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Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands — Salesforce on Wednesday unveiled the most ambitious architectural transformation in its 27-year history, introducing “Headless 360” …
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, appears to have drained ~$292M worth of rsETH before Kelp paused all rsETH contracts — Quick Take — An attacker seemingly drained 116,500 rsETH from Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge on Saturday …
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| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
A US judge grants an injunction to makers of the banned “ICE Sightings - Chicagoland” Facebook group and Eyes Up mobile app, who say DHS and DOJ violated the 1A — Last year, the Trump administration demanded platforms remove a slew of apps that monitored ICE activity.
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic's Mythos adds to concerns about rising workloads for open-source maintainers, as many have already been dealing with a “crazy” number of bug reports — Anthropic's Mythos and similar AI tools can identify threats and vulnerabilities faster than small teams can fix them, putting the internet at risk.| Financial Times: |
Sources suggest Anthropic is holding off from a wider Mythos release until it can reliably serve it to customers; Anthropic has suffered outages in recent weeks — Dario Amodei met with Susie Wiles despite lawsuits over whether AI lab is a national security threat| Axios: |
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Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory to hit ~40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% now — TOKYO/SEOUL — A shortage of memory chips appears likely to continue until around 2027, with the top U.S. and South Korean …
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| Brent Crane / Bloomberg: |
A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high — The pioneering reservation app was losing marquee restaurant groups before its chief executive made some big changes.| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
Airbnb launches a pilot in NYC, LA, and other cities that lets users to select from a range of boutique hotels alongside private homes in a bid to boost growth — Company expands accommodation options alongside home rentals but analysts warn of stiff competition| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools — Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring. — According to a new analysis from market intelligence … | Iain Martin / Forbes: |
Mistral, which once aimed for top open models, now leans on being an alternative to Chinese and US labs, says it's on track for $80M in monthly revenue by Dec. — Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didn't work out.| Leo Marchandon / Reuters: |
The EC awards a six-year, €180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech — The European Commission on Friday awarded a 180 million euro ($212 million) tender for sovereign cloud services to four European providers …
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| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing up to 12-week wait times in the US, with analysts citing strong demand from AI agent power users — The scarcity of Apple's littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh
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Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a primary supplier for Nvidia's ADAS, announces EXT lidar, calling it the industry's first to integrate spatial and color detection — Hesai (2525.HK), China's leading maker of lidar, has developed a version of the technology used in autonomous driving that is capable …
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| Siladitya Ray / Forbes: |
What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the “best way”, OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund — Topline — Elon Musk on Friday touted what he described as “Universal HIGH INCOME” as a solution to deal …
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