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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
GitHub confirms ~3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claims responsibility — GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension.
More: BleepingComputer, The Record, Cyber Security News, TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, The Register, XDA Developers, Digit, Blockonomi, Security Affairs, Infosecurity, Help Net Security, CyberInsider, Benzinga, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinGape, and SecurityWeek
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Bluesky: @baldurbjarnason.com, @ddsd.dolsen.net, @oysta.au, and @simoneb
| The Keyword: |
Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash, its “strongest agentic and coding model yet”, for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode — Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows. — Today, we're introducing Gemini 3.5 …
More: The Keyword, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, The Mac Observer, The Decoder, MarkTechPost, The Rundown AI, Implicator.ai, and TestingCatalog AI News
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Gael Grosch, and Ashish Gupta
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability …
More: Spyglass, The Verge, and TechCrunch
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Gemini Omni, a multimodal model it says can “create anything from any input”, starting with video generation, for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra — Although it was already discovered by intrepid AI power users weeks ahead of the official unveiling today …
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| Macy Meyer / CNET: |
Google updates Flow and Flow Music with Gemini Omni Flash support, mobile apps, the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders, and more — Google Flow's family of products gets agentic updates, mobile apps and the Omni Flash treatment.
More: The Keyword. X: @flowbygoogle, @googlelabs, @flowbygoogle, @flowbygoogle, @google, and @googledeepmind
| Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central: |
Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube, initially for Premium users, and integrates Gemini Omni into YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app — Seriously, who is asking for all these tools? … What you need to know — Ask YouTube now supports conversational searches instead of relying only on simple keywords.| New York Times: |
Google overhauls its search box, letting users input longer queries, including with photos and videos, and automate searches with Gemini 3.5 Flash-based agents — Powered by a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box to answer longer queries …
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Mastodon: @craiggrannell@mastodon.social and @zrail@hachyderm.io
Forums: r/degoogle, r/antiai, r/google, r/technology, r/Foodforthought, r/Fauxmoi, r/redditstock, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Google adds Street View integration to Project Genie, its interactive world builder, and expands Genie from the US to adult Google AI Ultra subscribers globally — Ground your snow-globe worlds in real-world locations from Google Maps. — Project Genie is rolling out today …
More: The Keyword, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, and Digit
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LinkedIn: Jonathan Herbert and Hongjie Wang
| Jackson Chen / Engadget: |
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
More: OpenAI, OpenAI, The Keyword, Moneycontrol, PetaPixel, Digital Trends, Digit, and WinBuzzer
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LinkedIn: Leonard Rosenthol and Kent Walker
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google introduces Antigravity 2.0, featuring an updated desktop app that lets users orchestrate agents, an Antigravity CLI tool, and an SDK for custom workflows — Google is introducing a new version of its agentic coding app, Google Antigravity 2.0, with an updated desktop app, a CLI tool, and an SDK for custom workflows.| New York Times: |
Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of its staff, in a push to become an AI-first company; another 7,000 workers will be reassigned to AI initiatives — Meta told employees last month that it would carry out mass layoffs on May 20, as the Silicon Valley giant tries to transform into an A.I.-first company.| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Kickstarter retracts its stricter rules on mature content after creator backlash, and says it adopted the tougher rules because of its payment processor Stripe — It explained that it created the new rules due to Stripe's policy. — Kickstarter has retracted the new set of rules around mature content …
More: Kickstarter Blog, Kotaku, TheGamer, TheGamer, Kotaku, The Verge, and Graphic Policy
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Mastodon: @lilithsaintcrow …, @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk, and @BenRiceM@mastodon.social
Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/boardgames, and r/otomegames
| Jess Kinghorn / PC Gamer: |
Discord says voice and video calls outside of stage channels are now end-to-end encrypted by default, after launching its encryption protocol in September 2024 — “Likely one of the internet's most platform-diverse E2EE voice and video implementations.”
More: Discord Blog, Thurrott, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Ghacks, 9to5Mac, BleepingComputer, Business Standard, The Verge, Digital Trends, Engadget, XDA Developers, Tech Times, and The Indian Express
Bluesky: @patak.cat and @durumcrustulum.com
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils Universal Cart, a shopping assistant that works “across merchants”, built on its open-standard Universal Commerce Protocol, rolling out in the US — At I/O on Tuesday, Google introduced Universal Cart, its so-called agentic hub for managing shopping in one place.
More: The Keyword, Business Standard, Phandroid, and Engadget
X: @vidssrinivasan, @backlon, and @google
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
More: SammyGuru, The Deep View, Business Standard, and Engadget
| Wired: |
Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android XR smart glasses, with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster frames, and with XReal's Project Aura, all coming this fall — Here's your first look at smart glasses coming from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Google and Samsung's XR platform.
More: BBC, The Keyword, 9to5Google, Thurrott, The Mac Observer, The Elec, and Times of India
X: @jmdagdelen, @anshelsag, @snapdragon, @studio_vron, @qualcomm, @benz145, @vadimyuryev, @grace_huckins, @android, @google, and @mikeisaac. Threads: @warbyparker
| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu M890 AI chip for training and inference, saying it is particularly suited for agentic tasks, and plans annual upgrades — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. added a new processor to its expanding AI technology stack, enhancing a push to cover every aspect of artificial intelligence development.| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
The Take It Down Act, a US law forcing social networks to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of reporting or face fines, took effect on May 19 — The Take It Down Act is in full force, but it could be a gift to government censors — not victims of image-based sexual abuse.
