21 May 2026
I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me
It’s a beautiful, balmy afternoon at Dolores Park in San Francisco, and I’m singing a birthday song to a prehistoric dinosaur. A cupcake with a pink candle magically appears in my empty hand as I finish my serenade. When I blow out the flame, a calm look of contentment washes over the CGI-esque creature. While the man in this AI video looks and sounds just like me, the clip was actually generated…
21 May 2026
ThreatsDay Bulletin: Linux Rootkits, Router 0-Day, AI Intrusions, Scam Kits and 25 New Stories
This week starts small. A token leaks. A bad package slips in. A login trick works. An old tool shows up again. At first, it feels like the usual mess. Then you see the pattern: attackers are not always breaking in. They are using the parts we already trust. That is what makes it worrying. The danger is in normal things now - updates, apps, cloud buttons, support chats, trusted accounts. AI does…
21 May 2026
Ryzen AI Halo is AMD’s $3,999 answer to maxing out ChatGPT
PCWorld reports on AMD’s new Ryzen AI Halo mini PC, a $3,999 local AI processing solution targeting businesses seeking alternatives to cloud services.
21 May 2026
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…
21 May 2026
Goodbye, grunt work. AI is fast-tracking Gen Z employees into more complex jobs.
Before joining Microsoft as a junior software engineer last year, Ume Habiba, imagined spending most of her time fixing bugs and juggling other mundane tasks. Instead, the University of Maryland graduate was charged with building a new feature for Azure Networking, one of Microsoft's flagship products. Habiba's miscalculation? Not realizing she would get to offload the kind of grunt work that…
21 May 2026
Google’s Surge in Chrome Vulnerability Discoveries Likely Driven by AI
The number of Chrome vulnerabilities discovered by Google has surged over the past month, likely driven by the company’s use of AI.
21 May 2026
Its Not Just Nvidia: Three Chips Power The Boom
When investors discuss the semiconductor chips driving AI infrastructure, they almost always key on Nvidia GPU chips. That’s not surprising, given the surge in Nvidia GPU revenue as we share below. Since 2024, GPU revenue has risen by over 1300% while Nvidia shares are up almost 400%. Nvidia has certainly played the lead role in designing AI chips, but there are other types of chips and companies…
21 May 2026
Google I/O 2026 Turned Gemini Into An Agent Platform
Sundar Pichai at Google I/O 2026 Google Google spent its biggest developer event of the year arguing that artificial intelligence should act, not just answer.
21 May 2026
Could Elon Musk become world’s first trillionaire? SpaceX IPO, Mars dream and the money math
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk The world could soon get its first trillionaire! Elon Musk, already the richest person on the planet, is now inching closer to the unprecedented milestone as SpaceX gears up to go public.
