Martin Arnold / Financial Times: The ECB summons Eurozone banks to a meeting on Tuesday to discuss risks posed by the latest AI models and hopes US banks with Mythos access will share lessons Superv
Simple step-by-step tutorial to building an AI agent in Python The post The Ultimate Beginners’ Guide to Building an AI Agent in Python appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A deep dive into Apple Watch and Health efforts; sources: iOS 27 to get a revamped AirPods control panel and default support for AirPlay rivals like Google Cast Also: iOS 27
Photonic devices are hardware systems that can process information using light instead of electricity. These systems could potentially perform computations faster than electronic devices, while also c
The trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made clear the two billionaires agreed on one thing: building artificial intelligence would require significant resources—and enormous amounts
ByteDance Seed shows that a 7B model can answer questions on long, image-heavy documents more reliably than much larger models, even when documents are four times longer than anything it saw during tr
The next AI frontier might be capital structuring.
When analyzing data, Microsoft Copilot invents country differences where none exist. Mathematician Adam Kucharski fed the tool identical datasets with different country labels, and Copilot delivered d
Microsoft Research introduces Webwright, a terminal-native browser agent framework that replaces click-trace web automation with reusable Playwright scripts. Using a single agent loop across three mod
Researchers from UMD, Google, Meta, and other institutions use AutoTTS to let a coding agent independently discover control algorithms for AI reasoning. The algorithm it found cuts compute by about 70
Linear attention squeezes the unbounded KV cache into a fixed-size recurrent state, but editing that memory without scrambling existing associations is hard. Prior delta-rule models like Gated DeltaNe
Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating Moment, the fina
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
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
Tencent has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory, a fully local memory system for AI agents released under the MIT license. The project pairs symbolic short-term memory, which offloads verbose tool log
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
Deepseek is making the 75 percent discount on its top model V4-Pro permanent. At $0.435 per million input tokens, it's at least 11.5 times cheaper than GPT-5.5 and over 34 times cheaper on output. For
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
IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.
IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.
Sophia Cai / Politico: A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on Thursday; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary The draft also in
Sophia Cai / Politico: A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on May 21; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary The draft also incl
UC Berkeley Law will ban AI from nearly all graded work starting in summer 2026, from outlining and drafting to proofreading. Only research use remains allowed. The school’s rationale: future lawyers
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
Nous Research releases Contrastive Neuron Attribution (CNA), a method that identifies and ablates sparse MLP neuron circuits to steer LLM behavior no sparse autoencoder training, no weight modificat
Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen3.7-Max, a proprietary model built for long-running autonomous agent tasks. It matches Claude Opus 4.6 on benchmarks and beats Chinese rivals like DeepSeek V4 Pro and
Perplexity has open-sourced Bumblebee, an internal security tool it uses to protect the developer systems behind its search product, Comet, and Computer. Bumblebee is a read-only inventory collector f
Anthropic's AI model Claude Mythos Preview, working with about 50 partners as part of Project Glasswing, has found over 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in system-critical software. The bugs are piling
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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 Be
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 Communica
Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica: The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI Pilots' vo
Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica: The US NTSB suspends access to its civil transportation accidents database after people used AI to re-create voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash Pilots' voic
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
People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.
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.
Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Qualcomm stock closed up 11.6% on Friday and is now up 75% in the past month, as the company increasingly becomes a key player in AI devices Qualcomm shares surged 12% on Frida
Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince laid off more than 20 percent of the workforce despite record revenue, claiming AI is replacing middle management and compliance roles. But the company offers no hard evi
A prize-winning Caribbean writer from Trinidad and Tobago is embroiled in the latest controversy involving the use of AI for a creative work, after allegations that artificial intelligence was used to
OpenAI brings ChatGPT directly into PowerPoint. A new beta plugin creates presentations from notes, documents, or images and edits existing slides. The add-in is available worldwide across all tiers.
With the new Codex feature Appshots, Mac users can send the contents of any app window to OpenAI's coding assistant Codex at the press of a button, giving it the context it needs for a task. The artic
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 A
How AI architecture prevents plausible but wrong analytics The post Hybrid AI: Combining Deterministic Analytics with LLM Reasoning appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Nikkei Asia: How the global memory chip crunch, driven by AI demand, is hurting China's car industry, squeezing automakers already hit by a price war and razor-thin margins HONG KONG The global me
Google demoed prototype Android XR glasses that overlay Gemini-powered translation, navigation, and other information directly into your field of view.
The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.
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
The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total
Soft robotics—machines made of flexible, muscle-like materials—can bend and stretch in fluid ways that put the rigid robots of old sci-fi movies to shame. But the flexibility that lets them pick ripe
OpenAI pulled in about $5.7 billion in Q1 2026 revenue but still lost $1.22 for every dollar earned, putting its adjusted operating margin at minus 122 percent. The article OpenAI burned through $1.22
California's governor just signed the first executive order by a US governor aimed at protecting workers from AI-driven job loss. The article California governor signs first US executive order to prot
Karen Tian / South China Morning Post: Zero2IPO Research: Chinese AI startups raised $16.2B in Q1 2026, up 185% YoY, led by top AI labs including Moonshot, Z.ai, and MiniMax Funding for China's arti
Quantum Machine Learning promises access to exponentially large representational spaces, but before any computation can happen, classical data must first be embedded into quantum systems. This article
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Sources: DeepSeek execs told potential investors in its ongoing $10B round that it will prioritize groundbreaking AI research over short-term commercialization DeepSeek'
Keyword search breaks the moment a user types something a document doesn't literally say.
