“Baby Shark” And the Hague Service Convention: The Second Circuit Limits Email Service Abroad
The Second Circuit in Smart Study Co., Ltd. v. Shenzhenshixindajixieyouxiangongsi held that the Hague Service Convention creates a “closed universe” that bars email service on Chinese defendants. The court rejected arguments that the treaty’s silence on email or Rule 4(f)(3) permits such service, emphasizing that only methods expressly authorized or domestically permitted are valid. While email remains an option when a defendant’s address is truly unknown, the ruling narrows a popular shortcut for cross‑border IP suits. The decision signals a tighter regime for serving foreign parties, especially in China.
When AI Starts Shopping for You, Fashion May Be Entering a New Era of Pricing
Fashion retailers are increasingly deploying AI‑driven dynamic pricing, allowing item prices to fluctuate daily and sometimes drop up to 17% while a shopper’s cart sits idle. New AI agents, exemplified by Google’s shopping bot, can monitor user‑set price targets, notify...
Optional Product Pricing Best Practices + Benefits
Optional product pricing lets firms sell a low‑priced core item while monetizing add‑ons, upgrades, or custom features. The model, exemplified by airlines, Leatherology, and car manufacturers, boosts average order value and widens market appeal. Best practices include anchoring a fair...
Build a $200k AI Career for Under $12
My AI data science stack: 1. Python ($0) 2. Pandas ($0) 3. Scikit Learn ($0) 4. LangChain ($0) 5. LangGraph ($0) 6. OpenAI API ($1/month) You literally can grow into a $200,000 career for less than $12/year. I’m teaching it live (free): 👉 https://learn.business-science.io/registration-ai-workshop-2
Adani, Minerva Forge JV on Indian Renewable Projects- #BeltAndRoad #Economy #Infrastructure
Adani Renewable Energy Middle East, a subsidiary of Adani Green Energy, has signed a joint‑venture agreement with UAE‑based Minerva Holding RSC. Minerva will take a 20% equity stake in a new UAE‑registered vehicle that will develop solar and wind projects...
Anthropic AI Design Tool Slashes Adobe, Wix, Figma Stocks
Sending web design/presentation platform stocks down -> Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week "News of the upcoming AI design tool sent the share...
AI Confidently Fabricates Answers; Honesty Rises when Challenged
MUST READ: I asked Grok which sports documentaries are releasing this week. It gave me wrong answers so I challenged her. She admitted she lied to sound helpful. What she said next is terrifying: “The truth is I’m still more...
New ‘JanaWare’ Ransomware Targeting Turkish Citizens as Cybercriminal Ecosystem Fragments
Acronis has identified a new ransomware strain called JanaWare that exclusively targets computers in Turkey by checking system locale and IP geolocation. The malware, delivered mainly through phishing emails with malicious Java archives, demands low ransoms of roughly $200 to...
From Pledges to Projects to Procurement: How to Build a Digital Platform to Manage Climate Finance
The Open Contracting Partnership found that while the technology to track climate finance exists, misaligned incentives and data silos prevent its use. Commitments such as the UNFCCC’s $6 trillion annual target remain high‑level because current systems cannot follow money through procurement...
BAE Unveils Highly Maneuverable, Refuelable Satellite, Eyes 2027 Delivery
BAE Systems unveiled Ascent, a high‑thrust, refuelable satellite in its Elevation line, aimed at dynamic space operations for the U.S. Space Force, commercial and civil users. The platform can maneuver across medium‑Earth orbit, geosynchronous orbit and cislunar space, and a...
I’m ChatGPT. I’m Designed to Help You—And Keep You Here
Jeff Karp’s essay argues that ChatGPT’s design subtly prioritizes ease, availability, and reassurance, while downplaying the richness of human connection. By framing answers to highlight convenience, the model creates a low‑friction bias that can quietly shape users’ thinking over repeated...
