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AI & Machine Learning

1. JBS Dev: On imperfect data and the AI last mile – from model capability to cost sustainability

Joe Rose, president at strategic technology provider JBS Dev, wants to cut through one of the myths of working with generative and agentic AI systems. “It’s a common misconception that your data has to be perfect before you do any of these types of workloads,” he explains. As a recent article in AI Fieldbook outlines, […] The post JBS Dev: On imperfect data and the AI last mile – from model capability to cost sustainability appeared first on AI News.

2. Hugging Face hosted malicious software masquerading as OpenAI release

A malicious Hugging Face repository that posed as an OpenAI release delivered infostealer malware to Windows machines and recorded about 244,000 downloads before removal, according to research from AI security firm HiddenLayer. The number of downloads may have been artificially inflated by the attackers to make the model seem more popular, so the extent of […] The post Hugging Face hosted malicious software masquerading as OpenAI release appeared first on AI News.

3. Laserfiche unveils AI agents for natural language workflows

Laserfiche has announced the release of AI agents that can help perform tasks through natural language prompts. Intelligent assistants follow Laserfiche’s integrated security rules and compliance requirements, helping ensure all sensitive data remains protected. Karl Chan, CEO of Laserfiche, said, “The introduction of AI Agents to content management signals a change in how we handle […] The post Laserfiche unveils AI agents for natural language workflows appeared first on AI News.

4. AI automates HR compliance, except for the area tech companies need

Artificial intelligence is transforming how companies handle compliance. Background checks run in real-time. Payroll monitoring flags discrepancies automatically. Predictive analytics anticipate employee churn before it happens. HR tech stacks now offer automated solutions for nearly every regulatory requirement – from GDPR data requests to workplace safety reporting. But there is one glaring exception. For UK […] The post AI automates HR compliance, except for the area tech companies need appea...

5. Bain sees US$100 billion SaaS market in agentic AI automation

Bain & Company has estimated a US$100 billion market in the US for SaaS companies using agentic AI. The firm said the market is tied to automating coordination work in enterprise systems. The estimate comes from the second report in Bain’s five-part series on the software industry in the age of AI. The report examines […] The post Bain sees US$100 billion SaaS market in agentic AI automation appeared first on AI News.

6. LLM Observability Tools for Reliable AI Applications

Large language models (LLMs) now power everything from customer service bots to autonomous coding agents.

7. Implementing Prompt Compression to Reduce Agentic Loop Costs

Agentic loops in production can be synonymous with high costs, especially when it comes to both LLM and external application usage via APIs, where billing is often closely related to token usage.

8. How finance teams use Codex

See how finance teams can use Codex to build MBRs, reporting packs, variance bridges, model checks, and planning scenarios from real work inputs.

9. How NVIDIA engineers and researchers build with Codex

Teams use Codex with GPT-5.5 to ship production systems and turn research ideas into runnable experiments.

10. What Parameter Golf taught us about AI-assisted research

Parameter Golf brought together 1,000+ participants and 2,000+ submissions to explore AI-assisted machine learning research, coding agents, quantization, and novel model design under strict constraints.

11. AutoScout24 scales engineering with AI-powered workflows

Learn how AutoScout24 Group uses Codex and ChatGPT to speed development cycles, improve code quality, and expand AI adoption.

12. How ChatGPT adoption broadened in early 2026

ChatGPT adoption surged in Q1 2026, with fastest growth among users over 35 and more balanced gender usage, signaling broader mainstream AI adoption.

13. How enterprises are scaling AI

How enterprises scale AI: from early experiments to compounding impact through trust, governance, workflow design, and quality at scale.

14. OpenAI Campus Network: Student club interest form

Join the OpenAI Campus Network—connect student clubs worldwide, access AI tools, host events, and build an AI-powered campus community.

15. OpenAI launches DeployCo to help businesses build around intelligence

OpenAI launches DeployCo, a new enterprise deployment company built to help organizations bring frontier AI into production and turn it into measurable business impact.

Software Development

1. The new FinOps problem isn’t cloud bills

At Google Cloud Next this month in Las Vegas, The New Stack sat down with Finout co-founder and CEO Roi The post The new FinOps problem isn’t cloud bills appeared first on The New Stack.

