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4 May 2026 Vol 19

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Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina

Some children affected by measles in the ongoing South Carolina outbreak have developed a serious complication of the disease called…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is getting a police department

Starbase, the company town that Elon Musk’s SpaceX created in South Texas, is forming its own police squad. The city’s…

Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads

Sam Altman (X): First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder…

A16z just raised $1.7B for AI infrastructure. Here’s where it’s going.

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the one responsible for some of its biggest,…

Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who…

From guardrails to governance: A CEO’s guide for securing agentic systems

3. Permissions by design: Bind tools to tasks, not to models A common anti-pattern is to give the model a…

A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving…

Tinder looks to AI to help fight ‘swipe fatigue’ and dating app burnout

Tinder is turning to a new AI-powered feature, Chemistry, to help it reduce so-called “swipe fatigue,” a growing problem among…

Lunar Energy raises $232M to deploy home batteries that prop up the grid

Forget EVs — stationary batteries are getting all the buzz, and investment, in the U.S. these days. Startup Lunar Energy is…

Roblox’s 4D creation feature is now available in open beta

Last year, Roblox launched an open-source AI model that could generate 3D objects on the platform, helping users quickly design…