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Katie Paul / Reuters: Internal memo: Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year — Meta (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees in an internal memo o

Tom Warren / The Verge: Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO — The second maj

As models and harnesses improve, agents are taking on increasingly complex tasks that can run for hours or even days. But as we push agents to do more, this has surfaced a new operational problem: lon

We're about to find out if the systems designed to make deepfakes and AI-generated content easy to spot are actually up to snuff. SynthID and C2PA Content Credentials, two distinct technologies for in

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Kickstarter retracts stricter rules on mature content after creator backlash, and says it adopted the tougher rules because of its payment processor Stripe — It explained tha

Lambda Labs announced a partnership with Hudson River Trading (HRT), a quantitative trading firm, to provide computational infrastructure and GPU resources for HRT's quantitative research and developm

Mercedes-AMG has unveiled the all-electric GT 4-Door, the first all-electric model in AMG history , powered by three axial flux motors with a 106-kWh battery and featuring a rear-biased all-wheel-driv

Damisola Sulaiman / Sifted: London-based Primer, which helps e-commerce merchants connect and manage multiple payment providers, raised a 100M Series C led by Sofina — The London-based fintech is doub

This podcast episode covers three main topics: TML-Interaction (likely a new AI model or technical development), the application of Claude AI in legal settings and use cases, and Sam Altman's testimon

A retired Tennessee law enforcement officer, Larry Bushart, spent 37 days in jail for posting a meme after conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination. Tennessee officials agreed to pay $835,00

The final trailer for the live-action Masters of the Universe film stars Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam/He-Man, who returns to the planet Eternia after 15 years to battle Skeletor, alongside allies

Stable Audio 3.0 is Stability AI's latest generative audio model designed to create music and soundscapes from textual prompts. The release includes four models ranging from 459M to 2.7B parameters, w

SpaceX Corp. today published the filing for its upcoming initial public offering. The move came against the backdrop of reports that OpenAI Group PBC could submit the paperwork for its own IPO to regu

Hugh Son / CNBC: Mercury, which provides banking services to startups, raised a 200M Series D led by TCV at a 5.2B valuation, up from 3.5B in March 2025 — Mercury, a fintech firm that provides banking

Minnesota became the first state to ban prediction markets when Governor Tim Walz signed a public safety bill into law, making operation, promotion, or advertising of platforms like Kalshi and Polymar

If you’re building visual shopping, image or document understanding, or chart analysis, you need a way to verify whether your model’s response is actually grounded in the source image. A text-only eva

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: NanoClaw creator NanoCo raised a 12M seed led by Valley Capital and says it is booking enterprise customers; co-founders say they rejected a 20M buyout offer — NanoCo, the com

NanoCo, the startup behind NanoClaw, a fast-growing open-source artificial intelligent agent that’s secure by design, said today it has raised 12 million in seed funding. The oversubscribed round was

NASA's Psyche spacecraft successfully flew by Mars on May 15, 2026, as part of a gravity-assist maneuver, during which onboard instruments were powered up for calibration and took images of the Red Pl

Chipmaker Nvidia Corp., the world’s most valuable company, crushed earnings expectations once again today, benefiting from massive demand for high-end artificial intelligence chips. The company report

Brendan Bordelon / Politico: OpenAI's Chris Lehane says he is pursuing “reverse federalism”, lobbying blue states to pass AI safety laws and create a de facto US standard, as DC dithers — OpenAI's eff

George Hammond / Financial Times: Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firm business models, legal AI competition, and more — The c

We have the ability to use compute resources to support our proprietary AI applications (such as Grok 5, which is currently being trained at COLOSSUS II), while also providing access to select compute

Railway is a cloud platform that provides agent-native infrastructure, enabling AI agents to be deployed and executed natively within the cloud environment. The discussion with Jake Cooper likely cove

Digital employee experience company Riverbed Technology LLC today rolled out six additions to its Aternity Experience Platform that the company says move enterprise information technology closer to au

Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos has begun placing commercial advertising on space launch rockets amid declining revenues and the loss of foreign partners. Since the beginning of 2026, rocke

Reuters: Russia's Sberbank says it hopes to use Chinese chips to power its flagship GigaChat AI model, as sanctions continue to block the country's access to hardware — Russia hopes to power its flags

AMD is preparing an AM4 10th Anniversary Edition Ryzen 7 5800X3D for Q2 2026 launch, reviving its popular Zen 3 X3D chip with the same core specifications but updated packaging. The move is framed as

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: S. “Soma” Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015, has died at age 59 — S. “Soma” Som

Jemima McEvoy / The Information: Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest 2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE — OpenAI cofo

Reuters: Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has suspended a general strike and put the deal to a vote — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS

This article discusses how Applied Compute leverages Modal's infrastructure to scale reinforcement learning workloads, likely covering the technical implementation of distributed RL training, computat

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised 60M led by Thrive Capital at a 1B valuation — Socket, a cybersecurity startup that sells technol

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. This week's

Alexander Martin / The Record: Sources: an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei router software caused a three-hour nationwide telecoms outage in Luxembourg in 2025 — An atta

Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia's business development group, not its VC arm NVentures, has led much of its ~90B dealmaking push across 145+ companies over the past 16 months — Nvidia's Huang bankrol

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as Friday; the company plans to be ready to go public as early as September — The artificial-intelligence g

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stable Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs — Stability AI, the co

Exposure management company Tenable Holdings Inc. today unveiled new capabilities for Hexa AI, the agentic engine inside its Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, pushing the tool into general ava

Agentic offensive security platform provider Terra Security Inc. today announced the launch of continuous exploitation validation for network infrastructure, extending the company’s platform beyond we

Utah may host one of the world's most colossal data centers, despite stark warnings from experts and fierce public backlash. Earlier this month, commissioners in Box Elder County signed off on the Str

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. Colossal Biosciences is growing chickens in a 3D-printed artif

Figure AI livestreamed three F.03 humanoid robots sorting packages continuously starting May 14, 2026 , generating significant viral attention and becoming a benchmark demonstration for autonomous hum

OpenAI announced an expansion of its educational initiatives aimed at helping countries develop AI literacy and workforce capabilities. The program likely includes partnerships, training resources, an

This article examines key emerging trends that are transforming AI infrastructure, likely covering topics such as distributed computing, edge AI deployment, GPU optimization, and evolving cloud infras

Catie Edmondson / New York Times: Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs — A ser