain state and data across sandbox environments. This capability enables more per
Bloomberg: SK Hynix tops 1T in market value after shares jumped 11% on Wednesday, becoming the third Asian company to hit the mark; shares surged 900%+ in the past year — SK Hynix Inc. joined Micron T
This article from Interconnects explores speculative ideas and predictions about technological developments and trends expected around May 2026, likely covering emerging AI capabilities, infrastructur
The Information: Source: AI inference provider Baseten is in talks to raise 1B at a post-money valuation of 11B, up from 5B after its 300M Series E announced in January — AI startup Baseten has recent
Axios: Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~5B, up from 2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise 250M+ — Bond Capital is leading a new inve
Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance is offering low-priced stock options linked to growth in its Seed AI division to staff of the unit, a first, to fend off poaching from rivals — ByteDance is offerin
Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese government agencies begin imposing overseas travel restrictions on individuals involved in advanced AI work, including at Alibaba and DeepSeek — China is restricting overse
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run AI models, is in talks to raise funding at a 15B valuation after being valued at 4B in October 2025 — Fireworks AI, a sta
Ian King / Bloomberg: Sources: Qualcomm reached a deal with ByteDance to supply millions of ASICs for AI data centers to support AI agents in the Doubao chatbot; QCOM jumps 5%+ — Qualcomm Inc. reached
David Jeans / Reuters: Sources: SpaceX successfully pressured the Pentagon to raise Starlink fees for LUCAS kamikaze drones amid increasing tensions over Starlink's pricing — As U.S. kamikaze drones g
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was 1.8B in 2025, 1.7B in 2024, and 2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's 4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers — Spa
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: Spain says it is blocking Polymarket and Kalshi as a precautionary measure while it probes possible gambling law violations over the next three to four months — The g