The tension between Legal and IT has always been frustrating but AI is about to make it worse, at scale. The answer is observable compliance: encoding legal intent directly into architecture. The post
Justin Papp / CNBC: Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he requested information from Kalshi and Polymarket on their efforts to prevent insider trading Rep. James Comer, R
Trump killed an executive order on AI safety at the last minute after calls from Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and former advisor David Sacks. The order would have created a voluntary review system for
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
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race CEO
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Hyperscalers are pushing the Gulf to rethink internet infrastructure as AI raises the stakes of cable disruptions.
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered officials to start work on a plan to mitigate the job-destroying impact of artificial intelligence, the first US state to do so.
Microsoft Research released Fara1.5, a family of browser computer-use agents in 4B, 9B, and 27B sizes. Fara1.5-27B scores 72% on Online-Mind2Web, outperforming OpenAI Operator, Gemini 2.5 Computer Use
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 —
Reuters: Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $21.6B, above $18.7B est., net profit up 479% to $521M, above $271M est., as the PC maker pushes into AI server markets Lenovo Group (0992.HK) report
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Politico: Sources: David Sacks told President Trump that federal reviews of AI models before release would slow down innovation and hurt the US in its AI race with China But during a conversation wi
Washington Post: Sources: last-minute calls with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, David Sacks, and others helped persuade President Trump not to sign the highly anticipated AI EO Industry leaders warned
James Peckham / PCMag: Adobe, Canva, and CapCut announce Gemini integrations to let users access the companies' image and video editing tools within the Gemini app Adobe, Canva, and CapCut all plan
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: ElevenLabs, which aims to build an all-in-one AI voice app, licensed 200K human-voiced audiobooks from major publishers, available in ElevenReader for $11/mo. ElevenLabs i
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 5.5% YoY to $1.24B, vs. $1.22B est., AI Companion paid users up 184%, forecasts FY 2027 revenue above est.; ZM jumps 8%+ after hours Zoom Communica
Jordan Novet / CNBC: Workday reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to $2.54B vs. $2.52B est., and lifts its full-year forecast, saying its AI strategy is working; WDAY jumps 9%+ after hours Workday shares s
Erin Mulvaney / Wall Street Journal: Meta joins TikTok, Snap, and YouTube in settling with a Kentucky school district to avoid a trial over claims the platforms were designed to addict kids Meta, Ti
Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.
Waylon Cunningham / Reuters: Sources: Starbucks shut down an AI program for automating inventory counts, nine months after deploying it, after it frequently miscounted and mislabeled items Starbucks
Deepa Seetharaman / Reuters: Modal Labs, which offers a serverless cloud platform to build AI apps and run AI inference, raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, up from $1.1B in 2025 AI start
Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Gavin Newsom signs an EO mandating state agencies work with the AI industry and others to study subsidies for companies that don't replace workers with AI Gov. Gavin N
Sri Muppidi / The Information: Sources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue in Q1, nearly $1B more than Anthropic OpenAI generated about $5.7 billion in revenue in the first quarter, nearly $1 b
Sri Muppidi / The Information: Sources: OpenAI generated ~$5.7B in revenue in Q1, ~$1B more than Anthropic; its adjusted operating income margin was -122%, and ChatGPT user growth stalled OpenAI gen
President Donald Trump called off a signing ceremony Thursday for a new order on artificial intelligence because he worried it could dull America's edge on AI technology.
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: August Robotics, which makes autonomous robots for construction and industrial applications, raised $30M led by Big Pi Ventures August Robotics Ltd., a robotics automation
President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the order's language.
President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the order's language.
A reasoning model from OpenAI has disproved a conjecture by mathematician Paul Erdős on unit-distance geometry that stood open since 1946 - using tools from algebraic number theory that experts never
Jem Aswad / Variety: Spotify and UMG plan to let Premium users create AI covers and remixes using music from participating UMG artists as a paid add-on, without giving a launch date Spotify and Univ
Online shoppers could one day face fewer misleading fake reviews thanks to a newly tested AI-powered detection system developed by researchers at the University of East London.
Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter: Spotify partners with Live Nation to launch Reserved, a new feature that sets aside tickets for the most dedicated fans, starting with Premium users in the US —
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Spotify Labs launches Studio, a NotebookLM-like desktop app to generate private, AI-powered podcasts, in research preview across 20+ markets One of the common features for c
Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt: Crypto exchange Blockchain.com confidentially files for a US IPO; the UK-based company founded in 2011 was once valued at $14B Long-running crypto exchange Blockchain.com
Ashley Gold / Axios: Memo: the White House postpones a planned ceremony this afternoon for Trump to sign a new EO on AI and cybersecurity; major tech CEOs were invited to attend The White House has
US Cyber Command has launched a task force to run AI models from OpenAI, Google, and others on the most classified Pentagon and NSA networks. The trigger: AI systems like Anthropic's Claude Mythos can
Anthropic is approaching its first profitable quarter, the Wall Street Journal reports - with a projected operating profit of $559 million on $10.9 billion in Q2 revenue. Just last summer, the company
OpenAI is also preparing an IPO, according to the Wall Street Journal, and could file confidential paperwork with the SEC within days. The article OpenAI could file confidential IPO paperwork within d
SpaceX has filed for what could be the largest IPO ever, targeting a valuation of up to $2 trillion. The filing reveals xAI losses of $6.36 billion in 2025 and an Anthropic compute deal worth $15 bill
Reuters: Federal records: Grok was utilized in only 3 of 400+ publicly identified federal AI use cases in 2025, behind 234 for ChatGPT, 33 for Gemini, 26 for Claude SpaceX's initial public offering
SAP uses Mistral AI models to simplify the migration to S/4HANA. The article SAP taps Mistral AI to help customers migrate legacy software appeared first on The Decoder.