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4 May 2026 Vol 19

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Study of Buddhist Monks Finds Meditation Alters Brain Activity

If you’ve ever considered practicing meditation, you might believe you should relax, breathe, and empty your mind of distracting thoughts.…

AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say

Modal Labs, a startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure, is in the process of raising a new round at a…

OpenAI disbands mission alignment team, which focused on ‘safe’ and ‘trustworthy’ AI development

OpenAI has disbanded a team that focused on — as the company itself described — ensuring that its AI systems…

Apple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again

Apple has been promising a new-and-improved, cutting-edge, AI-powered Siri since it first unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024. Over about a…

Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation

Uber Eats announced a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” on Wednesday designed to fill customers’ grocery carts faster and easier.…

The ICE Expansion Won’t Happen in the Dark

On Tuesday, WIRED published details of ICE’s planned expansion into more than 150 office spaces across the United States, including…

How to get into a16z’s super-competitive Speedrun startup accelerator program

Without a doubt, one of the hottest new startup accelerators in tech right now is Andreessen Horowitz’s Speedrun program. Launched…

Amazon’s new eero Signal keeps you connected to the internet when outages occur

Amazon-owned eero‘s new $99.99 eero Signal 4G LTE, announced Wednesday, serves as an instant backup when your internet goes down,…

DOJ says Trenchant boss sold exploits to Russian broker capable of accessing ‘millions of computers and devices’

The former boss of a U.S. maker of hacking and surveillance tools stole and sold technology that can hack millions…

Why the economics of orbital AI are so brutal

In a sense, this whole thing was inevitable. Elon Musk and his coterie have been talking about AI in space…