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  1. 289
    Business & Finance

    Lululemon Calls Founder Chip Wilson "Misguided" in Public Shareholder Letter, Sets June 25 Annual Meeting

    Lululemon has publicly labeled founder Chip Wilson "misguided" in a shareholder letter, setting June 25 as its annual meeting date after settlement talks over the boardroom proxy contest collapsed last week.

    170 DAYS AGO

  2. 290
    Artificial Intelligence

    Eric Schmidt Booed at University of Arizona Commencement as AI Skepticism Grows Among Graduates

    Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was repeatedly booed by University of Arizona graduates on Friday as his commencement address turned to AI advocacy, reflecting growing anxiety among new degree-holders entering an AI-disrupted job market.

    170 DAYS AGO

  3. 291
    Business & Finance

    Cerebras IPO Debut Lifts AI Market Hopes but Squeezes Out Smaller Companies

    Cerebras Systems' shares surged nearly 70% on their first day of trading Thursday, marking the largest U.S. tech IPO since Uber's 2019 debut — but the spotlight is already shifting toward SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, leaving much of the rest of the IPO pipeline in the shadows.

    171 DAYS AGO

  4. 292
    Cybersecurity

    Russian Hacker Group Secret Blizzard Rebuilds Kazuar Backdoor as Modular P2P Botnet

    Russia-linked Secret Blizzard has transformed its long-running Kazuar backdoor into a modular, peer-to-peer botnet with 150 configuration options, designed to evade detection through decentralized internal communications and autonomous leader election.

    171 DAYS AGO

  5. 293
    Artificial Intelligence

    arXiv to Issue One-Year Submission Bans for AI-Generated Content Violations

    The preprint server arXiv will ban all authors of a flagged manuscript from submitting for one year and permanently require peer review for their future work if inappropriate AI-generated content is found in their submissions.

    172 DAYS AGO

  6. 294
    Cybersecurity

    Microsoft Reverses Course on Edge Password Memory Exposure and Adds Automatic Driver Rollback to Windows

    Microsoft reversed its position on a password-in-memory vulnerability in the Edge browser and announced Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, a new Windows Update feature that lets the company remotely roll back faulty drivers without end-user action.

    172 DAYS AGO

  7. 295
    Artificial Intelligence

    Detroit Three Automakers Have Cut More Than 20,000 U.S. Salaried Jobs as AI Reshapes the Industry

    General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis have collectively shed more than 20,000 U.S. salaried jobs — 19% of their combined white-collar workforces — from recent peaks, with AI-driven workforce restructuring accelerating the trend at all three companies.

    173 DAYS AGO

  8. 296
    Cybersecurity

    TeamPCP Hackers Put Mistral AI Source Code Up for Sale at $25,000

    Hacker group TeamPCP is offering nearly 450 Mistral AI internal code repositories for $25,000 on a hacker forum, threatening to release the data publicly within a week if no buyer is found. The breach traces back to the Shai-Hulud software supply-chain attack.

    173 DAYS AGO

  9. 297
    Cybersecurity

    Amnesty International Researcher Exposes Russian Hackers Targeting 13,500 Signal Users

    Amnesty International security researcher Donncha Ó Cearbhaill turned a phishing attempt on his own Signal account into an investigation, uncovering a Russian government-linked campaign that had identified more than 13,500 targets.

    173 DAYS AGO

  10. 298
    Artificial Intelligence

    U.S. and China Agree to AI Safety Protocol at Trump-Xi Summit in Beijing

    The U.S. and China agreed at the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing to establish a protocol on AI safety best practices, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying the U.S. can engage China on the technology "because we are in the lead."

    174 DAYS AGO

  11. 299
    Business & Finance

    Cerebras Prices IPO at $185 a Share, Raising $5.55 Billion Above Expected Range

    Cerebras Systems priced its IPO at $185 per share on Wednesday, above its revised expected range, raising $5.55 billion and valuing the AI chip maker at $56.4 billion on a fully diluted basis.

    174 DAYS AGO

  12. 300
    Artificial Intelligence

    Microsoft Feared Becoming "IBM" to OpenAI's Microsoft, Nadella Testimony Reveals

    Trial testimony and discovery from Musk v. Altman reveal that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella feared as early as April 2022 that OpenAI could displace Microsoft the way Microsoft once displaced IBM, shaping a partnership now worth over $100 billion.

    174 DAYS AGO

  13. 301
    Artificial Intelligence

    Amazon Retires Rufus Chatbot and Launches Alexa for Shopping as Its Central AI Commerce Tool

    Amazon is retiring its Rufus chatbot and replacing it with Alexa for Shopping, a new AI commerce tool that merges Rufus and Alexa+ and is embedded directly into Amazon's search results and app.

    174 DAYS AGO

  14. 302
    Business & Finance

    SoftBank Posts $46 Billion Vision Fund Gain Driven by OpenAI Bet

    SoftBank reported a $46 billion yearly gain at its Vision Fund, with $45 billion of that tied to its investment in OpenAI, even as losses on Coupang, DiDi Global, and Klarna weighed on the rest of the portfolio.

    175 DAYS AGO

  15. 303
    Politics

    Jensen Huang Joins Trump's China Delegation After President's Personal Call

    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined President Trump's China trip after Trump personally called him following media coverage of his absence from the original delegation. Huang boarded Air Force One in Alaska ahead of Trump's scheduled meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

    175 DAYS AGO

  16. 304
    Artificial Intelligence

    Waymo Recalls 3,800 Robotaxis After Software Glitch Allowed Vehicles to Drive Into Flooded Roads

    Waymo has voluntarily recalled about 3,800 robotaxis to fix a software flaw that allowed some vehicles to drive onto flooded roadways, the latest in a series of safety incidents for the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company.

    175 DAYS AGO

  17. 305
    Cybersecurity

    Exaforce Raises $125 Million Series B at $725 Million Valuation to Deploy AI Against Real-Time Cyberattacks

    Exaforce has raised $125 million in a Series B round valuing the AI cybersecurity startup at $725 million, bringing its total funding to $200 million as demand for automated threat detection accelerates.

    175 DAYS AGO

  18. 306
    Artificial Intelligence

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Takes the Stand in Musk Lawsuit as Board Chair Wraps Testimony

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to testify Tuesday in the Elon Musk lawsuit in Oakland federal court, as board chair Bret Taylor wraps his testimony and a House committee presses Altman on potential conflicts of interest.

    175 DAYS AGO

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