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global 2026-05-28

A.I. Is Making Scams Hard to Spot. Here’s How to Protect Yourself.

AI-powered scams are getting harder to detect as criminals use the tech to impersonate celebrities, businesses, and even family members. Time to update your fraud detection playbook.

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ai 2026-05-28

Vertu wants CEOs to run companies from an AI foldable starting at $6,880

Vertu launched an AI-powered foldable phone starting at $6,880, targeting executives who want to run their companies from a mobile device. Built on the open-source Hermes project, it combines AI agents with enterprise tools and luxury materials.

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ai 2026-05-28

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans

Meta is rolling out paid subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, with new AI-focused tiers coming soon under the Meta One brand.

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ai 2026-05-28

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket savings end in 3 days

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Early Bird tickets end May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT, with savings up to $410. After that, prices jump for one of the year's biggest tech conferences.

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ai 2026-05-28

YouTube will let you ask AI to make a custom video feed

YouTube is rolling out an AI feature that generates custom video feeds based on text prompts. You describe what you want to watch, and it creates a personalized feed you can pin to your homepage.

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topnews 2026-05-28

Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!

Ars Technica is asking readers to share their terminal setups. It's a reminder that despite decades of GUI dominance, the command line remains essential for precision work.

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topnews 2026-05-28

New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI

Software engineers returning from maternity leave are finding their jobs transformed by AI tools. The coding workflow they left has been fundamentally reshaped in their absence.

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global 2026-05-28

Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs

Valve just raised Steam Deck prices by over 40%, citing higher component costs. The hardware hasn't changed, but the economic reality of building portable gaming PCs apparently has.

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global 2026-05-28

King's College team wins access to cutting-edge Google quantum chip

King's College London researchers secured access to Google's quantum chip to tackle complex questions about natural processes that classical computers can't handle.

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global 2026-05-28

Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans

Meta is ignoring hundreds of complaints from EU users wrongly banned from Facebook and Instagram, despite repeated requests from European consumer protection authorities to address the issue.

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ai 2026-05-27

In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips

Snowflake just locked in a $6B, five-year deal with AWS for AI chips, bypassing Nvidia. It's a major win for Amazon's chip ambitions and signals how cloud providers are building alternatives to GPU dominance.

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ai 2026-05-27

Payroll startup Remote says it grew revenue 50% per employee without adding headcount

Remote hit $300M ARR and cash-flow positive while growing revenue 50% per employee, no new headcount needed. They credit AI adoption for the efficiency gains.

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ai 2026-05-27

Your SEO strategy is optimized for a search engine that no longer exists.

Google I/O confirmed AI-generated answers now dominate search results, leaving brands with little insight into how AI describes them. The shift away from traditional 10 blue links fundamentally changes SEO strategy.

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ai 2026-05-27

YouTube is putting AI labels where you’ll actually see them

YouTube is moving AI labels out of hiding and into plain sight. The new badges will appear directly below videos instead of buried in descriptions, and YouTube will start auto-detecting AI content.

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ai 2026-05-27

The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times

The New York Times Tech Guild filed an unfair labor practice charge after management refused to share details about how the company uses AI, future AI plans, and potential impacts on jobs and workflows.

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ai 2026-05-27

The Pope isn’t AGI-pilled

Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical on AI with Anthropic's Christopher Olah at his side, warning that AI affecting people's lives isn't just technical but touches rights and freedom.

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topnews 2026-05-27

Google Security Engineer Arrested in Million-Dollar Polymarket Trading Scheme

A Google security engineer allegedly made over $1 million on Polymarket by using insider access to Google Search traffic data. Federal prosecutors say he traded on confidential information that gave him an edge on prediction markets.

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topnews 2026-05-27

A Dating App Is Giving Away Free Gas to Convince People to Get Out of the House

Dating app BLK is giving away free gas to get users to meet in person. It's part of a broader trend of companies offering essentials like gas and groceries to attract customers during economic uncertainty.

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global 2026-05-27

Teachers Union Urges Schools to Curb A.I. Chatbots and Screen Time

The American Federation of Teachers wants schools to ban screens for kids in second grade and younger, and keep AI chatbots out of elementary classrooms entirely.

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global 2026-05-27

Massachusetts Uber and Lyft Drivers Form First Union for Ride-Share Workers

Massachusetts just certified the first official union for Uber and Lyft drivers in the US. The App Drivers Union can now formally represent gig workers on these platforms, marking a major shift in how ride-share labor gets organized.

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ai 2026-05-27

AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation

Cognition, the AI coding startup behind Devin, just raised $1B at a $25B valuation. They're at $492M in annualized revenue after launching less than a year ago.

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ai 2026-05-27

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close today: Nominate a founder or submit your startup

Applications for TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield 200 close tonight at 11:59 PM PT. Winners get $100,000 equity-free, stage time at Disrupt, and direct investor access.

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ai 2026-05-27

ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track

ElevenLabs unveiled a music AI that can rewrite a specific part of a song while leaving the rest untouched, even shifting genres mid‑track. The tweak‑able approach gives creators quick, granular control over AI‑generated music.

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ai 2026-05-27

AI tried to bury this politician, now people have actually heard of him

OpenAI and Anthropic's multi-million dollar fight over NY congressional candidate Alex Bores has backfired spectacularly, turning an obscure state assemblyman into the face of AI safety regulation through the Streisand effect.

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