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A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see Zack Whittaker 11:51 AM PDT · May 15, 2026 A hotel check-in system left more than 1 million customer passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos to the open web after a security lapse...

President Trump and a delegation of U.S. officials left Beijing on Friday after two days of high-level talks with the Chinese government, led by President Xi Jinping. Before boarding Air Force One, White House staffers and reporters had to surrender various items collected during the trip...

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts Ivan Mehta 9:00 AM PDT · May 15, 2026 On Friday, OpenAI launched a new set of personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S., letting them connect their accounts and ask questions ranging...

Even GoPro is pivoting to defense Sean O'Kane 6:14 AM PDT · May 15, 2026 Want to make money? Start building data centers. Or build batteries to power data centers. Or … pivot to defense. This is not financial advice, but it’s certainly what seems to be winning over public markets and private...

Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI Every major AI lab is betting on language. Runway is betting they’re wrong. Rebecca Bellan 7:00 AM PDT · May 15, 2026 AI video-generation startup Runway doesn’t have the typical Silicon Valley pedigree. No Stanford...

Power prices are up 76% on America’s biggest grid, and a watchdog is pointing fingers Tim De Chant 8:45 AM PDT · May 15, 2026 The largest electrical grid in the U.S., the PJM Interconnection, saw prices nearly double over the last year, according to a report published yesterday by Monitoring...

Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard Sarah Perez 12:05 PM PDT · May 14, 2026 Silicon Valley’s tokenmaxxing era now has its own hardware. A new open source project brings your Claude Code utilization stats into a tiny desktop dashboard, allowing AI power...

Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform, has backed Danish hardware startup Atech , which wants to introduce “vibe coding” to the process of creating hardware. Lovable was part of an $800,000 pre-seed round that also included a16z’s scout fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and Nordic Makers . In a...

OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn’t be the first partner to feel burned Connie Loizos 12:12 PM PDT · May 14, 2026 OpenAI is so frustrated with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected that the company is...

What happens when AI starts building itself? Russell Brandom 12:57 PM PDT · May 14, 2026 Richard Socher has been a major figure in AI for some time, best known for founding the early chatbot startup You.com and, before that, his work on ImageNet. Now he’s joining the current generation of...

Cerebras IPO makes billions for Benchmark but VC Eric Vishria almost didn’t take the meeting Julie Bort 1:23 PM PDT · May 14, 2026 The Cerebras Systems IPO was a smash hit on Thursday, generating billions for itself, its founders, and its major investors. Among the big winners is major...

A spyware investigator exposed Russian government hackers trying to hijack Signal accounts Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 7:07 AM PDT · May 14, 2026 Earlier this year, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, a security researcher who investigates spyware attacks, found himself in an unusual position. For once, he...

Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded Marina Temkin 8:20 AM PDT · May 14, 2026 Ian Crosby, whose previous startup Bench Accounting famously shut down in 2024 before being bought for scraps , is taking another shot at building a business out of...

Technology giant Cisco is cutting nearly 4,000 jobs, or around 5% of its workforce, despite reporting better-than-expected profit and revenue in its fiscal third quarter. The networking equipment maker said it is reducing its headcount in order to change its “cost structure” and invest in AI...

Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta’s news chief, has thoughts Connie Loizos 11:05 PM PDT · May 13, 2026 Campbell Brown has spent her career chasing accurate information, first as a renowned TV journalist, then as Facebook’s first, and only, dedicated news chief. Now...

Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante Marina Temkin 10:24 PM PDT · May 13, 2026 While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has yet been nearly as popular or lucrative as code writing. Jack Newton, co-founder and...

Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are Lucas Ropek 12:28 PM PDT · May 13, 2026 With the tech industry singularly focused on AI models, Anthropic is having an exceptionally good year. The company may soon pull ahead of its main...

Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents Sarah Perez 2:45 PM PDT · May 13, 2026 Productivity software maker Notion is stepping into the agentic era. In a livestreamed product announcement on Wednesday, the company, known best for its collaborative note-taking app, introduced a...

US lawmakers demand answers from Instructure after Canvas data breaches Zack Whittaker 7:32 AM PDT · May 13, 2026 U.S. House lawmakers are demanding representatives from Instructure, the twice-hacked education software maker, testify about the company’s response to cyberattacks that allowed...

Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life Sarah Perez 6:27 AM PDT · May 13, 2026 Smartphones can be distracting with their dizzying array of apps and constant stream of notifications. A new app called Poppy aims to organize the chaos by combining your calendar...