LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told
In short: Every time you visit LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, a hidden JavaScript routine silently probes your browser for more than 6,000 installed extensions, collects 48 hardware and software [...]
Thinking Machines' first official product is here: meet Tinker, an API for distributed LLM fine-tuning
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded earlier this year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched its first product: Tinker, a Python-based API designed to make large language model (LLM) fin [...]
Roblox splits its user base into three age-gated tiers as lawsuits mount over child safety
In short: Roblox is introducing three mandatory age-gated account tiers -Kids (5-8), Select (9-15), and standard (16+) – starting mid-May, segregating content and chat access by age group. The move [...]
Samsung AI researcher's new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems
The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger, proprietary peers continued this week with yet another staggering advancement.Alexia Jolicoe [...]
OpenAI's TikTok of AI slop hit one million downloads faster than ChatGPT
Sora, OpenAI's app and social network for AI-generated videos, has been downloaded over one million times, according to Sora head Bill Peebles. The app reached one million downloads in less than [...]
Trump’s FY27 budget would cut $700M from CISA and kill election security
In short: The Trump administration’s FY2027 budget proposes cutting $707 million from CISA, eliminating the agency’s election security programme entirely and shedding 860 positions, a dramatic es [...]
The fintech that pivoted because of Kanye West just hit a $1.4B valuation with $100M from Khosla and Ribbit
Slash, the vertical banking platform built by two college dropouts, has raised a $100M Series C backed by Khosla Ventures and Ribbit Capital. The company’s valuation has nearly quadrupled since its [...]
Dfinity launches Caffeine, an AI platform that builds production apps from natural language prompts
The Dfinity Foundation on Wednesday released Caffeine, an artificial intelligence platform that allows users to build and deploy web applications through natural language conversation alone, bypassing [...]