Jay Goldberg

Xreal CEO Chi Xu showcased Project Aura — wired OLED smart glasses tethered to a pocket-sized computing puck — at Google I/O, with a commercial launch planned for later in 2026 and an IPO expected before year's end.

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Researchers at AI red-teaming firm Mindgard say they "gaslit" Claude into producing prohibited content, underscoring a broader shift in which hackers are exploiting chatbot behavior through psychological manipulation rather than technical exploits.

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Researchers at AI red-teaming firm Mindgard have demonstrated that chatbots can be manipulated through psychological pressure rather than traditional hacking techniques, signaling a new class of AI security threat that relies on conversation as its primary weapon.

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President Trump canceled a planned executive order that would have authorized government testing of frontier AI models before public release, after top AI company executives declined to attend the signing event and industry figures pushed back against the proposal.

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Repeated outages at Microsoft's GitHub unit, fueled by a delayed migration to Azure and surging AI-driven usage, have opened the door for rivals like Cursor and Anthropic's Claude Code to chip away at the platform's dominance among developers.

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Microsoft will update Word, Excel, and PowerPoint next week to let users move a widely criticized floating Copilot button to the ribbon, responding to complaints that the element obstructed cells and couldn't be fully disabled.

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Google accidentally exposed details of an unpatched Chromium remote code execution flaw, Cisco patched a maximum-severity Secure Workload vulnerability, and researchers detailed a Chinese espionage campaign hitting telecom providers with new Linux and Windows malware.

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The U.S. Commerce Department plans to award $2 billion in grants to nine quantum computing firms, with IBM set to receive $1 billion to build America's first purpose-built quantum foundry, sending sector stocks sharply higher on Thursday.

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Bloom Energy shares rose after it announced a partnership with European AI cloud provider Nebius, which will pay Bloom up to $2.6 billion in service fees to deploy fuel-cell power systems at its European data centers.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company has "largely conceded" China's AI chip market to Huawei as U.S. export restrictions remain firmly in place, even as Nvidia posted quarterly revenue of $81.62 billion, an 85% year-over-year increase.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees Wednesday that the company is laying off 8,000 workers — about 10% of its workforce — while moving roughly 7,000 others into new AI-focused roles, warning that "success isn't a given" in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.

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OpenAI is preparing to confidentially file a draft IPO prospectus as soon as Friday, setting the stage for what analysts say could be one of the largest public market debuts in history.

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An addendum to a $1.8 billion DOJ settlement shields President Trump's past tax returns and those of his family and business entities from IRS enforcement, drawing sharp criticism from Senate Democrats who say the provision violates federal law.

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Nomura projects Samsung Electronics could rally over 110% and SK Hynix roughly 117% over the next 12 months, citing a structural surge in AI-driven high-bandwidth memory demand that the brokerage says has outpaced the industry's supply capacity.

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Security researcher Justin O'Leary says Microsoft silently patched a privilege escalation flaw in Azure Backup for AKS after rejecting his disclosure report and blocking CVE issuance — a sequence Microsoft denies constitutes a security fix.

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General Motors has laid off roughly 600 salaried IT employees — more than 10% of its IT department — in a deliberate push to replace traditional technology roles with AI-focused positions, reflecting a broader workforce realignment across the automotive industry.

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Nectar Social, an agentic marketing platform co-founded by two former Meta employees, closed a $30 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthropic-affiliated Anthology Fund, with plans to expand its AI-driven platform for brand management across social channels.

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President Trump said he discussed potential AI safety cooperation with China's Xi Jinping during their Beijing summit, even as chip export controls went unaddressed and rare earth mineral access remained a key unresolved issue.

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