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Airbnb adds hotels, car rentals, and AI support in summer update

Airbnb’s summer 2026 release adds boutique hotels in 20 cities, car rentals, luggage storage, and thousands of new experiences. The company is also expanding its AI customer service bot globally, which now handles 40 per cent of queries.

Google DeepMind's CEO says a major AI turning point is closer than ever

Demis Hassabis, Google's AI chief, shares why society is nearing the AI singularity, highlighting AI's potential at the I/O conference.

Nvidia's Q1 2027 Data Center Revenue Jumps 92 Percent From Last Year.

Chip Race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia Battle It Out for AI Chip Supremacy

OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.

IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed

Initially billed as an "AI butler," Iris watches what happens on a user's desktop and automatically learns how to do tasks for them, its co-founder says.

Ryzen 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition may help you avoid paying for a new PC

It could be one way to make your old PC play nicely with a high-end GPU.

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 42 months earlier, is fixed.

A city at the center of an AI data center frenzy just voted to ban them

A New Jersey city has voted to ban new data center developments, effectively blocking one the largest proposed data centers in the state.

Your greasy pizza box is giving recyclers a headache. AI could fix that.

At Stony Brook University, researchers are developing an AI-assisted system to analyze and characterize contaminated items in recycling facilities.

A top Google executive says Silicon Valley is overstating the AI jobs apocalypse

Google SVP James Manyika says Silicon Valley has fueled fears of an AI jobs cuts — but the reality is more complicated.

What’s your score on the WSJ’s data center quiz?

I’m ashamed to say I did poorly — only three out of 10 correct — but I’m glad I took it, it’s an interesting quiz. Heads up that it might be behind a paywall, though.

OpenAI is racing to go public

OpenAI targets September IPO with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as advisors, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider.