TL;DR Recursive Superintelligence, a startup founded by former leaders from Meta AI, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Salesforce AI, has emerged from stealth with $650 million in funding at a $4.65 billion valuation. Led by Richard Socher and co-founded by ex-Meta FAIR director Yuandong Tian, the company is pursuing recursive self-improvement: AI systems that autonomously improve […]
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AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?
AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assistants, copilots, and generators, each one promising to change how work gets done. On paper, […]
Read MoreNadella feared Microsoft would become ‘the next IBM.’ The trial reveals how much he paid to make sure it didn’t.
TL;DR Satya Nadella testified in the Musk v. Altman trial that he feared Microsoft would become “the next IBM,” revealing that the $13B OpenAI investment was a survival bet backed by a $92B return projection, not a commitment to the nonprofit mission. Satya Nadella told a federal jury on Monday that he feared Microsoft would […]
Read MoreGitLab is cutting jobs for the agentic era. It does not yet know how many.
TL;DR GitLab announced a restructuring that will flatten management, cut its country footprint by 30 per cent, and reorganise R&D into 60 autonomous teams. CEO Bill Staples called it an investment in the “agentic era,” not a cost cut, but the scope of job losses will not be known until 2 June earnings. GitLab is […]
Read MoreCloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day
TL;DR Cloudflare beat Q1 earnings estimates, cut 1,100 employees because AI agents now do their work, and saw its stock fall 24 per cent. It is the most explicit case of a company attributing layoffs directly to AI replacing human roles. Cloudflare beat Wall Street’s revenue and earnings estimates on Wednesday, announced it would cut […]
Read MoreHackers breached five Polish water treatment plants. The attack vector was default passwords. Seventy per cent of American water utilities fail the same test.
TL;DR Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants using default passwords and internet-exposed control systems. Poland is spending a billion euros on cybersecurity; 70 per cent of American water utilities fail the same basic standards. Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants in 2025, gaining access to the industrial control systems that regulate pumps, filters, […]
Read Morewill.i.am taught 75 college students to build AI agents. The tech industry spent the same semester firing 73,000 people.
The tech industry laid off more than 73,000 workers in the first four months of 2026. In a classroom inside a Hollywood recording studio, a 51-year-old hip-hop artist was teaching 75 college students how to build the AI agents that are replacing them. will.i.am, born William Adams, co-founder of the Black Eyed Peas and founder […]
Read MoreA data centre fire in Almere disabled a university, a transport emergency system, and the assumption that physical infrastructure is someone else’s problem
TL;DR A fire at a NorthC data centre in Almere knocked Utrecht University offline, disabled public transport emergency communications across Utrecht province, and triggered an NL-Alert across Flevoland. The incident exposes the physical fragility beneath the digital infrastructure the Netherlands is spending billions to expand, and the failure of organisations to plan for the possibility […]
Read MoreOpenAI knew. It chose not to call the police. Now Sam Altman is sorry.
TL;DR Sam Altman apologised to the community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, for OpenAI’s failure to alert police after its own systems flagged a ChatGPT user who went on to kill eight people and injure 27 in Canada’s deadliest school shooting since 1989. Approximately a dozen OpenAI employees had reviewed the flagged account in June […]
Read MoreSpaceX’s IPO filing says its orbital data centres may never work. Three months ago, Musk called them a no-brainer.
Summary: SpaceX’s confidential S-1 pre-IPO filing warns that its orbital AI data centre plans “involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and may not achieve commercial viability,” contradicting Elon Musk’s January claim at Davos that space-based AI was a “no-brainer” achievable within two to three years. The filing comes as SpaceX targets a $1.75 trillion […]
Read MoreMeta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid
In summary: Meta has hired five founding members of Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup built by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, after she rejected a reported $1 billion acquisition offer. The most expensive individual hire, co-founder Andrew Tulloch, reportedly received a $1.5 billion package over six years. The talent raid is part of a […]
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John Ternus built Apple’s hardware for 24 years and now he has to figure out AI
Summary: John Ternus, Apple’s incoming CEO effective 1 September, is a 50-year-old mechanical engineer who reversed a period of declining product quality, personally lobbied for the creation of iPadOS, oversaw the Apple Silicon transition, and now controls products generating roughly 80% of Apple’s revenue. His leadership style prioritises systemic problem-solving over blame, but critics note […]
Read MoreTim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after nearly 15 years, with hardware chief John Ternus taking over
Summary: Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO on 1 September after nearly 15 years, during which Apple’s market capitalisation grew from $348 billion to roughly $4 trillion and annual revenue quadrupled to $416 billion. John Ternus, the 50-year-old SVP of hardware engineering who oversees roughly 80% of Apple’s revenue-generating products, will become the […]
Read MoreWhatsApp is testing a paid subscription at EUR 2.49 per month as Meta rolls out premium tiers across its apps
Summary: WhatsApp has begun testing a paid consumer subscription called WhatsApp Plus at approximately EUR 2.49 per month, offering cosmetic upgrades including 18 chat themes, custom icons, exclusive ringtones, and expanded pinned chats, following Instagram Plus which launched in three markets on 30 March. The subscriptions represent Meta’s first simultaneous consumer-facing paid tiers across its […]
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The question AI providers hope VPs of Engineering never ask
AI coding adoption is exploding. But most engineering leaders are still measuring usage instead of outcomes. That creates a costly blind spot. There is a question that nobody in the AI industry wants you to ask. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not Google. Not the dozens of startups selling AI coding agents to your engineering team. […]
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Stanford’s AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less
In short: Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report finds the performance gap between the best American and Chinese AI models has collapsed to 2.7%, down from 17.5-31.6 percentage points in May 2023, despite the US spending 23 times more on private AI investment ($285.9 billion vs $12.4 billion). China leads in AI patents (69.7% of global […]
