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OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erd&odblac;s unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946 (openai.com)
2026-5-21

GitHub's Internal Repos Breached Via Employee's Use of Malicious VS Code Extension (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-21 GitHub

Anna's Archive Hit With Global Domain Takedown Order (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-21

Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use (www.theguardian.com)
2026-5-21 AI

Seagate Sparks Memory Sell-Off As CEO Says It Would 'Take Too Long' To Build New Factories (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-21

One AI subscription to replace them all: 1min.AI is $69.97 for life (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-21 AI

Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (searchengineland.com)
2026-5-21 Google AI

Airbnb says it is adding luggage storage, airport pickups, car rentals, grocery delivery, and thousands of boutique and independent hotels to its platform (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-21 Airbnb

Yearslong Fight Over Users' Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-21

Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-21

Ubisoft reports a record operating loss of $1.40B for the year to March and says sales in 2026-27 would fall by about 8% to 9%; UBI falls 6%+ (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-21

Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as Friday (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-21 IPO

Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-21 AI Xbox

Internal memo: Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-21 Layoffs Zuckerberg

Regional Winners of Prestigious Literary Prize Suspected of Using Chatbots (slashdot.org)
2026-5-21 chatbot

An interview with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff about plans for Tinder, including a redesign, AI features, live events, and group dating to win over Gen Z (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21 Interview AI

OpenAI's Chris Lehane says he is pursuing “reverse federalism”, lobbying blue states to pass AI safety laws and create a de facto US standard, as DC dithers (www.politico.com)
2026-5-21 AI

Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stability Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-21 AI

Google's AI Studio Now Lets Anyone Build Android Apps In Minutes (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-21 Android Google AI

NanoClaw creator NanoCo raised a $12M seed led by Valley Capital and says it is booking enterprise customers; co-founders say they rejected a $20M buyout offer (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-21

Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has decided to suspend a general strike (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-21 Korea Samsung

Variational, which has built a protocol for decentralized derivatives trading aimed at gathering liquidity from traditional markets, raised a $50M Series A (fortune.com)
2026-5-21 Decentralize

Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised $60M led by Thrive Capital at a $1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21

Mercury, which provides banking services to startups, raised a $200M Series D led by TCV at a $5.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in March 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-21 Startup

Identity Alone Isn't Enough: Why Device Security Has to Share the Load (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-21

Apple says the App Store prevented over $2.2B in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2025, rejected over 2M problematic app submissions, and more (9to5mac.com)
2026-5-21 Apple

Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of its staff, in a push to become an AI-first company; another 7,000 workers will be reassigned to AI initiatives (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Exa, which offers a search engine that is designed for AI agents, raised $250M led by a16z at a $2.2B valuation, up from $700M in September 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Internal memo: Intuit is laying off about 17% of its workforce, or about 3,000 employees worldwide, to streamline operations and focus on its key bets (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-20

Owl & Co. report: the podcast industry generated $9.2B in sales globally in 2025, up 23% YoY; 73% of the growth in the US came from video-related revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20

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