Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land : Google says it is testing new ad formats in sea…
I swear by Bose headphones — and these 4 best-rated models are all on sale for Memorial Day with up to $120 off
I've used Bose headphones for almost a decade and th…
Airbnb says it is adding luggage storage, airport pickups, car rentals, grocery delivery, and thousands of boutique and independent hotels to its platform (Jacob Passy/Wall Street Journal)
Jacob Passy / Wall Street Journal : Airbnb says it is adding luggage storage, airpo…
Google overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries, upload photos and videos, and use Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agents to automate searches (New York Times)
New York Times : Google overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries,…
Google unveils conversational features for Gmail, Docs, and Keep, letting users ask natural language questions, rolling out to AI Pro and Ultra subs this summer (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)
Daniel Cooper / Engadget : Google unveils conversational features for Gmail, Docs, a…
Anthropic to present exposed Mythos flaws to global watchdog – claims critical vulnerabilities found ‘in every major operating system and web browser’
Mythos presents a threat to the global economic system, …
Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably; it's built on Kimi K2.5 (Cursor)
Cursor : Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on …
'It's so much more than a standard desk fan' — I reviewed Meaco's upgraded Pro air circulator and was blown away by its power, silence and smarts
The MeacoFan Sefte Pro 10in Table Air Circulator is quie…
Your next work PC could be about to get a major performance boost as Kioxia reveals its most powerful SSD, with PCIe 5.0 and read speeds of up to 14,000 MB/s
Kioxia unveils PCIe 5.0 XG10 SSD series, delivering fast…
Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay (The Hacker News)
The Hacker News : Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and dem…
Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)
John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times : Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and soc…
The future of Army rations? US investigates 'alternative protein technologies' to keep soldiers fed in the field — hopefully it will be more appealing than it sounds
US Army studies alternative protein rations using gels, …
ASML will partner with Tata Electronics to help it bring an $11B 300mm chip factory online in Gujarat, expanding India's ability to produce chips domestically (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : ASML will partner with Tata Electronics to help it bring an $11B 300mm …
One month out from the World Cup, and scammers are already targeting fans — here's what to look out for
Be careful when entering business partnerships, especial…
Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg : Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved eff…
'This work is a glimpse of what is coming': Security team lays out how Anthropic Mythos helped build a working macOS exploit in five days
A product that took five years to build was broken into …
ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have "incontrovertible evidence" of AI-generated work (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
Samantha Cole / 404 Media : ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, sa…
Figure AI streamed humanoid robots sorting packages for 8 hours straight — and not everyone is convinced it was fully real
Watch three Figure 03 robots take turns sorting through …
A look at GameStop's takeover bid for eBay, a bizarre way to force eBay's board and shareholders to consider GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's desire to run eBay (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
Matt Levine / Bloomberg : A look at GameStop's takeover bid for eBay, a bizarre…
'A decade or so away, we’ll be viewing it as a more normal way to build data centers': Google and SpaceX are reportedly in talks to build data centers in orbit
There's more movement on the data-centers-in-space f…
Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the "cone of uncertainty" in AI, allocating compute, returns to frontier intelligence, platform vs. application, and more (Invest Like The Best on YouTube)
Invest Like The Best on YouTube : Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the “co…
Bad news employee — most executives admit using AI makes them value human workers less
After using AI, many business leaders say are less likel…
Musk v. Altman: Microsoft executive Michael Wetter testifies that Microsoft has spent $100B+ on its partnership with OpenAI, including its original investments (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Musk v. Altman: Microsoft executive Michael Wetter testifies that Micro…
Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more (Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET)
Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET : Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creat…
An Anthropic engineer argues HTML is a better output format for AI agents than Markdown, citing information density, ease of sharing, and two-way interaction (@trq212)
@trq212 : An Anthropic engineer argues HTML is a better output format for AI agents …
What is the release date for Half Man episode 4 on HBO Max and BBC iPlayer?
The longer that Richard Gadd's new TV show continues…
Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryptio…
These 18 clever outdoor kitchen solutions from IKEA will let you create a stunning summer cooking space on a budget
Impress your friends and family this summer with a styli…
'It feels like a slap in the face' — never fact-check your doctor with ChatGPT as study shows doing so 'undermines' your relationship with human experts — and could even offend them by making them feel 'disrespected'
A new study found professionals feel insulted when clien…
Microsoft and G42's $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya stalls after the government couldn't provide annual payment guarantees that Microsoft requested (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Microsoft and G42's $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya sta…
LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup (Zack Abrams/The Block)
Zack Abrams / The Block : LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says …
UFC 328 live stream: how to watch Chimaev vs Strickland, start time, preview, full card
Two titles are on the line in Saturday's huge event …
Akamai says it struck a seven-year cloud computing deal with a "leading frontier model provider"; sources: the deal was with Anthropic and is worth $1.8B (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : Akamai says it struck a seven-year cloud computing deal w…
Sources: Apple and Intel have reached a formal deal in recent months for Intel to manufacture some chips for Apple devices; INTC jumps 15%+ (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Sources: Apple and Intel have reached a formal deal in recent…
'Like a microscopic Predator': Chinese scientists create tiny robotic vacuum to hunt radioactive pollution and clean the world's oceans
Chinese scientists created light-driven micromotors that…
Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves "the right to reclaim the compute" from Anthropic if its "AI engages in actions that harm humanity" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves “the right to reclaim the com…
AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins (RT Watson/The Block)
RT Watson / The Block : AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners …
Experts warn 'evolving AI is like an invasive species — it adapts to survive in ways we cannot predict': A new study says unchecked models are a risk to humanity, as it’s inevitable for autonomous systems to follow the path of Darwinian evolution
A new study warns evolvable AI systems could adapt and r…
Samsung showcases massive floating data center ship model that could house OpenAI's future ChatGPT as its Dallas-based partner claims 'speed to power is the new moat' and promises 1.5 GW of capacity within 36 months
Samsung and partners propose floating data centers to ac…
Sources: Apple plans to let users choose from multiple third-party AI models to perform tasks like generating and editing text and images in iOS 27 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple plans to let users choose from multiple th…
Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like, "emotionally intelligent" robot that reacts to owner's feelings (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familia…
'Unprecedented drought conditions': More than 500 data centers across Nevada, California, and Arizona could feel the pinch as the iconic Hoover Dam potentially loses 40% of its power output because of poor rainfall and abnormally low snowpack numbers
Drought driven water cuts are set to reduce Hoover Dam o…
The US just found millions of tons of lithium in Appalachia, enough for 500 billion cellphones — and experts say it could power the next century of American tech and weaken China's grip on batteries
The U.S. finds huge lithium reserves in Appalachia that …
Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from 65% in 2025, as latest wave of collaborations shifts from chips to physical AI (Abhishek Vishnoi/Bloomberg)
Abhishek Vishnoi / Bloomberg : Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia…
A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate staff just to replace them with AI, following a similar ruling by another Chinese court in December 2025 (Victor Swezey/Bloomberg)
Victor Swezey / Bloomberg : A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate s…
Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
Robert Booth / The Guardian : Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of eme…
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