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Release: datasette 1.0a32 A minor bugfix release. Fixes a bug with INSERT ... RETURNING queries via the new /db/-/execute-write endpoint and a bunch of base_url issues which showed up when I was exper

Jacob Judah / Financial Times: Experts say ChatGPT, Gemini, and other Western AI models are turbocharging Iran's cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch phishing attacks — Western AI m

As artificial intelligence agents begin to proliferate across information technology infrastructure, IT leaders are moving away from asking, “How do we monitor every alert?” to “How do we design infra

The crypto weed vape found me on 4/20, the high holiday of cannabis enthusiasts everywhere. It arrived over Slack with the thumbnail of a man exhaling a plume of vapor, the words 'every hit delivers B

MiniMax M3 is now available through Vercel's AI Gateway, enabling developers to access this language model through Vercel's unified API interface. This integration allows seamless integration of MiniM

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare: NYC-based Garner Health, which uses data analytics to help 2.5M+ workers find physicians, raised a 100M Series E at a 2.74B valuation led by Index Ventures — Garner

SpaceCamp is a 1986 American science fiction adventure film inspired by the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. The young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shu

Anthropic defines “run-rate revenue” in two parts. Use the last 28 days of sales ⁠from customers charged on a consumption basis and multiply it by 13. Then, multiply the monthly subscription take by 1

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple delays iPhone-connected smart glasses to late 2027, aiming to disrupt the mid-tier 200-500 eyewear market the way it disrupted the watch market — Also: The late

Ina Fried / Axios: Sources: Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026 — The company best known

The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most o

Research shows that animals get their minds muddled during heat waves, with birds struggling to learn, dogs biting more often, and chamois picking fights when temperatures rise. When animals can't sta

May ships trace-based evaluation for any agent on any cloud, Grok 4.3 and DeepSeek V4 in the model catalog, GPT-5 Reinforcement Fine-Tuning at gated GA, three Microsoft Research on-device agent models

Agentic artificial intelligence governance depends upon humans to keep agentic AI from going off the rails. However, putting humans in the loop is woefully insufficient. Here are the problems – and pe

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: With Microsoft's GitHub Copilot shifting to token-usage billing on June 1, many developers bemoan massive cost increases and the end of flat-rate subscriptions — The golden a

Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries —

Wall Street Journal: A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administration — After years in t

Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the c

This Latent Space article covers notable AI news and updates relevant to founders and forward-deployed engineers working on AI systems. The piece likely discusses recent developments, trends, and prac

John Koblin / New York Times: Antenna: bundles make up 33% of new major streaming service subscriptions in the US, and 28% of all subscriptions, up from just 10% of new subscriptions in 2024 — Warner

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice caused panic and pushback from investors — Anthropic PBC updated it

Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: As robotaxi companies attempt to scale in the US, they face increasing scrutiny and mounting criticism from drivers, law enforcement, and local governments — As auto

Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: BlackBerry's stock is up more than 160% over the past three months, as the company's QNX division positions its automotive software as an OS for robots — History suggests th

Kinling Lo / Rest of World: China's tech boom is creating a new kind of tech tourism where visitors pay for curated robotaxi rides and tours of EV factories and AI and robotics companies — Foreign vis

Environmental advocates voiced strong opposition to proposed new regulations weakening requirements for utilities cleaning up toxic coal ash at hundreds of sites across the country. The Trump administ

Bloomberg: Filing shows Shanghai-based MiniMax has begun preparations for a Chinese IPO; the AI company listed in Hong Kong in January and says its ARR has reached $300M — China's MiniMax Group Inc. h

Artificial intelligence is forcing companies to change almost every aspect of their business. From operations to hiring to sales and training, change is happening faster than ever. One aspect of this

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Google's keyword ad practices face renewed criticism after the Delhi High Court ruled against Google in a trademark dispute involving Indian company Hindware — A recent Ind

This article examines the origins of the most common arguments against vaccines—that they are unnatural, more dangerous than disease, or an affront to freedom—tracing how innocent skepticism from the

Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website. Sure, Campbell probably could have started an AI company. He's a former engineer at Met

Patricia Cohen / New York Times: How Schneider Electric is using AI in call centers and manufacturing to complement employees' work and boost productivity, rather than to replace them — For many chief

How we contain Claude across products A complaint I often have about sandboxing products is that they are rarely thoroughly documented, and in the absence of detailed documentation it's hard to know h

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline I've seen a lot of posts on forums from people threatening to quit their careers over AI. This is not one of those: Chad Whitacre is taking concrete steps, star

Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: Memory chip makers are leveraging their newfound power to secure long-term agreements, a move set to reshape the industry's business model and stabilize prices — M

The artificial intelligence wave is starting to look a bit like the personal computer era – with some obvious differences. The first similarity is personal productivity. Individuals are taking control

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to 26B in 2025 from 4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year — Investors be

Research: Running Python ASGI apps in the browser via Pyodide + a service worker Datasette Lite is my version of Datasette that runs entirely in the browser using Pyodide in WebAssembly. When I first

Financial Times: SoftBank pledges to invest up to €75B in AI computing clusters in France, first leading a €45B investment to build 3.1GW of capacity by 2031 in Hauts-de-France — Masayoshi Son places

Politico: Sources detail AI companies' engagement with US FERC as the energy regulator readies a June proposal to speed up data center connections to regional power grids — “The hyperscalers, when the

CNBC: The DOD's 9.7B contract with Dell has raised eyebrows as a potential payback for Michael and Susan Dell's 6.25B donation to 25M US children's Trump Accounts — Michael Dell bought into President

I haven't seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time - that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke. SpaceX is a threat. And if Musk and his bank

SemiAnalysis: Why “Dark Output”, the AI-generated economic value that is currently invisible to national statistics, may be one of the hardest measurement problems in history — Why AI's increasing out

Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash, the latest model combining frontier intelligence with action, and Gemini Omni, a new model that can create anything from any input starting with video. With Omni, use

Holly Bishop / The Independent: A BBC Question Time episode featured a panel with AI-generated historical figures like Churchill, intended to show AI images' “hyper-real and persuasive” nature — - BBC

This document outlines OpenAI's framework and recommendations for conducting independent third-party evaluations of AI systems to ensure trustworthiness and accountability. It establishes shared stand

AI image tools rarely make me feel like I'm part of the creative process. They are, after all, mostly designed so that people with no design experience can type in a few words and get back a usable re