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Volkswagen MOIA and Uber Begin Self-Driving Vehicle Tests in Los Angeles
Volkswagen's autonomous mobility subsidiary MOIA America has partnered with Uber to begin on-road testing of self-driving vehicles in Los Angeles. The companies...
xAI Reorganizes Engineering Team, SpaceX Executive Michael Nicolls Named President
xAI is undergoing a significant reorganization of its engineering team as the company races to catch up with competitors in the artificial intelligence sector. ...
DC Appeals Court Denies Anthropic's Bid to Pause Pentagon Supply Chain Blacklisting
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. has declined to temporarily block the Department of Defense's national security blacklisting of artificial intellige...
Meta Outlines Long-Term Strategy for Custom AI Training Chips
Meta Platforms is developing a multi-generational roadmap for its MTIA custom AI training chips as the company seeks to reduce its reliance on Nvidia GPUs for a...
OpenAI Proposes Higher Capital Gains Taxes to Fund AI Transition Programs
OpenAI has published a 13-page policy paper proposing new economic frameworks for managing artificial intelligence's impact on the American workforce. The compa...
Meta Launches Muse Spark, Its First Proprietary AI Model From Superintelligence Labs
Meta has released Muse Spark, a new proprietary AI model developed by its Meta Superintelligence Labs division, marking a significant strategic shift away from ...
OpenAI Releases Child Safety Blueprint to Combat AI-Enabled Exploitation
OpenAI has published a comprehensive blueprint aimed at enhancing child protection efforts amid growing concerns about AI-enabled child sexual exploitation. The...
OpenAI faces scrutiny amid executive departures and strategic questions
OpenAI faces mounting questions about its stability following a series of executive departures, discontinued projects, and public controversies. The company, wh...
New Protocol Enables AI Agents to Negotiate Commercial Deals Autonomously
Developers have released an open protocol designed to enable artificial intelligence agents to conduct business negotiations without human oversight, addressing...
Anthropic AI Briefs Trump Administration on National Security Risks
Technology companies have privately briefed Trump administration officials regarding national security implications of advanced AI systems, according to sources...
Google Expands Gemini for Home to Global Markets
Google is expanding access to Gemini for Home beyond the United States to over a dozen additional countries, marking a significant step in the company's plan to...
Show HN: Omni Voice Launches AI Voice Cloning Platform
A new AI voice cloning and text-to-speech platform called Omni Voice has launched, its developer announced on Hacker News. The platform allows users to create ...
Perplexity Annual Revenue Surpasses $450 Million in Q1 2026
Artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity has reached an annual recurring revenue run rate exceeding $450 million as of March 2026, according to sources...
Niantic Launches Scaniverse Platform for AI and Robotics-Ready 3D Mapping
Niantic has introduced Scaniverse, a platform designed to create machine-readable 3D maps using data captured from smartphones, 360-degree cameras, and drones. ...
Amazon to Cut Kindle Store Access for Devices Released in 2012 and Earlier
Amazon will end Kindle Store access for Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier, effective May 20. The change affects customers using older ...
Major tech stocks rally following U.S.-Iran ceasefire announcement
Technology stocks surged Wednesday following President Trump's announcement of a ceasefire between the United States and Iran. Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Amazon,...
GoPro to Cut 23% of Workforce in Restructuring
GoPro announced plans to eliminate approximately 145 positions, representing 23% of its 631-employee workforce, in an SEC filing on Tuesday. The company expects...
Bain's Bridge Data Centres Removes Client From Malaysia Hub After US Export Probe
Bain Capital's Bridge Data Centres has terminated its relationship with a Southeast Asian client at its Malaysian computing facility following a US government i...
Trump Administration Seeks Medical Records of 8 Million Federal Workers
The Trump administration is proposing unprecedented access to the medical records of more than 8 million federal workers, retirees, and their families, accordin...
DOJ's Top Antitrust Litigators Depart After Ticketmaster Settlement
The Justice Department's top antitrust litigator and three senior trial attorneys who led major cases against Live Nation Entertainment, Apple, and Google are l...
Maine Data Center Moratorium Bill Passes House, Moves to Senate
A bill that would impose a moratorium on new data center construction in Maine has passed the state House of Representatives and now heads to the Senate for con...
Standard Chartered Eyes Expansion of Crypto Custody Zodia
Standard Chartered is exploring a partial takeover of Zodia Custody, the crypto custody provider it majority-owns, according to people familiar with the matter....
Bain Capital Data Center Unit Severs Ties With Megaspeed Amid US Investigation
Bain Capital's data center infrastructure unit has terminated its business relationship with Megaspeed, a cloud and data center services provider currently unde...
Eclipse Ventures Raises $1.3 Billion for Physical AI Startups
Eclipse Ventures has closed a new $1.3 billion fund dedicated to backing and building startups focused on physical artificial intelligence, according to TechCru...
Indian Lender KreditBee Raises $200 Million at $1.1 Billion Valuation
KreditBee, a Bengaluru-based digital lending platform, has raised $200 million in a funding round that values the company at approximately $1.1 billion. The fi...
Iran-Linked Hackers Target US Critical Infrastructure, Government Agencies Warn
Federal agencies are warning that hackers working on behalf of the Iranian government are actively disrupting operations at multiple US critical infrastructure ...
Hacker Claims Theft of 10PB+ Data From China's National Supercomputing Center
A hacker has allegedly stolen more than 10 petabytes of data from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, according to a report from CNN. The claimed...
Snowflake confirms data theft attacks on customer accounts via third-party compromise
Snowflake has confirmed that multiple customers experienced data theft following a security incident involving a third-party service provider. The company ackno...
Redos-Analyzer Tool Detects Vulnerable Regex Patterns in Python
A developer has released Redos-Analyzer, an open-source tool designed to detect and automatically fix Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerabilities in Py...
CareCloud Data Breach Exposes Millions of Patient Records
Medical practice management company CareCloud has disclosed a major data breach affecting millions of patients, according to a report from International Busines...
Sensitive LAPD Records Leaked in Suspected Cyberattack
Sensitive records from the Los Angeles Police Department have been leaked online in a suspected hacking incident, according to multiple reports. The breach rep...
US Government Warns Iran-Linked Hackers Targeting Energy and Water Infrastructure
US officials have attributed a series of cyberattacks against American energy and water utilities to Iran-linked hackers. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure S...
Elon Musk's Terafab Chip Venture Partners With Intel, Details Remain Unclear
Elon Musk has entered into a partnership with Intel for his ambitious chip manufacturing venture known as Terafab, though the specific terms and scope of the co...
Huawei and Jazz Deploy 13MW Solar Array at 1,000 Pakistan Telecom Sites
Telecommunications provider Jazz and technology vendor Huawei have completed installation of solar power systems across 1,000 cellular base stations in Pakistan...