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No CEOs, No Signing: Trump Scraps AI Safety Order After Silicon Valley Snub

The White House invited AI CEOs to an executive order signing with 24 hours' notice. When several declined — including, reportedly, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg — Trump cancelled the ceremony and the order along with it.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 23, 2026

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Google's AI Has a Magic Word. It's 'Disregard.'

Type 'disregard' into Google and the AI doesn't define the word — it obeys it. The bug reveals how instruction-tuned these systems really are.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 23, 2026

Technology

Dead Pilots' Voices, Reconstructed From a PDF. The NTSB Pulled Everything.

The NTSB never released cockpit audio from UPS Flight 2976. It didn't need to — someone reconstructed the dead pilots' voices from a spectrogram image in the public docket.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 22, 2026

Technology

The US Government Just Became a Quantum Computing Investor. Literally.

The Commerce Department is taking equity stakes in nine quantum firms — including one backed by a Trump-family-linked VC firm and another taken public by a sitting Pentagon official. The $2 billion bet is real. The commercial payoff is not.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 22, 2026

Technology

Spotify and Universal Let Fans Remix Songs With AI — and Split the Revenue

Universal Music chose to monetize AI derivatives rather than keep suing over them. The catch: Spotify owns the tools, the distribution, and now the relationship between fans and the music they reshape.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 22, 2026

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Anthropic Bets $40 Billion on Elon Musk's GPUs

Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion every month for the next three years. The AI safety company's biggest vendor is the man who regularly mocks AI safety.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 21, 2026

Technology

xAI Lost $6.4 Billion. We Only Know Because SpaceX Filed.

Elon Musk's AI venture burned through twice its revenue in 2025 — $6.4 billion lost on $3.2 billion earned. The only reason anyone knows is that SpaceX, now merged with xAI, had to file public IPO documents.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 21, 2026

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8,000 Fired at Meta. The Reason Has No Last Name.

Meta fired 8,000 employees on Wednesday to fund an AI pivot. Some of those workers had spent their final weeks training the models that replaced them.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 20, 2026

Technology

China Bans Nvidia's RTX 5090D While Jensen Huang Is in Town

The RTX 5090D V2 was built to satisfy US export rules. Beijing banned it anyway — on the same week Nvidia's CEO was visiting China.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 20, 2026

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America's Cyber-Defense Agency Left Its Passwords on GitHub. Since November.

SSH keys, plaintext passwords, and AWS GovCloud credentials sat in a public GitHub repository for six months. The agency charged with protecting America from hackers didn't notice.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 20, 2026

Technology

The Man Who Co-Founded OpenAI Just Walked Into Its Biggest Rival

Andrej Karpathy has now worked inside Tesla, OpenAI, and Anthropic — the only researcher with that vantage on the AI race. His choice of destination says more about who's winning than any model benchmark could.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 20, 2026

Technology

Google Rewired Search Around AI Agents. The Open Web Should Be Nervous.

Google's AI Overviews already send just 1% of users to cited links. Now the company is replacing the search page itself with AI-generated interfaces that keep users inside Google's walls.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 19, 2026

Technology

The Pope Wrote an AI Encyclical. He's Launching It With an Anthropic Founder.

Pope Leo's first encyclical tackles AI and human dignity. He's launching it alongside an Anthropic co-founder — the same company the Pentagon designated a supply chain risk for refusing unrestricted military access to its models.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 19, 2026

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You Can't Reset Your Fingerprints. Hackers Just Stole 1.8 Million of Them From NYC Hospitals

Hackers spent three months inside NYC's public hospital network undetected. They left with medical records, Social Security numbers — and fingerprint scans that cannot be changed.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 18, 2026

Technology

Two Hours. That's All Musk's War on OpenAI Was Worth

Musk demanded up to $135 billion and the unwinding of OpenAI's corporate structure. Nine jurors needed about 90 minutes to decide he filed too late.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 18, 2026

Technology

Mythos Found Flaws Hidden for 27 Years. Watchdogs Are Scrambling.

Mythos found more zero-day vulnerabilities in days than the world's adversaries deployed in a year. More than 99 percent remain unpatched. Now global financial watchdogs want answers.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 18, 2026

Technology

The $850 Billion Question: Musk vs. OpenAI Heads to the Jury

Nine jurors in Oakland will decide whether OpenAI betrayed its nonprofit roots — a verdict that could unwind an $850 billion company, kill its planned IPO, and reshape who controls transformative AI.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 18, 2026

Technology

AI Bug Hunters Flood Linux Security List With Duplicate Reports

The AI tools meant to harden Linux are drowning its maintainers in duplicate reports. Linus Torvalds says the private security list has become "almost entirely unmanageable."

Jonny V. Nuovo May 18, 2026

Technology

A Million Passports Sat on the Internet. Nobody Needed a Password.

Over a million passports and driver's licenses sat in a cloud bucket named 'tabiq,' open to anyone with a web browser, for six years. The company that put them there doesn't know how it happened.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 17, 2026

Technology

AI-Exposed Jobs Are Vanishing — And Companies Aren't Getting Returns for It

130,000 customer service roles vanished in a year. The companies replacing them with AI aren't seeing returns — Gartner found the layoffs had zero correlation with whether the technology actually works.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 17, 2026