25 May 2026
'Something has genuinely shifted': Inside Europe's tech startup surge
Lovable CEO Anton Osika is bullish on Europe. Sam Barnes/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images Call it Europemaxxing. Call it a Scandinavian surge. Whatever is happening, Europe's tech scene is feeling hot. From Legora to Lovable, Klarna to Yann LeCunn's new AMI Labs , a new generation of European startups is bedding in and defying the pull of Silicon Valley.
24 May 2026
Qualcomm Stock Is the Sleeping Giant of the AI Revolution. It’s Starting to Wake Up.
Qualcomm, Inc_ logo on phone-by viewimage via Shutterstock When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) chip space, Wall Street tends to list the exact same big names: Nvidia (NVDA) , Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) , and Intel (INTC) . Amid the AI-driven market cap race, Qualcomm (QCOM) has remained in the shadows for some time; as the tech sector bloated with price-to-earnings (P/E) multiples of…
24 May 2026
How to Tame AI’s Voracious Appetite for Energy
This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine . Featured Video As I sip coffee in my Berlin apartment and fire a question at Google’s AI chatbot Gemini, it’s easy not to think about the energy it takes to generate a response. Once the signal reaches my router, it whizzes, I assume, through copper wires or fiber-optic cables to one of Google’s data center hubs. Somewhere inside the data…
23 May 2026
Sketchy Imbalances In Data Training Are Distorting AI-Generated Mental Health Guidance
We must overcome the imbalance that occurs when AI is initially trained, especially when it comes to the AI providing mental health guidance. getty In today’s column, I examine a crucial weakness in most of the contemporary generative AI and large language models (LLMs) concerning the data and knowledge they are being trained on, especially in the mental health domain. Here’s the deal. AI makers…
22 May 2026
Beyond chatbots: Why the United States is best positioned for the next phase of AI
Recently, Mind Robotics, a Palo Alto-based startup, closed a $500 million bet on machines that think and act in the physical world. It is one of dozens of signals that AI's next phase has begun. Innovation experts such as Soumitra Dutta say the US is structurally better placed than anyone to lead it.
22 May 2026
WordPress 7.0 Ships AI Agent Infrastructure: API Key Theft Risk Surfaces on Launch Day
WordPress 7.0 "Armstrong," released May 20, 2026, arrived without the real-time collaborative editing feature that had been its stated centerpiece for months — and within two days of launch, a security researcher was warning that the AI infrastructure it shipped in place of that feature has given hackers a new category of target: paid API credentials worth thousands of dollars now stored in…
22 May 2026
Google, Japanese firm ship 1,000 robots in automation push
Google has joined hands with Japanese robotics giant FANUC America Corporation to advance Physical AI in industrial robots, amid rising demand for smarter automation systems capable of handling more complex factory tasks.
21 May 2026
SpaceX hires engineers and physicists for SpaceXAI initiative
SpaceX is assembling a dedicated AI software engineering group, and the job requirements read like an open invitation to anyone who’s good at math. The company is actively recruiting engineers and physicists for what’s being called SpaceXAI, with one notable caveat: prior AI experience is not required. Neither is aerospace experience, for that matter. SpaceX is casting a wide net across computer…
20 May 2026
Meta begins to lay off 10% of its workforce as AI investments surge
Notices started going out to employees on Wednesday morning as Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of its workforce, while pouring billions of dollars into AI.
