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Groq, the AI inference chip startup founded by former Google TPU lead Jonathan Ross, is raising $650 million at a roughly $6 billion valuation to expand its GroqCloud services and develop next-generat…

Visa has made an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit, with the two companies exploring how to integrate Visa's payment products so developers and AI agents can accept payments directly…

A Google software engineer was charged with insider trading on Polymarket, where he allegedly made over $1 million betting that singer D4vd would be the most-searched person of 2025 using confidential…

Apple plans to introduce AI-powered upgrades to its Camera and Photos apps in iOS 27, including a dedicated Siri mode for visual analysis and new tools called "Reframe" and "Extend" for photo editing,…

Google's upgraded AI Overview feature incorrectly stated that the word "Google" contains two "P"s, highlighting a persistent issue with large language models producing factual errors. The mistake, whi…

At Google I/O 2026, the company positioned the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as core infrastructure, shipping its flagship consumer agent Gemini Spark with MCP as the integration layer for third-party …

A coordinated takedown of the GlassWorm malware campaign on May 26 disrupted infrastructure poisoning hundreds of open-source repositories, but defenders face an uphill battle as attackers quickly rec…

Emarketer projects Meta will surpass Google in global digital ad revenue for the first time in 2026, with Meta reaching $243.5 billion to Google's $239.5 billion. Meta's Advantage+ AI automation and n…

Finnish health tech company Oura launched the Ring 5, a smaller and lighter smart ring with upgraded durability and an AI-powered health coach called Oura Advisor. The device, available for preorder s…

DwarfStar has released a video demonstrating distributed inference, a technique that splits AI model computations across multiple devices. The approach aims to reduce latency and hardware requirements…

NextEra Energy announced a $66.8 billion all-stock acquisition of Dominion Energy on May 18, 2026, creating a combined utility with 110 gigawatts of generation capacity and 10 million customers. The m…

Proton Mail now allows users to send and receive emails from their Gmail address directly within the Proton Mail interface, eliminating the need to use the Gmail app. The feature imports recent Gmail …

Google is rolling out a new Gemini-powered automation feature for Google Home that allows users to trigger smart home routines based on visual cues detected by security cameras. The update, announced …

Federal prosecutors accused a Google engineer of using confidential Year in Search trend data to place profitable bets on the prediction market Polymarket, netting approximately $1.2 million. The insi…

On May 11, 2026, a test-cleanup script on HoneyChat, a Telegram-native AI companion with approximately 300 daily active users, accidentally deleted 10 real OAuth users from the production PostgreSQL 1…

The open web is dying as AI bot traffic on Cloudflare's network grew 187% in 2025 while human traffic grew only 3.1%, with agentic AI traffic surging 7,851% year over year. Global publisher Google tra…

Meta is launching paid add-ons for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, with prices ranging from $2.99 to $19.99 per month, as part of a strategy to reduce reliance on ad revenue and justify its massive…

A Paris-based angel investor returned from a week in San Francisco, where meetings with senior software engineers, CTOs, and founders revealed a talent market now dominated by frontier AI labs like An…

At Google I/O, Google announced a renewed push for Google Wallet, positioning it as part of an "agentic commerce" strategy that layers AI-driven assistance onto payments and commerce interactions. The…

OpenAI has begun rolling out advertisements on ChatGPT, with software companies making up 34% of the ad placements analyzed by adtech firms, according to data reviewed by Business Insider. The ads, wh…