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NVDA Stock Drops 10% From All-Time High Amid Fresh Risks From New Huawei AI Chip Tech
NVDA’s surprising underperformance has left retail traders frustrated.
Sony takes final bow as standalone TV maker with new Bravia sets
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans
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AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation
As Cognition reaches $492 million in annualized revenue run rate, it more than doubled its valuation in eight months, it says.
In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips
Snowflake has signed a new, enormous five-year deal with Amazon to secure chips for AI usage. Nvidia is once again being put on notice.
The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times
Yellow taxis pass in front of The New York Times newspaper building. | Alexandra Schuler/dpa (Photo by Alexandra Schuler/picture alliance via Getty Images) How newsrooms should use AI - or if they should at all - has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight. Unionized staff with the Tech Guild say Times management has refused to provide the union with information related to how the company has used AI, its plans for AI use in the future, and how it will affect employees' jobs and workflow. (The union filed an unfair labor practice charge earlier this month.) The Tech Guild, a NewsGuild … Read the full story at The Verge.
Edgecore (an Accton Company) and Partners Unite at Computex 2026: Powering the All-Photonics AI Era Together
TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 28, 2026--As artificial intelligence reshapes every sector of the global economy, the networks and data centers that power it face a reckoning. Heat is the enemy. Latency is the bottleneck. Proprietary lock-in is the tax. At Computex 2026, Edgecore (an Accton Company) is answering all three challenges at once, with light.
Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill
The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign it.
Why Google’s AI can’t spell Google (or anything else)
Google is embarrassing itself, again.
Goldman Says Nvidia and Micron Are the Biggest AI Winners: 5 Stocks to Take Advantage of it Now
Goldman Sachs just named NVIDIA and Micron Technology the biggest AI winners of the next earnings cycle, and the stock is already moving. Micron is up 214% year-to-date. If you are still trying to decide whether the AI compute and memory supply chain has more room, the crowd that owns it has stopped waiting for ... Goldman Says Nvidia and Micron Are the Biggest AI Winners: 5 Stocks to Take Advantage of it Now
Broadcom Extends AI And Broadband Reach With New 50G Home Gateway SoC
Broadcom (NasdaqGS:AVGO) has introduced the BCM68850, described as the industry's first 50G ITU-PON home gateway SoC. The chip integrates a neural processor on the device and supports Wi-Fi 8 for home networking. The launch highlights Broadcom's push to extend its AI and connectivity portfolio into residential broadband gateways. For you as an investor, this positions Broadcom at the intersection of broadband access, edge AI, and next generation Wi-Fi. The company already has a large...
First unit of JAXA’s new ISS resupply craft completes missions
The HTV-X1 delivered supplies to the international space station and then carried out missions in orbit around the Earth in and after March this year.
What Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI
In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.
Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music
For years, UMG has pushed platforms, streaming services, and AI companies to implement stricter content moderation policies
Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop
Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.
The Pope isn’t AGI-pilled
On Monday, Pope Leo XIV unveiled an encyclical letter addressing the societal implications of artificial intelligence. The letter, titled Magnifica Humanitas, warned that the "use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people's lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom." Alongside him was Anthropic cofounder and interpretability team lead Christopher Olah, representing a partnership between the Catholic Church and one of the biggest players in AI. The letter elicited a wide range of reactions from in and around the tech industry. Nearly everyone believed the document would be infl … Read the full story at The Verge.
Application engineering for assembly systems is quietly becoming manufacturing’s biggest competitive edge
Manufacturing isn’t just about machines anymore. Now, success relies on engineering those machines well, keeping them connected and adjusting them to match what’s actually happening on the factory floor. Application engineering for assembly systems is pushing this change, especially as factories aim for higher output while cutting errors. Companies like Atlas Copco are all in, […]
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China is fast building its fourth, and likely biggest, aircraft carrier
Experts said the rapid construction showcased Beijing’s impressive industrial base.
America turns 250 with a dangerous new problem: We no longer agree on what’s real
From Paul Revere to deepfakes, shared reality has always been the hidden infrastructure of American democracy and markets. AI is dismantling it faster than institutions can respond.
Nvidia Earnings, The AI Stack, Nvidia’s New Reporting
Nvidia is changing its reporting to delineate between hyperscaler sales — where Nvidia is fighting commoditization — and everyone else, where Nvidia runs the whole stack.
