RIP Koji Suzuki, Author and Creator of ‘The Ring’
Suzuki's 1991 horror novel didn't just spark the 'Ring' movies, it also changed the game for horror in and out of Japan.
What Will It Take to Modernize the US Power Grid?
America’s aging electric grid is struggling to meet modern demands—especially amid the AI boom. Overhauling it will be no small feat.
Turkish mobile gaming startup Grand Games raised a $70M Series B led by Balderton Capital, after raising $30M in 2025, taking its total funding to $103M
Tugce Ozsoy / Bloomberg: Turkish mobile gaming startup Grand Games raised a $70M Series B led by Balderton Capital, after raising $30M in 2025, taking its total funding to $103M Turkish mobile gamin
Google DeepMind’s powerful AI co-mathematician
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CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company
There’s a deep, forbidding moat that surrounds Nvidia—and it has nothing to do with hardware.
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.
Dua Lipa files a $15M lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that it used her likeness to sell TVs without paying her and without permission starting in 2025
Gene Maddaus / Variety: Dua Lipa files a $15M lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that it used her likeness to sell TVs without paying her and without permission starting in 2025 Dua Lipa has filed a
Trump’s World Liberty to Get Legal Cover From New Crypto Law, Influential Expert Says
He claims WLFI is an unregistered security as it exists today, and that the SEC lacks the integrity needed to enforce the law.
Keyboard Shortcuts I Learned From My Cat
Every time my cat Mira walks across a keyboard, I learn a few new Mac and PC keyboard shortcuts I never knew about.
Yes, Apple Is Reportedly Retooling Some Liquid Glass Problems for macOS 27
But no, they’re not killing Liquid Glass.
Microsoft boss to testify on his role in OpenAI's founding
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to take the stand Monday in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, to explain emails that revealed how his company funded the ChatGPT creator's shift from philanth
Sakana AI and NVIDIA Introduce TwELL with CUDA Kernels for 20.5% Inference and 21.9% Training Speedup in LLMs
Sakana AI and NVIDIA Researchers demonstrate that simple L1 regularization can induce over 99% sparsity in feedforward layers with negligible downstream performance impact, and translate that sparsity
The 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is dead, as LLMs compress bug finding and exploit development time, and critical issues must be patched immediately (Himanshu Anand)
Himanshu Anand: The 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is dead, as LLMs compress bug finding and exploit development time, and critical issues must be patched immediately Table of Contents sto
Can ChatGPT be charged in a murder? Florida wants to find out
Before he opened fire on the Florida State University campus last year, killing two people and wounding six others, Phoenix Ikner had a conversation.
Linux is Getting a Kill Switch!
Sasha Levin, NVIDIA engineer and co-maintainer of the stable and long-term support kernel trees, has proposed a new patch that adds a mechanism called killswitch to the Linux kernel.It's pitched as a way for system administrators to disable a vulnerable kernel function on a running system, and the timing of it isn't a coincidence either. The patch follows the rising risk of Linux Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities like Copy Fail and Dirty Frag.What is it?The Linux kernel is built out of ...
The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe
The coffee might be poured by a human hand, but behind the counter something far less traditional is calling the shots at an experimental cafe in Stockholm.
Brookings: clerical and administrative workers, 85%+ of whom are women, are among the most exposed to AI-driven displacement and least equipped to navigate it
Taylor Telford / Financial Times: Brookings: clerical and administrative workers, 85%+ of whom are women, are among the most exposed to AI-driven displacement and least equipped to navigate it Femal
Ford's Electrified Vehicle Sales Dropped 31% in April From One Year Ago
Ford's sales of electrified vehicles including hybrids and all-electric models dropped 31% from April 2025, reports Electrek. "Hybrid sales fell 32% to 15,758 vehicles, while EV sales continued to crash with just 3,655 all-electric models sold last month, 25% fewer than in the year prior." After discontinuing the F-150 Lightning in December, sales of the electric pickup have been in free fall. Ford sold just 884 Lightnings last month, 49% less than it did last April. The Mustang Mach-E isn't d...
How enterprises are scaling AI
How enterprises scale AI: from early experiments to compounding impact through trust, governance, workflow design, and quality at scale.
