23 May 2026
The Best Vanguard ETF to Buy and Hold for the Next Decade (It Has Significant AI Exposure)
Key Points The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF carries an expense ratio of just 0.03%. Top holdings include Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet -- the heart of the AI economy. The S&P 500 has delivered roughly 10% annualized total returns over the long run.
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
SpaceX will retry Starship test flight after scrubbing prior launch
A Tesla Cybertruck drives past SpaceX facilities in Hawthorne, California, US, on Monday, April 13, 2026.
22 May 2026
Meta’s Latest App Looks Like Reddit
Meta has a new app on the App Store, and it looks an awful lot like Reddit. The app, called Forum, is “a dedicated space built for deeper discussions, real answers and communities you care about,” according to its App Store page.
22 May 2026
Inside the unlikely Vatican-Anthropic relationship that's reshaping the AI ethics debate
When news broke last week that Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical focused on artificial intelligence would be releasing on Monday (May 25), a wave of debate swept through Catholic and tech circles alike. According to Brian Green, it wasn’t the encyclical itself, which has been rumored for months, that sparked a “scattering of unease,” but details about how it will be unveiled: at an event, planned to…
22 May 2026
AI in financial services moves beyond pilots to profits
18 ways AI is rewriting the future of financial services: Key insights from the AWS Financial Services Symposium AI in financial services has stopped being just another technology tool and started becoming a measure of operational readiness. In 2025, 45% of IT decision-makers ranked generative AI tools as their top budget priority. By 2026, nearly 100% of financial services respondents said their…
22 May 2026
SpaceX Faces A Crucial Launch Test Ahead Of Its IPO
Starship ready for launch Getty Images Why SpaceX needs Starship. A new kind of origami. Sam Altman’s longevity startup raises more money. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype. To get it in your inbox, sign up here . S paceX filed its long awaited IPO on Wednesday , and there’s a lot to talk about.
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.
