Bloomberg reports OpenAI is considering slowing frontier development and wants other AI companies to follow.
Bloomberg : Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI employees that the company is considering slowing cutting-edge AI development, and he hopes other AI companies will do the same — OpenAI is considering slowing down the development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, and the ChatGPT maker's Chief Executive …
OpenAI publishes its Agents API, a new official interface for building and deploying agentic applications.
MIT launches an LLM Election Observatory to track nearly a dozen models' political answers during the 2026 midterms.
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times : MIT launches the LLM Election Observatory, a dashboard tracking how nearly a dozen AI models tailor responses to political queries during the 2026 US midterms — Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a go-to stop for voters looking for information about political races. Researchers are studying the effects.
Trump rejects AI-extinction warnings and frames US AI leadership over China as a national imperative.
Jeff Mason / Bloomberg : President Trump rejects warnings of AI-driven human extinction, saying the US leads China by a year and will be “in a very bad position” if it doesn't win in AI — President Donald Trump brushed aside warnings from artificial intelligence researchers that the technology is becoming …
Cognition launches SWE-2, its new software-engineering model, with claims against Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra.
OpenAI releases GPT-Live-1 in its API, expanding access to its live conversational model.
Tencent-backed AI-chip maker Enflame jumps 188% on its Shanghai debut after a roughly $910M IPO.
Ann Cao / South China Morning Post : Tencent-backed AI chipmaker Enflame's shares surged 188% in their Shanghai debut, giving Enflame a market cap of $26.3B, after raising ~$910M in an IPO — Tencent-backed company valued at US$25 billion, highlighting its role in Beijing's push for domestic chips amid US export restrictions
Optical-interconnect startup Ayar Labs raises a $150M extension to fund direct optical links between AI chips.
Stephen Nellis / Reuters : Ayar Labs, which is developing a way to link AI chips directly with optical connections, raised $150M, an extension of its $500M Series E in March 2026 — Ayar Labs, a Silicon Valley startup developing a way to link AI chips directly together with optical connections, on Thursday said it has raised an additional $150 million.
A user reports OpenAI repeatedly re-enables the account setting permitting training on their conversations.
Adobe says it reached 1B monthly active users as freemium AI offerings pushed freemium MAUs above 100M.
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal : Adobe says it hit 1B MAUs, with freemium MAUs surpassing 100M in Q3, up 70%+ YoY, as it increasingly focuses on expanding its freemium AI offerings — The software company's profit and revenue rose in the third quarter — Adobe lifted its full-year guidance and said it hit …
YuE2 presents a frontier music-generation system built around symbolic planning.
System76 unveils the Thelio Mira AI workstation with 192 GB of GPU memory.
Google Project Zero details race-condition testing via memory-access tracing and stack-based delay injection.
OpenJDK's JEP 544 proposes ahead-of-time code compilation for Java.
PlanetScale introduces Neki, a sharded Postgres offering.
Shopify explains why it is replacing React Native with native Swift and Kotlin for mobile development.
The Rust Foundation announces Rust has become a tier-1 language at Microsoft.
Forgejo discloses a critical remote-code-execution vulnerability affecting versions through 16.0.3.
A technical write-up demonstrates Deathray, a way an untrusted webpage can freeze a Mac.
Bloomberg finds only 4% of YC's spring 2026 startups are primarily native-mobile, versus 15% in 2013.
Parmy Olson / Bloomberg : Only 4% of the startups in YC's 2026 spring batch had a native mobile app as their main product, down from 15% in 2013, as startups focus on AI and agents — Artificial intelligence has made it easier than ever to build an app. New releases on Apple Inc.'s App Store surged by about 80% earlier …
Garry Tan argues industry should focus on present AI harms rather than Chinese distillation or extinction fears.
CNBC : Garry Tan says “I would do nothing” about China's AI distillation and urges the industry to focus on current AI risks instead of doomsday-style extinction fears — At a time when some Silicon Valley giants and national security experts are calling for action against Chinese companies engaged …
Proof of Capture offers an open-source, steganography-based alternative to Apple's image-authenticity reference system.
NASA describes a satellite-image processing technique that can recover ancient images.
Wired reports OpenAI sought congressional guidance on antitrust risks of an industry-wide AI-development slowdown.
Maxwell Zeff / Wired : Sources: OpenAI asked members of Congress for guidance on whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown in AI development would be legal under antitrust law — Substantive coordination on safety between AI labs may risk running afoul of antitrust law, the people say …
A hands-on comparison tests nine coding-agent harnesses against working directly on a laptop.
Armin Ronacher critiques the renewed push for AI coding tools in “Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?”
“What Comes After Git” examines possible successors to Git’s collaboration and version-control model.
Kalshi reportedly plans to seek US approval for single-stock perpetual futures, following Coinbase's filing.
Wall Street Journal : Sources: Kalshi plans to seek US regulatory approval to start offering single-stock perpetual futures; Coinbase filed similar regulatory paperwork last week — Platform known for prediction markets has seen perpetual futures surge in popularity — A risky type of trade that has exploded …
India's Serious Fraud Office recommends a probe of Xiaomi over alleged business-model and foreign-investment violations.
Aditya Kalra / Reuters : Official doc: India's Serious Fraud Office urges the government to probe Xiaomi over alleged business model irregularities and foreign investment law violations — India's Serious Fraud Office has recommended Xiaomi be investigated for alleged irregularities in its business model and compliance …
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal : Polymarket names Warren Jenson its first CFO as the company aims to grow in the US; Jenson served as finance chief of Amazon, EA, NBC, and most recently Nielsen — Warren Jenson appointed as Polymarket's first chief financial officer at a pivotal time for the prediction markets industry
Sara Fischer / Axios : Sources: TikTok rejects ads from Meta that call on TikTok and other platforms to join Meta in settling with US state AGs in a landmark child safety lawsuit — TikTok has rejected ads from Meta that call on TikTok and other tech platforms to join Meta in settling with U.S. state attorneys general …
Christian Terry / Click2Houston.com : A US judge finds TikTok liable for lying about its safety standards and exposing minors to inappropriate content, in a 2025 lawsuit filed by Texas AG Ken Paxton — State will now proceed to trial to determine relief and penalties — AUSTIN, Texas - A U.S. District Judge has found TikTok liable …
Mark Spoonauer / Tom's Guide : An interview with Apple CEO John Ternus and Greg Joswiak on making the iPhone Duo, minimizing the crease, uninspiring Android foldables, the price, and more — 'I was like, yes, that's it...this is what I want' — Apple's first foldable phone is finally coming in the iPhone Duo …