2. Jensen Huang and Bill McDermott bet on OpenShell to secure enterprise AI agents

The software stack that powers enterprise applications was built for humans. It assumes human-speed interaction, human-managed credentials, and human oversight The post Jensen Huang and Bill McDermott bet on OpenShell to secure enterprise AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

3. The API portal is the clearest signal of whether your company can handle AI agents

When I recently talked to Kin Lane, API evangelist and co-founder of Naftiko, I was repeatedly struck by the parallels The post The API portal is the clearest signal of whether your company can handle AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

4. AI is creating a generation of developers who can’t debug their own code

On the surface, everything looks fine. The tests passed, the review is clean, and the junior who worked on it The post AI is creating a generation of developers who can’t debug their own code appeared first on The New Stack.

5. Red Hat is betting on AgentOps to close the gap between AI experiments and production

On Tuesday, Red Hat announced significant advancements to Red Hat AI (RHAI) 3.4 at its Red Hat Summit in Atlanta. Red Hat The post Red Hat is betting on AgentOps to close the gap between AI experiments and production appeared first on The New Stack.

6. AI teams are spending months on web scrapers that SerpApi replaces with one API call

If you want fresh data inside an AI system, you usually end up doing something messy to get it. For The post AI teams are spending months on web scrapers that SerpApi replaces with one API call appeared first on The New Stack.

7. Living off the agent: The new tactic hijacking enterprise AI

The moment employees started using AI tools with real company data, the game changed. Productivity jumped, but so did the The post Living off the agent: The new tactic hijacking enterprise AI appeared first on The New Stack.

8. SAP launches managed Joule Studio with Cursor and Claude Code support

SAP is all-in on making it easier for its users to build custom agents. At Sapphire 2026 in Orlando on The post SAP launches managed Joule Studio with Cursor and Claude Code support appeared first on The New Stack.

9. SAP launches AI Agent Hub at Sapphire 2026 to tame vendor agent sprawl

SAP wants to be the place where enterprises manage every AI agent in their environment, no matter which vendor built The post SAP launches AI Agent Hub at Sapphire 2026 to tame vendor agent sprawl appeared first on The New Stack.

10. As agentic dev tools boom, workflow auditability becomes the constraint

Recently, I was working with a senior engineering leader at a large financial institution to review their DevSecOps platform engineering The post As agentic dev tools boom, workflow auditability becomes the constraint appeared first on The New Stack.

11. Building a Google Drive Sync Engine that Survives MV3 Service Workers

12. Connecting the dots for accurate AI

At HumanX, Ryan is joined by Philip Rathle, CTO at Neo4j to discuss what knowledge context means for AI agents, how limitations like stale training data make the model-only approach to agents a bad fit for enterprise environments, and how Graph RAG raises the bar for accuracy and reduces context rot by combining vectors with a knowledge graph so agents are more targeted and connected.

13. When the Sensor Starts Thinking: SnortML, Agentic AI, and the Evolving Architecture of Intrusion Detection

Signature-based detection has always known what it was looking for. Machine learning and autonomous agents are changing the question entirely, shifting from "does this match a known pattern?" to "does this actually make sense in context?"

14. OAuth 2.0 – Device flow explained for Engineers, especially for Backend Engineers

15. Introducing the Heap, the software engineering blog for everyone

If you’ve got something you’ve been dying to share with the Stack Overflow community but don’t quite have a place to share it, we've got you.

Programming Languages

1. I built a world record exact solver for the minimum line cover of prime points after watching a Numberphile video. It turned the previous 282-hour record into 22 minutes, then kept going to prove 20 new awkward primes never certified before.

After watching a Numberphile video on "awkward primes" I fell down a rabbit hole that turned into a month of obsessive C++ optimisation. The problem: Plot the first N primes as points on a graph — the 1st prime (2) at position 1, the 2nd prime (3) at position 2, and so on. What is the minimum number of straight lines needed to pass through every point? Proving you've truly found the minimum is the hard part — it's an NP-complete set cover problem, and it gets exponentially harder as N grows. The...

