College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/college-students-drown-out-ai-praising-commencement-speeches-with-boos-deal-with-it-one-speaker-fires-back-as-students-heckle-positive-pitches-for-ais-role
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/college-students-drown-out-ai-praising-commencement-speeches-with-boos-deal-with-it-one-speaker-fires-back-as-students-heckle-positive-pitches-for-ais-role
Tom's Hardware
College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos — 'deal with it' one speaker fires back as students heckle…
Arizona students reject ex-Google exec's positive words on AI
Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-hit-with-19-5m-default-judgment-and-global-domain-takedown-order/
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-hit-with-19-5m-default-judgment-and-global-domain-takedown-order/
Torrentfreak
Anna's Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order * TorrentFreak
A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive.
560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits
https://bmjgroup.com/560-610-minutes-of-exercise-a-week-needed-for-substantial-heart-benefits/
https://bmjgroup.com/560-610-minutes-of-exercise-a-week-needed-for-substantial-heart-benefits/
BMJ Group - Helping doctors make better decisions
560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits
Current exercise guidelines are too low, suggest researchers Less fit individuals need to do more exercise to get the same benefits Adults should aim to do between 560 and 610 minutes a week of moderate to vigorous physical activity to achieve a substantial…
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel
https://lithub.com/nobel-laureate-olga-tokarczuk-apparently-used-ai-to-write-her-latest-novel/
https://lithub.com/nobel-laureate-olga-tokarczuk-apparently-used-ai-to-write-her-latest-novel/
Literary Hub
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel.
Update: On Tuesday afternoon, Tokarczuk sent a statement to Lit Hub via her publisher, Riverhead, denying she used AI in her writing for anything other than research. Read it here. We also updated …
Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling
https://www.beyondplastics.org/press-releases/starbucks-cups-recyclable-report
https://www.beyondplastics.org/press-releases/starbucks-cups-recyclable-report
Beyond Plastics - Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution
Beyond Plastics Tracked Starbucks’ ‘Widely Recyclable’ Plastic Cups. None Ended Up at a Recycling Facility. — Beyond Plastics …
A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores.
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
OpenAI
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.
SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-punts-starship-v3-launch-to-may-21-as-investigation-opens-into-starbase-worker-death/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-punts-starship-v3-launch-to-may-21-as-investigation-opens-into-starbase-worker-death/
Scientific American
SpaceX punts Starship V3 launch to May 21 as investigation opens into Starbase worker’s death
SpaceX is now targeting the evening of May 21 to launch the latest and largest version of its Starship megarocket for the first time
PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play
https://vmax.ai/team/populora-co-evolving-llm-populations-for-reasoning-self-play
https://vmax.ai/team/populora-co-evolving-llm-populations-for-reasoning-self-play
vmax.ai
PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self-Play
We introduce PopuLoRA, a population-based asymmetric self-play framework for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) post-training of LLMs.
Deep – CLI/REPL for generating and iterating on codebases using DeepSeek
https://github.com/cynchro/deepseekCLI
https://github.com/cynchro/deepseekCLI
GitHub
GitHub - cynchro/deepseekCLI
Contribute to cynchro/deepseekCLI development by creating an account on GitHub.
Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/intuit-to-lay-off-over-3000-employees-to-refocus-on-ai/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/intuit-to-lay-off-over-3000-employees-to-refocus-on-ai/
TechCrunch
Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI | TechCrunch
In a memo to employees, CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the layoffs are meant to reduce complexity, simplify the company's corporate structure, and deliver better AI products.
What is Demand Coop and why tech workers should join one
https://cahootzcoops.com/blog/what-is-a-demand-coop
https://cahootzcoops.com/blog/what-is-a-demand-coop
Cahootzcoops
What is a Demand Coop
A co-op is an economic system built on the simple idea that coordinating the economic activity of individuals can allow them to access benefits normally reserved for large economi...