An interview with Ciena CEO Gary Smith, a veteran of the 2001 telecoms crash, on AI demand outpacing supply for Ciena's optical networking chips, and more (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)

An interview with Ciena CEO Gary Smith, a veteran of the 2001 telecoms crash, on AI demand outpacing supply for Ciena's opti…

Block unveils Dessa, a "true speech-to-speech" AI model trained on "nothing but human conversation" that it says runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or better (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Block unveils Dessa, a "true speech-to-speech" AI model trained on "nothing but human conversation" that it …

Ukraine says Starshield was working normally again on Saturday morning; US officials said Trump asked Elon Musk to restore the service (Wall Street Journal)

Ukraine says Starshield was working normally again on Saturday morning; US officials said Trump asked Elon Musk to restore the s…

Inside Meta's law enforcement outreach team, which uses AI and human reviewers to analyze social media posts, aiming to prevent threats like school shootings (Rachel Monroe/New Yorker)

Inside Meta's law enforcement outreach team, which uses AI and human reviewers to analyze social media posts, aiming to prev…

Greece's parliament passes a bill to ban social media platforms for children under 15 from 2027 and gives companies two months to verify users' ages (Angeliki Koutantou/Reuters)

Greece's parliament passes a bill to ban social media platforms for children under 15 from 2027 and gives companies two mont…

Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove security properties at the assembly level across 100+ real-world open-source libraries (Anthropic)

Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove security properties at the assembly level across 100+ r…

The Indian workers filming their work to train AI

The Indian workers filming their work to train AI https://bit.ly/47Ap2hA Indian workers are being paid to film themselves at wor…

Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs, or ~5% of its workforce, by the end of 2026 as part of AI-driven cost cutting, with ~60% coming from support and developers (William Shaw/Bloomberg)

Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs, or ~5% of its workforce, by the end of 2026 as part of AI-driven cost cutting, with ~60% comin…

iPhone Duo review: the outer device is by far the worst iPhone Apple has ever made, while the inner device is a splendid tablet with a UI that bests the iPad's (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

iPhone Duo review: the outer device is by far the worst iPhone Apple has ever made, while the inner device is a splendid tablet …

Pressure to back promising AI startups is upending the VC investment process, with investors willing to buy into the same round at rapidly escalating valuations (Bloomberg)

Pressure to back promising AI startups is upending the VC investment process, with investors willing to buy into the same round …

Anthropic and Citrini Research use an internal Claude model to autonomously generate protein minibinders against five scorpion neurotoxins, testing 211 designs (Anthropic)

Anthropic and Citrini Research use an internal Claude model to autonomously generate protein minibinders against five scorpion n…