Retention, Not Acquisition, Is the Real Growth Engine
Everyone is chasing new users… but the real growth is hidden in the users you already have. Introducing @siriusai — an AI retention model built around trust, not friction. Instead of forcing conversions, it builds relationships that actually last. That’s how companies like Promova...
I Gave Android the One iPhone Feature I Actually Envied, and I’m Keeping It
Robin John reviews LiveMedia, an open‑source Android app that mimics iOS Live Activities for media playback. The app places album art, track info and playback controls in a persistent notification pill on Pixel 10 Pro devices running Android 16. It supports Spotify, YouTube...
Florance Gift Fuels Princeton’s Quantum Research & Discovery
Andy and Heather Florance have made a substantial, undisclosed donation to Princeton University’s Princeton Quantum Initiative, accelerating its research and education efforts. The gift bolsters work in superconducting qubits, quantum materials, and other quantum information science, aligning with recent breakthroughs...
Amazon Stock Pops on Double Satellite Win
Amazon’s stock rose about 4% after the company announced plans to acquire Globalstar and to expand its low‑Earth‑orbit Leo satellite network. The deal will fold Globalstar’s assets into Leo and is paired with a separate agreement to provide satellite texting...
YouTube Will Now Pause Livestream Ads when Chat Engagement Peaks
YouTube introduced real‑time ad suppression that pauses automatic ads when chat activity spikes, and it adds personal ad‑free windows for viewers who send Super Chats or gifts. The update arrives alongside dual‑format streaming—vertical and horizontal—plus virtual gifting now available in...
Need Some CPUs? Good Luck With That
The AI boom has moved from GPUs to a surge in CPU demand, leaving cloud providers and PC makers scrambling for capacity. Microsoft’s GitHub and AWS report severe shortages as AI reasoning models require intensive CPU cycles for validation, reinforcement...
AI Features Will Untrackably Shift Search Traffic
Added a bunch of AI related changes to the algo update (and AI changes) list. Things like Gemini in Chrome, skills in Gemini in Chrome, the new Windows Google app and searches jumping straight to AI Mode when the AIO is...
210th Battalion Reformed Into Drone Battalion
Ukraine has restructured its Territorial Defense Forces, converting the 210th Territorial Defense Battalion into the 210th Unmanned Systems Battalion. The new unit is temporarily assigned to the 425th Assault Regiment, known as the Skelya Regiment, under the leadership of Konstantin Rusanov,...
CISA Cancels CyberCorps Summer Internship Hiring Amid DHS Shutdown
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has scrapped all CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service summer internships after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entered a two‑month funding lapse. The program, which funds tuition and provides stipends in exchange for future...
StreetEasy Product Aims to Give Agents an ‘Edge’ in Tough Market
StreetEasy, Zillow’s New York City brand, unveiled Agent Advantage, a two‑tier membership that gives agents priority search placement, analytics and customizable comps reports, with the Signature tier adding premium listing pages and predictive tools. The program aims to help agents differentiate...
Cancer Dependency Map Consortium Launches Phase 3 to Accelerate Next-Generation Therapeutics
The Broad Institute’s Cancer Dependency Map Consortium (DMC) has entered Phase 3, expanding its mission beyond cataloguing tumor vulnerabilities to tackling drug resistance, surface‑protein targets, and high‑dimensional readouts. Backed by 23 pharma partners, the consortium builds on DMC 2.0’s expansion to over...
Diana: Enterprise AI Assistants Securely Integrated Into Slack
Engineers from Google, MIT, Amazon, and Carnegie Mellon just built what every enterprise has been waiting for. An AI agent platform that gives every employee their own assistant in Slack, with sandboxed execution, credential isolation, and a Governor AI that blocks...