OpenAI Campus Network: Student club interest form
Join the OpenAI Campus Network—connect student clubs worldwide, access AI tools, host events, and build an AI-powered campus community.
Restriced by the West, Huawei's Open Source HarmonyOS Now Powers 55 Million Devices
In recent times, Huawei has been China's best-standing answer to Apple's monopoly over the personal tech market. Smartphones, laptops, tablets, they do it all and they do it at a level on-par with the best companies currently working.This is not a dynamic that has been around forever, but a more recent shift as China has been seeing a huge surge in the usage of domestic software, such as operating systems and databases. The credit is given to a steady improvement in the smoothness and ease of us...
The new AI-powered Google Finance is expanding to Europe.
A screenshot of the AI-powered experience on Google Finance.
Nvidia embraces its role as an AI investor in 2026, committing $40B+ to equity investments including a $30B stake in OpenAI, $3.2B in Corning, and $2.1B in IREN (CNBC)
CNBC: Nvidia embraces its role as an AI investor in 2026, committing $40B+ to equity investments including a $30B stake in OpenAI, $3.2B in Corning, and $2.1B in IREN Nvidia stepped on the gas last
Open Source Project Shuts Down Over Legal Threats from 3D Printer Company Bambu Lab
The free/open source project OrcaSlicer is a popular fork of 3D printer slicing software from Bambu Lab. But Tuesday independent developer Pawel Jarczak shuttered the project "following legal threats from Bambu Lab," reports Tom's Hardware: Jarczak's fork of OrcaSlicer would have allowed users to bypass Bambu Connect, a middleware application that severely limits OrcaSlicer's access to remote printer functions in the name of security. Jarczak said in a note on GitHub that Bambu Lab threatened h...
Most Polymarket Users Lose Money, While Top 1% Claim 76.5% of Gains, Study Finds
In Polymarket's prediction market, "most people end up losing money," reports the Washington Post typically a few bucks. "Since Polymarket launched in 2022, a few thousand people have lost the bulk of the money... and an even smaller group .05 percent of users has gone home with most of the overall profits, according to a new analysis from finance researcher Pat Akey and colleagues." A lot of users aren't that good at predicting the future. They're losing money at roughly the same rate as on...
PlayStation3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask Contributors to Stop Submitting 'AI Slop' Pull Requests
Open-source PS3 emulator RPCS3 "has been around since 2011," Kotaku notes, and has made 70% of the PlayStation 3's library fully playable, "bolstered in part by the many users who contribute to its GitHub page." But their dev team "took to X today to very kindly and civilly request that users 'stop submitting AI slop code pull requests' to its GitHub page." Then they immediately proceeded to tell the AI-brain-rotted tech bros attempting to justify their vibe-coding nonsense to kick rocks in the...
Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from $115 to $125 per share to $150 to $160 per share, potentially raising ~$4.8B at the top of the range
Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from $115 to $125 per share to $150 to $160 per share, potentially raising ~$4.8B at the top of the range Cerebras Systems i
Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from $115-$125 per share to $150-$160 per share, potentially raising ~$4.8B at the top of the new range
Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from $115-$125 per share to $150-$160 per share, potentially raising ~$4.8B at the top of the new range Cerebras Systems is
Samsung's Bespoke update is big step towards a useful AI for your fridge
Running a software upgrade on a fridge feels strange, but these are the times we live in.
A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women
Anna Tong / Forbes: A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women Despite its name,
Honda Patents a Fake Clutch for Electric Motorcycles
An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: A newly revealed Honda patent shows the company developing a simulated electronic clutch system for electric motorcycles, complete with torque-boost launches and even haptic feedback designed to mimic the feel of a combustion engine.... Instead of using a traditional mechanical clutch, the system uses electronics to alter how the motor responds based on clutch lever position. Pull the clutch halfway in, and the system proportionally reduces ...
