Google is bringing Gemini AI to 3rd-party smart speakers
A leaked Walmart Onn Smart Speaker suggests Google is reintroducing its next-gen assistant, Gemini, to third-party devices.
China’s robot-hand unicorn Linkerbot is hunting a $6bn valuation
Beijing-based Linkerbot, the global leader in dexterous robot hands, is targeting a $6bn valuation just weeks after closing $3bn round.
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Techmeme: A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition (Jacob Shamsian/Business Insid
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall
Pipelock is an open-source agent firewall that sits between AI agents and the internet to block credential leaks and prompt injection.
Walmart’s quietly working on a Gemini smart speaker
A CSA listing reveals a Walmart Onn smart speaker powered by Gemini, hinting at a third-party revival for Google's AI assistant.
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每天早上對著滿滿的衣櫃卻覺得「沒衣服穿」嗎？Google 準備用 AI 來拯救你的穿搭困難症。
Google Engineer Explains ‘Black Box’ AI Models In Search
Google's Nikola Todorovic said AI can act
The state of generative AI in the creator economy
A look at how the creator economy is using generative AI, from workflow help to identifying partnerships in DMs.
Walmart's Gemini speaker leak suggests Google is opening up its ecosystem again
Walmart's Onn Smart Speaker has leaked via an official listing, suggesting that Google is reviving its third-party smart speaker ecosystem.
Techmeme: Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a deal for a $1.5B JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and others to sell AI tools to PE-backed companies (Wall Street Journal)
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
Jim Cramer Says AI Spending Is No Bubble As Alphabet, Amazon, Apple Surge, While Microsoft And Meta Face
Jim Cramer says aggressive AI spending is rewarding Big Tech winners like Alphabet, Amazon and Apple while pressuring Microsoft and Meta.
Five Eyes warn agentic is too dangerous for rapid rollout
: Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada
Mythos has cut hackers’ attack time to hours. Finserv firms’ defence still takes months
While super-intelligent LLMs have shrunk the time it takes hackers to mount an attack to under 10 hours, Indian companies still need 180 days to patch a bug
Techmeme: Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything that iOS App Store rules for their apps are applied erratically (Michael Acton
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities Convenes First Faith–AI Covenant Roundtable in New York
NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES, May 3, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / -- On the 30th April, The Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities (IAFSC), in partnership w...
Money and Investing: AI stocks boom or bubble – How to back the right horse before the music stops
This week on Money and Investing, Mitch Olarenshaw and I unpack one…
John Martinis, 67, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, issues a global warning about China’s secret weapon, which is nanoseconds away from being activated
China is closing the quantum gap with the U.S., and the next breakthrough could reshape encryption, defense, and energy.
Bessent Warns of Threat of AI-Powered Bank Account Hacks
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says American banks are working to safeguard against AI-related cyberthreats. Bessent addressed the issue Sunday (May 3)
Watch: Sony's insane autonomous robot shows off 'superhuman' skills
Sony's AI robot Ace defeats elite table tennis players by reacting in real-time and making aggressive returns, showcasing impressive robotic capabilities.
F-Transformer: a federated transformer for efficient and privacy-preserving sequence generation
Transformer models have demonstrated remarkable success in natural language processing (NLP) tasks, but their deployment in distributed environments faces criti...
On This AI Front, 'Very Large Potential for Destruction'
Artificial intelligence is edging into territory that has long kept biodefense experts up at night. As microbiologist and federal biosecurity adviser Dr. David ...
AI best practices: If at first you don’t succeed, prompt, prompt again
Imagine you're chatting with a friend over coffee, sharing tips on how to make the most of AI like ChatGPT or Gemini, turning frustratingly bland responses
Gemini will get new third-party smart speakers, early listing reveals ahead of Google Home Speaker
Gemini is reviving the idea of a smart speaker for Google, with the upcoming “Google Home Speaker” being the first...
ChatGPT advanced account security adds passkeys and hardware keys
ChatGPT advanced account security adds passkeys, hardware keys, and stricter recovery for journalists, researchers, and at-risk users.
‘The reality, for better or worse’: Columbia computer science students and faculty grapple with AI’s disruption of the field
<html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>‘The reality, for better or worse’: Columbia co...
Ant International’s Global Network Surpasses 150M Merchants on AI Commerce Push
Digital payments major Ant International announced that its global network now connects more than 150 million merchants with over 2 billion user accounts.
How did ‘large’ language models get that way? The role of Transformers and Pretraining in GPT — LessWrong
Large language models are really large. They’re among the largest machine learning projects ever, and set to be (perhaps already are by some measures…
Gemini app getting full redesign that overhauls every part of the UI
Google has been working on a Gemini app redesign for the past few months, and we now have our first look at the full overhaul.
