Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at $120M-$140M (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiati…
Recap of the Microsoft Fabric Conference 2026... by Arun Ulag, President, Azure Data.
✅ FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform | Microsoft Azure Blog
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog
Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs! Do you agree with the examples of bad graphs and the alternatives Chenxin Li (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) lists at #RStats
"Polarization against fascism is good. It is, in fact, as Julia Azari said in our interview last week, “the most hopeful thing.” If we are going to defeat fascism, we need more polarization, because more polarization means more people willing to call evil what it is, and to do something about it."
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“I was lost away from home in a bizarre territory where people made plans that didn’t make sense with the aplomb of a drunk LLM.”
https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
Former Trump and Biden AI advisers Dean Ball and Ben Buchanan urge bipartisan action on AI security risks, including tighter export controls and safety audits (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/opinion