SpaceX awarded $6.45B in Space Force contracts ahead of IPO

by News Feed Editor | May 29, 2026 | Technology

SpaceX is headed toward what’s expected to be the largest IPO ever next month, and now it has received a major boost from the Trump administration. On Friday, the U.S. Space Force announced it’s giving SpaceX $4.16 billion as part of a contract to build satellites...

Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them 

by News Feed Editor | May 29, 2026 | Technology

In 2026, you cannot pry AI coding tools out of developers’ vise grip, researchers have discovered.   But while AI is undoubtedly helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, other researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the...

MeMo’s memory model lets teams upgrade their LLM without retraining it — and performance jumps 26%

by News Feed Editor | May 29, 2026 | Technology

Enabling LLMs to acquire new knowledge after training remains a major hurdle for enterprise AI — current solutions are either too expensive, too slow, or constrained by context window limits.MeMo, a framework from researchers at multiple universities, encodes new...

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

by News Feed Editor | May 29, 2026 | Technology

After a security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products, along with code to exploit them, the company is now threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them. Microsoft’s veiled threat reignites a long-running argument over...

Pinterest cut AI costs 90% by gutting a frontier model’s vision layer

by News Feed Editor | May 29, 2026 | Technology

At 620 million monthly users, calling a frontier model for every image recommendation isn’t a strategy — it’s a bill. Pinterest CTO Matt Madrigal solved it by gutting Qwen3-VL’s vision layer and rebuilding it with proprietary embeddings, cutting...

Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans

by News Feed Editor | May 29, 2026 | Technology

Cognition CEO Scott Wu made headlines again this week when his two-year-old AI coding agent startup raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation. Cognition is the maker of Devin, one of the first and, arguably, most successful AI coding agents. Devin, the CEO says,...