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New York Times: Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-LG chair's estate prompts a criminal complaint over how the dynastic South Korean chaebol family divides assets — On a Thursday afterno
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates — Daemon Tools, a wi
@mingchikuo: Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 — 【Industry Check Update】O
Lambda Labs has assembled a new leadership team to develop and manage large-scale AI infrastructure capable of supporting gigawatt-level power consumption for advanced AI models. The company is positi
This newsletter episode covers recent AI industry developments including a legal dispute between OpenAI and Elon Musk, Microsoft's involvement in AI developments, the release of DeepSeek's v4 model, a
Alice Speri / The Guardian: Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal — Exclusive
Release: llm-echo 0.5a0 New -o thinking 1 option to help test against LLM 0.32a0 and higher. This plugin provides a fake model called 'echo' for LLM which doesn't run an LLM at all - it's useful for w
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Match Group reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to 864M, vs. 855M est., as Tinder's new user registrations grew for the first time since 2024, up 1% — Match Group Inc. reported fi
Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” — ‘We want to be
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US, ahead of the UK and EU in June — Meta Platforms
Lola Murti / CNBC: Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past 700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12% — Micron's historic ra
Microsoft researchers share advances in building and operating large-scale distributed systems, spanning datacenters, networking, and the growing intersection with AI during NSDI ’26. The post Microso
Xbox is 'winding down Copilot on mobile' and 'will stop development of Copilot on console,' new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sharma's reorganization of the Xbox platform
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation — [Editor's Note:
The Netherlands approved Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system under UN Regulation 171 on April 10, 2026, becoming the first European country to do so. Other EU member states can recognize the
Chris Metinko / Axios: Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI models tailored to their business' mission and language, raised a 21.5M seed led by Walden Catalyst — Nace.AI, which lets busi
OpenAI introduced new advertising purchasing options for ChatGPT, expanding how businesses can buy ad placements within the platform. These new methods likely provide advertisers with additional flexi
Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in Portugal in an expansion of its Microsoft partnership, supplying 66K+ Nvidia Rubin GPUs from late 2027 — Nscale Global Hol
RadixArk Inc., a startup that provides tools for artificial intelligence developers, has raised 100 million from a group of high-profile backers. Nvidia Corp.’s NVentures fund led the seed round with
Enterprise AI has learned to generate. It has learned to reason. Now companies are asking the next question: How should AI act? Early agent systems have shown what’s possible, moving beyond simple pro
OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has 'significant imp
OpenAI's first hardware product might be a phone instead of a mysterious Jony Ive gadget. As reported by MacRumors, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared details about the rumored phone, claiming O
OpenAI Group PBC co-founder and President Greg Brockman today disclosed in an ongoing landmark trial that his stake in the company is worth close to 30 billion, a windfall Elon Musk has invoked in his
Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm Andon Labs previously started an AI-run retail store in San Francisco. Now they're running a similar experiment in Stockholm, Sweden, only this time it's a cafe. The
Paige Smith / Bloomberg: PayPal reports Q1 net revenue up 7% YoY to 8.4B, total payment volume up 11% YoY to 464B, active accounts up 1% to 439M, and seeks $1.5B+ in cost savings — PayPal Holdings Inc
This Databricks blog post likely discusses how predictive analytics and machine learning can improve insurance payouts and risk assessment in volatile market conditions. The article probably covers te
Pinecone launched a new cloud region in Frankfurt, Germany to expand its vector database infrastructure in Europe and better serve Central European enterprises building AI applications. This regional
The agentic era is here, and the public sector is at the forefront of leading this transformation.At Google Cloud Next ’26, it was clear that academia and public sector organizations are no longer jus
IBM researchers demonstrated a quantum-centric supercomputing approach that successfully simulated a protein containing 12,635 atoms in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic and RIKEN, combining classic
Netherlands-based quantum computing hardware company QuantWare B.V. said today it has raised 178 million in funding to accelerate its plans of creating an “open architecture” for the industry. The rou
The Vercel CLI now includes functionality to query and monitor observability metrics directly from the command line, allowing developers to inspect performance data without leaving their terminal envi
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to reduce 'overprescribing' of psychiatric medications and support alternative treatment options, while claiming antidepressa
Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg: Samsung reaches a 1T valuation, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the mark, after its stock rose 4x+ over the past year on the AI boom — Samsung Electro
AI agents in production require secure access to external services. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, available as a standalone service, secures how your AI agents access external services whether th
ServiceNow Inc. today unveiled a broad expansion of its artificial intelligence platform, stressing governance, security and autonomous execution as foundational requirements for enterprise AI adoptio
Ignacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to 3.2B, above est., GMV up 34% YoY to 100B, and forecasts weaker Q2 revenue growth; SHOP falls 11%+ pre-market — Shopify Inc. share
Panthalassa, a US startup, is developing floating data centers powered by ocean waves and cooled by seawater to address AI infrastructure's growing energy demands. Peter Thiel led a $140 million inves
The Information: Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” Google disclosed last week — When Google last mont
John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current 852B valuation, the stake is worth 5B+ — Speaking of c
Bloomberg: Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA8.5B, months after raising 20B — Alphabet Inc. needs to borrow he
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots — Social media platfo
Jyoti Mann / The Information: Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram — Meta Plat
Politico: Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's use of models — A White House spokesperson sai
Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker AI MLflow Apps now support MLflow version 3.10, bringing enhanced capabilities for generative AI development and streamlined experiment tracking
Subquadratic, a company developing a novel generative artificial intelligence model, launched today with 29 million in seed funding. The new large language model, dubbed SubQ, uses what the company ca
Juby Babu / Reuters: Super Micro reports Q3 revenue up 123% YoY to 10.24B, vs. 12.33B est., forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted profit above estimates; SMCI jumps 17%+ after hours — Super Micro Computer
Super Micro Computer Inc.’s shares surged more than 18% in after-hours trading today after the server maker reported a mixed fiscal 2026 third quarter, missing revenue estimates but topping earnings e
Digital native companies often face significant challenges in scaling AI systems beyond initial proof-of-concept stages, despite their technical advantages and cloud infrastructure. The article examin
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. Week one of the Musk v. Altman trial: what it was like in the
MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection) is OpenAI's networking technology designed to enable efficient large-scale AI training by improving communication reliability and performance across distributed sup
New York Times: US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare — Economists aren't sur
Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: Vodafone plans to take full ownership of its VodafoneThree joint venture with Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison, which agrees to sell its 49% stake for £4.3B — T
The cars rolling off production lines right now are filled with old ideas. From beginning to end, the creation of a new vehicle can take five years or longer - which is plenty of time for a lot of tas
The agentic enterprise is here — but it may be too soon for companies trying to protect their data from rogue artificial intelligence. Boomi LP, which specializes in integration platform as a service,
Reddit is locking out some mobile browser users with an un-dismissable banner, forcing them to download the official app instead. The popup freezes the entire page, preventing users from scrolling, ac
Kaspersky researchers discovered a supply chain attack targeting the official Daemon Tools website, where compromised installers deliver a backdoor alongside legitimate software, enabling remote code
Open-source technology provider WS02 LLC today announced the launch of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open control plane for artificial intelligence agents that gives enterprises a unified way to identify, go
Jay Peters / The Verge: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Xbox “will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console” as part of a strategic shift — New Xbox CEO Asha Sha
Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate business functions, raised 60M led by Accel at a 500M valuation, two months after exiting stealth — Zyg, an artifici
IBM Research reflects on ten years of quantum computing development and deployment through cloud-based platforms, documenting the evolution from early experimental systems to more practical quantum pr