Anthony Scaramucci Reveals His Biggest Investing Mistake, Saying He Won't Repeat It With SpaceX, Anthropic: 'Valuation Is Ridiculous'
SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci says his biggest investing regret is selling winners too early and now plans to hold long-term stakes in SpaceX and...
Apple's Stance on Vibe Coding Apps Leaves Startups Frus…
Apple’s approach to so-called “vibe coding” apps has reportedly triggered complaints among startups and investors. As the Financial Times (FT) reported
Sponsored: James Kettle built an AI hacker
In this sponsored interview, James Wilson talks with James Kettle and Daf Stuttard from PortSwigger about the incredible research James wi [Read More]
OpenAI opens ChatGPT subscriptions to OpenClaw's 3.2M users as Anthropic blocks Claude access to the AI agent platform
ChatGPT subscribers can now run OpenClaw's AI agents via GPT-5.4 for $23/mo. Anthropic blocked Claude. OpenAI and Anthropic made opposite bets on the same product.
GitHub - Padraigobrien08/agentic-data-science-system: End-to-end agentic data science system combining deterministic financial analytics, MCP tool execution, and LLM-driven planning with full traceabi
End-to-end agentic data science system combining deterministic financial analytics, MCP tool execution, and LLM-driven planning with full traceability, evaluati...
President Donald Trump Shares AI-Generated Shirtless Photo Featuring Unidentified Bikini-Clad Woman
Donald Trump posted another eyebrow-raising AI photo, this time featuring the president shirtless in a pool with an unidentified woman
Prediction: This Will Be the Top-Performing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Semiconductor Stock Over the Next Year. (Hint: It's Not Nvidia, Broadcom, or Micron.)
AI chip stocks continue to be some of the biggest winners for technology investors this year.
UK cyber security agency warns of AI-driven 'patch wave'
Overhaul software update processes or risk being overwhelmed.
Looking for papers on general formalizations of "agency" — LessWrong
Hi! • Recently, I immersed myself in researching the possibility of a general formal definition of "agency". …
Pentagon expands AI partnerships with Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX & others to boost classified military operations
According to the Pentagon, the partnerships are intended to “augment warfighter decision-making in complex operational environments.”
Meta Acquires ARI to Fuel Humanoid Robot Push
Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a startup developing artificial intelligence models for general-purpose, humanoid robots. Xiaolong
Apple kills $599 Mac Mini as AI data centre DRAM demand drives record 90% memory price surge and global shortage.
Apple discontinued the 256GB Mac Mini as DRAM prices surged 90% in Q1 2026. AI servers now consume 23% of global memory wafer output, pushing PC prices up 10-20...
This Is My Favorite AI Chip Stock (By Far) -- and It's Not Nvidia, Intel, or Broadcom
One of the world's most recognizable tech giants is quietly building a chip business large enough to rival the biggest names in semiconductors.
Oscars ban AI actors and AI-written scripts with new human authorship rules and Affidavit of Human Origin for 99th ceremony
Academy requires acting roles be "demonstrably performed by humans" and screenplays be "human-authored" for 99th Oscars. AI tools still eligible in VFX and tech...
Tech Layoffs Surge as AI Infrastructure Spending Forces Headcount Cuts Across Big Tech - Meta Platforms (
Tech industry sees massive surge in layoffs amid AI investments, with 81,000 jobs cut in Q1 2026, a 580% increase from Q4 2025.
Wall Street Says These 2 AI Stocks Could Fall 20% or More. Time to Sell?
Analysts are bearish on these two AI stocks. Are they right?
Grok is about to join ChatGPT and Perplexity on your CarPlay dashboard
Your car dashboard is quietly turning into the most contested AI real estate in tech. Grok is the latest to claim a spot, and unlike the two chatbots already on...
I'm not worried about AI taking my job. Guests and clients still want a real person to make them feel special.
I've worked in the hospitality industry for decades. I know AI can't take away the part of my job that matters most to clients.
Microblog: “Why this $100 trillion AI Black Swan goes far beyond what Elon Musk’s Grok can do - Stock Gumshoe
How this massive new AI computer, trillions of times more powerful than Elon’s Colossus, is about to unleash a $100 trillion “reset” of the AI markets...?...
AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 495 “Gorgon Halo” Leak Smokes Strix Halo by 10%, Packs 192GB Memory and Radeon 8065S
AMD's next-generation Halo flagship, the Ryzen AI MAX+ 495, has leaked out, featuring a 10% bump in performance & a new Radeon 8065 iGPU.
Missed the Mag 7 Gains? Here’s Your Second Chance
The first wave of AI gains went to the Mag 7, but the next opportunity may be forming in a very different part of the market. What lies ahead is the single grea...
Everything We Don’t Need to Know, and a Few We Do. "Ask AI the Answers of Everything"... Censorship ... - Global Research
As AI and Big Data reshape reality, a deeper question emerges: what is worth knowing—and what should we ignore in an age of information overload?