Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues — Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone …
Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens — Investors and some employees see a real threat of the company ceding business to AI models — Palantir Technologies owes …
FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears — The era of the anonymous phone number could be ending. On April 30, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved …
How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period — Championed by a guru known simply as the Kook, the satellite company AST has become one of the world's most expensive stocks.
A hack of Instructure's Canvas locked out students at schools and universities across the US in the middle of finals period; some US colleges postponed exams — Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage that knocked down Canvas, an online platform that manages exams …
Akamai says it struck a seven-year cloud computing deal with a “leading frontier model provider”; sources: the deal was with Anthropic and is worth $1.8B — Anthropic PBC has signed a $1.8 billion computing deal with cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. to meet surging demand …
OpenAI launches three voice models in the API: GPT-Realtime-2 with GPT-5-class reasoning, GPT-Realtime-Whisper for transcription, and GPT-Realtime-Translate — OpenAI has just released three new realtime voice models that it says will “unlock a new class of voice apps for developers.”