Tech

Starlette, an open-source Python framework underpinning FastAPI, has a vulnerability, called BadHost, that can allow hackers to bypass authorization (arstechnica.com)
2026-5-28

OpenAI Foundation says it is committing an initial $250M for grants, partnerships, and direct work aimed at helping workers and economies navigate AI disruption (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-28 AI

Tensormesh, whose inference platform uses KV caching to reduce costs, raised a $20M seed extension, bringing its total funding to $24.5M (www.axios.com)
2026-5-28

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston To Step Down After 19 Years (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-28 Dropbox

NYC-based Pace, whose AI agents automate back-office operations for insurance companies, raised a $46M series B led by Thrive and Sequoia at a $375M valuation (www.forbes.com)
2026-5-28 AI Insurance

Company Behind School Bus AI Cameras Wants To Share Footage With Police (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-28 AI

Opendoor Co-Founder Eric Wu's NavigateAI, which is building an expert AI coach for construction workers, raised a $25M seed led by Elad Gil at a $225M valuation (www.forbes.com)
2026-5-28 AI

AI coding startup Cognition AI raised more than $1B at a $26B valuation, and says its revenue run rate has increased to $492M from $37M in May 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-28 Startup AI

Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, and OpenAI staff to train “continual learning” models on user interactions, raised a $15M seed at a $115M valuation (www.wired.com)
2026-5-28 Apple

ElevenLabs launches Music v2, which can switch genres mid-track and handle complex vocal compositions, built on licensed data and cleared for commercial use (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-28

Amazon says it is making the “architecture, starter code, and learnings” from Alexa for Shopping available to third-party retailers, starting with Kate Spade (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-28 Amazon

Roku launches its first major homescreen overhaul in over a decade, including a large “marquee” ad spot to tout apps or shows, in a bid to drive more engagement (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-5-28

The EU proposes new satellite access rules to let non-European companies like SpaceX bid for the airwaves, while preserving 33%+ of licenses for local companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-28 Europe SpaceX

Can you enforce strong Active Directory password rules without frustrating users? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-28

DC-based Airis Labs, which uses AI to convert visual data to law enforcement intelligence, emerges from stealth with a $31M Series B, for $60M in total funding (www.axios.com)
2026-5-27 AI Intelligence

Polymarket is making it harder to use VPNs to access its service, blocking some IPs and suspicious accounts, and is asking some customers to identify themselves (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-27

Glassworm botnet disrupted after resilient C2 infrastructure takedown (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-27

YouTube makes its AI content labels more prominent on desktop and mobile, and will apply them automatically if it detects “significant photorealistic AI use” (variety.com)
2026-5-27 Mobile AI YouTube

10 Major Cities Being Swallowed by the Earth (listverse.com)
2026-5-27

Robinhood launches a feature to let users link AI agents, such as Claude or Cursor, to separate, dedicated investment accounts to trade stocks autonomously (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-27 AI

Biohub, the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, releases a protein-structure prediction model and more, calling it “a world model” of proteins (www.axios.com)
2026-5-27 Zuckerberg

Starlink and Amazon May Be Able To Buy Into EU Mobile Satellite Spectrum Plan (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-27 Amazon Mobile

FBI warns of in-person data theft attacks from extortion gang (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-27 FBI

The Shanghai Stock Exchange says memory maker CXMT cleared a listing review for the exchange's Nasdaq-like STAR Board, in what could be China's top IPO in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-27 China IPO Shanghai

Sources: ByteDance is discussing capex of up to $70B in 2026 as it builds out data centers and AI infrastructure, underwriting it with its $50B profit from 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-27 AI

Source: at a town hall, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told staff they will see a 30%+ bump in their profit-sharing payouts in 2026 on average, after some staff had concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-27

Temu owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$15.7B, below ~$16.2B est., net profit down 15% to ~$1.85B, below ~$3.4B est., amid fierce competition in China (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-27 China

Your grocery routine's easiest upgrade is a Sam's Club membership for just $25 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-27

Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a $58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~$100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-27 Startup Airbnb

Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's “agentic era” is a “bit like a practice run” (www.axios.com)
2026-5-27

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