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AI & Machine Learning

1. OpenAI opens Singapore AI lab as IMDA updates AI framework

OpenAI will open its first Applied AI Lab outside the US in Singapore. The lab is part of a new partnership with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information. The initiative, called OpenAI for Singapore, was announced at the ATx Summit and is backed by a commitment of more than S$300 million. The lab will […] The post OpenAI opens Singapore AI lab as IMDA updates AI framework appeared first on AI News.

2. China’s AI just mapped its entire renewable energy grid. Here’s why the rest of the world should pay attention

Every major economy is staring at the same problem right now. Artificial intelligence is consuming electricity at a pace that grids were never designed to handle. In the US, capacity market prices in PJM, the country’s largest grid operator, have risen more than tenfold in two years, with data-centre growth identified as a primary driver. […] The post China’s AI just mapped its entire renewable energy grid. Here’s why the rest of the world should pay attention appeared first on AI News.

3. Musk and Zuckerberg convinced Trump to scrap AI executive order

The ceremony was scheduled. The CEOs were on the guest list. And then it wasn’t happening. On Thursday, US President Donald Trump scrapped a planned AI executive order, which had already been delayed multiple times, citing concerns that it might erode America’s competitive edge over China. “We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t […] The post Musk and Zuckerberg convinced Trump to scrap AI executive order appeared first on AI News.

4. Nvidia’s Vera chip is the US$200 billion bet Jensen Huang doesn’t want you to overlook

The Nvidia Vera chip is rarely the headline when earnings beat estimates, but it should be. When Nvidia reported Q1 revenue of US$81.62 billion on Wednesday, beating analyst estimates of US$78.86 billion, and guided Q2 at US$91 billion–well above Wall Street’s US$86.84 billion forecast–the numbers did what Nvidia numbers always do: dominate the room. But […] The post Nvidia’s Vera chip is the US$200 billion bet Jensen Huang doesn’t want you to overlook appeared first on AI News.

5. Building Context-Aware Search in Python with LLM Embeddings + Metadata

Keyword search breaks the moment a user types something a document doesn't literally say.

6. How to Build a Multi-Agent Research Assistant in Python

I have been experimenting with the OpenAI Agents SDK, and it has quickly become one of my favorite ways to build agentic AI applications.

7. OpenAI named a Leader in enterprise coding agents by Gartner

OpenAI is named a leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents, with Codex recognized for innovation and enterprise-scale deployment.

8. How Virgin Atlantic ships faster with Codex

How Virgin Atlantic used Codex to ship its revamped mobile app on a fixed holiday travel deadline, reaching near-total unit test coverage and zero P1 defects.

9. AdventHealth advances whole-person care with OpenAI

AdventHealth is using ChatGPT for Healthcare to streamline workflows, reduce administrative burden, and return more time to patient care.

Software Development

1. What Anthropic and OpenAI launched in 72 hours has Wall Street paying attention

Within 72 hours this month, Anthropic and OpenAI each launched enterprise deployment arms, announced major financial services partnerships, and shipped The post What Anthropic and OpenAI launched in 72 hours has Wall Street paying attention appeared first on The New Stack.

2. JetBrains is selling independence as the rest of AI coding picks sides

JetBrains is making a new argument for why developers should care who owns their coding tools. Cursor is tying future The post JetBrains is selling independence as the rest of AI coding picks sides appeared first on The New Stack.

3. Three ways operational debt will break your AI strategy, and how to recover

The pressure to move fast has never been greater. However, speed without resilience is a liability. As AI moves from The post Three ways operational debt will break your AI strategy, and how to recover appeared first on The New Stack.

4. I buried 20 problems in a fake P&L to see if Claude for Small Business could find them

Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business this month, adding native connectors to business tools like QuickBooks, HubSpot, Canva, Google Workspace, The post I buried 20 problems in a fake P&L to see if Claude for Small Business could find them appeared first on The New Stack.

5. Why enterprise AI keeps stalling — and how data streaming could unlock it

Enterprise AI is running into a problem. But it has more to do with data infrastructure than model quality. The The post Why enterprise AI keeps stalling — and how data streaming could unlock it appeared first on The New Stack.

