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ARCHIVE SATURDAY, MAY 2 · 15 STORIESOpenAI Model Outperforms Doctors in Emergency Room Diagnosis Trial
A Harvard study published in the journal Science found that an artificial intelligence system outperformed human doctors in emergency room triage diagnosis accu...
Meta Acquires Robotics AI Startup Assured Robot Intelligence for Humanoid Push
Meta has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup building artificial intelligence for robots in order to address critical challenges in high-value labor...
ByteDance's Anew Labs enters AI drug discovery with IL-17 inhibitor
ByteDance's drug discovery unit Anew Labs presented its first AI-designed therapy at the American Association of Immunologists' annual meeting in Boston in mid-...
xAI launches Grok 4.3 with always-on reasoning and voice cloning suite
xAI has released Grok 4.3, a new base large language model featuring what the company calls "always-on reasoning," alongside a voice cloning suite called Custom...
Spirit Airlines Shuts Down After Fuel Prices Surge
Spirit Airlines has ceased operations after 34 years in business, canceling all flights at 3 a.m. Eastern Time on Saturday. The ultra-low-cost carrier's website...
Uber plans to turn driver fleet into sensor grid for autonomous-vehicle companies
Uber plans to eventually equip the cars in its human-driver network with sensors that can collect real-world data for autonomous-vehicle companies and other fir...
Replit CEO Masad says company will try to stay independent amid rival Cursor sale talks
Replit CEO Amjad Masad says the AI coding assistant company intends to remain independent, even as rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to be acquired by SpaceX ...
Apple accuses India antitrust watchdog of overstepping authority in new court filing
Apple has accused India's Competition Commission of India (CCI) of overstepping its judicial authority in a new court filing tied to an ongoing antitrust invest...
California Approves Rules to Ticket Driverless Cars That Violate Traffic Laws
California regulators have approved new rules allowing police to issue citations to driverless vehicle companies when their autonomous cars break traffic laws. ...
New Mexico Seeks Sweeping Changes to Meta Platforms in Public Nuisance Trial
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is asking a state judge to impose far-reaching changes on Meta's platforms after winning a $375 million verdict against ...
FCC Votes to Strip All Chinese Labs of Electronics Certification Authority
The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to advance a proposal that would strip every testing lab in China and Hong Kong of its abili...
Five Eyes agencies publish guidance on securing agentic AI deployments
Cybersecurity agencies from the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom jointly published guidance Friday urging organizations to t...
Y Combinator pivots toward hard tech in Summer 2026 Request for Startups
Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, listing 15 categories of companies the accelerator wants to fund. Eight of them requi...
Avoca raises more than $125 million to build AI agents for home-services businesses
Avoca, a startup whose artificial-intelligence agents handle inbound calls, scheduling and dispatch for home-services businesses, has raised more than $125 mill...
Disneyland deploys face recognition technology at park entrances
The Walt Disney Company announced this week that visitors to Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park will have the option to enter through a lane e...