Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are…
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude…
Agents for financial services and insurance https://www.anthropic.com/news/finance-agents
Anthropic
Agents for financial services
We're releasing ten new Cowork and Claude Code plugins, integrations with the Microsoft 365 suite, new connectors, and an MCP app for financial services and insurance organizations.
Three Inverse Laws of AI https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/
Google
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
An overview of how Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters are making Gemma 4 models up to 3x faster at inference.
EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI
YouTube
EEVblog 1746 - The 555 is 55 Years Old!
A tribute to the 555 timer and Hans Caminzind, which turns 55 years old this year. Released on May the 5th, International 555 Timer Day at 5:55pm with a length of 5:55
And Dave demonstrates blowing out the birthday candle with his 555 Killer One Shot circuit.…
And Dave demonstrates blowing out the birthday candle with his 555 Killer One Shot circuit.…
Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/
reflex.dev
Computer use is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs
We benchmarked computer use against auto-generated API endpoints on the same admin panel. 53 steps and 551k tokens vs 8 calls and 12k tokens.
I'm scared about biological computing https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/I%27m-Scared-About-Biological-Computing
ᨒ MindDump
I'm Scared About Biological Computing
I’ve been in the AI space since ChatGPT first dropped. I’ve toyed around with a lot of Language Models, built random side projects, built a couple from scratch and I’ve spent hours looking at the math behind it all.
California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php
SFGATE
California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
Del Monte Foods shuttered its Modesto and Hughson cannery plants in April.
Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723
X (formerly Twitter)
Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) on X
This is an email I sent earlier today to all employees at Coinbase:
Team,
Today I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%. I want to walk you through why we're doing this now, what it means for those affected, and how this…
Team,
Today I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%. I want to walk you through why we're doing this now, what it means for those affected, and how this…
GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752
arXiv.org
GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents
We present GLM-5V-Turbo, a step toward native foundation models for multimodal agents. As foundation models are increasingly deployed in real environments, agentic capability depends not only on...
Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks https://paletteinspiration.com/
Palette Inspiration
Palette Inspiration - Timeless Colors of the Great Masters
Browse, search, and filter beautiful color palettes inspired by the Old Masters.
Write some software, give it away for free https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026
nonogra.ph
Write some software, give it away for free
This website which you're on right now is free (as in beer), free (as in freedom), open source software called Nonograph. It cost about $600 USD to release, mos...
Why most product tours get skipped https://productonboarding.com/articles/why-product-tours-get-skipped
Productonboarding
Why Most Product Tours Get Skipped (and the One Pattern That Does Not)
Most users dismiss the first step of a product tour within seconds. Here is why that happens, what users do instead, and the one pattern that actually drives activation.
Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents https://letsdatascience.com/news/telus-uses-ai-to-alter-call-agent-accents-a3868f63
Let's Data Science
Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
According to reporting by iPhone in Canada and The Globe and Mail, **Telus** is using AI through its **Telus Digital** unit to modify call-centre agents' accents in real time. iPhone in Canada reports the speech-to-speech tool is built by a company called…
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
The Cloudflare Blog
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. Humans can be in the loop to grant permission, but there’s no…
Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.html
Stars and Stripes
Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
Outgoing Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith has spent months speaking about her growing concern over attempted control of the newspaper.
YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken
245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/industry-leading-245tb-micron-6600-ion-data-center-ssd-now
Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases https://academy.dair.ai/blog/wiki-builder-claude-code-plugin
academy.dair.ai
Wiki Builder: A Claude Code Plugin for Building LLM Knowledge Bases
Wiki Builder is an open-source Claude Code plugin that turns the LLM-knowledge-base workflow into a one-command setup. Scaffold a configurable wiki, point Claude at sources, and let the agent compile durable pages, indexes, and concept maps for you.