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Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.

Is xAI a neocloud now?

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models. 

A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool

To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.

Google shuts down Project Mariner

Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired's Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page now contains a message that says: "Thank you for using Project Mariner. It was shut down on May 4th, 2026 and its technology […]

Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A

Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.

Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

Article URL: https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041316

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How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intrigue. (It's basically House of Cards, but for nerds.) Not a subscriber yet? You really should become one, and to save you a Google search, here is the direct link to do so! And do you think I should […]

MIT’s virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/mits-virtual-violin-offers-luthiers-a-new-design-tool/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041009

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Microsoft’s AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals

The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting its key clean power goals at risk.

Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words

Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model. In a video deposition shown during the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial on Wednesday, Murati said Altman falsely stated that OpenAI's legal department determined a new AI model did not […]