6. JFrog report recaps a tumultuous year in supply chain security

Calendar year 2025 not only broke records for code package proliferation; it also redefined the foundational architecture of the software The post JFrog report recaps a tumultuous year in supply chain security appeared first on The New Stack.

7. Kore counts down to Artemis, its moonshot for governable AI agents

Kore wants to drag enterprise agent development out of the prompt-chain wilderness. The agentic software company on Thursday released Artemis, The post Kore counts down to Artemis, its moonshot for governable AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

8. How to build your first end-to-end AI workflow in n8n

n8n is one of the most powerful workflow automation platforms available today, and the fastest way to learn it is The post How to build your first end-to-end AI workflow in n8n appeared first on The New Stack.

9. CI wasn’t built for coding agents. Here’s what comes next.

For years, integration tests have lived inside CI pipelines, triggered on push and answered ten, twenty, or thirty minutes later. The post CI wasn’t built for coding agents. Here’s what comes next. appeared first on The New Stack.

10. “Morally repugnant shortsightedness”: Why open source security leaders say companies must stop freeloading on maintainers

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a cross-industry initiative of the Linux Foundation focused on sustainably securing open source software, The post “Morally repugnant shortsightedness”: Why open source security leaders say companies must stop freeloading on maintainers appeared first on The New Stack.

11. Dispatches from O'Reilly: The accidental orchestrator

Experiments in agentic engineering and AI-driven development

12. Breaking your AI storage bottlenecks

Recorded at HumanX, Ryan sits down with Garima Kapoor and Anand Babu Periasamy, co-founders and co-CEOs of MinIO, to chat about eliminating the storage bottlenecks that leave GPUs underutilized, their partnership with NVIDIA on the new STX reference architecture, and why modern AI infrastructure is converging on S3-compatible object storage.

13. Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue

With much of a software engineer’s time moving from writing code to structuring prompts and reviewing code, the workday is getting denser and more intense. Can AI solve the problems it's causing?

14. Nobody Reads Your Code Anymore

Here is what happened to code review in 2026. AI writes the code. AI reviews the code. A human clicks approve. The PR merges. Everyone moves on. Nobody in that chain actually read the diff. This is not a prediction. This is Tuesday. 46% of all code on GitHub is now AI-generated. In Java repositories, that number is 61%. Teams with high AI adoption merge 98% more pull requests than they did before. And the time spent reviewing those pull requests increased by 91%. Not because people are reviewing...

15. Why I built a collection of 5 free, zero-signup career finance tools for solo builders

Hey everyone, Transitioning to freelance work, contracting, or solo building comes with a massive administrative tax. Suddenly, you have to verify market salaries, audit long legal contracts, calculate multi-variable hourly rates, map out an exit timeline, and figure out corporate tax structures (LLC vs Sole Prop). To eliminate this operational friction, I built SalaryParity—a completely free dashboard packed with 5 focused financial and admin utilities. Here is how the workspace is structured: ...

Programming Languages

1. Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ From Scratch

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2. A blueprint for formal verification of Apple corecrypto

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3. Creator of C++ talks about memory safety

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4. Writing VBA modules inside Excel files is much stranger than I expected

Writing VBA back into Excel files is not “just editing text in a zip file” I went down the rabbit hole of exploring how VBA modules are stored inside Office files, and the format is much stranger than I expected. The most surprising part is how many layers are involved. For a modern .xlsm file, the path looks roughly like this: text Excel workbook -> ZIP / Open XML package -> xl/vbaProject.bin -> Microsoft Compound File Binary -> VBA project streams -> compressed module source So replacing a VBA...

5. 16 bytes of code that turn Sierpinski waves into Matrix rain

Hey babe, stop what you're doing, HellMood dropped another WriteUp xD Jokes aside, this is an in depth explanation of the underlying math that allow 16 bytes of x86 code to produce a visual textmode effect and music at the same time. "MiragePT", a demo scener, let the thing run on a real old 286 system with MDA Hercules graphics and it ran there as well. Also included some background information that i was asked for. Since i have done this for so many years i might have left out details you migh...

6. Clojure Anonymous Functions

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7. How I Built a Confluence Crawler

A writeup about building confluence2md, a Go CLI tool that converts Confluence wikis to Markdown and the surprisingly deep technical challenges along the way. The article covers: Two-phase crawling: Phase 1 fetches and converts pages with original URLs, Phase 2 rewrites links after knowing the complete page graph (so nothing breaks) Why converting Confluence storage format is painful (XML macros, link rewriting, pagination) Checkpoint-based incremental updates without losing progress Cross-platf...