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MiniMax teases upcoming M3 model with new sparse attention mechanism and 15.6X long-context response speed boost
Among the many Chinese AI companies and laboratories vying for market share and attention (no pun intended) on the global marketplace, MiniMax stands out for its commitment to providing frontier-level intelligence across a range of modalities, including text, coding, and video (through its Hailuo model series) — often under permissive, enterprise-friendly, standard open source licenses. Now, MiniMax is again raising the eyebrows of AI power users and developers around the world by releasing a new, in-depth technical report on the making of its popular M2 series of language models (M2, M2.5, and M2.7) shedding light on its numerous engineering innovations and clever approaches — while the company and its leaders also teased a whole new sparse attention approach for its upcoming MiniMax M3 series of models, which it says yields up to 15.6 times faster decoding (or LLM response) speed at long contexts (a million tokens) by adopting a custom sub-quadratic framework. In so doing, MiniMax h
Merck and Mastercard are seeing real agentic AI results. Both say the plumbing came first
Merck is using AI agents to cut drug discovery cycles by a third and ship compliant marketing materials up to 80% faster — but VP of Digital Platforms Sean Finnerty says the only reason it's working is because they built the infrastructure first. And the pharmaceutical manufacturer is seeing promising early results: AI is generating marketing drafts that are “99% right” when it comes to compliance, shrinking review cycles from months to days and accelerating delivery by 70% to 80%. In the company’s medical research, meanwhile, one AI-assisted discovery cycle was reduced by 33%. Still, agentic AI only works if companies first build the underlying “plumbing,” Finnerty said of digital platforms and services at a recent AI Impact Series event. “If we do one-offs, we're gonna end up with thousands and thousands of things that are ultimately just gonna be debt that we'll have to deal with later,” he said. “And that's gonna be a drag on any further innovation.” Starting with the plumbing Me
Robinhood launches agentic trading, announces credit card for AI agents with 3% cash back
Robinhood announced that customers can now use agents to conduct stock trading and shop with its credit card.
FuriosaAI Partners with Broadcom to Build Next-generation Inference Platform for the Agentic Era
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 27, 2026--FuriosaAI, a builder of high-performance inference silicon, today announced a strategic partnership with Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) to develop its third-generation AI accelerator. This collaboration evolves Furiosa’s Tensor Contraction Processor (TCP) architecture into a scale-up inference platform engineered for serving frontier agentic systems at massive scale of global hyperscale environment.
ITBench-AA: Frontier Models Score Below 50% on the First Benchmark for Agentic Enterprise IT Tasks — by Artificial Analysis and IBM
Robinhood will let your AI agent trade stocks and make (or lose) lots of money
Robinhood is opening its trading platform to AI agents. In an announcement on Wednesday, Robinhood says traders can now create a separate account for an AI agent and add a specific amount of money, allowing the agent to buy and sell stocks across the market. The company pitches the feature as a way for traders to automate investment decisions, such as having an agent monitor specific industries and make trades, or rebalancing an existing portfolio. But it comes with a big warning from Robinhood: Agentic trading involves significant risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. AI-driven strategies may perform poorly under c … Read the full story at The Verge.
I built an AI agent for the first time. It was not what I expected
I am not a developer ,been using AI tools casually for a while but never actually built anything with them. For months I kept seeing "automation" and "AI agents" thrown around in job descriptions and had no idea what it actually meant in practice. Watched a few YouTube videos, got confused, moved on. Finally sat down with n8n properly through a structured program I was doing. First attempt took most of a Sunday. Broke twice. Third time it actually ran on its own without me doing anything manually. What it does is pretty basic honestly. Pulls data from one place, summarizes it, drops the output somewhere useful. Nothing that would impress an engineer. But it runs every day without me touching it and that's the part I couldn't quite believe the first time it worked. The thing nobody told me is that automation isn't really a technical skill. It's a process thinking skill. You're just mapping out what happens in what order and telling a tool to do it. If you can describe a workflow on
Robotics
FCC Expands Conditional Approvals for Foreign-Made Drone Systems
Blueflite, Verity, and Air VEV Added to Growing List of Exempted Aircraft Under FCC Covered List Rules The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has expanded its growing list of conditionally approved drone systems, granting exemptions for several additional uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and related components under the agency’s controversial Covered List framework. In a Public Notice […] The post FCC Expands Conditional Approvals for Foreign-Made Drone Systems appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Business & Industry
DataGrail report finds your vendor may be sending data to AI models you never approved
The data processing agreement (DPA) — the bedrock contract companies use to evaluate how vendors handle personal data — can no longer be trusted at face value. That is the central, and arguably most alarming, conclusion of DataGrail's Privacy and AI Trends Report 2026, released today. The San Francisco-based privacy platform analyzed 2,400 popular business software providers and found that 63.6% of vendors that prominently advertise AI capabilities do not disclose a third-party AI subprocessor in their legal documentation. The implication: the majority of companies purchasing AI-enabled software may be unknowingly exposing their customers' data to AI models and pipelines they never reviewed, never approved, and may not even know exist. "All software vendors are trying to move to become AI vendors, which makes sense, but the technologies are moving faster than AI governance can actually keep up," DataGrail co-founder and CEO Daniel Barber told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead