Tech
SpaceX Acquires AI Coding Startup Cursor for $60 Billion
The rocket company agreed to an all-stock deal for the AI coding agent maker days after its initial public offering.
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33 stories on artificial-intelligence, across Tech, Business, Science, Climate, Politics.
Business
Nvidia plans first corporate bond sale since 2021 to raise up to $25 billion
The semiconductor company is seeking its first debt issuance in five years to fund AI growth and refinance existing obligations.
Tech
Anthropic Disables Top-Tier AI Models Following US Foreigner Ban
The company suspended access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after a Trump administration directive cited national security concerns.
Business
OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO
The ChatGPT creator has submitted a draft registration statement to the SEC, following a similar move by rival Anthropic.
Tech
Sriram Krishnan to Exit White House AI Advisor Role
The senior policy adviser for artificial intelligence plans to leave the Trump administration in late June to establish an outside institution.
Business
Chip Stock Selloff Erases $1 Trillion in Market Value
A sharp reversal in semiconductor stocks on Friday sent the Nasdaq to its worst day in over a year amid AI spending concerns and rising interest rate fears.
Tech
Trump Administration Discusses Taking Equity Stake in OpenAI
President Donald Trump and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are in talks regarding a potential U.S. government ownership stake to benefit American citizens.
Tech
Smartphone Camera Can Passively Monitor Heart Rate During Normal Use
Researchers have developed a system that uses a phone's front-facing camera to detect blood flow changes in the face and track heart rate without wearable devices.
Tech
Microsoft Unveils Majorana 2 Quantum Chip with 1,000-Fold Reliability Increase
The company claims the new topological quantum processor accelerates its timeline for a scalable system to 2029, though some researchers remain skeptical.
Business
Taiwan President Lai Links Status Quo to Global Tech Supply Chain Security
President Lai Ching-te stated that preserving the status quo is essential for securing the global supply chains of AI and advanced semiconductors.
Tech
Trump signs scaled-back executive order on AI oversight
The new order establishes a voluntary framework for government review of powerful AI models, reducing the requested review window from 90 to 30 days.
Tech
Trump signs executive order seeking early government access to AI models
The new directive establishes a voluntary framework for federal agencies to review powerful AI systems before their public release to address national security risks.
Tech
Alphabet to Raise $80 Billion to Fund AI Infrastructure Buildout
The Google parent company will utilize stock sales and a private deal with Berkshire Hathaway to expand AI compute capacity amid surging customer demand.
Tech
Florida Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Over Alleged Safety Lapses
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier alleges the company prioritized profit over safety and marketed ChatGPT as reliable despite known risks.
Business
AI Company Anthropic Confidentially Files for US IPO
The creator of the Claude chatbot has filed confidential paperwork with the SEC to go public this year, beating rival OpenAI to the filing stage.
Science
Open-Source ESMFold2 Model Predicts Shapes of 1 Billion Proteins
The new open-source atlas surpasses the AlphaFold Database by more than 800 million entries, according to Biohub researchers.
Tech
Erin Brockovich Launches Platform to Combat Data Center Secrecy
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has introduced a public platform to track AI data center developments and challenge corporate transparency.
Science
AI-Powered Blood Tests Show Potential for Early Lung Cancer Detection
Researchers are utilizing artificial intelligence to identify DNA fragment patterns and protein markers in blood to detect lung cancer at earlier, more treatable stages.
Climate
US Fossil-Fuel Power Investment Surpasses China Amid AI Boom
Surging energy demands from AI data centers have driven a record increase in US gas-fired power investment, overtaking China in fossil-fuel energy spending.
Science
Open-Source AI Model Predicts Structures of 1 Billion Proteins
The ESMFold2 model from Biohub provides an open-source alternative to AlphaFold, generating an atlas of over one billion predicted protein structures.
Tech
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.8 with Dynamic Workflows Tool
The updated flagship model introduces a coordination tool for subagents and allows users to control the level of effort the AI applies to tasks.
Business
Snowflake Shares Surge 36% Following Earnings Beat and $6 Billion AWS Deal
The cloud data platform provider raised its annual product revenue forecast and announced a deepened partnership with Amazon Web Services to utilize Graviton chips.
Tech
Robinhood Launches AI Agent Tools for Stock Trading and Credit Card Purchases
The brokerage is introducing tools that allow autonomous AI agents to execute trades and make purchases on behalf of retail investors.
Business
Micron Reaches $1 Trillion Market Capitalization Following 18% Stock Surge
The semiconductor company hit the milestone as AI-driven demand for memory chips sparked a significant increase in its share price.
Tech
Google-led Team Develops AI System to Write Expert-Level Scientific Software
The Empirical Research Assistance (ERA) system uses large language models and tree search to automate the creation and refinement of software for computational experiments.
Tech
AI Agent Teams Accelerate Scientific Research Speed
New developments in multi-agent AI systems are increasing the pace of scientific discovery by automating complex research workflows.
Tech
Google Redesigns Search Box for First Time in 25 Years
The company is replacing its iconic keyword-based search bar with a multimodal AI experience that merges AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Politics
Pope Leo XIV Calls for Disarmament of AI in First Papal Encyclical
The pontiff's first formal letter warns against the use of autonomous weapons systems and the monopolistic control of AI by Big Tech.
Climate
Scottish 'Green Datacentre' Policy Ignores AI Emissions, Analysis Finds
A Scottish charity warns that national planning frameworks fail to account for the carbon impact of AI infrastructure due to outdated definitions.
Tech
AI 'Scientists' Emerge to Automate Research and Drug Discovery
New autonomous AI systems are capable of generating hypotheses, executing code, and writing full research papers, prompting a shift in academic oversight.
Business
99% of CEOs Expect AI-Driven Layoffs Within Two Years
A report from consulting firm Mercer indicates nearly all surveyed executives anticipate AI initiatives will lead to workforce reductions.
Tech
AI Analysis of 400,000 Reddit Posts Identifies Hidden GLP-1 Side Effects
Researchers used artificial intelligence to scan social media data, uncovering unreported symptoms associated with popular weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.
Science
OpenAI Model Solves 80-Year-Old Mathematics Conjecture
An internal OpenAI reasoning model has autonomously solved the planar unit distance problem, a decades-old challenge posed by Paul Erdős.