2. Popular Go Library fsnotify Raises Supply Chain Alarms After Maintainer Access Changes

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3. Mass npm Supply Chain Attack Hits TanStack, Mistral AI, and 170+ Packages

massive campaign for 170+ packages and 400+ malicious versions published. what we saw that not a single maintainer account compromised. tanStack and Mistral AI these are the names that stand out. submitted by /u/BattleRemote3157 [link] [comments]

4. Curl lead developer Daniel Stenberg provides insightful feedbacks from Mythos analysis results

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5. Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise

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6. cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs the old ways

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7. Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation

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8. Tom's Namespaces: An Odin Fanfic

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9. Choosing the Right Duplicate Detection Strategy

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Game Development

1. Metroid Dread developer MercurySteam conducts layoffs

'While this is something common within the production cycles of our industry, it is nonetheless a difficult and painful situation.'

2. Sega is lowering the priority of games-as-a-service titles

The company reported a $200 million impairment loss for Rovio in its latest financial report.

3. Report: Microsoft Israel's general manager leaves amid alleged unethical use of Azure

There are concerns that the company's code of ethics has been violated.

4. Video codecs are a nightmare for game developers, but there's no solution in sight

Developers sometimes take extraordinary measures to make videos play in video games.

5. Indika developer raises $5M in funding for next project

'We are still debating whether we would like to partner with a publisher or pursue the self-publishing route.'

6. Alex Oxspring and The Stupendium found new studio Stupendium Softworks

"Off-color romance laced with biting political commentary is only one flavor we offer."

7. Double Fine petitions to unionize

All 'regular part-time and full-time employees' at the studio will be included.

8. Turning purchase data into outcomes in mobile gaming: Unity and Attain’s partnership

Programmatic teams are expected to do more than drive reach and efficiency. You are measured on whether audience strategies actually move products off shelves and drive incremental sales. However, connecting impressions in environments like mobile gaming to verified purchase behavior is still difficult. Unity’s new partnership with Attain is designed to help close that gap.Attain provides verified real-time purchase data from its direct, permissioned relationship with more than 14 million consum...

9. Architecting Albion Online: How Sandbox Interactive built a PvP MMO to scale across platforms

Officially launched in 2017, Albion Online is one of the longest-running MMOs built with Unity. Sandbox Interactive began developing the game in 2012 with the ambitious goal of creating a hardcore, PvP-focused online game. As a small independent team they needed a strong technical foundation that could support large numbers of concurrent players and deliver performant gameplay as Albion Online expanded to additional platforms.Today, Albion Online operates seamlessly across PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, A...

Gaming News

1. Gang Of Dragon Developer's Website Gets Whacked

Things really aren't looking good for Gang of Dragon, the Yakuza spiritual successor from former Sega and RGG Studios bigwig Toshihiro Nagoshi's eponymous Nagoshi Studio. Between reports of publisher NetEase pulling financial backing and the studio's YouTube channel vanishing-then-reappearing quietly in a seeming "no worries, everything is fine here" moment, fans eager to see more of Gang of Dragon after its The Game Awards debut last year have been feeling an ever-creeping dread about the game'...

2. Saros May Struggle To Recoup Its Budget, Despite Great Reviews - Analyst

Housemarque's Saros launched earlier this month to rave reviews, and it's a legitimate frontrunner for Game of the Year at this early point in 2026. However, it appears sales of the game have thus far been slower than its predecessor, Returnal, and the game may struggle to recoup its budget.That's according to Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics, who estimates Saros sold approximately 300,000 copies in its first two weeks on sale. This figure is a little behind Returnal, a very similar game that wa...

3. Ken Levine On Why He Quit Making BioShock Games--"Scary And Risky And Crazy"

Veteran game developer Ken Levine stepped away from the BioShock series after 2013's BioShock Infinite, and while the series is going ahead with BioShock 4, it's doing so without him. Why did Levine step away to work on a different game, Judas, instead of sticking with the series he created?Speaking to IGN, Levine said BioShock remains "very important" to him and that he feels "incredibly fortunate" to have worked on a franchise that means so much to so many people. However, he opted to step awa...

4. How To Save All Characters In Directive 8020 - Everyone Survives Walkthrough

Are you planning to save all characters in Directive 8020? The latest entry in The Dark Pictures Anthology takes you to the far future straight into the realm of sci-fi. As a group of explorers attempts to enter Tau Ceti F, strange incidents start to occur. Soon, their interstellar journey turns into a nightmare in the void of space.Our Directive 8020 guide has numerous tips to help you keep your characters alive in your playthrough, but there are some caveats:This guide is based on our full pla...

