Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India
Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.
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Delve did the security compliance on LiteLLM, an AI project hit by malware
LiteLLM offers an AI open source project used by millions that was infected by credential harvesting malware.
The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead
Anthropic finds AI isn’t replacing jobs yet, but early data shows growing inequality as experienced users gain an edge, raising concerns about future displacement and workforce divides.
Convicted spyware chief hints that Greece’s government was behind dozens of phone hacks
The spyware founder's comments are the most direct suggestion yet from anyone inside Intellexa that the Mitsotakis government authorized the hacking of dozens of phones belonging to senior Greek government ministers, opposition leaders, military officials, and journalists.
Google’s new compression algorithm cut memory stocks within hours of publication
Google published a research blog post on Tuesday about a new compression algorithm for AI models. Within hours, memory stocks were falling. Micron dropped 3 per cent, Western Digital lost 4.7 per cent, and SanDisk fell 5.7 per cent, as investors recalculated how much physical memory the AI industry might actually need. The algorithm is […]This story continues at The Next Web
Who’s driving Waymo’s self-driving cars? Sometimes, the police.
First responders have had to take control of Waymo vehicles and move them during emergency situations, including in at least two active crime scenes, TechCrunch found.
Jury finds Meta and YouTube built ‘addiction machines’ that harmed a child, awards $3 million in landmark trial
A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and Google liable for intentionally building addictive social media platforms that harmed a young woman’s mental health, awarding her $3 million in compensatory damages in what is the first trial verdict of its kind in the United States. The decision, delivered on Wednesday after a five-week trial, found […]This story continues at The Next Web
Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’
Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises to shrink AI’s “working memory” by up to 6x, but it’s still just a lab experiment for now.
A new app wants to cure loneliness by getting people off their phones and into the same room
A startup called Friending has launched a social platform built around a premise that sounds almost quaint in 2026: helping people make friends by meeting in person. The app, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, connects users by shared interests and geographic proximity, then deliberately limits chat functionality to push them toward face-to-face meetings rather than […]This story continues at The Next Web
Bactery Named to Fast Company’s List of Most Innovative Companies of 2026
Recognized “for creating a soil-powered battery for precision-ag sensors”, SOSV portfolio company Bactery was named to Fast Company’s list of Most Innovative Companies of 2026!Bacteries are batteries powered by bacteria. The rise of precision ag has put roughly a quarter billion sensors on farms worldwide, most of them depending on single-use batteries or complex solar setups. Bactery’s alternative—known in science as a microbial fuel cell—generates power by capturing electrons
Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more
As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache bottleneck."Every word a model processes must be stored as a high-dimensional vector in high-speed memory. For long-form tasks, this "digital cheat sheet" swells rapidly, devouring the graphics processing unit (GPU) video random access memory (VRAM) system used during inference, and s
Baltimore sues Elon Musk’s xAI over sexual Grok images
Baltimore, with a population of about 568,000, is the largest city to sue xAI over deepfakes attributed to Grok, its lawyers said.
Elon Musk’s Boring names South Dallas project one of three national winners
Elon Musk’s Boring Company is selecting a South Dallas site to assess the feasibility of a mile-long underground tunnel ...
Newsom tears into Elon Musk labeling him ‘one of the great disappointments’ of this era
Newsom accused Musk of ceding the electric vehicle market to China, and instead shifting Tesla’s focus to robotics ...
Elon Musk demands judge’s recusal over ‘support’ of LinkedIn post that mocked him after $2B verdict
Elon Musk is demanding a Delaware judge step aside from a high-stakes Tesla case after she allegedly “supported” a LinkedIn ...
Musk’s xAI ‘Doubling Down’ on AI Videos After OpenAI Nixes Sora
Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence company, xAI, plans to upgrade its AI video generator, seizing on an opening left ...
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Faces Lawsuit From Baltimore Over Sexualized Images
Baltimore sues Elon Musk’s Grok AI over fake nude images. The mayor and city council of Baltimore, Maryland, filed a lawsuit ...
Elon Musk offers to pay TSA salaries — warns disruption hurts ‘so many Americans.’ Do this now if you get 1 paycheck
As a funding impasse disrupts airport operations across the U.S., Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he’s willing to pay the salaries ...
Oracle converges the AI data stack to give enterprise agents a single version of truth
Enterprise data teams moving agentic AI into production are hitting a consistent failure point at the data tier. Agents built across a vector store, a relational database, a graph store and a lakehouse require sync pipelines to keep context current. Under production load, that context goes stale. Oracle, whose database infrastructure runs the transaction systems of 97% of Fortune Global 100 companies by the company's own count, is now making a direct architectural argument that the database
Melania Trump wants a robot to homeschool your child
The first lady sees AI and robotics playing a prominent role in the future of American education.