Read MoreThreads is redesigning its website and finally adding direct messages to the desktop
Summary: Threads head Connor Hayes previewed a redesigned web interface that adds direct messages, a navigation sidebar with shortcuts to saved posts and insights, and a cleaner single-feed layout replacing the current multi-column design. DMs, which launched on mobile in June 2025, will roll out on web “over the coming weeks,” bringing one-on-one chats, group […]
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Meta targets 20 May for 8,000 layoffs as it redirects billions toward AI infrastructure
In short: Meta will begin companywide layoffs on 20 May, cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its 78,865-person workforce), with additional cuts planned for the second half of 2026. The restructuring, which follows earlier rounds that brought Zuckerberg’s total cuts since 2022 to roughly 25,000, is driven by a reallocation toward AI infrastructure costing $115-135 […]
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Nvidia’s Huang warns DeepSeek running on Huawei chips would be ‘horrible’ for the US
In short: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned on the Dwarkesh Podcast that DeepSeek optimising its AI models for Huawei’s Ascend chips instead of American hardware would be “a horrible outcome” for the United States, as the Chinese AI lab prepares to launch its V4 foundation model on Huawei’s Ascend 950PR processor. The migration from Nvidia’s […]
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Palantir, Thales, and a startup are competing to build the FAA’s predictive air traffic AI
In short: The FAA is developing SMART (Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories), an AI system that would extend air traffic conflict prediction from 15 minutes to two hours, with Palantir, Thales, and Air Space Intelligence competing for the contract. The project follows the LaGuardia crash that exposed controller overwork and aging systems, and sits […]
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NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway
Christian Weedbrook, the founder and CEO of Toronto-based Xanadu Quantum Technologies, became a billionaire this week without NVIDIA investing a single dollar in his company. His 46.4 million multiple-voting shares were worth approximately $1.5 billion as of midday Friday, after Xanadu’s stock surged nearly fivefold in six trading sessions. The catalyst was not anything Xanadu […]
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Intel’s new Wildcat Lake chips take aim at the MacBook Neo with AI as the differentiator
Intel has launched its Core Series 3 processors, codenamed Wildcat Lake, in what amounts to a direct response to the MacBook Neo. The new chips, announced on 16 April, target the same budget laptop segment that Apple redefined last month with its $599 machine, and they arrive with a familiar pitch: more choice, more AI […]
Read MoreAthena launches FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing execution systems
In short: Athena Technology Solutions, a Fremont-based MES integrator with roughly 120 employees, has launched FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing that automates reporting, support tickets, system modelling, and code generation for semiconductor and electronics factories. Built in partnership with Bangalore-based LLM at Scale.AI, it layers LLM capabilities on top of the Siemens Opcenter […]
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Spotify is selling physical books now, and it makes more sense than you think
In short: Spotify has launched physical book sales in the US and UK through a partnership with Bookshop.org, letting users buy print copies via affiliate links on audiobook pages within the app. The feature sits alongside Page Match, which now works in 30+ languages and lets readers scan a book page to sync with the […]
Read MoreAnthropic, Google, and Microsoft paid AI agent bug bounties, then kept quiet about the flaws
In short:Security researcher Aonan Guan hijacked AI agents from Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft via prompt injection attacks on their GitHub Actions integrations, stealing API keys and tokens in each case. All three companies paid bug bounties quietly, $100 from Anthropic, $500 from GitHub, an undisclosed amount from Google, but none published public advisories or assigned […]
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Google classifies back button hijacking as spam, enforcement starts June 2026
In short: Google is classifying “back button hijacking” as spam, targeting sites that abuse the browser History API to trap users when they try to navigate away. Enforcement begins 15 June 2026, with penalties ranging from manual spam actions to algorithmic ranking demotions. Site owners are liable even when the offending code comes from third-party […]
Read MoreRoblox splits its user base into three age-gated tiers as lawsuits mount over child safety
In short: Roblox is introducing three mandatory age-gated account tiers -Kids (5-8), Select (9-15), and standard (16+) – starting mid-May, segregating content and chat access by age group. The move follows lawsuits from eight US state attorneys general over child safety failures and builds on the facial age verification system mandated in January. Developers must […]
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A mobile-first approach to Window film installation: understanding the purpose behind the Scorpion Scan platform
For many small businesses, operational efficiency often determines whether growth is sustainable. Entrepreneurs frequently navigate limited staffing, tight budgets, and constant time constraints while still delivering consistent service to customers. In industries built around skilled labor and installation work, these pressures can shape how businesses structure their daily operations. Data highlights the broader context surrounding […]
Read MoreTwo arrested after gunfire near Sam Altman’s home, days after Molotov attack
Two people were arrested after shots were fired near Sam Altman’s San Francisco home on Sunday, two days after a separate suspect threw a Molotov cocktail at the property and threatened to burn down OpenAI’s headquarters. The attacks coincided with a critical New Yorker profile of the OpenAI CEO, who responded with a blog post […]
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Apple testing four frame designs for AI smart glasses ahead of 2027 launch
In short: Apple is testing at least four frame styles for its upcoming AI-powered smart glasses, according to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman published 12 April 2026. The designs include a large rectangular style similar to Wayfarer frames, a slimmer rectangular style comparable to those worn by CEO Tim Cook, a larger oval or circular […]
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ElevenLabs VP warns sales candidates: 20x quota, long hours, or get out
In short: Carles Reina, ElevenLabs’ head of go-to-market and one of the company’s earliest employees, has issued a candid warning to candidates considering sales roles at the $11 billion voice AI company: expect long hours, constant travel, and an annual quota worth 20 times your base salary, with termination as the direct consequence of missing it. […]
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