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As the browser wars heat up, here are the hottest alternatives to Chrome and Safari in 2026
We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.
I put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful
Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
General AI
AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk
TikTok sellers that appear to be AI generated, in tears. | The Verge Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: "Even as a black woman, I have more faith that white women will stay 13 seconds [on this video] to save my belt buckle business," the onscreen text reads. She wipes a tear off her cheek. But Aliyah isn't real, and neither are her supposedly handmade products - she's one of many AI-generated influencers created to sell mass-produced products via dropshipping on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. Identical belt buckles … Read the full story at The Verge.
How one founder’s bet on ‘the old school web’ is paying off
A good time with old maps. | Image: Past Maps Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website. Sure, Campbell probably could have started an AI company. He's a former engineer at Meta and an experienced tech founder who in 2022 sold his last venture - an e-commerce tool for businesses that use Shopify - right as the AI boom was booming. "I had my prior VC investors breathing down my neck, going 'start something else. We'll write you a blank check.'" He had other ideas. People generally aren't rushing to get into the website business, what with the Google Zero event horizon approaching. Campbell was undeterred and has gro … Read the full story at The Verge.
Terence Tao argues AI could bring division of labor to math for the first time in history
Mathematician Terence Tao describes how AI could reshape math research by enabling division of labor for the first time. Until now, researchers had to master every step themselves, from framing problems to verifying results. Tao sees "industrial mathematics" emerging: large AI-supported teams instead of lone geniuses, with humans staying indispensable for "inspired guesses." The article Terence Tao argues AI could bring division of labor to math for the first time in history appeared first on The Decoder.
I worked with Steve Jobs at Apple, where every OS update killed startups. AI founders are about to face the same thing
Mill CEO and Nest co-founder Matt Rogers watched Apple render startups obsolete overnight. He says the same dynamic is playing out in AI — and the survival playbook looks familiar.
Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software?
I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services.
Asana acquires no-code agent-builder StackAI
Asana will incorporate StackAI into its growing suite of AI workflow tools.
Anthropic raises $65 Billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO
Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI startup's final private fundraise before a highly anticipated IPO.
Why Dell Stock Skyrocketed to a New All-Time High Today
AI server sales are booming.
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Anthropic Dominates In An Otherwise Slower Week For Megarounds
Venture funding has always been a world of haves and have nots. And these days, the haves are having more than ever. Case in point this week was generative AI giant Anthropic's $65 billion Series H funding, followed by a billion-dollar funding for an AI software developer.
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[AINews] Anthropic raises $965B Series H, releases Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Workflows/ultracode
Total Anthropic victory!
Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B valuation
Investing.com -- Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a post-money valuation of $965 billion, the artificial intelligence company announced Thursday.
SMILE-FX Launches AI Braces System, Bringing Predictive Treatment Planning to South Florida
Board-certified orthodontist Dr. Tracy M. Liang introduces a data-informed approach combining artificial intelligence with 3D imaging MIRAMAR, FL, April 3, 2026 – SMILE-FX Orthodontic Studio has officially launched its AI Braces system, a proprietary orthodontic treatment approach that integrates artificial intelligence with high-resolution 3D CBCT (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) imaging to create fully mapped treatment […]
Boston Children’s uses AI to unlock new diagnoses
Boston Children’s Hospital uses OpenAI technology to improve patient care, reduce operational burden, and help diagnose more than 40 rare disease cases.
Dell Raises Outlook as AI Server Demand Surges
Strong demand for Nvidia-powered AI servers drove record revenue and a sharp jump in Dell shares.
Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-8B-A1B
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an edge model designed to power real-life applications. It builds on LFM2-8B-A1B with three major upgrades: an expanded 128K context window, 38T tokens of pre-training (up from 12T), and large-scale reinforcement learning. It also comes with a doubled vocabulary to improve tokenization for non-Latin languages. The result is a model that chains tool calls, completes complex tasks, and fits comfortably on an entry-level laptop. The model is available on HF > https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B submitted by /u/PauLabartaBajo [link] [comments]
Tech ads on the New York subway are up 50% this year
AI has already upended the digital advertising sector. Now, more tech companies are turning to traditional static ads.
