Poland says hackers infiltrate water treatment plant, says US faces same threat
Poland’s intelligence agency said it had detected attacks on five water treatment plants that could, in a worst-case scenario, allow hackers to take control of industrial equipment inside, including tampering with the security of water supplies. This story has implications beyond Poland’s borders, as U.S. water infrastructure has faced similar threats in recent years. In […]
Uber-backed micromobility company Lime files for IPO
After years of tips and preparations, Uber-backed electric bike and scooter rental startup Lime has filed for an initial public offering. The company, incorporated as Neutron Holdings, Inc., has been focused on the public markets for at least five years. When CEO Wayne Ting last spoke to TechCrunch about the prospect of an IPO, he […]
America’s largest power grid is under strain from AI – and no one is happy
PJM interconnection is disappointing. For decades, grid operators worked quietly behind the scenes to match power demand with supply. Meanwhile, customers enjoyed some of the lowest electricity rates in the United States. no longer. Politicians, businesses, households, and power companies believe that a review is necessary. PJM agrees. PJM said in a white paper released […]
Airbnb announces 60% of new code is now written by AI
A large part of Airbnb’s Q1 2026 earnings call was dedicated to talking about how the company uses AI tools for coding, customer support, and search. Notably, the company claimed that 60% of the code its engineers created in the quarter was written by AI. This echoes comments from other companies such as Google, Microsoft, […]
Why my doctor won’t call me back
Many conversations about AI in healthcare focus on diagnostics, drug discovery, or doctor-patient visits. But a less visible part of the system influences whether patients actually get seen, and it has less to do with the number of doctors in the world (too few) than with the paperwork involved between a primary care physician writing […]
Hacker claims to have hacked another organization and defaces school login page
On Tuesday, education technology giant Instructure disclosed a data breach in which hackers stole personal information such as students’ names, personal email addresses, and messages sent and received between teachers and students. Well, it looks like hackers have managed to compromise Instructural again. This time, they defaced several schools’ login pages for Canvas, the company’s […]
Elon Musk’s lawsuit exposes OpenAI’s safety record
Elon Musk’s legal efforts to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its commercial subsidiary strengthens or undermines Frontier Labs’ founding mission to ensure humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence. On Thursday, a federal court in Oakland, California, heard testimony from former employees and directors who said the company’s efforts to push AI products to market […]
Bumble is eliminating swipes, CEO says
Will dating app malaise finally end swiping? At least that seems to be the case with Bumble. In an interview with Axios on Thursday, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd confirmed that Bumble is doing away with swiping, a signature feature of dating apps in the 2010s. “We’re saying goodbye to Swipe and saying hello to […]
Could Lovable’s 10% automatic raise be the cure for a toxic culture?
Stockholm-based vibecoding platform Lovable is growing its revenue at an astronomical rate. And we’re doing things that most American companies, startup or otherwise, don’t even think about. The idea is to voluntarily commit to a 10% annual raise on every employee’s anniversary. In the American corporate world, employees typically cannot receive built-in raises unless they […]
How Anthropic’s Mythos rewrites Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity
When Anthropic announced its new Mythos model in April, it also issued a stark warning to those developing the software. The institute says its model is extremely powerful at sniffing out software vulnerabilities, finding thousands of high-severity bugs that need to be fixed before they can be released publicly. Now, security researchers for Mozilla’s Firefox […]