Isomorphic Labs, the AI-driven drug discovery spinout from Google DeepMind, is closing in on a massive $2 billion funding round led by Thrive Capital, with Alphabet also joining the deal.
Google DeepMind takes a minority stake in EVE Online developer CCP Games, now rebranded as Fenris Creations, using the iconic space MMO as a testing ground for advanced AI models focused on long-horizon planning and memory, as the newly independent studio completes a $120 million buyout and reports profitability in …
TabPFN launches as an open-source foundation model for tabular data, supporting classification and regression tasks with both local PyTorch and cloud-based inference, while enterprise users gain access to large-scale data support handling up to 10 million rows.
A new open-source engine called ds4.c launches Metal-only local inference for DeepSeek V4 Flash on Apple Silicon Macs, featuring 2-bit quantization, disk KV cache persistence, and a 1-million-token context window — making powerful AI inference possible on MacBooks and Mac Studios with 128GB or more of RAM.
Google is relaunching the Fitbit app as Google Health on May 19, featuring a redesigned interface and an AI-powered coaching tool built with Gemini that delivers personalized fitness, sleep, and medical insights — with existing users automatically transitioned and Google reaffirming it will never use health data for ads.
Mozilla leverages AI models, including Claude Mythos Preview, to uncover 271 hidden Firefox security bugs—including sandbox escapes and decades-old vulnerabilities—using a parallelized agentic pipeline that dramatically cuts false positives, and is now urging all developers to adopt similar AI-driven security practices immediately.
Google launches its AI-powered Health Coach globally on May 19, offering personalized 24/7 fitness, sleep, nutrition, and medical insights through a Gemini-powered subscription for just $9.99 per month.
AI is colliding with hard physical and geopolitical limits as chip shortages loom for up to five years, energy demands push Google toward space-based data centers, and nations resist foreign-controlled autonomous systems, while startups like Logical Intelligence challenge the dominance of large language models with leaner, physics-driven alternatives.
U.S. job cuts surge 38% in April 2026 to 83,387 as AI drives nearly 21,500 layoffs for the second straight month, while employer hiring plans collapse 69% to just over 10,000 announced positions amid deepening economic uncertainty.
Agentic AI is crashing cloud storage systems in real time, as autonomous AI agents generate extreme I/O spikes that legacy infrastructure like AWS EBS cannot handle, causing catastrophic latency surges, platform failures, and AI hallucinations — forcing engineers to urgently rethink storage architecture before the AI inference tsunami hits.