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- The Silicon Protocol: Your US-Hosted AI Violates GDPR Without You Knowing (2026)
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
A new analysis suggests that AI models trained or hosted within the United States, even if accessed by EU residents
- Third of university students in Great Britain think AI job losses will cause social unrest, poll finds
The Guardian AI · 2026-05-18
Tracker of attitudes towards artificial intelligence also finds almost half of the public would prefer to avoid it One in three university students think AI will wipe out jobs so
- AI Data Centers Are Wasting Heat Cooling Chips. I Built a System That Feeds a Greenhouse Instead.
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
A resourceful engineer has devised a method to capture and repurpose the substantial heat generated by AI data centers, redirecting it to warm a commercial greenhouse.
- Meta Moves 7,000 Workers Into AI Roles Ahead of Job Cuts
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
Meta Platforms Inc. is reassigning 7,000 workers to new jobs related to artificial intelligence, according to an internal memo
- The Real Competition in AI Agents Has Moved Down the Stack
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
OpenAI's recent foray into agentic AI, as evidenced by their exploration of tools and autonomous functionalities
- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at Dell Technologies World: ‘Demand Is Going Parabolic, Utterly Parabolic’
NVIDIA AI Blog · 2026-05-18
Agentic AI inference at one-tenth the cost per token with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72. Agent sandboxes run 50% faster on NVIDIA Vera than traditional CPUs
- I Ran Hermes Agent on the Same Task for 7 Days. The Skill File on Day 7 Looked Nothing Like Day 1.
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
Hermes, a novel AI agent framework, demonstrated significant skill drift over a week of continuous operation on a single task
- Vera Arrives: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Lands at Top AI Labs
NVIDIA AI Blog · 2026-05-18
The first NVIDIA Vera CPUs arrived at three of the world's leading AI labs on Friday — Anthropic in San Francisco, OpenAI in Mission Bay, SpaceXAI in Palo Alto
- AI Chip Startup Tenstorrent Draws Takeover Interest From Intel, Qualcomm
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
Artificial intelligence chip startup Tenstorrent Inc. is drawing early takeover interest from prospective buyers at a moment of renewed momentum for upstarts looking to challenge
- SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required
TechCrunch · 2026-05-18
Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models.
- Meet MemPrivacy: An Edge-Cloud Framework that Uses Local Reversible Pseudonymization to Protect User Data Without Breaking Memory Utility
MarkTechPost · 2026-05-18
As LLM-powered agents move from research to production, one design tension is becoming harder to ignore: the more useful cloud-hosted memory becomes
- AI 'Industrial Revolution' Taking Place, Says Boston Children's Chief Medical Officer
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
Dr. Joan LaRovere, chief medical officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, said that AI can 'bolster' the capabilities of health care providers to help diagnose and treat patients
- Making AI Financial Models Deterministic: A Skill That Generates Editable DCF Excel Workbooks
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
Researchers have demonstrated a method to generate deterministic financial models from AI, producing editable Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) workbooks.
- Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date
Ars Technica · 2026-05-18
Fake citations dashed a dude’s “Are We Dating the Same Guy” revenge lawsuit.
- Dell Scales Up the AI Supply Chain to Meet Demand
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
Dell Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talk about how they work together on Dell's AI Factory which uses servers with Nvidia chips
- Inside Meta’s $200 Billion Louisiana Data Center Bet
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
Meta is building one of the largest artificial intelligence data centers in the world, and it's going up in a remote corner of Louisiana.
- 5 ways to fortify your network against the new speed of AI attacks
ZDNet · 2026-05-18
As attackers get more sophisticated and persistent, IT workers have to step up their game as well. Here's how to do that in 2026.
- IREN CEO: Have Great Relationship With Dell and Nvidia
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
IREN, a vertically integrated AI cloud provider, recently announced a strategic partnership with Nvidia for up to $2.1 billion as part of a broader agreement between the two
- Nvidia's Huang, Michael Dell on Agentic AI, Memory Demand and China
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Dell CEO Michael Dell discuss agentic AI, the demand for memory and the outlook for the China market with Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow on the sidelines of the
- Apple's ChatGPT-Like App Includes New Privacy Features
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
Apple is set to debut iOS 27 at this year's WWDC, featuring a revamped Siri experience.
- Robinhood CIO on What Investors Are Seeing in the Retail Space
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
Robinhood Markets CIO Stephanie Guild discusses the demand for the physical parts involved in artificial intelligence.
- Silicon Data CEO on Creating Futures Market for Computing Power
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
US derivatives exchange CME and index provider Silicon Data are teaming up to create a futures market for AI computing power.
- Nvidia’s CEO Sees China Opening Market to AI Chips From US
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, speaking days after he joined President Donald Trump’s summit in China
- Self-Improving AI Startup Recursive AI Valued at $4.65B
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
Recursive, a startup creating AI that conducts experiments on how to safely improve itself, just came out of stealth.
- Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
TechCrunch · 2026-05-18
Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits
- Pope Leo to issue text on human dignity and AI with Anthropic co-founder
The Guardian AI · 2026-05-18
The pope’s encyclical will address ‘the protection of the human person in the age of AI’, the Vatican says In the first major text of his papacy, Pope Leo will address the rapid ri
- Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people
The Verge · 2026-05-18
The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI
- AI Drives Record-Busting Run for DRAM ETF
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
Bloomberg's Isabelle Lee and Vildana Hajric joins Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." The Roundhill Memory ETF (ticker: DRAM) assets are nearly $10 Billion since
- Elon Musk Loses Case Against Sam Altman Over OpenAI’s Overhaul
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
A jury rejected Elon Musk’s claims that OpenAI under Sam Altman’s leadership betrayed its mission to benefit the public by morphing into a for-profit business
- Markdown is for Thinking. HTML is for Showing.
