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AI Summary

  • Google is significantly enhancing its Workspace suite with AI integrations, aiming to streamline tasks and improve user efficiency across applications like Gmail and Chrome.
  • Tesla is making substantial capital expenditures, increasing its investment to $25 billion, with a focus on scaling EV production and advancing its Full Self-Driving technology.
  • The tech industry is grappling with numerous data breaches, affecting entities from government agencies managing citizen IDs to major companies like Rituals and Meta.
  • X, formerly Twitter, is continuing to experiment with AI, introducing custom feeds powered by Grok and exploring new engagement features.
  • The race in AI chip development intensifies as Google launches new AI chips to directly challenge Nvidia's dominance in the market.

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  • Kalshi suspended three political candidates from its platform for insider trading 3 hours ago by Anna Washenko
    Business, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Anna Washenko

    Prediction market Kalshi has taken action against three political candidates, alleging that each was engaged with insider trading of information about their campaigns. The company implemented new rules last month aimed at preventing politicians and athletes from placing bets on events they can control, and it said those guardrails helped to flag this trio of cases.   The three candidates are Mark Moran of Virginia, Matt Klein of Minnesota and Ezekiel Enriquez of Texas. Kalshi reached settlements with Klein and Enriquez, both of whom cooperated in the platform's investigations. Each will face a fine of less than $1,000 and suspensions of up

  • Ecco the Dolphin: Complete will combine remasters and a sequel into one package 3 hours ago by Ian Carlos Campbell
    Video Games, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Ian Carlos Campbell

    Last year, Ecco the Dolphin creator Ed Annunizata teased plans to remaster the first two games in the series and create an entirely new sequel. Ecco the Dolphin: Complete, announced by Annunziata's studio A&R Atelier, appears to be the result of that work. The game doesn't have a release date yet, but A&R Atelier says it combines the planned remasters and third title into "the complete, definitive Ecco the Dolphin experience, created by the people who made the originals." Complete includes "all versions of Ecco the Dolphin and Ecco: The Tides of Time," according to the developer, alongside "a brand-new contemporary

  • NASA targets a September launch for its next big space telescope 4 hours ago by Will Shanklin
    Science, Space & Astronomy, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Will Shanklin

    NASA's next eye into the cosmos is due to leave our planet later this year. The agency says it's targeting an early September launch for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Roman (for short) has a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's. The September date is the earliest possible launch for Roman. NASA says it will go up (aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket) no later than May 2027. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after NASA's first chief astronomer and "mother" of Hubble, was introduced in 2016. (Back then, it was known as the Wide Field Infrared Survey

  • France's national agency for managing IDs and passports suffered a data breach last week 5 hours ago by Anna Washenko
    Internet & Networking Technology, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Anna Washenko

    The French government confirmed that France Titres, also known as Agence nationale des titres sécurisés (ANTS), experienced a security breach last week. France Titres disclosed that it detected a data breach on April 15. The next day, a hacker claimed responsibility for the breach and claimed to have up to 19 million records that they are attempting to sell. According to Bleeping Computer, the data does not appear to have been widely leaked yet.  France Titres is responsible for the country's identification and registration materials, including driver’s licenses, national ID cards, passports and immigration documents. The compromised data includes full names,

  • Apple rolls out iOS 26.4.2 to fix a flaw that allowed the FBI to access push notifications 5 hours ago by Ian Carlos Campbell
    Technology & Electronics, Handheld & Connected Devices, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Ian Carlos Campbell

    Apple's latest iOS update fixes a flaw in its notification database that made it possible for law enforcement to view deleted push notifications on a person's iPhone or iPad. The security flaw was one way law enforcement agencies like the FBI could circumvent Apple's strict stance towards user privacy, the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes, particularly since the company has required a court order to share notification data since 2023. According to Apple's update notes, iOS 26.4.2 introduces "improved data redaction" to address an issue where "notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device." The update is available now


The Verge

  • Elon Musk admits that millions of Tesla vehicles won’t get unsupervised FSD 3 hours ago by Jay Peters
    Electric Cars, Elon Musk, News, Tech, Tesla, Transportation

    Tesla vehicles with the company's Hardware 3 (HW3) computer actually won't receive unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD), CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday's Q1 2026 earnings call. Approximately 4 million Tesla vehicles operate on the HW3 platform, meaning that a significant chunk of Tesla owners - including customers that paid for the feature when they bought their cars - are now locked out of being able to use unsupervised FSD, which has been something Musk has been hyping for years, unless they upgrade their car or their car's hardware. Musk: > I wish it were otherwise, but Hardware 3 simply does not have

  • X is going to let Grok curate your timeline 4 hours ago by Emma Roth
    Apps, News, Social Media, Tech, Twitter - X

    X is putting its AI chatbot, Grok, in charge of your timeline. In an announcement on Wednesday, X product head Nikita Bier says Premium subscribers on iOS can get early access to a feature that allows users to pin specific topics to their home tab, which Grok will then use to curate the posts you see across each feed. "It's powered by Grok's understanding of every post with the algorithm's personalization - meaning every timeline is made just for you," Bier writes. "And it works even better when it's a topic you already engage with." Bier says early access to the Grok-powered

  • Tesla’s revenue rises again as it prepares for more AI and robotics 5 hours ago by Andrew J. Hawkins
    Autonomous Cars, Electric Cars, Elon Musk, News, Tech, Tesla, Transportation

    Tesla released its 2026 first-quarter financial earnings today, providing another look at the progress of Elon Musk's $1 trillion bet to transform his company into a leader of AI and robotics. Tesla said it earned $477 million in net income on $22.4 billion in revenue in the quarter that ended in April 2026. That's a 16 percent increase in revenue and a 17 percent increase in profits over the first quarter of 2025, when the company earned $409 million in net income on $19.3 billion in revenue. Tesla missed revenue expectations from Wall Street, which assumed approximately $22.64 billion in revenue. As

  • AI failure could trigger the next financial crisis, warns Elizabeth Warren 5 hours ago by Lauren Feiner
    AI, News, Policy, Politics

    "I know a bubble when I see one." That's what Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who led the push to create a new consumer financial regulator in the wake of the 2008 recession, told a crowd at a Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator event in Washington, DC on Wednesday. Warren warned of what she called "striking" parallels to that crisis in the AI industry. While she believes the technology has "enormous potential," she warned that AI companies' massive spending and borrowing practices are creating a tinderbox and Congress should step in. Though the AI industry has grown rapidly, Warren said the pace isn't keeping up

  • OpenAI now lets teams make custom bots that can do work on their own 5 hours ago by Jay Peters
    AI, News, OpenAI

    OpenAI is giving users of its Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans access to cloud-based "workspace" agents available in ChatGPT that can perform business tasks. In its blog post, OpenAI gives examples of agents like one that finds product feedback on the web and sends a report in Slack and a sales agent that can draft follow-up emails in Gmail. These new agents follow increasing interest in agents across the AI landscape, especially after OpenClaw - the AI agent formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot that touts itself as the "AI that actually does things" - went viral. OpenClaw founder Peter


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