Austrian Prosecutors Suspect Former Manager in Poisoned Baby Food Plot
VIENNA — The jars were pulled from supermarket shelves across Austria, Germany, and the Czech Republic in recent weeks, each one carrying a red label that did not belong. Inside,…
Starbucks to Cut 300 U.S. Jobs and Close Offices in Turnaround Push
SEATTLE — The email landed in inboxes on the morning of May 15, and by midday, employees at Starbucks’ regional offices were packing up desks that no longer had a…
FANUC Deepens Nvidia Ties in Race to Teach Robots New Skills
OSHINO, Japan — On a factory floor at the foot of Mount Fuji, a robot arm recently learned something new: how to pick oddly shaped parts out of a bin,…
Samsung Chairman Apologizes as Union Readies an 18-Day Strike
SEOUL — Lee Jae-yong stood at a lectern on May 16 and apologized for what he called Samsung Electronics’ “internal problems,” a rare act of public contrition from a chairman…
SpaceX Prepares for Nasdaq Debut in What Could Be the Largest IPO in History
The plan has a code name inside SpaceX: “Project Apex.” Under it, the company filed confidentially with the SEC in early April, and reports this week point to pricing as…
Open-Source ‘Paper OS’ Draws 6,400 Stars as Research Goes Automated
The installation takes two lines. A researcher pastes them into a terminal, and Anthropic’s Claude Code becomes a system that can search the literature, draft sections, check citations, run a…
ArXiv to Suspend Authors for Unchecked AI Content
The tells are easy to spot for anyone who reads closely: a citation to a paper that does not exist, a stray line in which the chatbot asks whether it…
Cerebras Nears $95 Billion Value in Biggest Tech IPO Since Uber
For years, the pitch sounded like a joke: a startup that would build a chip the size of an entire silicon wafer, taking on Nvidia. On Thursday, Cerebras Systems closed…
OpenAI Consolidates Product Units Under Brockman
The memo arrived May 15 with a change that had been taking shape for weeks. OpenAI told employees that co-founder and president Greg Brockman will permanently lead the company’s product…

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