8. How to Call an API from an Email

"Interactive emails" are sort of a hot topic in the ecommerce world. Under the hood they're just a crazy hodgepodge of weird undocumented CSS hacks. I've been researching techniques for the last couple years and finally consolidated some of my favorite tricks in this article. Very cursed, but I hope y'all find it interesting submitted by /u/ricekrispysawdust [link] [comments]

9. How Container Registries Work: Pushing and Pulling Images Without Docker

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Game Development

1. Subnautica 2 hits four million sales

The Early Access title hit four million sales within a week of launch.

2. Take-Two expects to earn $8B in FY27 thanks to Grand Theft Auto VI

Grand Theft Auto V is nearing 230 million lifetime sales ahead of the launch of its long-awaited sequel.

3. Layoffs imminent at Bungie, former BioWare devs launch new studio, and GTA VI still on for November - Patch Notes #53

Plus: Xbox expands leadership team (again) and the Nex Playground is heading to the UK and Ireland.

4. Destiny 2's active development will end in June

The game's next live service content update will be its last.

5. Splinter Cell designer says modern lighting has made stealth games harder to read

Clint Hocking says lighting direction, as well as tools like ambient occlusion, have an impact on stealth games.

6. Update: Last Flag dev Night Street Games lays off 'about a dozen' staff

The Imagine Dragons-funded project did not achieve the 'financial success' the team anticipated.

7. Opinion: Lars Wingefors is out of his mind

One of the video game industry's most infamous execs is still attempting to rewrite reality.

8. LATAM indie devs lay out how to improve your text animation

Want people to read your text? Juice it up.

9. Quantic Dream cutting jobs after scrapping Spellcasters Chronicles

French union STJV has slammed the company for allegedly mismanaging the project and placing employees at risk.

Gaming News

1. Secretlab Gaming Chairs And Desks Are Getting Big Memorial Day Discounts

Secretlab is responsible for many of our favorite gaming chairs--though their hefty prices can turn away frugal shoppers. But from now until June 2, the company is running a Memorial Day Sale that saves you $100 on select Titan Evo models. Beyond chairs, the popular Magnus Pro desks are discounted by up to $129--bringing the two premium products down to some of their best prices of the year. A few other accessories are also available with a price cut during the event, so be sure to check out all...

2. Expedition 33’s Esquie Gets The Nendoroid Treatment

Clair Obscur - Expedition 33 Esquie Nendoroid Figure $46 | Releases April 1-June 30, 2027 Preorder at Good Smile Expedition 33 swept just about every award ceremony after catapulting its way to the top of so many Game of the Year lists in 2025, including GameSpot's. While the game is packed with beautifully written, endearing characters that are easy to fall in love with, Esquie is a standout, and now Good Smile Company has added him to its Nendoroid collectible line. Preorders are open now for ...

3. Gruv’s Latest Sale Is A Goldmine For 4K Blu-Ray And Steelbook Fans

Physical media has made a big comeback in recent years, and if you're looking to beef up your movie collection, you'll want to check out Gruv's massive new sale on Blu-rays. The extremely time-limited promotion is offering big discounts on all kinds of Blu-rays, but you only have until 23.59 PM PT to grab some massive bargains. Currently, you can grab two steelbook Blu-rays for $34, two 4K Blu-rays for $24, and big savings on various 4K collections. Gruv Day 4K Blu-ray Sale Get 4K Blu-rays for f...

4. Hamilton: Collector’s Edition Buying Guide

Hamilton: Collector's Edition (4K Blu-ray) $80 | Releases June 16 Preorder at Amazon View at other stores Preorder at Walmart Hamilton has been one of the hottest Broadway musicals for over a decade, and while the movie has yet to be adapted into a feature film, you can catch it on Blu-ray. The musical historical drama is getting a new Collector's Edition on 4K Blu-ray, and you can preorder it now through Amazon and Walmart for $80 ahead of its June 16 release. Hamilton: Collector's Edition (4K ...

