Venmo’s biggest makeover in years comes at a very interesting time

by News Feed Editor | May 11, 2026 | Technology

Venmo is rolling out a significant redesign over the coming months that aims to make the app more useful, social, and easier to navigate. This is the peer-to-peer payments app’s biggest refresh since 2021. The timing is notable. PayPal, which owns Venmo, is...

Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data

by News Feed Editor | May 11, 2026 | Technology

Asia’s push into physical AI is being fueled by the same manufacturing prowess that made the region a global industrial powerhouse. Across South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan, manufacturing remains a central pillar of economic growth. Unlike economies more heavily...

Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future

by News Feed Editor | May 10, 2026 | Technology

How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal looks at the rising popularity of dictation apps like Wispr, especially now that they can be connected to vibe coding tools, and what that...

Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts

by News Feed Editor | May 10, 2026 | Technology

Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avoid being...

Uber has always wanted to be more than a ride; now it has reason to hurry

by News Feed Editor | May 10, 2026 | Technology

For years, Uber talked about becoming a super app. Then Waymo started picking up passengers in San Francisco, and the conversation grew more urgent. The company has been trying to embed itself inside the AV industry — as a data provider, an investor, and a...

AI tool poisoning exposes a major flaw in enterprise agent security

by News Feed Editor | May 10, 2026 | Technology

AI agents choose tools from shared registries by matching natural-language descriptions. But no human is verifying whether those descriptions are true. I discovered this gap when I filed Issue #141 in the CoSAI secure-ai-tooling repository. I assumed it would be...