Nvidia’s Rubin Spec Sheet Shrank Without an Announcement
A Poisoned Python Package Turned a Developer Laptop Into a Credential Haul
Musk’s ‘Odyssey’ Arrives as Seven Minutes, Not a Movie
Palantir Wrote the Rules It Then Bid Under at Britain’s Defence Ministry
Block’s Voice Model Learned to Talk Without Reading Anything
Instacart’s Suitors Circle, and One Walks Away
Tesla Ends the Cybertruck’s Seven-Year Detour Down Under
Micron’s Two-Year Memory Bet: Thicker Stacks, Wider Pipes
IBM’s Chief Puts a Number on the Open-Model Trade: 90% as Good, 10% the Cost
Korea’s Memory Duopoly Heads for a $139 Billion Quarter
MiniMax Pushes Open-Weight Models Into the Agentic Frontier
The release notes landed on a Monday, and within days the weight files were on Hugging Face for anyone to download. MiniMax, the Chinese AI company best known for its…
Apple’s Smart Glasses Slip to Late 2027 as Siri’s Rebuild Drags
The date on the calendar keeps moving, but the pitch has not changed. Inside Apple’s Vision hardware group, the company’s first consumer smart glasses, a device internally code-named N50, were…
Pope Leo’s First Encyclical Takes Aim at AI’s ‘Technological Messianism’
VATICAN CITY — The word Pope Leo XIV chose was “disarm.” Presenting “Magnifica Humanitas,” his first encyclical, in the Vatican’s Synod Hall on May 25, the pope told an audience…
Treasury Seizes $1 Billion in Iranian Crypto, Expanding a New Sanctions Weapon
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that American authorities had seized roughly $1 billion in cryptocurrency tied to Iran, the largest U.S. action of its kind against a single country’s…
AI’s ‘USB-C’ Standard Faces a Developer Rebellion
The headline on a Hacker News thread in late May was blunt: MCP is dead. The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that was supposed to let AI agents talk…
New Glenn Explodes on the Pad, Setting Back Blue Origin’s Comeback
The fireball climbed over Cape Canaveral just after 9 p.m. on May 28, punching through the cloud deck and spreading a mushroom cloud across the Florida Space Coast. Cameras fixed…
Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo Forces the PC Industry to Answer
The cheapest Mac ever made went on sale in March, and the PC industry has been scrambling ever since. Apple’s MacBook Neo, unveiled March 4 in New York, starts at…
A New Jersey Town’s Data-Center Ban Signals a Growing Backlash
In a small city in southern New Jersey, the AI boom hit a brick wall. On May 19, Millville’s Board of Commissioners voted to prohibit data centers in every zoning…
Justice Department Sues Four States Over Undercover License Plates
Undercover work depends on a piece of mundane bureaucracy: a license plate that does not lead back to an agent. On May 28, the Justice Department went to court to…
FCC’s Warning to Broadcasters Lands as ABC Fights for Its Licenses
On the same day ABC’s eight television stations filed license-renewal applications “under protest,” the Federal Communications Commission sent a message to every broadcaster in the country: review your operations, or…
