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VentureBeat ↗
Four supply-chain incidents hit OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in 50 days: three adversary-driven attacks and one self-inflicted packaging failure. None targeted the model, and all four exposed the same gap: release pipelines, dependency hooks, CI runners, and packaging gates that no system card, AISI evaluation, or Gray Swan red-team exercise has ever scoped.On May 11, 2026, a self-propagating worm called Mini Shai-Hulud published 84 malicious package versions across 42 @tanstack/* npm packages in ...
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Axios ↗
U.S. power giants NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy announced plans Monday to merge in the largest electricity deal — by far — since the mainstreaming of AI.Why it matters: The deal, if approved by regulators, would enable massive scale as the industry looks to expand generation and related infrastructure to meet rising demand.The all-stock merger "creates the world's largest regulated electric utility business by market capitalization and one of the world's largest energy infrastructure compan...
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Bloomberg Technology ↗
Meta is building one of the largest artificial intelligence data centers in the world, and it's going up in a remote corner of Louisiana. Financed by one of the biggest private capital deals ever assembled, the project in rural Richland Parish will require up to 7.5 gigawatts of power, 5 gigawatts for computing alone, from 10 brand new natural gas plants. In a region desperate for economic revival, the data center has become more than just infrastructure: it’s a bet on the future. (Source: Bloom...
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Axios ↗
A federal jury unanimously ruled Monday that Elon Musk waited too long to bring his lawsuit against OpenAI and its top executives — a staggering defeat for the Tesla chief in his showdown with Sam Altman. Why it matters: Musk had sought up to $134 billion in damages and Altman's ouster from OpenAI, arguing the company abandoned its founding nonprofit mission in pursuit of profit. But after the judge accepted the jury's finding, Musk appears unlikely to get either.Driving the news: A federal jury...
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Bloomberg Technology ↗
Recursive, a startup creating AI that conducts experiments on how to safely improve itself, just came out of stealth. The company is valued at $4.65 billion, with backers including Google Ventures, Greycroft, Nvidia and AMD Ventures. Recursive CEO Richard Socher joins Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Ars Technica ↗
Fake citations dashed a dude’s “Are We Dating the Same Guy” revenge lawsuit.
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AI Research News ↗
NVIDIA introduces a 4-bit pretraining methodology built around the NVFP4 microscaling format — combining selective BF16 layers, 16×16 Random Hadamard Transforms on Wgrad inputs, 2D weight scaling, and stochastic rounding on gradients — validated on a 12B hybrid Mamba-Transformer trained on 10 trillion tokens, the longest publicly documented 4-bit pretraining run, with downstream accuracy closely tracking the FP8 baseline (62.58% vs 62.62% on MMLU-Pro). The post NVIDIA Introduces a 4-Bit Pretrain...
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TechMeme ↗
Bloomberg: Sources: AI chip designer Tenstorrent has drawn takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm; Tenstorrent could be valued at more than $5B in a potential deal — Artificial intelligence chip startup Tenstorrent Inc. is drawing early takeover interest from prospective buyers at a moment ...
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Financial Times Tech ↗
US tech group will discuss capabilities of its new AI model with members of the Financial Stability Board
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Ars Technica ↗
"Never-ending" AI slop strains corporate hacking reward schemes.