"The culture interview is an effort to understand a candidate’s values and worldview — as well as how seriously they take threats posed by AI" www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence development to ensure Europe's independence from US tech giants, and signs deals to supply Airbus and BMW (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)
Send this to your non profit friends. How are they preparing for this reality?
AI will likely add ~$37+B/yr in philanthropic spend in the near future from only 3 sources:
1 OpenAI Foundation
2 Anthropic founders
3 Anthropic employees
need to start thinking about the well-being of regular people (as Anthropic is doing), because the misuse of AI by Musk, Zuckerberg, Theil ... will start a pitchfork revolution and the data centers are virtually impossible to defend.
Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows to protect the company's 900,000 employees from AI and automation, saying it will "do everything possible" (Bloomberg)
London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a $50M Series B led by Plural (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in India's Visakhapatnam, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over "extremely high" water stress (Wall Street Journal)
The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from $399 in 2022 to $789 today, is the end of an era for gaming handhelds, coming amid RAMageddon, tariffs, and the Iran war (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
We invite work on formal methods for systems combining symbolic AI — logic, knowledge graphs, reasoning — with subsymbolic AI, including neural networks and reinforcement learning.
London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security and governance platform for AI agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Balderton at an estimated $180M valuation (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
Gemini-powered automations can trigger smart home routines from camera visual detections, with setup via natural-language event descriptions and required AI camera features and plan access.
Apple Intelligence : 3 couches de traitement, une seule reste sur ton Mac. Et le piège du compte OpenAI lié, qui fait sauter la protection Apple ? Personne ne te le dit.
IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new model for open-source software, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers, supported by AI (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
OpenAI launches new cybersecurity partnerships to provide tools to state officials ahead of coming elections. The move follows increased AI campaign usage, prompting scrutiny over platform influence as the company seeks to align itself with regulatory interests.
Oura has announced a new wearable ring. This is a good time to remind you that Oura receives government demands for users' sensitive data stored on its servers, but won't say how many demands it gets — or how often it gives that data to authorities.
Illustrations based on sources detail Apple's Siri overhaul, including a new UI, a chatbot-style app, and other major iOS 27 changes, ahead of WWDC on June 8 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
YouTube adds a "custom feed" to its home page, letting users enter a prompt to create a constantly refreshed feed, available to signed-in users in the US (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
The coordinated effort involved the simultaneous takedown of four attacker-controlled servers that were designed to obscure the botnet’s operations and remain resilient against disruptions.
via @mattkapko.comcyberscoop.com/crowdstrike-...
Anne Keast-Butler, head of the GCHQ, said her agency was developing an artificial intelligence-powered cyber shield as other nations were deploying AI in warfare. via @timstarks.bsky.socialcyberscoop.com/gchq-warns-a...
Filing: CNN sues Perplexity in New York for allegedly unlawfully copying and distributing CNN content, after failing to agree on terms with Perplexity in 2025 (Brian Stelter/CNN)
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Tomorrow, come listen to Tiezhen Wang, ex-head of APAC ecosystem for Hugging Face, speak with Kinling Lo about what open-source models mean for the US-China AI race today
Since the topic of adtech being used to target individual soldiers is in the news, check out this highly relevant 2024 @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social investigation that used info from data brokers to track specific devices to extremely sensitive locations.
Cool to see the new "Preferred sources" treatment in AIOs and AI Mode this morning. Again, that's a great addition for publishers (the ones that have gotten their audience to add them as a preferred source). AIO first below, then AI Mode.
Sources: at WWDC, Apple is likely to showcase how 15 years of designing custom silicon chips gives it an advantage in local AI, using a distilled Gemini model (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
Would you pay for Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp?
Meta has globally rolled out Facebook Plus for $4 per month, Instagram Plus for $4 per month, and WhatsApp Plus for $3 per month (techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/m...).
Intel unveils its first dedicated handheld gaming chips, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, featuring Xe3 GPU cores, arriving first in the Acer Predator Atlas 8 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Even though RAMageddon has yet to subside and PC prices keep climbing, Qualcomm says it’s built a new budget laptop platform called Snapdragon C — “C” as in “Compute” — to keep entry-level laptops affordable.
NEW: Amazon just achieved a significant breakthrough in data center networking. It's very nerdy, but very relevant. And, while data centers are a big point of contention for *reasons* these days, this new approach to networking does appear to save energy www.wired.com/story/amazon...
A few weeks with New Google Health and the Fitbit Air has made me appreciate the chatty insights and pattern recognition of Gemini, sometimes…but at the expense of the Fitbit app’s previous layout advantage it feels like a weird trade. Ramp down the chat AI please www.cnet.com/health/googl...
