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Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history. AI 'Dark Output' could end up being the majority of economic activity, but a challenge to measure

This DigitalOcean blog post examines how emerging AI technologies are transforming business models and enabling startups to challenge traditional industries. It likely covers practical examples of AI-

This article argues that AI projects fail to scale when organizations treat them as one-off innovations rather than integrating them into standard business operations and processes. According to Datab

Robert Hart / The Verge: AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots — Shift says a ‘magic hat’ wi

Evan Halper / Washington Post: Allegations that China is behind US data center protests draw criticism from allies of the AI industry, who say the industry and politicians are in denial — Claims that

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service designed for the most demanding enterprise workloads. It combines the best of PostgreSQL with the power of Google, del

An analysis of the Texas measles outbreak examines epidemiological features, transmission dynamics, and clinical manifestations, emphasizing the severe complications the virus poses, with resurgence d

The most interesting thing about Anthropic's 65B Series H announcement is this line (emphasis mine): Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued to grow across global enterprise customers,

Amazon Web Services Inc. has started using a new data center network design that significantly improves the throughput and reliability of connections. The cloud giant today detailed the architecture,

A rocket built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Enterprises LP exploded late Thursday ahead of a planned launch next week. The New Glenn heavy-lift vehicle was set to carry 48 of Amazon.com Inc.’s Leo satel

Boston Children's Hospital has implemented AI technology to improve diagnostic accuracy and identify rare or complex medical conditions in pediatric patients that might otherwise go undiagnosed. The a

Dutch authorities dismantled a large Asocks botnet comprising at least 17 million compromised devices including computers, routers, tablets, smartphones, and smart security cameras. Investigators iden

Bloomberg: BYD announces the Xuanji A3 chip, which it calls China's most powerful chip for ADAS and the centerpiece of its new laptop-sized central computing platform — BYD Co., the world's largest el

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2026. Today, Usman Chaudhary, Field CISO, Google Public Sector, offers a guide for CISOs protecting government agencies and critical infrastructur

CNN today opened a lawsuit against the AI firm Perplexity AI Inc., alleging the company has violated copyright protections by using artificial intelligence to rewrite its reporting, thereby underminin

Pritam Biswas / Reuters: Coinbase and Kalshi introduce perpetual crypto futures, marking the first time the contracts will be available to US investors via domestic, regulated exchanges — Cryptocurren

This post demonstrates a comprehensive observability solution using Amazon Managed Grafana dashboards that provides a holistic view of both quality and quantity for LLMs served on Amazon SageMaker AI

Databricks announced its participation or contributions at SIGMOD 2026, a premier international conference on database systems and management. The blog post likely covers Databricks' research papers,

Release: datasette 1.0a31 Another significant alpha release, with two new headline features. Datasette now offers users with the necessary permissions the ability to both execute write queries against

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Dell stock closed up 32.81%, its best day ever, after reporting its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018 — Shares of Dell Techno

If you've built a chatbot, you know this conversation: User: 'Book a table for two tomorrow at 7pm.' Agent: 'Okay, for what day?' User: 'Tomorrow.' Agent: 'What time?' A date picker would have ended t

The Department of Justice filed lawsuits against Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington state alleging their refusal to issue undercover license plates to federal agents imposes unconstitutional

ElevenLabs: ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages while staying synced to content — Today we're launching Dubbin

Databricks introduces database branching capabilities through Lakebase, enabling developers to create isolated database branches for parallel development and testing without affecting production envir

Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: Filing: a Kentucky school district secured ~27M in settlements from Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube in a social media harms lawsuit; Meta paid the most, at 9M — A Kentucky

Reuters: Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology — Tesla says its Full Self-Driving

Many organizations’ single source of truth is data that resides in BigQuery, Google’s governed, secure and petabyte-scale data platform. However, the 'last mile' of ad-hoc analysis, modeling, and repo

Vercel updated its billing model to charge for serverless function invocations on a per-unit basis rather than previous pricing structures. This change affects how customers are charged for executing

Reece Rogers / Wired: Hands-on with Gemini Spark beta rolling out to AI Ultra subs: planned a birthday party from emails and calendar, but called a live-in boyfriend a “close friend” — Google's new AI

Hardware firms are cleaning up bigtime as enterprises and cloud providers can’t get enough computing power for their artificial intelligence dreams. Dell Technology’s stock rocketed an incredible 31%

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during an engine-firing test at Cape Canaveral on May 28, 2026 , which is catastrophic because Blue Origin only has one New Glenn pad and it was damaged in the

Braintrust leverages OpenAI's Codex model to automatically convert customer requests and natural language specifications into functional code, streamlining the software development process. This appli

Bloomberg: How massive bonuses for Samsung's employees in the memory division have sparked debate over how companies and governments should share profits from the AI boom — Payouts at Samsung have rai

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“

Agents are easy to prototype and hard to improve. A repeatable loop of traces, evals, failed-span inspection, and targeted harness changes makes agent behavior easier to debug and improve. The post Ho

Together AI developed an optimized speech-to-text system focused on achieving the fastest processing speeds through technical innovations in their inference stack and model optimization. The approach

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal memo: Meta plans to start testing an AI pendant in 2027, release new AI glasses next month, start a “Wearables for Work” unit for enterprises, and more — Meta Pl

Most people will never own, drive, or even sit inside a Ferrari Luce. (If you can, or do… hit us up.) There's still no question that Ferrari's first electric vehicle is one of the most interesting, su

Nathan Bomey / Axios: Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be “the first company in American history to offer” them, to be “fully regulated” by the CFTC — Kalshi announced

Martin Coulter / Sifted: London-based Inherent, which aims to combine human scientific research with AI to produce innovations, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index Ventures — London-based Inhe

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth — TAIPEI — Me

Chris Metinko / Axios: Miami-based Canals, which uses AI to help distributors automate workflows across sales, customer service, and more, raised a 35M Series A led by Base10 — Canals raised a 35 mill

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Microsoft faces backlash after a blog post implied criminal referral and legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public bug disclosu

Shares of the database company MongoDB Inc. shot up both before and after the close of the regular trading session today following a solid first-quarter financial report that saw it blow past analysts

Maria Curi / Axios: OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools — OpenAI is launching a

Danny Park / The Block: Paxos says the US SEC has approved its registration as a clearing agency, allowing it to provide clearing and settlement services for eligible transactions — Quick Take — Paxos