‘Your Career Starts at the Beginning of the AI Revolution,’ NVIDIA CEO Tells Graduates
“You are entering the world at an extraordinary moment,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates as he delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon University’s 128th commencement cerem
Big Tech is Moving Data Through the Gulf Using Fiber-Optic Cables Alongside Iraq's Oil Pipelines
Major American cloud companies with data centers in the Persian Gulf "are channeling data out of the war zone through fiber-optic cables that an Iraqi telecom has strung alongside crude-oil pipelines," reports RestofWorld.org: The data centers serve customers in more than 190 countries, processing transactions, storing files, and running applications for businesses and individuals from Latin America to South Asia. When Iranian drones struck Amazon's facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Ba...
Whoop will soon offer users in-app video consultations with licensed clinicians
Clinicians will be able to see users' health data.
Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts
Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic.
A Game of Thrones Writer Reveals the Show’s Early Challenges
Writer Bryan Cogman reminisces about getting to make 'Game of Thrones' and how big an accomplishment the show was back in the day.
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Astronomers Find an X-Ray Key to the Red Dot Mystery
Ever since JWST first began peering out at the early Universe a few years ago, astronomers have been spotting strange "little red dots" (LRDs) in its infrared images. There are hundreds of these compact blobs at very high redshifts at distances of about 12 billion light-years. Astronomers think they began forming some 600 million years after the Big Bang. That makes them players in the infancy of the cosmos. They appear red in optical light and blue in the ultraviolet. So, what are these strange...
Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising ~$300M led by a16z crypto at a ~$2B valuation (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising ~$300M led by a16z crypto at a ~$2B valuation Digital Asset Holdings LLC, the co
Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising a ~$300M round led by a16z crypto at a ~$2B valuation (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising a ~$300M round led by a16z crypto at a ~$2B valuation Digital Asset Holdings LLC
Challenging UPS and FedEx, Amazon Opens Its Shipping Network to All Businesses
This week Amazon opened up its parcel shipping, fulfillment, and distribution "to businesses of all types and sizes." Any business can now ship, store, and deliver "using the same supply chain that supports Amazon," according to Monday's announcement of "Amazon Supply Chain Services." The move sent shares of UPS and FedEx "tumbling" Monday writes GeekWire. And though both stocks bounced back as the week went on, GeekWire sees this as the latest example of Amazon "turning its internal capabilit...
GM agrees to pay $12.75 million to settle California lawsuit over misuse of customers' driving data
General Motors collected driving data through OnStar and sold it to data brokers.
Dua Lipa is suing Samsung for $15 million
The singer accused the tech giant of illegally using her likeness to sell TVs.
‘Scavengers Reign’ May Soon Have One Home Again
If you have Netflix and haven't watched 'Scavengers Reign,' you may want to sooner than later. And if you have, may as well do it again, yeah?
GM Secretly Sold California Drivers' Data, Agrees to Pay $12.75M In Privacy Settlement
"General Motors sold the data of California drivers without their knowledge or consent," says California's attorney general, "and despite numerous statements reassuring drivers that it would not do so." In 2024, The New York Times "reported that automakers including GM were sharing information about their customers' driving behavior with insurance companies," remembers TechCrunch, "and that some customers were concerned that their insurance rates had gone up as a result." Now General Motors...
Safari's latest trick could be automatically organizing your tabs into groups
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple could introduce Organize Tabs feature with the next major software update.
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Hubble Capture a Starry Spiral Cosmic Neighbor
A spiral galaxy seen close up and tilted at an angle, so that its disc fills the view from corner to corner. Its disc is yellow near to the centre and pale blue farther out, showing cooler and hotter stars, respectively. Thin brown clouds of dust, glowing pink spots of star formation, and sparkling blue patches filled with star clusters swirl through the galaxy. Behind it, small orange dots are very distant galaxies.
Liquid Glass tweaks are reportedly coming in the next macOS
The changes are meant to improve legibility issues with lists and text-heavy areas.
Amazon Relents, Lets its Programmers Use OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude
An anonymous reader shared this report from Futurism: In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating tool, Kiro, over third-party alternatives from competitors. "While we continue to support existing tools in use today, we do not plan to support additional third party, AI development tools," the memo read, as quoted by Reuters at the time. "As part of our builder community, you all play a critical role shaping these products and ...
A new Subnautica 2 gameplay trailer just dropped ahead of its Early Access release
Subnautica 2 will be available in Early Access on May 14.
