Rob Taylor

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 548 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond; GM thinks EVs can help offset AI’s energy suck with vehicle-to-grid tech; Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button. Top Stories Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond DeepMind ...

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 829 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers; Amazon is launching AI-generated custom merch; The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech. Top Stories Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers TechCrunch AI As AI experimentation grows more expensive, Apple is waiving cloud API costs for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads. ...

Monday, June 8, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 422 items from 13 sources. Research Corner Paper Source Detecting and Mitigating Bias by Treating Fairness as a Symmetry Operation arXiv AI DiBS: Diffusion-Informed Branch Selection arXiv AI SafeGene: Reusable Adapters for Transferable Safety Alignment arXiv AI Lean4Agent: Formal Modeling and Verification for Agent Workflow and Trajectory arXiv AI CrowdMath: A Dataset of Crowdsourced Mathematical Research Discussions arXiv AI Attack Selection in Agentic AI Control Evaluations Meaningfully Decreases Safety arXiv AI CARVE-Q: Quantum-Proposed, Classically Certified Interactive Driving Repair arXiv AI Position: Don’t Just “Fix it in Post”: A Science of AI Must Study Training Dy… arXiv AI Accelerated Fourier SAT (AFSAT): Fully Realising a GPU-based Symmetric Pseudo… arXiv AI A Study of Parallel Continuous Local Search arXiv AI Industry Updates Amazing Digital Dentures (a failed project) - HuggingFace News & Analysis Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse? (TechCrunch AI) Notion restores access to Anthropic after service disruption (TechCrunch AI) OpenAI is still working on that ‘super app’ (TechCrunch AI) AI ‘content creators’ are getting harder to spot (The Verge AI) Deep Dive: Today’s AI Landscape Synthesized from multiple research sources ...

Sunday, June 7, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 14 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks; The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in ‘shitty houses’ oppose data center. Top Stories OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks TechCrunch AI Even with Lockdown Mode, ChatGPT could be still vulnerable to prompt injections, but the goal is to reduce the likelihood that sensitive data gets shared in the process. ...

Saturday, June 6, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 359 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: The latest AI news we announced in May 2026; Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute; Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab. Top Stories The latest AI news we announced in May 2026 Google AI Here are Google’s latest AI updates from May 2026 Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute TechCrunch AI ...

Friday, June 5, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 657 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: How Endava is redesigning software delivery around AI agents; Dreaming: Better memory for a more helpful ChatGPT; Introducing new capabilities to GPT-Rosalind. Top Stories How Endava is redesigning software delivery around AI agents OpenAI Learn how Endava is using AI agents, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Codex to accelerate software delivery, automate workflows, and build an AI-native culture across the enterprise. ...

Thursday, June 4, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 548 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says; Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal; As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise. Top Stories Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says TechCrunch AI Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable’s footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude. ...

Wednesday, June 3, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 603 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: Cyera eyes $12B valuation at 80x ARR multiple despite operating losses; Microsoft Build 2026: The 7 biggest announcements; Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released. Top Stories Cyera eyes $12B valuation at 80x ARR multiple despite operating losses TechCrunch AI The cybersecurity company is nearing a $300 million round led by Evolution Equity Partners. ...

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 982 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents; This could be Windows’ M1 moment — but expect it to cost a ton; Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo. Top Stories Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents TechCrunch AI The lawsuit partially revolves around a shooting at Florida State University last year, and ChatGPT’s alleged role in the incident. ...

Monday, June 1, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 599 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: How Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry. Top Stories How Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry Wired AI From specialized motors to the use of machine learning algorithms, Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation. Research Corner Paper Source PhyDrawGen: Physically Grounded Diagram Generation from Natural Language arXiv AI Physically Viable World Models: A Case for Query-Conditioned Embodied AI arXiv AI Transforming and Encoding FTS for SAT Solving: What Helps, What Hurts (Extend… arXiv AI Procedural Generation of First Person Shooter Maps using Map-Elites arXiv AI Uncertainty-Aware and Temporally Regulated Expert Advice in Reinforcement Lea… arXiv AI Harness Updating Is Not Harness Benefit: Disentangling Evolution Capabilities… arXiv AI EHRBench: An Automated and Reliable EHR-based Benchmark for Clinical Decision… arXiv AI Structure-Induced Information for Rerooting Levin Tree Search arXiv AI Healthcare Mechanisms from Policy-as-Code Search under Strategic Provider Res… arXiv AI MAVEN: Improving Generalization in Agentic Tool Calling arXiv AI Industry Updates Welcome NVIDIA Cosmos 3: The First Open Omni-model for Physical AI Reasoning and Action - HuggingFace News & Analysis Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy (TechCrunch AI) Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis (TechCrunch AI) I went looking for the AI weed vape that gives you Bitcoin for smoking (The Verge AI) Deep Dive: Today’s AI Landscape Synthesized from multiple research sources ...