5. Fatal Fury Is Getting The Definitive History Book Fans Have Waited Decades For

Fatal Fury: The Ultimate History $48 See at Bitmap Books Fatal Fury: The Ultimate History Collector's Edition $77 See at Bitmap Books Bitmap Books has unveiled the next entry in its line of deluxe video game tomes, Fatal Fury: The Ultimate History. Similar to its previous releases, this new book is designed to be a deluxe trip through the history of the iconic fighting game franchise, and it's now available to order for $48. A Collector's Edition with an interactive cover and several extras is a...

6. This Xbox Series X Bundle Includes Forza Horizon 6 And A Controller For Free

We're living in a strange time where current-gen video game consoles have only gotten more expensive, not cheaper. Fortunately, the Xbox Series X Forza Horizon 6 Bundle from Best Buy is a good deal at $648. You get a powerful Xbox to enjoy one of this year's hottest racing games and a colorful controller to play it with. Overall, you'll save over $160 on this bundle, making it one of the best console deals on the market. Xbox Series X Forza Horizon 6 Bundle $648 (Save $162) An Xbox Series X cons...

7. Where Did All The Fortnite Leaks Go?

Even though I pay attention to these things for a living, I almost didn't realize that Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 was coming up so quickly. It's just two weeks away now, with Season 3 slated to launch on June 6, and we really don't know anything about it. And that's because there haven't been any leaks about it. Not a single. Dang. One. No stray strings of text or banner icons in the files indicating a new collab, or sketchy-sounding Twitter rumors about gameplay changes, or anything. It's dead...

8. Destiny 2 Is Ending Just As Its Story Started To Get Good

While Destiny 2 had a momentous finale for its Light and Darkness Saga in The Final Shape, which offered a clean opportunity to end its story there, the game’s development team at Bungie were narratively on a roll. The expansions that followed that quasi-climactic release, The Edge of Fate and Renegades, were meant to kickstart a second Fate Saga for the game. However, mechanical choices, particularly around attempts to more easily onboard new and returning players, not only failed to do so, the...

9. EU Politician Muddies Waters On “Stop Killing Games” With Rant On Wokeness

The European Union parliament has taken up the debate about the Stop Killing Games movement and whether game publishers have the responsibility to keep their titles online after players have already purchased and played them for years. However, Slovakian politician Milan Uhrik decided to derail the conversation by focusing on his personal beef with the gaming industry rather than addressing the issue at hand. “Wokeness and aggressive monetization is destroying videogames,” said Uhrik when it was...

10. Shock, tears, and relief: How Destiny 2's most popular creators reacted to the end of the legendary shooter

"I thought I would be ready to hear something like this, but I guess I'm just not," said popular streamer Datto.

11. Last Flag studio lays off half its employees as it puts 'the future of the game in the hands of our players'

Night Street Games said earlier this month that it will not be pursuing future development of its CTF shooter.

12. Former Bungie dev says 'you'd be surprised how many times' expansions were pitched for a fan-favorite Destiny archvillain who's now left hanging

Xivu Arath, we hardly knew ye.

13. Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse time in the games industry'

He doesn't want to diminish the current crisis, though.

14. Why play Wordle when you could be playing this new word puzzle game that rewards you with frogs?

It's Ribbit!

15. Four years later, Microsoft finally finishes fighting over the Activision acquisition

A lawsuit suit, filed by Sjunde AP-Fonden, alleged that the buyout was rushed in order to protect Activision's then-CEO Bobby Kotick.

Robotics

1. Exploring PLC and robot integration with YRG Robotics Chris Elston

Chris Elston discusses PLC integration, Yamaha Robotics, and AI's future in automation, highlighting accessibility and innovation. The post Exploring PLC and robot integration with YRG Robotics Chris Elston appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. Robotics Summit keynote to present open foundation for AI-powered robots

Brian Gerkey of Open Robotics will explain how the open-source community is ushering in the age of robots and AI at the Robotics Summit. The post Robotics Summit keynote to present open foundation for AI-powered robots appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. GE Vernova to acquire Robotech Automation to expand robotics integration

Energy company GE Vernova is already working with systems integrator Robotech on supply chain projects. The post GE Vernova to acquire Robotech Automation to expand robotics integration appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. Brain Corp partners with UC San Diego to help robots operate in complex environments

The AI collaboration with UC San Diego builds on Brain’s operational footprint, including more than 50,000 robots deployed globally. The post Brain Corp partners with UC San Diego to help robots operate in complex environments appeared first on The Robot Report.