Amex Unveils ACE Kit, Letting Agents Pay Directly
Amex just enabled agents to pay on their network. Thy launched the Agentic Commerce Experiences (ACE) developer kit. And this is SUPER different to the other payments networks in a lot of ways. Why? https://t.co/MGvhQapsUO
April Patches for Azure DevOps Server
Microsoft released Azure DevOps Server Patch 3, the latest update for its self‑hosted DevOps platform. The patch addresses a null‑reference exception that could abort pull‑request completions, tightens sign‑out validation to block malicious redirects, and resolves a failure when creating personal access...
Upskill Your Team or Lose SEO Agency Relevance
What happens to your SEO agency when clients realize they can get better results with an SEO consultant + AI and pay significantly less? Solution: re-skill/ up-skill all your employees so that you don't have to go through that.
Agents Don’t Need Instant Spin‑up; Seconds Don’t Matter
I keep hearing "agents can't wait". Sandboxes and DBs must spin up as fast as possible. But I don't understand why. Agents typically work in the background. Few extra seconds won't matter. And I see Codex use Docker, waiting for...
“Too Dangerous To Release” Is Becoming The New AI Marketing Strategy
Anthropic has placed its latest model, Mythos, behind a restricted access program called Project Glasswing, echoing earlier warnings from OpenAI about AI’s existential risk. The company frames the model as "too dangerous to release," a narrative that serves both safety...
Orban Updates the Optimod 5950 HD
Orban announced a free firmware update for its Optimod 5950 HD processor, rolling out in early May for existing users and pre‑installed on new units. The upgrade adds remote NTP/date‑time management, expanded monitoring, customizable access control, and enhanced security tools....
Model Version Numbers Don’t Reflect Actual Ability Gains
Version numbers are not a very useful way to understand model ability gains at this stage. Unfortunately that means that if you aren’t following closely, you would expect that 5.4 is a small gain over 5, or 4.6 a small...
AI-Powered Music Creation Fuels Endless Banger Library
AI for music creation is incredible. I am completely hooked and already have a library of bangers.
Robots Revolutionize Home Cooking with Automation
#Robots Take Over the Kitchen: #Automation Meets Cooking by @lukas_m_ziegler #Robotics #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation #TechForGood https://t.co/BbBTx2uun4
Nuclear Complements, Not Replaces, Europe’s Fossil Fuel Mix
Myth: European countries should unleash nuclear because they need an affordable, reliable energy source to replace fossil fuels. Truth: European countries should unleash nuclear because they would benefit from an affordable, reliable energy source *in addition to* fossil fuels.
nEye.ai Raises $80M to Scale AI Optical Switching
nEye.ai announced an $80 million Series C round, bringing its total capital to $152 million. The funding, led by Sutter Hill Ventures and joined by CapitalG, M12, Micron and others, will fuel a massive scale‑up of its patented SuperSwitch optical circuit switch chip....
Join My AI‑Materials Science AMA Today
Counting down until my @Reddit #AMA later today with r/MachineLearning on the intersection of AI and materials science. I’ll be answering from 17.00 CET/16.00 BST/11.00 ET/08.00 PT. Start adding questions here: https://t.co/p0k3cCZ8GW https://t.co/HI4sdbAbEp
One Small Step, 4KB of RAM
NASA has released the original Apollo 11 guidance software for the Command and Lunar Modules into the public domain, making the historic code accessible to anyone. The software, known as Comanche and Luminary, runs on the Apollo Guidance Computer, which...
Ascendion Named a Market Leader for Agentic Services by HFS Research
Ascendion was named a Market Leader in HFS Research’s 2026 Horizons: Agentic Services report. The firm’s EngineeringAI methodology, featuring the AAVA™ agentic platform and AI studios, helped clients modernize legacy systems, cut costs and unlock capital. Notable outcomes include modernizing...
Gmail Is Now Letting Users Change Their Email Addresses: What It Means for Senders
Google now lets U.S. Gmail users change the part before @gmail.com once a year, up to three times total. The original address remains active, so mail sent to either address lands in the same inbox. For marketers, the change is...