More: Wired, Gizmodo, Techdirt, PetaPixel, Indicator, Federal Trade Commission, NewsOn6.com, Free Malaysia Today, CNET, and MyNewsLA.com
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Bluesky: @socialmedialab.ca and @eff.org
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Threat actors published 600+ malicious versions to npm as part of the Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign; most of the affected packages are in the @antv ecosystem — Threat actors earlier today published more than 600 malicious packages to the Node Package Manager (npm) index as part of a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain campaign.| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firm business models, legal AI competition, and more — The co-founder of the legal start-up talks about how AI could shake up law firms' business models and how he plans to stay ahead of rivals| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Sources: an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei router software caused a three-hour nationwide telecoms outage in Luxembourg in 2025 — An attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei enterprise router software caused a nationwide telecoms outage … | The Register: |
Cloud provider Railway says Google Cloud temporarily suspended its account without cause; in 2024, GCP deleted the account of an Australian pension fund — PaaS platform Railway says Google temporarily suspended its account on Wednesday without cause, inducing a major outage.
More: Railway Blog, The Pragmatic Engineer, and The Stack
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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to help launch a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research; he helped found OpenAI and worked at Tesla — Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known AI researchers in the world and a founding member of OpenAI, announced Tuesday that he's joining rival AI lab Anthropic.
More: Moneycontrol, TechCrunch, Shelly Palmer, Business Insider, Fortune India, DigiTimes, and Reuters
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| Reuters: |
Trump signs an EO calling on regulators and the Fed to review policies that could support fintech growth, including expanding fintech access to payment accounts — U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday calling on regulators and the Federal Reserve to review rules … | Reuters: |
Internal memo: Intuit is laying off about 17% of its workforce, or about 3,000 employees worldwide, to streamline operations and focus on its key bets — Intuit (INTU.O) is laying off about 17% of its workforce, or about 3,000 employees worldwide, to streamline operations and sharpen focus … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisition of Cursor 30 days after its public trading debut, which is expected to occur on June 12 — SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisition of artificial intelligence coding startup Cursor 30 days after Elon Musk's company begins trading publicly …
More: XDA Developers, Fortune, Blockonomi, The Information, The Next Web, DigiTimes, and Tech Times
| Bloomberg: |
Exa, which offers a search engine that is designed for AI agents, raised $250M led by a16z at a $2.2B valuation, up from $700M in September 2025 — Exa Labs Inc., a San Francisco-based startup that wants to build a search engine tailor-made for the age of artificial intelligence … | Bloomberg: |
Samsung Electronics rejects a labor union-accepted mediation proposal, raising the prospect of a workers' strike; a general work stoppage will proceed on May 21 — Video Player is loading. — Play — Mute — Current Time Loaded: 0% — Playback Rate — captions and subtitles off, selected| Nan Ransohoff / Nan's Substack: |
An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests ~$370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are poised to become liquid — AI is about to generate hundreds of billions in new philanthropic funding. We have a huge amount of work to do to make the most of it.| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Singapore announces a National AI Partnership with Google and an MoU with OpenAI, which will set up an AI lab and commit $234M+ to the city-state's AI ecosystem — Singapore has inked separate agreements with Google and OpenAI to strengthen its position as a global artificial intelligence hub …
More: CNBC, Benzinga, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, Investing.com, The Next Web, TNGlobal, Blockchain.News, Bloomberg, and Blockonomi
| John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scientist and nonprofit FutureHouse's AI tools can succeed at drug-retargeting tasks by forming hypotheses — Both tools generate hypotheses; one goes on to analyze some of the data. — On Tuesday, Nature released two papers describing AI systems intended …
More: Google DeepMind, natureasia.com, Nature, Nature, Nature, and Nature
X: @dr_alphalyrae, @andrewwhite01, @ckbjimmy, @futurehousesf, @andrewwhite01, and @ymatias. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Nikkei Asia: |
SkyeChip becomes the first Malaysian chip design company to IPO on the Bursa Malaysia exchange, surging 300%+; the company was valued at ~$397M at its IPO price — KUALA LUMPUR — SkyeChip became the first Malaysian chip design company to debut on Bursa Malaysia's main market on Wednesday …
More: TNGlobal, Dow Jones Newswires, Tech in Asia, The Star, and The Edge Malaysia
| Jemima McEvoy / The Information: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE — OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman late Tuesday offered to invest $2 million in every startup currently in the Y Combinator startup …
More: The Economic Times. X: @sama, @garrytan, @matthewberman, @bosmeny, @jason, @yoeven, @gdb, @natebjones, @stanine, @the_ai_investor, @brycent, @lauramodiano, @t_blom, @autismcapital, @benitoz, and @agupta
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
S. “Soma” Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015, has died at age 59 — S. “Soma” Somasegar, a fixture in the Seattle tech community who led Microsoft's Developer Division as part …
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