20 Years On, ‘Uncharted’ Is Still Changing Games
Naughty Dog's action-adventure franchise celebrates its first reveal and last big game this weekend as its future remains in the air.
We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic
On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we discussed what xAI's deal with Anthropic might mean for parent company SpaceX.
Rocket Lab Reports Growing Demand for Commercial Space Products. Stock Surges 34%
For just the first three months of 2026, Rocket Lab's launch business reports $63.7 million in revenue, reports CNBC plus another $136.7 million from its space systems business. Besides beating Wall Street's expectations, Rocket Lab also announced that its backlog has more than doubled from a year ago to $2.2 billion, and that it's buying space robotics company Motiv Space Systems. Friday its stock price shot up 34% in one day... Rocket Lab's stock has more than quadrupled over the past year, ...
How to Build a Cost-Aware LLM Routing System with NadirClaw Using Local Prompt Classification and Gemini Model Switching
In this tutorial, we explore NadirClaw as an intelligent routing layer that classifies prompts into simple and complex tiers before sending them to the most suitable model. We start by installing the
Unemployed Ticked Up in America's IT Sector
IT sector unemployment "increased to 3.8% in April from 3.6% in March," reports the Wall Street Journal. But they add that the increase reflects "an ongoing uncertainty in tech as AI continues to play havoc with hiring. That's according to analysis from consulting firm Janco Associates, which bases its findings on data from the U.S. Labor Department." On Friday, the department said the economy added 115,000 jobs, buoyed by gains in industries including retail, transportation and warehousing an...
Unemployment Ticked Up in America's IT Sector
IT sector unemployment "increased to 3.8% in April from 3.6% in March," reports the Wall Street Journal. But they add that the increase reflects "an ongoing uncertainty in tech as AI continues to play havoc with hiring. That's according to analysis from consulting firm Janco Associates, which bases its findings on data from the U.S. Labor Department." On Friday, the department said the economy added 115,000 jobs, buoyed by gains in industries including retail, transportation and warehousing an...
‘Matrix Resurrections’ Lawsuit Ends With a $57 Million Payout for Warner Bros.
A yearslong legal battle against Village Roadshow over 'The Matrix Resurrections' sees Warner Bros. now substantially richer.
iBuyPower’s Trace X Gaming PC Is the Fishbowl You Want to Swim In
At this point, buying a prebuilt PC may cost the same as building it yourself.
I Moved My Photos from OneDrive to Ente Photos, and I'm Not Going Back
Backing up photos and videos is something most people think about only after losing something they can't get back. Local storage is still the most secure option, as long as the files are encrypted and access to the storage medium is under your control.The catch is that local storage doesn't help much when you need to pull up a file on the go. Being away from home and needing quick access to a specific photo or video is the kind of situation it fails to handle.Services from big tech players like ...
Govee Ceiling Light Ultra Review: AI Art Ain’t It
A fun novelty that’s marred by better competition and a price that’s simply too high.
FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem
This move could kill burner phones if it goes forward.
LLM Summarizers Skip the Identification Step
A practitioner's argument that meeting summarizers fail in the same way regressions fail when you skip the part where you ask what the data can support. The post LLM Summarizers Skip the Identificatio
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"Hypergravity" Rewires Biology Over the Long Haul
There’s a specific sequence in the anime Dragonball Z that for some reason has stuck in my head for over two decades. Goku, the main character of the show, travels to King Kai’s planet and can barely stand up when he arrives because the planet’s gravity is 10 times stronger than Earth’s. Over time, he trains in this gravity, and his body begins to adapt to it. Eventually, after leaving the planet, he’s stronger, faster, and more agile than he ever was before. But would that really happen if you ...
AI agents can now hack computers and copy themselves, and they're getting better fast
Palisade Research shows that AI agents can hack remote computers, copy themselves onto them, and form replication chains. In one year, the success rate jumped from 6 to 81 percent. The researchers exp
AI agents that hack computers and replicate themselves, and they're getting better fast
Palisade Research shows that AI agents can hack remote computers, copy themselves onto them, and form replication chains. In one year, the success rate jumped from 6 to 81 percent. The researchers exp
The EU Considers Restricting Use of US Cloud Platforms for Sensitive Government Data
CNBC reports: The European Union is considering rules that would restrict its member governments' use of U.S. cloud providers to handle sensitive data, sources familiar with the talks told CNBC. The European Commission the EU's executive branch is expected to present its "Tech Sovereignty Package" on May 27, which will include a range of measures aimed at bolstering the bloc's strategic autonomy in key digital areas. As part of preparations for that package, discussions are taking place with...
