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Latent Space reports on a rebranding or reorganization where Model Labs have been renamed or converted into Agent Labs, reflecting a shift in focus toward AI agent development and capabilities. This c

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: As the US House probes Airbnb's use of Chinese AI models, CEO Brian Chesky says the company is not sharing data with Chinese firms and uses open-source models — Airbnb Inc. C

Matthew Prince / Wall Street Journal: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI won't replace builders or sellers, but it will affect middle managers, operations jobs, and other “measuring” positions — Th

Financial Times: Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin — Threat to code that under

Anusha Shah / Reuters: Delivery Hero says it received a takeover offer from Uber for €33 per share, a discount of 1.76% from Delivery Hero's close on Friday — German food delivery service Delivery Her

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Dell says it has 5,000 clients for its AI Factory, a product line of servers with Nvidia chips, software, and services, including 1,000 new clients last quarter — Dell Technolog

Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg: FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all “treasury.gov” email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020 — New detai

Alexandra Alter / New York Times: For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down — Illegal,

Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was runnin

The shift from on-premises computing to software as a service changed the technology model and forced information technology organizatios to modernize how it builds, buys and operates software. It als

Jack Jenkins / RNS: How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI — (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang urged Super Micro to tighten up compliance after Taiwan detained three people for allegedly trying to export servers with Nvidia chips to China — Nvidia Corp. Chief

On the <dl> I learned a few new-to-me things about the <dl> element from this article by Ben Meyer: A <dt> can be followed by multiple <dd> You can optionally group the <dt> and <dd> elements in a <di

This Databricks resource discusses how pharmaceutical companies can use analytics to optimize their product launch strategy, focusing on accelerating critical decision-making during the crucial first

New York Times: Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism toward AI, AI agents, AI safety, TPUs, and more — After a busy Google I/O, the c

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing — Patients at th

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung's bonus deal is fueling employee resentment over a 100x payout gap between memory division staff and those making smartphones, TVs, and home appliances — Samsung Electr

Octopus Energy reduced margin data engineering costs by 50x through scaling improvements implemented on the Databricks platform for MHHS (Metering, Half-hourly Settlement) operations. The case study d

Reuters: Sources: the ECB warned EU finance ministers that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins could reduce bank lending and make controlling interest rates harder — The European Central Bank war

SpaceX successfully launched an updated version of its Starship V3 on May 22, 2026, the first test flight of the upgraded booster and upper stage designed as part of NASA's Artemis lunar program. The

Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models represent NVIDIA's approach to achieving faster text generation through diffusion-based architectures, potentially offering significant speed improvements over

Tom Akers and Joe Tanner, veteran space shuttle astronauts who each flew four missions, were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 16, 2026. Tanner logged 1,069 hours in space and more

AI in financial services has stopped being just another technology tool and started becoming a measure of operational readiness. In 2025, 45% of IT decision-makers ranked generative AI tools as their

Cybercriminal group TeamPCP is executing an unprecedented wave of software supply chain attacks, compromising hundreds of open source tools and breaching organizations through poisoned code. The incid

This article describes techniques for using prompt caching to improve the inference speed and efficiency of open-source large language models when deployed on Databricks' platform. Prompt caching redu

Tom Hals / Reuters: Activision shareholders reach a 250M settlement over allegations that Microsoft and Activision underpaid them during Microsoft's 2023 acquisition of Activision — Shareholders of Ac

Author Steven Rosenbaum's book 'The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality' was discovered by The New York Times to contain multiple misattributed or synthetic quotes generated by AI tools, which Ro

This article discusses three AI infrastructure startups—Exa, Modal, and TurboPuffer—that have recently achieved unicorn status (valued at $1 billion or more). The piece likely covers their funding rou

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: AMD CEO Lisa Su projects the CPU market will grow over 35% annually through 2031, up from 3% to 4% historically, driven by AI inference and agentic AI demand — TAIPEI —

As enterprises move from AI experimentation to full-scale production, the absence of a unified enterprise AI operating system is emerging as the single most consequential bottleneck in realizing retur

Anthropic: Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview has been used to find more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities since the launch of Project Glasswing — Last month, we launched Projec

NASA is in the early stages of identifying what small parts of the International Space Station to bring back to Earth before its scheduled deorbit around 2030 . As the station descends through the atm

United Kingdom-based Blockchain.com Group Holdings Inc., a cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service, announced Thursday that it has filed confidentially for an initial public offering in the United

California is trying to prepare itself for artificial intelligence job disruption ahead of time. Governor Gavin Newsom today ordered state officials to begin exploring a massive overhaul of its labor

Validin, a data-intensive company, adopted Vultr's cloud infrastructure services to meet its high computational demands while achieving significant cost reductions of hundreds of thousands of dollars

The Dialogues stage at Google I/O 2026 brought together Google leaders, scientific minds and creative visionaries to discuss technological breakthroughs. Featured discussions included AI agents and pr

Reuters: China's Wingtech files a lawsuit against Nexperia, saying its control over the Dutch chipmaker remained restricted, and seeks ~$1.2B for economic losses — China's Wingtech Technology (600745.

After 15 months of incremental updates, leaks, and rumored leaks, DeepSeek released version 4. It arrived without the fanfare R1 and R1-preview commanded in early 2025. That quiet reception is the mos

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Driverless car startup Bliq.ai says it has received approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia, the first authorization of its kind in the EU — The authorisation

A May 2026 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda involves the rare Bundibugyo virus , with 575 suspected cases, 51 confirmed cases, and 148 suspected deaths reported as of May

There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk's 'truth-seeking' AI chatbot Grok: It's not very good, and not many people are using it. That's the takeaway of a new Reuters report, which found that Grok barel

Ryan Lawler / Axios: Farther Finance, which is building an AI-enabled wealth management platform for financial advisors, raised a 150M Series D at a 1B+ post-money valuation — Farther Finance, which i

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Filing: Zoom's stake in Anthropic is worth ~1.27B based on a February round which valued Anthropic at 380B; Zoom invested an additional 46M in recent months — Zoom Communicatio

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed the two leaders of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which makes recommendations on preventive care such as mammograms and colonoscopies. Kennedy

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised 80M from KKR's growth equity arm at a 1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to 285M — Beaut

As enterprise software companies race to close the gap between product capability and market reach, the distribution scale — a company’s ability to move product through partner networks at volume and