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Major AI companies are driving up memory prices and changing the rules for the gaming industry

Microsoft showed how to run VibeVoice for ASR, realtime TTS, and speech-to-speech

Suno 5.5 improves voice copying and melody preservation in Cover mode

Alfa-Bank described “vibe leadership”: how AI took over routine work and accelerated the growth of the A-Token platform

Why AI makes errors in requirements and architecture more costly despite speeding up development

Palantir tests a system for the IRS to select priority targets for tax audits

Business·TechCrunch

Amazon added conversational food ordering via Uber Eats and Grubhub to Alexa+

Alexa+ now lets users order food through Uber Eats and Grubhub in a single conversation: they can choose a cuisine, change dishes on the fly

01US Army signs contract with Anduril worth up to $20 billion for military AI systemsMay 2, 2026·3 min 02Amazon launched Alexa+ in the UK and opened free early accessMay 2, 2026·3 min 03Franklin Templeton chief urges businesses to adopt AI faster and protect core dataMay 2, 2026·3 min 04BentoML showed how to turn Grounding DINO into a production service with a web APIMay 2, 2026·3 min 05Falcon Tech explained how machine vision for cities grew into a network of 4,000 systemsMay 2, 2026·2 min

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Falcon Tech showed how Moscow's video monitoring system grew out of parking enforcement

Falcon Tech explained how it built a video monitoring system for Moscow: from parking enforcement to analyzing the load on urban infrastruct

01Narwhal Labs faces complaints over sexist AI advertising in the UKMay 2, 2026·3 min 02red_mad_robot engineer showed how to build an NER service for résumés: from annotation to APIMay 2, 2026·3 min 03BBFC brought AI into HBO Max age ratings and labeled the catalog ahead of its UK launchMay 2, 2026·2 min

Business·TNW

Alex Theuma shuts down SaaStock and relaunches the largest SaaS conference as Shift AI

SaaStock founder Alex Theuma is shutting down Europe's largest B2B SaaS conference after ten years and launching Shift AI amid falling SaaS

Business·TNW

Snap to cut 1,000 employees: Evan Spiegel expects efficiency gains from AI

Snap is laying off about 1,000 people, or 16% of its workforce, as it aims to save more than $500 million a year: management believes AI wil

Data Science in digital manufacturing: how enterprises collect data and reduce defects

Data Science turns fragmented manufacturing data into a tool for quality control, predictive maintenance, and process optimization across the product's digital thread.

Business·TNW

DeepL launched real-time voice translation in more than 40 languages

Why AI tools speed up code delivery but also inflate bugs and technical debt

SimpleOne explained why vibe coding speeds up releases but hurts code and code review

Business·KDnuggets

OpenCode, Ollama, and Qwen3-Coder: how to run a local AI coder without the cloud or limits

Business·Machine Learning Mastery

Machine Learning Mastery showed how to run zero-shot text classification without a dataset

Global X: why AI companies continue to dominate ETF inflows

Vladimir Potanin: AI will have a strong economic impact for Russia, but will not replace people

Reg.Oblako: generative AI has entered its 1997 internet phase, and the window for entry is narrowing

AI lowered the barrier to entry in development — but technical debt has not disappeared

AI made it possible to build applications without deep technical knowledge, but the direct “task → code” approach quietly accumulates vulner

Business·Bloomberg Tech

Lightshed analyst: Apple is on the wrong path in AI and is replacing its CEO

Walter Piecyk of Lightshed Partners spent more than a year calling for Apple to replace its CEO over failures in its AI strategy. Now the co