The feature is designed to help people get real-time context about trends and breaking stories, as well as receive recommendations, all within conversations.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Indigo brings the open social web to one app
Indigo's new social app lets you cross-post to the open social web, including Mastodon and Bluesky, and browse a unified timeline.
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U.S. bank disclose security lapse after sharing customer data with AI app
The bank said the security lapse was due to the use of an “unauthorized” AI software app.
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Exaforce raises $125M Series B to build AI for catching and stopping cyberattacks as they happen
The round valued the three-year-old startup at $725 million.
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Waymo issues recall to deal with a flooding problem
Waymo has issued a software recall that makes its robotaxis more cautious around flooded areas. A "final remedy" is in the works.
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Instructure strikes deal with hackers who breached it twice
The maker of the Canvas school software said it "reached an agreement" with the hackers, but provided no guarantees that the hackers would not release the data or keep their word.
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TikTok now wants to be the place you book the trip you just saw on TikTok
TikTok is systematically converting its discovery engine into a transaction layer, which both deepens user retention and opens entirely new revenue streams for its new owners.
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Dessn raises $6M for its production focused design tool
A new startup called Dessn has raised $6M to build AI-powered design tools that work directly with production codebases.
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AI is turning connected cars into pothole-finding machines
Fleet management company Samsara has developed an AI model to detect different kinds of potholes and gauge how fast they're deteriorating.
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Monday, May 11, 2026
Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks
Right now, every AI model you've ever used works the same way. You talk, it listens. It responds, you listen. Thinking Machines is trying to change that by building a model that processes your input and generates a response at the same time, so it's more like a phone call than a text chain.
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Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO
Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth as well as early-stage startups.
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GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well as prompt engineering and new AI workflows.
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Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted
Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more seamless.
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Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation
Five-year old European military drone startup Helsing is close to raising another monster round.
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Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
Digg returns (again) as another place to read AI news.
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