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Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, in Los Angeles River, CA, USI'm heading home from PyCon US today so I went on a last morning walk to try and spot a pelican. I saw one!
A new Lanterns teaser trailer features Nathan Fillion returning as Guy Gardner , the character introduced in the 2025 Superman movie . Showrunner Chris Mundy confirmed Gardner will 'be in the show a f
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: How Amazon, which took a measured tone to AI, went from an AI also-ran to a real contender, thanks to 200B in spending, custom AI chips, and savvy deals — The pieces
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs — With Cong
When most people think of A/B experimentation, they think of button colors, landing page layouts, or checkout flows. At Google, many fundamental infrastructure improvements also need the rigor of A/B
Alessandra Ram / Wired: How the AI industry's intense pressure to keep up and its financial rewards are creating “walls of resentment” between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses — Are you marrie
This newsletter explores three AI topics: potential weaponization risks of AI systems (framed as 'AI stuxnet'), issues with the Muon optimizer in machine learning, and progress or approaches toward po
Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier.bsky.social: In a town hall, PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive
Simon Sharwood / The Register: In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says “AI tools are great” but duplicate bug reports have made the security list “almost entirely unmanageable” — Multiple
The defense-tech company Anduril has shared new details about the augmented-reality headset for the military it’s prototyping with Meta, including a vision for ordering drone strikes via eye-tracking
In this post, you will learn how to set up the Confluence Cloud integration with Quick. This includes creating a knowledge base for semantic search, setting up Actions to query and manage Confluence p
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Internal chats: in March, xAI offered employees $420 in exchange for completed tax filings as training data for Grok, but the bonuses haven't been paid out — Elon Musk's xAI
Eli Tan / New York Times: Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, two days before it is set to lay off 10% of its workforce — The company annou
Golnar Motevalli / Bloomberg: Iranian media: Iran launches “Hormuz Safe”, a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies transiting the Strait of Hormuz; ~1,500 ships are trapped — Iran has
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance — The com
Dust, an agentic artificial intelligence startup that’s trying to push enterprise workers away from isolated chatbots into a more collaborative, multiplayer ecosystem, said today it has raised 40 mill
Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says the judge and jury “never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality” and he will file an appeal — Regarding the Op
CNBC: Musk v. Altman jury unanimously rejects Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman; the judge dismisses two additional claims citing the statute of limitation — After less than two hours of deliberat
The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI, shouldn't direct the future
Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin Depot, North America's largest bitcoin ATM operator, files for bankruptcy, blaming “increasingly stringent compliance obligations” — Bitcoin Depot, the
Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: NextEra's 67B deal to buy Dominion, the largest utility merger in US history, signals a new era of utility consolidation to accommodate AI-driven power demand — NextEra Ener
Agentic AI inference at one-tenth the cost per token with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72. Agent sandboxes run 50% faster on NVIDIA Vera than traditional CPUs — while enterprise data queries are up to 3x fast
OpenAI and Dell announced a partnership to deploy OpenAI's Codex code generation model in hybrid and on-premise enterprise environments, enabling organizations to use the technology within their own i
PaddleOCR 3.5 introduces a Transformers-based backend for optical character recognition (OCR) and document parsing tasks, enabling improved performance and integration with the Hugging Face ecosystem.
Bloomberg: Polymarket and Kalshi continue to operate in India despite a government advisory on April 25, directed at VPN providers, labeling prediction markets “illegal” — Polymarket and Kalshi Inc. h
Archaeologists at Pompeii Archaeological Park identified one of the victims of the 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius eruption as a doctor after advanced exams revealed surgical instruments inside a plaster cast.
Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Procurement records: the FBI seeks a vendor that can provide access to automated license plate readers nationwide; Flock and Motorola are among the few options — Only a couple
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what t
In this post, you learn how to prompt Amazon Nova 2 Lite for content moderation using structured and free-form approaches, grounded in the MLCommons AILuminate Assessment Standard. The prompting techn
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: participants earned a total of $1,298,250 for 47 vulnerabilities, with successful exploits of AI products like Codex, Cursor, and LM Studio — Partici
Artificial intelligence agents have a memory problem and now Redis Inc., the database management startup, is trying to fix that with its new, real-time Context Engine. As the company explains, it’s al
This article describes how to run Claude's managed agents within Vercel's Sandbox environment, enabling developers to execute AI agent workloads on Vercel's infrastructure. The integration allows user
CJ Haddad / CNBC: Seagate shares drop 6.87%, leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from its CEO raised concerns it won't be able to meet demand fueled by the AI buildout — Shares of memory chip
John Markoff / New York Times: Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized lax industry attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93 — For decades,
Cloud-native data analytics startup Sigma Computing Inc. has closed on an 80 million Series E funding round that doubles its valuation to 3 billion, almost a year to the day after its previous Series
Cristian Dina / The Next Web: Sigma, which sells a cloud-native analytics platform that sits on top of data warehouses, raised an 80M Series E led by Princeville Capital at a 3B valuation — The round
Jay Peters / The Verge: Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in “select regions”, blaming “ongoing market conditions” — One-month and three-mon
Bloomberg: Sources: AI chip designer Tenstorrent has drawn takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm; Tenstorrent could be valued at more than $5B in a potential deal — Artificial intelligence chip st
Bloomberg: Sources: Analog Devices, one of the largest analog chip makers, is in talks to buy Empower, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for 1.5B in cash — Analog Devices Inc. is in advanced
Julia Love / Bloomberg: Sources: competition for Google's TPUs among its employees and researchers intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research — In the race to
Ashley Gold / Axios: Steve Bannon and 60+ Trump allies sign a Humans First-led letter urging Trump to mandate government testing and approval of powerful AI models before release — A group of more tha
James Hunt / The Block: Strategy acquired 24,869 bitcoin for ~2.01B at an 80,985 average price from May 11 to May 17, taking its holdings to 843,738 BTC, or 4%+ of the total supply — Quick Take — Stra
Dory Sign is a small electronic paper display designed for communication that utilizes E Ink technology rather than traditional light-emitting screens. The device combines a natural frame design, e-in
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. Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each
For mid-market AI adoption, the window to get it right is narrowing. Without data readiness and governance in place first, even the most promising deployments rarely survive contact with production. T
This episode discusses emerging threats and challenges facing Western nations in modern conflict, featuring Yaroslav Azhnyuk from The Fourth Law and guest host Noah Smith. The discussion likely covers
The Open Agent Leaderboard is a benchmarking system hosted on Hugging Face that evaluates and ranks AI agents based on their performance across various tasks and capabilities. It provides a standardiz
This Databricks blog post likely discusses how modern data platforms and analytics tools should enable organizations to quickly extract insights and answer business questions from their commercial dat
SpaceX's Starship completed three years of explosive tests and redesigns before launching its twelfth test flight in May 2026 , with the company's IPO approaching, requiring successful demonstrations
Flavia Rotondi / Bloomberg: The Vatican says Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah will join Pope Leo on May 25 to launch the pope's first encyclical, setting out his views on the AI age — Pope Leo XI
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber increases its stake in Delivery Hero to 19.5%, up from 7% in April, and says it “has no intent to acquire 30% or more” of Delivery Hero's voting rights — Uber Technologi
The first NVIDIA Vera CPUs arrived at three of the world's leading AI labs on Friday — Anthropic in San Francisco, OpenAI in Mission Bay, SpaceXAI in Palo Alto — followed by a delivery to Oracle Cloud
Jason Nelson / Decrypt: Vitalik Buterin says AI-assisted “formal verification” could help secure blockchain networks, smart contracts, and cryptographic systems against software flaws — Ethereum co-fo
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When Google opens its doors tomorrow for its annual developer
Every device, user, and microservice generates data. Ingesting this data, extracting meaning and insights, and driving business decisions in real time has the potential to deliver transformational bus
Jackson Chen / Engadget: X quietly limits users who didn't pay for verification to “50 original posts and 200 replies per day”, down from 2,400 posts per day — That's down from the previous 2,400 post
Phoebe Liu / Forbes: A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics firm and holds a ~67% stake worth $13.3B, as AI tests SAS' strategy — Unlike most of t
Researchers are testing CAR T cell therapy—a cancer treatment—as a way to reset the immune system in lupus, Graves' disease and other autoimmune conditions where the body's defenses malfunction. The t
The Information: Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue — Anthropic and OpenAI
John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing — The d