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Mistral AI launches Vibe, expands into industrial AI and announces data center push to challenge OpenAI
Mistral AI used its inaugural conference on Wednesday to announce a sweeping expansion into industrial manufacturing, a new inference data center south of Paris, and a rebranding of its consumer-facing assistant — moves that collectively signal the three-year-old French startup's ambition to become the enterprise AI provider of record for companies that refuse to hand their most sensitive data to American hyperscalers. At the AI NOW Summit, held at a venue in central Paris, co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch took the stage alongside CTO Timothée Lacroix and Chief Scientist Guillaume Lample to lay out a strategy that stretches from bare-metal GPU clusters to physics simulations for aircraft wings. The company disclosed that it now employs 1,000 people and is targeting €1 billion ($1.17B USD) in revenue for 2026 — a figure that, if achieved, would be an extraordinary growth trajectory for a company that began with 15 employees collaborating with its first customer, BNP Paribas, in 2023. "W
Why Okta Stock Surged to a New 52-Week High Today
Effective cybersecurity tools for AI agents are becoming increasingly vital.
The AI agent bottleneck isn't model performance — it's permissions
Enterprise AI agents are stalling — not because of model performance, but because of permissioning. Every agentic workflow eventually hits the same wall: what is this agent allowed to touch, on whose behalf, and how does the system know? Workday's answer is to make its existing system of record the governance layer for agents. Gerrit Kazmaier, the company's president for product and technology, told VentureBeat in an interview that customers often struggle when they cobble together solutions for their agents. “Sana makes sure the integrity of the approvals and security model is always adhered to,” Kazmaier said. “Frankly, that’s where we see customers struggling when they try to build do-it–yourself AI by just accessing raw data, so the richness of the security model gets lost, and the results become overly broad.” Workday, which launched Sana in March, expanded its partnership with Google to bring its Sana agent system of record to the Gemini Enterprise — so agents built on Sana are
MeMo's memory model lets teams upgrade their LLM without retraining it — and performance jumps 26%
Enabling LLMs to acquire new knowledge after training remains a major hurdle for enterprise AI — current solutions are either too expensive, too slow, or constrained by context window limits. MeMo, a framework from researchers at multiple universities, encodes new knowledge into a dedicated smaller memory model that operates separately from the main LLM. The modular architecture works with both open- and closed-source models and sidesteps the complexity of RAG pipelines and full model retraining. Experiments show that MeMo handles complex queries reliably even when retrieval pipelines are noisy. It avoids the catastrophic forgetting associated with direct fine-tuning and provides a cost-effective pathway for continuous knowledge updates. The challenge of updating LLM memory Large language models are frozen after training and their internal knowledge remains static until they undergo subsequent, computationally massive updates. Currently, developers rely on three main approaches to int
Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend
Google’s new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me.
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New review paper argues code is how AI agents think and act, not just what they produce
A new review paper argues that the real bottleneck for autonomous AI agents isn't the language model itself but the software layer wrapped around it. Tools, memory, testing, and permission boundaries turn a stateless model into a working agent. Deepseek is already building a dedicated "Harness" team in Beijing with a core formula that confirms the thesis: model plus harness equals AI agent. The article New review paper argues code is how AI agents think and act, not just what they produce appeared first on The Decoder.
Robotics
Battle-Tested Innovation Meets Manufacturing Scale in New Canada-Ukraine Defense Partnership
New partnership aims to support commercialization and deployment of battle-tested Ukrainian technologies for allied defense applications Canadian drone and aerospace company Volatus Aerospace has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with UCan Brave Tech Centre, a Canada-Ukraine defense innovation organization, to support the development and commercialization of defense and dual-use technologies. The agreement, announced May […] The post Battle-Tested Innovation Meets Manufacturing Scale in New Canada-Ukraine Defense Partnership appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Software becoming the biggest bottleneck to physical AI innovation, finds QNX research
As robots enter more unconstrained environments, software and security are becoming higher priorities, a QNX survey found. The post Software becoming the biggest bottleneck to physical AI innovation, finds QNX research appeared first on The Robot Report.
Business & Industry
EC-Council Launches ADG AI Framework and Self-Assessment Tool to Help Organizations Secure and Govern AI at Scale
Created in collaboration with practitioners from Citi, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, KPMG, Deloitte, NTT Data, GE Healthcare, GlobalLogic, Prudential and Salesforce, the Adopt. Defend. Govern. (ADG) Framework provides enterprises with a unified operating model; three pillars, 12 minimum controls, and nine governance surfaces. It is designed to align with the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and the NIST AI RMFTAMPA, Fla., May 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EC-Council, the global credentialing body responsib