"Magne Furuholmen doesn’t care if the only reason you want to see his art is that he’s the A-ha guy. Also: You should see his art!"
"A professor endeavors to separate treasure from trash—before her children have to do it for her."
When we reach for our limits, what is it that we ultimately grasp?
『種の起原』を巡る様々なエピソードの最初は、出版前に遡ります。その主役は、同じイギリスのウォレス（Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823～1913）という人物です。彼は昆虫類に興味を持ってマレー半島まで赴き、その地に滞在中、当時盛名の高かったマルサス（Thomas Robert Malthus, 1766～1834）の『人口論』（恐らくは1803年の第二版）を読んで、人間の生存のための条件（の過酷さ）から思い付いたと称する一つの論文を仕上げます。
Google I/O was impressive and overwhelming, but the only product that impressed was Search.
The Information: Amazon plans to sell Nike products directly for the first time since 2019, when Nike stopped selling through Amazon due to lingering counterfeit issues — Six years after Nike stopped selling through Amazon in favor of going direct to customers through its own stores and website, the two companies are getting back together.
Juby Babu / Reuters: Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.17B, in line with expectations, Enterprise revenue up 6% YoY to $704.7M, and raises its FY 2026 forecast above estimates — Zoom Communications (ZM.O) raised its annual revenue forecast on Wednesday, benefiting from hybrid work trends and the integration …
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Snowflake reports Q1 product revenue up 26% YoY to $996.8M, vs. $966M est., and forecasts Q2 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 6%+ after hours — Product revenue, which makes up the bulk of Snowflake's business, will increase about 25% to as much as $1.04 billion in the quarter ending in July …
Milana Vinn / Reuters: AT&T agrees to acquire Lumen's consumer fiber business for $5.75B, in an all-cash deal expected to close in H1 2026; LUMN jumps 13%+ after hours — AT&T (T.N) has clinched a deal to acquire Lumen Technologies' (LUMN.N) consumer fiber operations for $5.75 billion in cash …
Samantha Subin / CNBC: CoreWeave announces a $2B debt offering, representing a $500M increase from its initial announcement, and says it was five times oversubscribed; CRWV jumps 19% — CoreWeave shares popped 19% after announcing a $2 billion debt offering. — The renter of artificial intelligence data centers powered …
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Shopify launches new AI tools, including one for setting up storefronts and another for creating elements like banners, and upgrades its AI assistant Sidekick — Shopify is giving its merchants a slew of new AI-powered tools designed to help them enhance the online shopping experience for their customers.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Epic v. Apple: Spotify says its recent update supporting web payments has resulted in “a significant increase in iOS users upgrading to a Premium subscription” — Spotify says its ability to direct its customers to external payment links in its iOS app has already had a positive impact on sales.
Alfred Ng / Politico: Sen. Wyden says AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile failed to create systems for notifying about surveillance on Senate-issued devices, despite a requirement to do so — Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) revealed in a new letter to Senate colleagues Wednesday that AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile failed …
Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: World Network raised $135M in a token sale to a16z and Bain Capital Crypto “to meet increasing demand for Orb-verified World IDs”; WLD jumped 14% on the news — Funds from the venture capital giants will be used for the network's expansion. — What to know:
New York Times: Sources: OpenAI owned a 23% stake in io from a 2024 deal so is now paying ~$5B to fully acquire it; separately, OpenAI's Start-up Fund invested in io last year — Jony Ive, a former top executive at Apple, said that the goal with OpenAI was to create “amazing products that elevate humanity.”
OpenAI: In a video and letter signed “Sam & Jony”, Altman and Ive announce io, founded last year by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan to create new products — This is an extraordinary moment. — Computers are now seeing, thinking and understanding.
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Sam Altman and LoveFrom have been working for two years on a new device to move consumers beyond screens, including headphones and devices with cameras — OpenAI to buy Ive's startup in $6.5 billion deal, as Ive and CEO Sam Altman work on new generation of devices and other AI products
Bloomberg: OpenAI is buying io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for ~$6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI — OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc. veteran Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft seizes about 2,300 domains globally to disrupt Lumma's malware-as-a-service operation, after finding over 394K Windows computers infected by Lumma — Earlier this month, a coordinated disruption action targeting the Lumma malware-as-a-service (MaaS) information stealer operation seized thousands …
Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: In a joint statement, the US, France, Germany, and eight other countries say Russia has stepped up cyber attacks on firms aiding Ukraine, often via Fancy Bear — One of Moscow's most infamous hacker teams is targeting logistics and technology companies supporting Kyiv's war effort. — Listen to the article
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"I get kicked out of a lot of casinos."
"ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project."
