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Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors  —  Fewer people are buying parts and building new PCs from scratch. … Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled …

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Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao, who tends to take a conservative approach to revenue projections and has chosen to raise less money than is available  —  Krishna Rao is navigating unprecedented growth, compute constraints and the idiosyncratic Amodeis

Sam Rubin / Palo Alto Networks Blog: Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage  —  For the last several months, we have had early, unbounded access to the latest frontier AI models.

Anthropic: Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers  —  Last year, we released a case study on agentic misalignment.  In experimental scenarios, we showed that AI models from many different …

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023  —  The journal of OpenAI president Greg Brockman is now a character in the company's battle with the world's richest man …

The Information: Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, exited xAI after roughly a month  —  Cursor is already starting to make its presence known at SpaceX's AI unit, just weeks after Elon Musk's firm got an option to buy the coding startup for $60 billion.

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA  —  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Tuesday that the later release 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle …

Du Zhihang / Caixin Global: Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over $200M led by SF Group, after raising ~$146M in March at a ~$1.47B valuation  —  Chinese humanoid-robot startup Robot Era has raised more than $200 million in a new funding round led by SF Express, as investors pour capital …

Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a $136.6M net loss on revenue of $5.2M for the three months ended March 31; sources: it could raise $1.5B+  —  Quantinuum Inc., a quantum computing company backed by Honeywell International Inc., filed for a US initial public offering …

<blockquote cite="https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/"><p>WebRTC is designed to <strong>degrade and drop my prompt</strong> during poor network conditions.</p> <p>wtf my dude</p> <p>WebRTC aggressively drops audio packets to keep latency low. If you’ve ever heard distorted audio on a conference call, that’s WebRTC baybee. The idea is that conference calls depend on rapid back-and-forth, so pausing to wait for audio is unacceptable.</p> <p>…but as a user, I would much rather wait an extra 200ms for my slow/expensive prompt to be accurate. After all, I’m paying good money to boil the ocean, and a garbage prompt means a garbage response. It’s not like LLMs are particularly responsive anyway.</p> <p><strong>But I’m not allowed to wait</strong>. It’s <em>impossible</em> to even retransmit a WebRTC audio packet within a browser; we tried at Discord. The <em>implementation</em> is hard-coded for real-time latency <strong>or else</strong>.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/">Luke Curley</a>, OpenAI’s WebRTC Problem, in response to <a href="https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/">How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webrtc">webrtc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openai">openai</a></p>

Todd Spangler / Variety: Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to $871,200 and a $405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 2026 for a market cap of ~$2.47B  —  Trump Media and Technology Group, operator of the social media platform Truth Social, reported a massive net loss for the first three months …

The author said she is making a special effort to help her kids recognize their talents after realizing her mom had quietly been doing the same for her. Courtesy of Ariba Mobin. I chose to study biology because I thought doing so would lead to many opportunities. I never loved the work and eventually pivoted to a career path my mom had encouraged all along. Now it's my job to be the strength-spotter for my children, just as my mom was for me. I always take pride in having learned how to parent from my own mom — the best example. Not just from what she taught me to do with my kids once I had them, but also from the way she brought up my siblings and me. Unfortunately, she is no longer with us. But her countless memories keep me going and help guide my parenting every day. One of the best parenting hacks I learned from her was to nurture your child's strengths from the start. I have always enjoyed writing. stories, poems, recipes, letters — everything. In school, when we were assigned a simple five-line paragraph, I used to go past the word count, letting my creativity just spill out onto the paper. My mom was the first one to observe this talent. She used to tell me and everyone else that I was a gifted writer. She proudly showed my stories and poems to family and friends, and was always supportive of my reading habit, which helped hone my writing skills. To her, my writing was more than just a hobby. She didn't just label me a writer, but even treated me like one. She read what I wrote, appreciated it, and made sure I felt that it mattered. When one of my short stories got published in the local newspaper's kids section, she was over the moon. She made sure I got enough appreciation to keep nurturing this special skill. She knew something I didn't realize at the time. Things took a turn for the sake of practicality I never really gave up writing. My diaries were packed with stories, poetry, and fanfiction. Writing was always there. But I never seriously considered it as a career. Despite my love for words, when it came time to choose a major, I chose biology. I was good at science, and fields like genetics and microbiology felt like safe bets for a successful future. On paper, it was the logical choice. But logic doesn't always satisfy the soul. Even as I passed my exams with flying colors, I knew I never truly wanted to work in a lab. The author said she felt the need to pursue a career in a lucrative field, such as biology, when she was younger. Now she's helping her son chase his sports dreams. Courtesy of Ariba Mobin. I married right after graduating and planned to take a year off to settle into my new life. When I had my first baby, my perspective shifted. I realized I didn't want to leave my child in day care while I did the 9-to-5 grind in a field I wasn't really passionate about. That feeling of having potential in my words came back with full force By this time, my mom had spent twenty years telling me I was a writer. And when I needed work that aligned with my values as a parent, I decided to trust her label. I tried freelance writing, not entirely sure where it would lead. To my surprise, I thrived. Working from home while being there for my baby was exactly what I needed. A decade later, I have built a career as a content specialist and copywriter. The science professional path is long gone, but that's for the better. It has been replaced by the career my mother saw for me before I could see it for myself. The time came to carry the legacy forward Now, I have three children of my own, each with unique capabilities, and I have made it my mission to be their strength-spotter, just like my mom was for me. My eldest son has an incredible interest in sports and an impressive level of emotional control. Whenever he has a tough game day, I remind him that his discipline and calm head are the typical qualities of a great athlete. On the contrary, my second son is a natural negotiator with mental math skills that are even better than adults. I tell him his ability to convince people and manage numbers will make him a fantastic entrepreneur one day. The author said her youngest child is creative, and she hopes to nurture and encourage that side of her. Courtesy of Ariba Mobin. My daughter, who isn't even 5 yet, is already great at storytelling, organizing, and crafting. When she proudly shows me her little creations, I make sure she knows she has a creative eye. Even with unique capabilities, every child has flaws, too. My eldest son shows almost no interest in creative writing, and my second son is far from organized, which can be frustrating at times. But I always try to focus on what they can do rather than what they cannot. I don't want their small struggles to overcome their confidence because I want their internal voice to be filled with their strengths. Parents can help write their children's future with their words I believe that how your parents raise you ultimately shapes how you raise your own kids. My life is proof that a parent's label can shape a child's destiny. Parents have the power to spot potential before the rest of the world does. I truly believe our children become exactly who we tell them they are, so I'm making sure mine have a huge supporter in their corner to guide them. Read the original article on Business Insider

In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny. Last week, Musk took the stand, alleging that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into donating $38 million to the company. He claimed that they’d promised to maintain…

Michael Kan / PCMag: The FCC says foreign-made routers and drones can now receive software updates at least until 2029, extending its earlier 2027 cutoff  —  The FCC's bans on foreign-made Wi-Fi routers and drones initially included an expiration date on software updates, but the commission has now extended the cutoff from 2027 to 2029.

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