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on May 8, 2026 at 15:00
Today we’re launching The Small Brief, an initiative bringing together three ad industry icons to champion a local businesses they love. Their mission is to build breakt…
on May 6, 2026 at 16:00
We’ve rounded up the top ways you can use Google’s AI Mode, Search Live and Shopping to help your plants thrive.
on May 5, 2026 at 16:00
Google is partnering with XPRIZE and Range Media Partners on the $3.5 million Future Vision film competition.
on May 4, 2026 at 17:00
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from April 2026
on May 4, 2026 at 15:30
Event-Driven Webhooks are a push-based notification system that eliminates the need for inefficient polling.
technologyreview.com
by Michelle Kim on May 8, 2026 at 23:59
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…
by Andrew Sorota, Josh Hendler on May 5, 2026 at 09:00
Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The printing press spread vernacular literacy, helping give rise to the Reformation and, eventually, representative government. The telegraph made it possible to administer vast nations like the US, accelerating the growth of the modern bureaucratic state. Broadcast media created shared national audiences,…
by James O’Donnell on May 4, 2026 at 15:51
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging that the millions he spent to…
by Michelle Kim on May 1, 2026 at 22:08
In the first week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk took the stand in a crisp black suit and tie and argued that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into bankrolling the company. Along the way, he warned that AI could destroy us all and sat through…
by MIT Technology Review Events on May 1, 2026 at 15:54
Cybersecurity was already under strain before AI entered the stack. Now, as AI expands the attack surface and adds new complexity, the limits of legacy approaches are becoming harder to ignore. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech AI conference explores why security must be rethought with AI at its core, not layered on after…
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by Asif Razzaq on May 9, 2026 at 06:01
Vibe coding gets you to a prototype. Spec-driven development gets you to production. As AI coding agents grow more powerful, the engineering community has quietly split into two camps: developers who prompt iteratively and hope for the best, and developers who write structured specifications first and let agents execute against them. The second group is shipping faster, with fewer regressions, and with code that survives review. This guide covers the 9 AI tools driving that shift in 2026 — from AWS Kiro’s EARS-structured spec IDE to GitHub Spec Kit’s 93K-star open-source workflow, to lean execution frameworks like GSD that have crossed 61K stars in under five months. The post 9 Best AI Tools for Spec-Driven Development in 2026: Kiro, BMAD, GSD, and More Compare appeared first on MarkTechPost.
by Asif Razzaq on May 9, 2026 at 03:59
If you have spent time using AI coding agents — GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Gemini CLI — you have probably run into this situation: you describe what you want, the agent generates a block of code that looks correct, compiles, and then subtly misses the actual intent. This “vibe-coding” approach can work for quick prototypes The post Meet GitHub Spec-Kit: An Open Source Toolkit for Spec-Driven Development with AI Coding Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
by Asif Razzaq on May 8, 2026 at 22:22
OpenAI has shipped a Chrome extension for Codex, its AI coding agent, enabling it to complete browser-based tasks directly inside Google Chrome on macOS and Windows — including interacting with signed-in websites, using Chrome DevTools, and running multi-step workflows across browser tabs. The post OpenAI Adds Chrome Extension to Codex, Letting Its AI Agent Access LinkedIn, Salesforce, Gmail, and Internal Tools via Signed-In Sessions appeared first on MarkTechPost.
by Sana Hassan on May 8, 2026 at 21:32
In this tutorial, we perform an advanced single-cell RNA-seq analysis workflow using Scanpy on the PBMC-3k benchmark dataset. We start by loading the dataset, inspecting its structure, and applying quality control checks to evaluate gene counts, total counts, mitochondrial content, and ribosomal gene signals. We then filter low-quality cells and genes, detect potential doublets with The post How to Build a Single-Cell RNA-seq Analysis Pipeline with Scanpy for PBMC Clustering, Annotation, and Trajectory Discovery appeared first on MarkTechPost.
by Asif Razzaq on May 8, 2026 at 07:45
When you type a message to Claude, something invisible happens in the middle. The words you send get converted into long lists of numbers called activations that the model uses to process context and generate a response. These activations are, in effect, where the model’s “thinking” lives. The problem is nobody can easily read them. The post Anthropic Introduces Natural Language Autoencoders That Convert Claude’s Internal Activations Directly into Human-Readable Text Explanations appeared first on MarkTechPost.