The Sequence Radar #857: Last Week in AI: Inside the Machine, Outside the Text Box
Some groundbreaking research from Anthropic, OpenAI’s new voice models and major valuation shifts in Chinese AI labs.
Could Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus? Not Really
Contact-tracing apps were widely deployed during the Covid pandemic. They aren’t as helpful during smaller outbreaks.
Do City Delivery Drones Make Sense? No One Knows, but They're Flying Over NYC
One of the country’s busiest airspaces has a new kind of flying machine—maybe temporarily.
After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops
It is getting harder for Linux distributions to stay neutral on AI. Between enterprise-grade solutions like RHEL AI and the steady rise of local inference tools, the pressure to take a position has been building for a while.Canonical recently made theirs clear, moving Ubuntu toward a local-first AI approach built around open-weight models and open source inference tooling, keeping everything on-device rather than routing it through a cloud subscription.Now, Fedora has voted on an initiative call...
Last Tesla Model S and X Roll Off Production Line
The quiet death of Tesla's high-end models marks the end of Tesla as a relatively ordinary car company.
How Handheld Translators Work and Why They’re Handy for Travel
Your cell phone can handle basic language translation, but bespoke tools can offer a much more immersive experience.
ByteDance plans over $30 billion for AI expansion, bets big on Chinese chips
ByteDance is raising its planned AI spending for 2026 to over 200 billion yuan (roughly $30 billion), at least a 25 percent jump from earlier plans. The TikTok parent is increasingly turning to Chines
El Salvador’s Bitcoin-Loving President Has Allegedly Frozen Assets of Local News Outlet
The ideas underpinning Bitcoin are sort of the opposite of this.
‘Reservation Hijacking’ Scams Target Travelers. Here’s How to Stay Safe
The hotel staffer who calls you with an urgent request for payment isn’t necessarily who they say they are.
METR says it can barely measure Claude Mythos, Palo Alto Networks warns of autonomous AI attackers
METR can barely measure Claude Mythos Preview with its current test suite. Only five out of 228 tasks cover the relevant capability range. Meanwhile, Palo Alto Networks reports that frontier models au
Anthropic Has Added Several More Religions on Its Quest to Inject Perfect Morals into Claude
Anthropic (and OpenAI) recently met with representatives from Sikh, Hindu, Jewish, and LDS groups. Will it help?
Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading cause of data breaches in 2026
Jennah Haque / Bloomberg: Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading cause of data breaches in 2026 A few months ag
GPT-5.5 costs 49 to 92 percent more than its predecessor, depending on the input length
OpenAI doubled GPT-5.5's list price compared to GPT-5.4, claiming shorter responses would offset the increase. An OpenRouter analysis of real usage data tells a different story: actual costs rose 49 t
NYT: 'Meta's Embrace of AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable'
"Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable," reports the New York Times. And "After Meta said late last month that it would start tracking employees' computer use, hundreds of workers spoke up." (One employee even told Meta's CTO in an internal post, "Your callousness to the concerns of your own employees is concerning." In an internal post last month, Meta told its U.S. employees that it was making a change that would affect tens of thousands of them. What employees typed into t...