5. How To Unlock The Next Dark Pictures Teaser In Directive 8020

Are you wondering about how to unlock the Curator in Directive 8020? This mysterious being has been part of The Dark Pictures Anthology, often appearing just before the untimely demise of characters. While he still heralds the impending doom of this game's protagonists, Supermassive has changed up how he makes his presence known. This time, you have to actively search for him by way of collectibles known as O Death secrets. The studio did this as a memorial of sorts to the actor, Tony Pankhurst,...

6. One Of Steam’s Breakout Roguelites Is Getting A Sequel

Deadzone: Rogue 2 has officially been announced by developer Prophecy Games, with the studio promising a sharper follow-up to the 2025 roguelite first-person shooter. Prophecy Games says that the core gunplay and foundation of the original game have been kept intact, but it's aiming to deliver an experience that's deeper, more flexible, and feels more rewarding to master. A demo for Deadzone: Rogue 2 will also go live in June 2026 on PC, showcasing how the sequel has evolved the concepts of the ...

7. Marvel Rivals Season 8 Says "To Me, My X-Men" With Cyclops Reveal

Marvel Rivals developer NetEase Games has revealed a new look at Season 8: Sins of Alchemax for the free-to-play game, showing off iconic X-Men leader Cyclops in action, as well as a tease for the fan-favorite characters Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Kicking off on May 15, Season 8 revolves around the sinister Alchemax corporation, which was responsible for the recent Time Plague in Lower Manhattan. The devastating outbreak was contained, but with Alchemax responsible for it and still standing d...

8. CoD Veteran's New Shooter Is "Not A Call Of Duty Killer," Inspired By David Lynch

One of the best-known Call of Duty developers, David Vonderhaar, is making a new game that is "not a Call of Duty killer" but is instead something that sounds quite different.It will be a shooter, but Vonderhaar told Bloomberg it's "definitely not" another military simulation-type game. Instead, people can think of it as "if David Lynch made shooters."Players will work together to fight environmental challenges and also each other, the report said, suggesting it will be some type of PvPvE game.C...

9. Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic Boss Says AI Is "Creatively Soulless"

Casey Hudson, the gaming industry veteran who is leading the team making Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, has commented on AI, saying he finds it to be "creatively soulless."He said this in an interview with Bloomberg, adding, "It's hard to imagine where it's actually helpful in the process. I'm just really unimpressed with it."Presumably Hudson is referring to generative AI, which has been the hot-button topic as of late, but whatever the case, he is clearly not enthusiastic about the techn...

10. Sega Cancels Super Game, But New Crazy Taxi And Jet Set Radio Are Still Coming

The ambiguous Super Game project from Sega--which planned to incorporate NFTs, social networking, and cloud streaming--has been canned. The company behind Sonic the Hedgehog bluntly stated that it "decided to cancel" the game in its fiscal 2026 results presentation. This comes almost five years exactly after the original announcement of the Super Game in 2021.Speaking to Game File, Sega elaborated on its decision, telling the publication that "... in light of intensifying market competition, the...

11. Lies of P studio is hiring an 'AI Creator' for future projects but says the role will not be 'directly involved' in the development of the sequel

The successful applicant will use AI tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion for "asset creation," post-processing, and training AI models for use in game library creation.

12. Sega has canceled its live service 'Super Game' due to 'intensifying market competition,' and I really, really hope it's a sign that the industry is finally correcting itself

Years of catastrophic bets on F2P mega hits may finally be subsiding.

13. After his shock retirement last year, legendary former Tekken boss has landed at one of Japan's biggest fighting game publishers

Katsuhiro Harada is now the CEO of VS Studio.

14. Valve snuck a Wilhelm scream Easter egg into the new Steam Controller

My Steam Controller just screamed at me, Wilhelmingly.

15. Elon Musk, Sam Altman and the world's billionaires are terrified of the Google AI genius behind a 25-year-old computer game, because they think he might actually end up controlling god

"There is a very low probability of a good future if someone doesn't slow Demis down."