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
Why your AI-generated specs aren’t being read, and the two-stage workflow that fixes it.
- When AI Helped Write a Real Zero-Day, It Wasn’t ChatGPT
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
Google caught attackers using AI to weaponize a real bug. The frontier labs weren’t the source. The lesson is uglier than it looks.
- Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees
Ars Technica · 2026-05-18
Musk plans to appeal after judge immediately affirmed the jury's decision.
- Cursor's Composer 2.5 matches Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 benchmarks at a fraction of the cost
The Decoder · 2026-05-18
Cursor ships Composer 2.5, an AI coding model built on Kimi K2.5 and trained on 25x more synthetic tasks than its predecessor.
- What to expect from Google this week
MIT Technology Review · 2026-05-18
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- Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
TechCrunch · 2026-05-18
Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI co-founders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.
- OpenAI and Dell partner to bring Codex to hybrid and on-premise enterprise environments
OpenAI Blog · 2026-05-18
OpenAI and Dell partner to bring Codex to hybrid and on-premise environments, helping enterprises deploy AI coding agents securely across data and workflows.
- AI vs. ML vs. Deep Learning
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
The article clarifies the distinctions between Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL), highlighting their hierarchical relationship.
- Researchers Benchmarked 14 AI Models on Values and Found They All Think Surprisingly Alike
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
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- Anthropic Sends Jolt Through Market for Buying Shares in Hot Pre-IPO Startups
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
In the moments after Anthropic expanded a ban on popular ways to buy its shares, investor chatrooms around the world lit up.
- Dell Adds 1,000 Clients for AI Servers, Targets Corporate Users
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
Dell Technologies Inc. said it added 1,000 customers for a key AI product line in the past quarter as the company tries to capture business from traditional large businesses taking
- I Connected Claude to 3 Real Client Power BI Models Via MCP.
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
Over the past two months, I’ve used Claude + Microsoft’s Power BI Modeling MCP server (currently in public preview) on three real client…
- Pope Leo XIV presents first AI encyclical, Anthropic co-founder invited as guest speaker
The Decoder · 2026-05-18
Pope Leo XIV will present his first encyclical on artificial intelligence on May 25. Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah has been invited as a guest speaker.
- How to watch the Google I/O 2026 keynote
Engadget · 2026-05-18
Google's keynote on Tuesday will include a boatload of AI news and perhaps some Android XR updates.
- Six Choices Every AI Engineer Has to Make (and Nobody Teaches)
Towards Data Science · 2026-05-18
The production trade-offs that only appear once your model is live.
- Tech firms face tougher UK rules on intimate image abuse
The Guardian AI · 2026-05-18
Ofcom to update codes of practice amid rise in ‘revenge porn’ and AI-generated deepfakes targeting women and girls Social media
- I used Codex to customize my Hyprland desktop - and learned a valuable AI lesson
ZDNet · 2026-05-18
Hyrpland is a fantastic Linux window manager, but it can be complicated to configure. I asked Codex to write a .conf file - here's how that went.
- How the Claude Code Leak Rewired AI Engineering in 30 Days — Research Notes
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
Anthropic’s Claude 2.1 model's source code and training data details were inadvertently exposed via a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket
- NextEra-Dominion Deal Signals Era of AI Utility Mega-Mergers
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
NextEra Energy Inc.’s $67 billion deal for rival Dominion Energy Inc., the largest utility acquisition in US history
- Amazon Alexa Plus can now create AI-generated podcasts
The Verge · 2026-05-18
Alexa Plus, Amazon's upgraded AI assistant, can now generate podcasts on "virtually any topic," according to an announcement on Monday.
- Stripe’s Collison on How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape the Internet
Bloomberg · 2026-05-18
With the rise of AI agents doing shopping on behalf of consumers, how are retailers going to adapt?
- 3x Faster Video Inference Without Touching the Model
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
A new method allows for up to a threefold acceleration in video generation inference speed for diffusion models, such as Stable Video Diffusion
- One Flexible Tool Beats a Hundred Dedicated Ones
Towards Data Science · 2026-05-18
Why MCP servers keep losing to CLIs once the agent gets a terminal
- Melbourne psychiatrist refuses new patients who don’t consent to AI note-taking
The Guardian AI · 2026-05-18
Registration form informs patients that if they do not wish AI to be used, they will need their referring doctor to refer them to a different service provider Get our <a href="
- Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes
TechCrunch · 2026-05-18
Amazon’s Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized AI content platform.
- Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment
Import AI · 2026-05-18
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- What Does It Mean to Have AI as an Operating System — A Peek Into the Future of Software
Towards AI · 2026-05-18
A thought-provoking journey into the not-so-distant future to uncover the unlimited potential and be prepared for what’s coming!
- LinkedIn doesn't want your AI slop anymore
Engadget · 2026-05-18
It isn't just lazy. It's also mind-numbingly boring.
- The Open Agent Leaderboard
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-05-18
Hugging Face has launched the Open Agent Leaderboard to publicly benchmark the performance of open-source large language models in agentic tasks.
- Anthropic's Code with Claude Announces Managed Agents, Proactive Workflows, Capability Curve
InfoQ · 2026-05-18
Anthropic hosted "Code with Claude 2026" in San Francisco, featuring livestream sessions focused on Claude Code, the Claude API platfo
- A Stanford student reflects on his ChatGPT class and a culture of "just a little bit of fraud"
The Decoder · 2026-05-18
Stanford student Theo Baker describes in a guest essay for the New York Times how ChatGPT shaped his entire graduating class.