5. FANUC partners with Google to advance physical AI in its robots

Since FANUC released its physical AI system at IREX in Tokyo, customer interest has grown rapidly, and it is working with Google and NVIDIA. The post FANUC partners with Google to advance physical AI in its robots appeared first on The Robot Report.

6. Humanoid partners with Bosch, Schaeffler to scale robot production

Humanoid is working with Bosch to make and distribute its HMND robot in Europe after also partnering with Siemens and Schaeffler. The post Humanoid partners with Bosch, Schaeffler to scale robot production appeared first on The Robot Report.

7. Video Friday: Atlas Versus a Fridge

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUEActuate 2026: 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOEnjoy today’s videos! Just months after its debut, Atlas is proving why it is ...

8. Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think

When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the bigger challenge is getting robots to think—and that’s starting to be open sourced too.The shift is still early, but companies including Hugging Face, Nvidia, and Alibaba have all made significant bets on open-source robotics in the last two years, releasing tools and models aimed at the higher-level work of getting robots to reason, decide, and act. The ope...

9. The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces

This sponsored article is brought to you by Wetour Robotics.A field technician on a wind turbine, harness clipped, both hands on a wrench, needs to send a command to the diagnostic device hanging at her belt. A logistics worker on a loading dock, gloves on, eyes on the pallet, needs to redirect a connected lift. A person using an assistive mobility device on a crowded street wants to nudge it forward without taking out a phone or speaking aloud. None of these moments call for a smarter robot. Th...

Tech General

1. Peec, one of Berlin’s rising startups, more than doubled annualized revenue in months to $10M, sources say

Peec, which helps brands track their presence in AI searches, offers proof of a key trend among European startups.

2. AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots

People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.

3. SpaceX launches Starship V3 for the first time, but loses booster on return

The company had a mostly successful first launch of its upgraded Starship V3, which it needs to power its many ambitious goals in the years to come.

4. Blue Origin cleared to fly New Glenn mega-rocket after April mishap

Jeff Bezos' rocket company confirmed an engine failure led to the loss of an AST SpaceMobile satellite last month, but offered little detail.

5. Google goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’

You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel home screen, says Google.

6. How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups

Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.

7. Kash Patel’s clothing brand website shut down after reports it was hacked

According to users on X, the website was hijacked by hackers in an attempt to trick visitors into installing malware.

8. Apple says Epic lawsuit shouldn’t reshape App Store rules for all developers

Apple is asking the Supreme Court to narrow the App Store injunction won by Epic Games and overturn the court’s contempt ruling over external payment fees.

9. Spotify’s AI bet: more of everything, less of what you want

Spotify has released a bunch of AI-powered tools that nudge users to create more content. It can be a bit much.

10. You can no longer Google the word ‘disregard’

After Google Search's AI update, the word "disregard" now effectively breaks the search interface.

11. Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild

Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. […]

12. Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for

Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. Earlier on Friday, if you searched for the term "disregard," the AI Overview section would include a response like what you'd see from a more traditional AI chatbot instead of the typical AI summary, as spotted on X. As you can see in the […]

13. Twelve South’s AirFly Pro 2 has hit one of its best prices ahead of summer travel

With Memorial day weekend kicking off the travel season, we’re seeing a lot of deals pop up on travel gadgets, from portable power banks to noise-canceling headphones. One of the best right now is Twelve South’s AirFly Pro 2 Bluetooth adapter, which lets you use your wireless headphones with in-flight entertainment systems so you can […]

14. Meta’s Forum is part Reddit, part Facebook, and part Google AI Overview

Meta's new Forum app for iPhones takes Facebook Groups and moves them to a dedicated app with a dedicated AI chatbot to go with it, like an AI revamp of the ill-fated Groups app Facebook shut down in 2017. Rather than going to ChatGPT or tacking "Reddit" onto the end of a Google search, Forum […]

15. Elon, stop trying to make Grok happen

There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk's "truth-seeking" AI chatbot Grok: It's not very good, and not many people are using it. That's the takeaway of a new Reuters report, which found that Grok barely appears in federal records of how the US government used AI last year. It's not the only sign xAI's […]

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