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Visually impaired Waymo users in CA say riding in a Waymo gives them a feeling of independence and spares them the discrimination they face from human drivers (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-26

Massachusetts formally recognizes the App Drivers Union, which says it represents ~70,000 workers and is the first state-certified rideshare union in the US (www.bostonglobe.com)
2026-5-26

The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-26

X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by “programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-26

Iranian state media reports that President Masoud Pezeshkian has issued an order to reopen international internet access after a near-90-day blackout (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-26 Iran

Q&A with Sundar Pichai on Google Search's future, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism of AI, TPUs, being “behind the frontier” in coding, more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-26 Google AI

Anthropic's restricted Claude Mythos model may be coming to Claude Code (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26

FBI warns of Kali365 phishing service targeting Microsoft 365 accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26 Microsoft FBI

This $20 CISSP exam prep bundle covers all 8 domains (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26

Report: the EU plans to fine Google a high triple-digit million euro amount as part of a 2025 probe over concerns it favors its own services in search results (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-26 Google

SpaceX Launches 29 Starlink Satellites on Memorial Day (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-26 SpaceX

A look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers probe AI models for safety gaps, as its work becomes a blueprint for other governments' AI policies (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-26 AI

Study: rate of fabricated references in biomedical papers has grown 12x+ since 2023; in early 2026, one in 277 papers had at least one non-existent reference (fortune.com)
2026-5-26

How Iranian threat actor Nimbus Manticore used techniques like AI-assisted malware development and SEO poisoning to target companies during the US-Iran war (research.checkpoint.com)
2026-5-26 AI Iran

SoftBank stock jumped 4.6% to a record high on Monday, spurred by hopes of big returns from the company's stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp if they go public (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-26 Energy

Star Citizen, a video game in development since 2012, has reached $1B in lifetime funding; it remains in alpha and does not have a confirmed release date (variety.com)
2026-5-25

Will Big Tech Layoffs Bring a Culture Shift to Anxiety and Job Insecurity? (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-25 Layoffs

Tether plans to launch GELT, an “official” stablecoin representing the Georgian lari, with the support of Georgia's government in an unusual partnership (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-25

Sources: Wix is expected to cut ~1,000 jobs in the coming months, or ~20% of its workforce, after weak Q1 earnings and a ~50% collapse of its stock in 2026 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-5-25

A section of the Pope's encyclical describing AI's unpredictability suggests influence from Anthropic, whose co-founder Christopher Olah attended the unveiling (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-5-25 AI

Pope Leo XIV presents Magnifica humanitas, his encyclical on AI, calling for AI regulation, protection for children against hypersexualized AI images, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-25 AI

More than 5,500 GitHub repositories were infected with malware in a supply chain attack, dubbed Megalodon, on May 18 that relies on automated commits (www.securityweek.com)
2026-5-25 GitHub

In the ~43,000-word text, the Pope urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems and decried “new forms of slavery” of people tending AI systems (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-25 AI

Pope Leo XIV presents his encyclical on AI, calling for regulation of AI companies, protection for children against hypersexualized AI images, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-25 AI

Sources: execs from Meta, Google, and Amazon met with Vatican officials in April, as part of a quiet lobbying push ahead of Pope Leo XIV's first AI encyclical (www.politico.eu)
2026-5-25 Google Amazon AI

A growing number of execs are creating AI digital twins to manage tasks; Reid Hoffman says “Reid AI” has delivered 75+ addresses and presentations since 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-25 AI

It's Like the Olympics - But Steroids Are Allowed (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-25

A look at Xiaomi's AI push to future-proof its hardware and EV ecosystem, as it recently committed ~$8.8B in AI investments over the next three years (www.scmp.com)
2026-5-25 AI Xiaomi

A profile of Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg who is leading the gargantuan effort to transform Meta into an AI-first company (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-25 AI Zuckerberg

A look at DeepSeek's model optimization to reduce HBM use, potentially enabling domestic memory, ASIC, and CPU makers to create a Chinese AI hardware ecosystem (x.com)
2026-5-25 China AI

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