26 May 2026
Sam Altman Says AI ‘Jobs Apocalypse’ He Predicted Probably Won’t Happen. What Changed?
Throughout his rise to becoming one of the most influential CEOs in artificial intelligence, OpenAI’s Sam Altman made repeated bold assertions about the impact that the new technology would have on jobs.
26 May 2026
For AI co-scientists to scale, scientists have to trust them. The architectural bets to earn it vary.
A growing number of vendors, from Google DeepMind to Benchling to traditional ELN companies like Sapio Sciences, are pitching “co-scientist” functionality to bench researchers. They are part of a multibillion-dollar wave of AI life-sciences deals that has accelerated since late 2025.
26 May 2026
This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots
In the last few years, India’s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and an increase in the number of cloud kitchens. Meanwhile, startups working on home services, such as on-demand household staffing platforms, including Urban Company, Snabbit , and Pronto , have gained popularity.
26 May 2026
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
Today, I’m talking with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in a conversation we recorded just after the Google I/O developer conference. This is the fifth year Sundar and I have sat down after I/O, and it’s become one of my favorite Decoder traditions. There’s always a lot of news at I/O, and this year was no exception — Google has powerful new Gemini models, it’s putting AI agents in…
26 May 2026
Microsoft Should Be Thrown Out Of Magnificent 7
The Magnificent 7 are supposed to comprise the world’s hottest megacap companies. Their businesses will control the future. They are a mix of AI, search, the future of vehicles and robots, Alphabet (parent company of Google), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Meta Platforms (parent company of Facebook and Instagram), Microsoft, Nvidia ( NASDAQ: NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction ), and Tesla…
26 May 2026
AI warfare is already here
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, an international forum that focuses on lethal autonomous systems, is hosted twice a year at the United Nations in Geneva. When Branka Marijan attended in November 2017, she thought the five-day sessions — which dealt largely in hypotheticals, speculating on a world where warfare was fought with killer robots — would be business as usual. After all,…
26 May 2026
Inside The Murky Market Selling Pre-IPO SpaceX And OpenAI Shares
In the summer of 2020, former Morgan Stanley trader Adam Crawley was wandering through Indonesia, Thailand and Australia, perfecting his qigong with a man called Master YanG, when a cold message on LinkedIn jerked him back to reality. The sender was Noel Moldvai, a crypto enthusiast with a fondness for early-2000s Canadian rock and a pitch about the hottest corner of the private markets. Crawley…
25 May 2026
Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller Just Dumped Alphabet (Google) and Picked Up 2 Stocks That Are Direct Bets on Agentic AI
There aren't too many investors better than Stanley Druckenmiller. The now-billionaire launched his own fund, Duquesne Capital, in 1981 and proceeded to absolutely crush the market over the next three decades, generating incredible average annual returns of over 30%, without a single year in the red. He shuttered the fund in 2010, and today, he focuses on managing his family's wealth out of the…
25 May 2026
⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Flaws, Defender 0-Days, Router Botnets, and Supply Chain Chaos
Monday recap. Same mess, new week. A sketchy dev tool got people pwned, old bugs came back from the dead, and security products somehow needed protecting from themselves. A bunch of companies spent the week checking old boxes and forgotten servers they should've patched years ago. Good times. Phishing crews are getting smarter too - less obvious scam junk, more targeted stuff that actually looks…