NVIDIA AI Just Released cuda-oxide: An Experimental Rust-to-CUDA Compiler Backend that Compiles SIMT GPU Kernels Directly to PTX
NVlabs releases cuda-oxide v0.1.0, a custom rustc codegen backend that compiles #[kernel]-annotated Rust functions to PTX through a Rust → Stable MIR → Pliron IR → LLVM IR → PTX pipeline, with single-
Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed the discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital
Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed the discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital Lithosquare, a
Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed up discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital
Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed up discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital Lithosquare, a
Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a $125M Series C led by KKR (FinTech Global)
FinTech Global: Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a $125M Series C led by KKR Reserv, an AI-native third-party administ
NYC-based Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a $125M Series C led by KKR (FinTech Global)
FinTech Global: NYC-based Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a $125M Series C led by KKR Reserv, an AI-native third-part
MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for $100M in stock; DFlow had raised $7.5M across two rounds
Jack Kubinec / Fortune: MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for $100M in stock; DFlow had raised $7.5M across two rounds The crypto paym
Sydney-based AI data center operator IREN agrees to acquire Mirantis, which offers Kubernetes management and cloud infrastructure software, for $625M in stock
Shane Snider / Data Center Knowledge: Sydney-based AI data center operator IREN agrees to acquire Mirantis, which offers Kubernetes management and cloud infrastructure software, for $625M in stock T
Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues
Rick Findlay / Reclaim The Net: Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues Google has
'Changing of the Guard'? AMD, Intel, and Micron Soar While Nvidia Lags
While Nvidia has dominated the "infrastructure boom" since 2022's launch of ChatGPT and "the generative AI craze," CNBC writes that "This week offered the starkest illustration yet of what MIzuho analyst Jordan Klein said could be a 'changing of the guard in AI.'" Chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel notched gains of about 25%, while memory maker Micron jumped more than 37% and fiber-optic cable maker Corning climbed about 18%. All four of those companies have more than doubled in value ...
Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway.
Wispr Flow says growth accelerated in India after its Hinglish rollout, even as voice AI products continue to face challenges.
Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens In
Open Source Registries Join Linux Foundation Working Group to Address Machine-Generated Traffic
Under the nonprofit Linux Foundation, "a new Sustaining Package Registries Working Group will seek to identify concrete funding, governance, and security practices," reports ZDNet, "to keep code flowing as download counts grow.... Because software builds, continuous integration pipelines, and AI systems hammer registries at machine speed rather than human speed, the sites can't keep up. "That growth has brought a surge in bot traffic, automated publishing, security reports, and outright abuse, ...
AI Weekly Issue #491: 100 years from now : The Last Election
This is 100 Years From Now. Once a week we skip a century and try to picture what life actually looks like when the stuff we're building now has had time to settle in. This week: the last vote.
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Astronomers from Western University Discover the Birthplace of Cosmic "Buckyballs"
Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered ‘buckyballs’ in space, they’re back with stunning images and rich data generated by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The results of their study have revealed the cosmic origin of these strange molecules.
FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears
Ken Macon / Reclaim The Net: FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears The era of
Will Maryland's Utility Bills Increase $1.6B to Support Other States' Datacenters?
To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland's Office of People's Counsel. The money "will be recovered in rates for decades" and "drive up Maryland customer bills by $1.6 billion over the next ten years alone," they said Friday, announcing an official complaint filed with America's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Extra demand is expected from ...
NVIDIA AI Releases Star Elastic: One Checkpoint that Contains 30B, 23B, and 12B Reasoning Models with Zero-Shot Slicing
NVIDIA researchers have introduced Star Elastic, a post-training method that embeds multiple nested reasoning models at 30B, 23B, and 12B parameter scales inside a single checkpoint, eliminating t
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Saturn’s Icy Rings Likely Formed from Lost Moon "Chrysalis"
You’re a long-necked Titanosaurs grazing the plains and chomping away on tree leaves about 100 million years ago in the Early Cretaceous in what would eventually become a future Starbucks location. You look up at the night sky and notice a bright dot that seems slightly larger and brighter than usual since you’ve seen it a bunch. You grunt at your cousin (official dinosaur language) asking if he notices it, too. Your cousin grunts back that it does seem bigger and brighter and wonders what’s up.
So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
So you've heard these AI terms and nodded along; let's fix that
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
Rush Rescue Mission for NASA's $500M Space Telescope Passes Key Milestone
NASA's $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift space observatory was launched in 2004. But it's now "at risk of falling back through the atmosphere and burning up without intervention," reports Spaceflight Now. Fortunately, a mission to prevent that "just passed a notable prelaunch testing milestone." On Friday, NASA announced that the Link spacecraft, manufactured by Katalyst Space Technologies to intervene before Swift's fate is sealed, completed its slate of environmental testing at the agency's Go...
