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New York judge releases purported Epstein suicide note
The handwritten note was said to have been found by his former jail cellmate, convicted murderer and ex-police officer Nicholas Tartaglione.
Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability
AirAsia signs major deal for Airbus A220 jets made in Canada
General AI
ServiceNow (NOW) Valuation Check After Knowledge 2026 AI Partnerships And Product Launches
ServiceNow (NOW) is back in focus after a packed Knowledge 2026 event, where it expanded partnerships with Nvidia, Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Lenovo and unveiled Project Arc, ServiceNow Otto, and an expanded AI Control Tower. See our latest analysis for ServiceNow. Despite all the AI news and partnerships, the stock is still working through a reset. It has a 30 day share price return of 9.79% and a year to date share price return of 37.60%, while the 1 year total shareholder return of...
Judge Halts Colorado AI Law After xAI First Amendment Challenge
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/judge-halts-colorado-ai-law-after-first-amendment-challenge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042519 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Microsoft Weighs AI Data Center Growth Against 2030 Renewable Goal
Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) is reported to be reassessing its 2030 goal to match 100% of its electricity consumption with renewable energy, as AI data center power needs increase. The company is expanding AI and cloud infrastructure globally, including new multibillion dollar investments in Europe such as Portugal. Microsoft is deepening AI partnerships and has shifted its OpenAI agreement to a nonexclusive structure. The potential change in climate commitments could affect perceptions of...
NVIDIA Climbs 5% on $500M Corning Deal: Optical Connectivity Becomes the New AI Bottleneck
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) shares are up by about 5% midday Wednesday, trading near $206 after the chip leader unveiled a $500 million strategic supply agreement with Corning (NYSE:GLW) focused on optical connectivity for AI data centers. Corning stock is the bigger winner, jumping 14% to $185. The deal landed before noon on the same day Corning ... NVIDIA Climbs 5% on $500M Corning Deal: Optical Connectivity Becomes the New AI Bottleneck
Core Scientific jumps 7% in morning markets as data center firm announces 440 MW expansion at Oklahoma site
Core Scientific targets its Oklahoma site for a second 1.5-gigawatt AI/HPC buildout, mirroring the same playbook it unveiled days earlier at its Pecos, Texas campus.
District, founded by three Snapchat alumni, raises a $14.7 million seed round to help independent sellers build community-driven marketplaces
The a16z-backed AI startup wants to bring the corner store experience to online shopping.
Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says
Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
Is xAI a neocloud now?
xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.
Google DeepMind partners with EVE Online for AI model testing
Move comes as CCP Games spends $120M to go independent, rebrands as Fenris Creations.
Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.
How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman
Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.
Blitzy Raises $200M At $1.4B Valuation For Autonomous Software Development
Blitzy, an autonomous software development startup, said it has raised $200 million in a funding round that values it at $1.4 billion, making it the latest company to receive major investor backing to streamline coding for large enterprises with the help of AI. Cambridge, Mass.-based Blitzy has now raised more than $204.4 million. Northzone led […]
Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models
Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with the AI companies to perform "pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities." CAISI, which started evaluating models from OpenAI and Anthropic in 2024, says it has performed 40 reviews so far. Both companies "have renegotiated their existing partnerships with the center to better align with priorities in President Donald Trum … Read the full story at The Verge.
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DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round
The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a fraction of the compute power and at a fraction of the cost of the big U.S. models like those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX
Deal follows others with Microsoft, Amazon, and more.
Lovelace.ai Launches with Context Engine Builder for Mission-Critical AI
Article URL: https://lovelace.ai/articles/lovelace-emerges-from-stealth-with-industry-defining-context-engine-builder-for-mission-critical-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041684 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
New Airbyte Agents: Cleaning Up Messy Data for AI Agents
Article URL: https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/new-airbyte-agents-cleaning-up-messy-data-for-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039541 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Time to add option in Hacker News "AI excluded Show HN"
Bored of AI advertisement. Thinking to stop visiting hacker news just because these LLM projects and updates. There should be an option to users which will exclude AI related things. Even if that going to be done using artificial intelligence in backend, no problem. I’m satisfied! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039702 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes
Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer conference. Can we not?
Market Chatter: Meta Working on Consumer Version of OpenClaw, New Agentic Shopping Tool
Meta Platforms (META) is working on a consumer version of artificial intelligence agent OpenClaw and
OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less
OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has "significant improvements in factuality across the board." The company claims that, based on "internal evaluations," GPT-5.5 Instant produced "52.5% fewer hallucinated claims" than its Instant model for GPT-5.3 "on high-stakes prompts covering areas like medicine, law, and finance." GPT-5.5 Instant also "reduced inaccurate claims by 37.3% on especially challenging conversations users had flagged for factual errors." (OpenAI has some information about how it ev … Read the full story at The Verge.
Nova Intelligence raises $31.5 million to bring agentic AI to SAP’s $89 billion migration wave
A DeepMind engineer saw an opening in SAP's aging code. Investors are calling it a $40 million bet
Robotics
The app store for robots has arrived: Hugging Face launches open-source Reachy Mini App Store with 200+ apps
There's an app for nearly every imaginable user and use case these days, but one thing they all have in common is that they're centered around one device: the smartphone. That changes today as Hugging Face, the 10-year-old New York City startup best known for being the go-to place online to host and use cutting-edge, open-source AI models, agents and applications, launches a new App Store for Reachy Mini, its low-cost ($299) open-source physical robot that debuted back in July 2025 (itself the fruit of Hugging Face's acquisition of another startup, Pollen Robotics). The new Hugging Face Reachy Mini App Store already hosts a library of over 200 community-built applications, and Reachy Mini owners will be able to download any of these free of charge to start (unlike smartphone apps, there's no monetization option for app creators on this store — yet). The Reachy Mini App Store will also offer Reachy Mini owners — around 10,000 units have been sold so far since last year — an easy means
Teledyne FLIR OEM Launches Prism Software to Detect Small Drones at Longer Range
New AI-enabled software aims to identify small drone threats earlier and support faster response Teledyne FLIR OEM, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, has announced the launch of Prism C-UAS, a new software solution designed to improve the detection and tracking of small, hard-to-detect drones. The company positions Prism as a software layer that enhances existing […] The post Teledyne FLIR OEM Launches Prism Software to Detect Small Drones at Longer Range appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Perceptual Robotics Raises Funding to Automate Wind Turbine Inspection Drones
Loggerhead Ventures leads the round with follow-on from One Planet Capital, fueling AI-powered drones for wind farm maintenance. Perceptual Robotics has secured fresh funding to scale its autonomous wind turbine inspection platform. Loggerhead Ventures led the round, with follow-on investment from One Planet Capital. The Thessaloniki-based company announced the deal on May 5, 2026. The […] The post Perceptual Robotics Raises Funding to Automate Wind Turbine Inspection Drones appeared first on DRONELIFE.