ニコラス・カーの新刊『Superbloom』の書名は、2019年にカリフォルニア州のウォーカー・キャニオンで大量のポピーが咲き乱れた現象に由来します。当初は地元住民だけがオレンジ色のポピーを楽しんでいましたが、数万人ものフォロワーを持つインフルエンサーが自撮り写真を投稿するや、ハッシュタグ「#superbloom」がバズります。しかし、写真を撮るために道路を渋滞させるほど多くの人が押し寄せた挙句、環境保護区域の花々が踏みつけられるなど自然破壊が問題となり、交通警官が負傷する事態となると、今度はポピーの写真の投稿者に激しい非難コメントが寄せられました。
Wall Street Journal: Sources: US chipmaker Wolfspeed is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy within weeks after passing on debt-holder proposals to restructure its debt — The troubled semiconductor supplier is pursuing a prepackaged chapter 11 plan after it rebuffed multiple attempts by creditors to restructure its debt out of court
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Epic Games announces that Fortnite is back on the App Store in the US for iPhone and iPad users, and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the EU — After a nearly five-year hiatus, Fortnite is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users in the United States.
Charles Szumski / Euractiv: Sweden passes a law criminalizing the purchase of live online sexual performances, including cam shows and sex chats; buying pre-recorded content remains legal — The new law criminalises paid online sexual services, including cam shows and sex chats. — Based on facts, either observed …
Emilia David / VentureBeat: Google rolls out Jules, its asynchronous, agentic coding assistant unveiled in December 2024, in public beta and expects to announce pricing after the beta — Vibe coding and the growth of AI-powered coding platforms gave rise to yet another battleground among tech companies.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $2.29B, vs. $2.28B est., net income down 6% to $262.1M, and non-GAAP gross margin of 76%, vs. 77.2% est. — Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the latest quarter but its gross margin was below estimates.
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Take-Two plans to sell $1B of new stock to investors and use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, including repayment of debt and future acquisitions — The New York-based video-game maker plans to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, including repayment of debt and future acquisitions …
Samantha Subin / CNBC: Google commits up to $150M, including $75M for product development and commercialization, as part of its partnership with Warby Parker to make smart glasses — Warby Parker shares surged 15.6% after Google announced a smart glasses partnership at the tech company's annual I/O developer conference.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google launches SynthID Detector, a verification portal that lets users upload files and tries to identify if they contain content made with Google AI — Google is launching a way to quickly check whether an image, video, audio file, or snippet of text was created using one of its AI tools.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Xreal unveils Project Aura, expected to be the first Android XR glasses, powered by a separate puck with a Qualcomm chip, slated to launch by early 2026 — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has entered the glasses race by partnering with Xreal Inc. on the first spectacles to run an augmented-reality version of its operating system.
Dominic Preston / The Verge: Google debuts Search Live, which lets users tap a “Live” icon in AI Mode or Lens and then converse with Search about what's in their camera's field of view — Gemini Live on iOS is also getting screen and camera sharing for free. … At its I/O developer conference today …
Jay Peters / The Verge: Google unveils Gemini in Chrome, which initially works across just two tabs but will eventually support many and be agentic, for Google AI Pro and Ultra users — Google's AI assistant will be able to help you while you browse. … Google is adding its Gemini AI assistant to Chrome, the company announced at Google I/O on Tuesday.
Emma Roth / The Verge: Google will soon let users shop in AI Mode, unveils agentic checkout, and updates its virtual try-on feature in Search Labs for clothes shoppers in the US — There's also a new way to find products you're looking for in AI Mode. … Google is taking its virtual try-on feature to a new level.
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Google's AI Mode, its chatbot for Search, rolls out to everyone in the US and will include features like Deep Search, agentic capabilities, and chart generation — Google has begun rolling out AI Mode to every Search user in the US. The company announced the expansion during its I/O 2025 conference.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google announces Video Overviews is coming soon to NotebookLM, to turn dense multimedia, like raw notes, PDFs, and images, into digestible visual presentations — At Google I/O 2025, the tech giant unveiled new capabilities coming to NotebookLM, its AI-based note-taking and research assistant.
Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: Google debuts Deep Think, an enhanced reasoning mode in Gemini 2.5 Pro that it says excels at math and coding, available to “trusted testers” via the Gemini API — Google is moving closer to its goal of a “universal AI assistant” that can understand context, plan and take action.
Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.
Land is sinking, or subsiding, at a slow rate of millimeters per year.… Tags: land, sinking, Washington Post
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"The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be."
"Horse stories in the morning, erotica in the afternoon."
"As they pass through different hands, cooking utensils can magically connect us to loved ones who are no longer with us."
"There’s a slight quaver in the chef’s voice, and he tells me he is nervous. This is not something he is accustomed to doing, he says — asking a critic to leave."
大量生産、大量消費、技術の発達に下支えされた消費資本主義の発展が、全体主義的な管理社会へとつながるという議論は、当時の時代の産物として理解する必要がある。ただこうした議論は、現代の消費社会を考えるための一つの道標として、有用な視座を与えてもくれる。
"Racing pigeons hightail it home in competitions across the state."
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about new problems, including chip controls and China, and new opportunities, including AI Factories and enterprise pragmatism.