• May 18, 2026
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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,…

  • May 18, 2026
  • 63 views
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…

  • May 18, 2026
  • 85 views
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,…

  • May 18, 2026
  • 89 views
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…

  • May 17, 2026
  • 80 views
Snap, YouTube and TikTok Settle School-District Suit; Meta Heads to Trial

In a deposition, the former high school principal of Breathitt County, Ky., described a school consumed by phones. “I had two assistant principals and they spent at least 50% of…

  • May 17, 2026
  • 90 views
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…

  • May 17, 2026
  • 122 views
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…

  • May 17, 2026
  • 169 views
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…

  • May 17, 2026
  • 89 views
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…

  • May 17, 2026
  • 98 views
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…