President Trump Signs AI Executive Order After Delaying It Over China Concerns
Trump’s executive order creates a voluntary framework for reviewing advanced AI models, expands AI-powered cybersecurity efforts, and more.
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The durable, floatable UE Wonderboom 4 speaker is cheaper than ever
I like the UE Wonderboom 4 Bluetooth speaker so much that I bought two of them, though I wish I could have paid less for them. Fortunately, you can stock up on the cheap, so long as you like the color blue. The Wonderboom 4 is available in blue at Amazon for $51.49, and at … Read more
Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant
Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.
Microsoft Scout is a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw
Much like Google, Microsoft is launching its own version of OpenClaw. Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, allowing businesses to assign a virtual assistant to employees to help with organizing calendars, expense reporting, email drafts, and much more. Unlike Copilot that lives inside … Read more
Ex-Anduril engineer raises $42M to build the Amazon of composite parts
Layup Parts co-founder Zack Eakin has drawn on a motorsports background, and his experience working for Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk, to tackle making faster, cheaper, and better composites.
Google rolls out fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams
As people increasingly refuse to answer calls from unknown numbers, scammers are shifting their tactics by spoofing trusted phone numbers and using AI deepfake technology to sound like authority figures, family members, or employers.
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Bitcoin gets new $50K target after BTC price crashes 6% in a day
Bitcoin price bets saw $50,000 returning after 6% daily BTC price losses liquidated $1.25 billion of crypto positions.
Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial recognition feature
The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring’s Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent.
CFTC chair claims Gemini case was politically motivated, seeks to reverse $5M settlement
The CFTC chair seeks to roll back an enforcement action on the company founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, donors to Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign and attendees at White House events.
The art and science of hyperparameter optimization on Amazon Nova Forge
Large language models (LLMs) deliver strong results on general tasks, but they often struggle with specialized work that requires understanding proprietary data, internal processes, or domain-specific terminology. Amazon Nova Forge addresses this by enabling you to build your own frontier models using Amazon Nova. You can start development from early model checkpoints, blend proprietary data … Read more
Object detection with Amazon Nova 2 Lite
Traditional computer vision solutions can require significant upfront investment. Setting up data pipelines, model training infrastructure, compute resources, and a dedicated data science team is often prohibitive for small companies or teams. Amazon Nova 2 Lite, available through Amazon Bedrock, provides an appealing alternative solution. This multimodal foundation model detects objects through natural language prompts … Read more
Microsoft’s Project Solara is an OS for AI agent gadgets
Microsoft just announced “Project Solara,” a new OS designed for gadgets that run AI agents, at Build 2026. The company is calling it “a new platform built from the ground up to power agent-driven experiences.” It’s built on Android, not Windows. Microsoft demonstrated two concept Project Solara devices at Build today: Desk concept and badge … Read more
Movement expands stablecoin payments push with access to US, Canada, EU rails
The Move-based blockchain network said it gained access to licensed payment infrastructure as it shifts toward stablecoin settlement and remittances.
Bitcoin Miner Hive Reports Revenue Surge as It Bets on Powering AI Boom
Hive mined nearly 2,900 Bitcoin last year and is now racing to build what it calls Canada’s largest private AI data center.
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Focused Energy raises whopping $240M Series A for laser-powered fusion tech
Another fusion startup has raised another a massive round to make this type of power a reality.
Will Strategy’s Peers Dump Bitcoin Now? Not so Fast, Analysts Say
Crypto analysts say investors should look closely at each company’s financial situation rather than expecting a cascade of incoming sales.
Microsoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn’t
Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra at the weekend, and it’s now revealing a miniature Surface PC aimed at developers. The new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is powered by Nvidia’s new Arm-based RTX Spark chips, just like the Surface Laptop Ultra, and is optimized for sustained workloads and local AI tasks. … Read more
Microsoft’s new developer-optimized Windows embraces Linux even more
Microsoft is kicking off its Build developer conference today with a promise of making Windows a trusted platform for development. As the company continues to focus on performance and reliability fixes for Windows 11, it’s also creating a developer-optimized experience that bundles a lot of useful tools and apps and embraces Linux even further. “We … Read more
Trump goes after green cards
On the Friday before Memorial Day, on the eve of a long weekend, the Trump administration announced that it was further gutting legal immigration. The Department of Homeland Security didn’t use this language. “This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes,” the agency said on X. “The … Read more
Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections
After industry objections, President Trump signed a revised AI executive order requiring only voluntary prerelease government reviews of advanced models.
Bitcoin faces an ‘identity crisis’ and DeFi devs need to stop acting like tech bros
Solstice Labs CEO Ben Nadareski says developers must act like financial managers to win back institutional trust amid ongoing security exploits.
Hyperliquid predicted 80% of oil move before traditional exchanges opened, says expert report
TD Securities says “perpetual futures” are exploding beyond crypto as platforms like Hyperliquid outpace traditional Wall Street exchanges on everything from pre-IPO tech stocks to weekend oil trading.
OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work
OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex, meant to expand the agentic tool’s uses in the workplace. Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being used for knowledge work, finding its uses go … Read more
SecurityMetrics Wins Most Promising SMB Cybersecurity Award from Cyber Defense Magazine
SecurityMetrics has won an award for their tool, Shopping Cart Monitor (SCM) which helps SMBs strengthen their cybersecurity posture and defend against e-commerce threats.
Board, the new game startup from Mirror founder Brynn Putnam, raises $20M, has already sold thousands
Board, the startup building what it calls “together tech” designed to bring people into the same room, has closed a Series A led by Union Square Ventures.
How Baz improved its AI Agent Code Review accuracy using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Code review was always manual and ineffective because of the inherent disconnect between code and product. Developers could review whether code compiled and worked, but not whether it fulfilled all functional and design requirements. In the past, QA teams spent hours manually clicking through preview environments to ensure features behaved as expected, and even more … Read more