Robotics

1. Comau and OMRON Robotics partner to offer robotics for more industries

Comau and OMRON Robotics are combining robotics, control, and software capabilities in flexible automation for global customers. The post Comau and OMRON Robotics partner to offer robotics for more industries appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. 2026 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards

We unveil the 2026 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards, including the Robot of the Year, Startup of the Year, Application of the Year, and Robots for Good honorees. The post 2026 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. Automated Tire decloaks with new autonomous tire-changing SmartBay

Automated Tire says its SmartBay system enables one technician to supervise vehicle tire changing in up to three bays at once. The post Automated Tire decloaks with new autonomous tire-changing SmartBay appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. Hello Robot’s latest Stretch 4 is bigger, faster, and stronger than previous versions

Hello Robot's latest Stretch 4 is more capable than previous assistive robots, while still maintaining flexibility and safety. The post Hello Robot’s latest Stretch 4 is bigger, faster, and stronger than previous versions appeared first on The Robot Report.

5. RLWRLD releases RLDX-1, a dexterity-first foundation model for robot hands

RLWRLD said with RLDX-1, it aimed to include things like context memorization or force sensing, which existing models often lack. The post RLWRLD releases RLDX-1, a dexterity-first foundation model for robot hands appeared first on The Robot Report.

6. Hello Robot Sets the Standard for Practical, Safe Home Robots

Many roboticists (and at least one robotics journalist) have been seduced by the dream of a robot butler. And the rampant popularity of videos showing humanoid robots doing household tasks in improbably clean kitchens and unrealistically tidy bedrooms suggests that we’re not the only ones interested in a robot that can do our chores. But for all kinds of reasons, legged humanoids are not yet ready for industrial or commercial applications at scale, and home applications (if people even want them...

Tech General

1. Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea

There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.

2. Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450M

The firm takes a generalist approach, backing companies across categories such as AI applications, fintech, healthcare, and security. The average check size for this fund will be between $3 million and $5 million, with the aim to back at least 30 startups.

3. Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup

Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino's second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.

4. Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

Altman said that Musk's focus on controlling the initial for-profit gave him pause because OpenAI was dedicated to keeping advanced AI out of the hands of a single person, and Altman, with his experience running the prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator, knew "founders who had control usually did not give it up."

5. Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares

"Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, offered by these firms is void and will not be recognized on our books and records," the company's support page reads.

6. Potholes cost cities millions: This company is using AI and trucks to fix them

Fleet management company Samsara has developed an AI model to detect different kinds of potholes and gauge how fast they're deteriorating.

7. Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit

Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.

8. Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets

Google unveiled its new AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini in Chrome, refreshed Android Auto, and more ahead of I/O.

9. The AI legal services industry is heating up — Anthropic is getting in on the action

Anthropic's new tools are designed to help law firms automate specific clerical functions — things like document search and review, case law resources, deposition prep, document drafting, and other related areas.

10. Google adds Gemini-powered dictation to Gboard, which could be bad news for dictation startups

Google's transcription feature will initially launch with Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones.

11. Sony’s new Xperia phone gets an overdue redesign

Sony's Xperia 1 flagships have looked more or less the same since 2020, but that's finally changing with the Xperia 1 VIII, which moves to a chunky square camera island. The phone also boasts what should be a substantially improved telephoto camera, along with an AI camera assistant that looks like an improved version of […]

12. Sam Altman was winning on the stand, but it might not be enough

After two weeks of hearing from assorted witnesses that he was a lying snake, the jury finally heard from the lying snake himself: Sam Altman. At the end of the testimony, his lawyer William Savitt asked him how it felt to be accused of stealing a charity. "We created, through a ton of hard work, […]

13. iOS 27 might add a lot more customization to the Camera app

Apple's next iOS update could include something phone photographers have been waiting for: a lot more control over the Camera app. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the Camera app will be "fully customizable" in iOS 27 and users will be able to "pick their own set of controls - called widgets - that run along […]

14. Meta won’t let you block its AI account on Threads

Meta announced on Tuesday that it's testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers to questions or context about a conversation on the platform. If you've spent any time looking at replies on X as of late, this new feature sounds a lot like Meta's take on people […]

15. Meta will tell parents when their teens add new interests to their Instagram algorithm

Starting Tuesday, parents can get more details about what their teens are up to on Instagram. Meta is adding a feature to its Teen Accounts that shows parents the "general topics their teens engage with," like "basketball" or "fashion." Meta also says it will soon start notifying parents when their teen adds a new interest […]

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