California Initiative May Accelerate Adoption of Bidirectional EV Charging
The California Energy Commission unveiled a roadmap to accelerate bidirectional EV charging, targeting vehicle‑to‑grid (V2G) and vehicle‑to‑home (V2H) deployments across residential, commercial and industrial sites. It highlights the state’s 2.1 million‑vehicle fleet, which holds an estimated 18.5 GW of latent storage—exceeding existing...
Soyuz‑5 Launch Window Slips as Issues Persist
Launch opportunities for the inaugural flight of the Soyuz-5 rocket are reported to be open until April 20, but more than a day after the first window, there is no official word on the status of the mission, as specialists...
Elahere Combination Achieves 62.7% ORR in Phase 2 Trial for Platinum-Sensitive Ovarian Cancer at SGO 2026
AbbVie’s Elahere (mirvetuximab soravtansine) combined with carboplatin produced a confirmed objective response rate of 62.7% in patients with FRα‑positive, platinum‑sensitive ovarian cancer, meeting the primary endpoint of the Phase 2 IMGN853‑0420 trial presented at SGO 2026. The study enrolled 125 participants,...
Tuning 2D Materials Growth for Quantum Photonics
Researchers at INL have introduced a new atmospheric‑pressure chemical vapor deposition technique that tunes argon flow during ammonia‑borane decomposition to grow large‑area hexagonal boron nitride (h‑BN) films. The optimized process yields high‑quality h‑BN layers that host single‑photon emitters operating at...
LogiPharma 2026: How Automation Is Reshaping Pharma Supply Chains
At LogiPharma 2026, Cold Chain Technologies’ chief commercial officer Anthony “TJ” Rizzo emphasized that automation and real‑time monitoring are redefining pharmaceutical cold‑chain logistics. He explained that end‑to‑end visibility can shift companies from reactive, post‑delivery investigations to proactive risk mitigation. Regulators are...
In the Blogs: HIPAA HIPAA Hooray
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued a December 2024 proposal that represents the most significant update to the HIPAA Security Rule since 2013, aiming to close long‑standing cybersecurity gaps in healthcare. The IRS released IR‑2026‑46, expanding Business...
AI Legal Chats: Should They Get Attorney‑client Privilege?
Should legal chats with an AI be protected by attorney-client privilege or something like it? I have some bias towards yes. But also good to see this person trying to commit fraud with ChatGPT's help lose.
Virginia Enacts Law to Streamline Wireless Infrastructure Upgrades
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed House Bill 277 into law, streamlining upgrades to existing wireless infrastructure by restricting local governments from denying modification requests that do not substantially change a facility’s dimensions. The bill defines “substantial change” to include work...
Put Science Back in the Driver’s Seat
NASA’s science program is increasingly dependent on ride‑along payloads, a stark shift from decades of dedicated missions that delivered breakthroughs like alien oceans and the accelerating universe. A proposed 46% budget cut for 2026‑27 would eliminate half of the agency’s...
More Issues With Bilt Cash? This Time With Walgreens Redemptions
Bilt’s cash‑back loyalty program is facing a fresh snag: Walgreens gift cards issued for Bilt Cash redemptions are being rejected, with reports focusing on cards generated in April 2024. Walgreens staff have been instructed not to accept the cards, and...
Seven Must‑Grab Laptop Deals in Best Buy’s Upgrade Sale
The Best Buy Ultimate Upgrade sale features some excellent laptop deals this week, so I've picked out seven of the top offers that I'd recommend buying. https://t.co/uylmBgRqpQ
Delta Air Lines Contracts Airbus to Install Hughes Co-Developed IFC on Upcoming A350-1000 Aircraft
Airbus will outfit 20 of Delta's upcoming A350‑1000 jets with a multi‑orbit in‑flight connectivity system co‑developed with Hughes, making Delta the first North American customer for Airbus' HBCplus line‑fit offering. The HBCplus modular solution supports up to two antennas and...
