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The EU says Paramount has committed to exit its United International Pictures distribution JV with Universal as a condition for EU approval of its WBD merger (Nick Vivarelli/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/global/paramount-exit-un…

Paramount to Exit Universal UIP Venture for EU Approval of Merger
Paramount is set to exit its UIP joint venture with Universal as a condition to obtain EU approval of its megamerger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

From UK news coverage you wouldn't know that,
"For years, the Venezuelan government has operated under a suffocating blockade that has depleted its capacity to provide or produce the materials needed to deal respond to natural disasters of this magnitude."
Post-terremoto en Venezuela: el riesgo de una ocupación militar disfrazada de reconstrucción

Post-terremoto en Venezuela: el riesgo de una ocupación militar disfrazada de reconstrucción

A morning walk through East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York uncovered an immense colony of some 5.5 million subterranean bees.
The discovery, which a Cornell University research team published in April in the journal Apidologie,
documents one of the largest aggregations of these insects ever recorded in the world.
The population, belonging to the species Andrena regularis, occupies an area of about 1.25 acres
and is crucial for pollination of the region's orch…

Millions of Bees Have Thrived Under a New York Cemetery for More Than a Century
A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5.5 million—one of the largest ever recorded.

DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and was tested on Gemma and Qwen (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/artic…

Faster AI, lower costs: DSpark eases bottlenecks and chip strain, says DeepSeek
Start-up unveils speculative decoding framework that speeds up inference by up to 85 per cent amid China’s push to overcome US AI curbs.

Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. Below we describe what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI labs to perform similar reviews.

PEP 832 – Virtual environment discovery
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Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-needs-twice-a-week-patching-…

Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting
The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

«Some people's chats with Claude AI found publicly available online:
Hundreds of user conversations with Anthropic's popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude were found to have been available to essentially anyone online.»
Surprise, surprise who is now intelligent as smart? the user, the computer or its data-hungry and thus money-greedy operators?
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Some people's chats with Claude AI found publicly available online
Hundreds of conversations with Anthropic’s chatbot were discovered as being publicly accessible.

America’s bees and beekeepers are losing a valuable ally just when they need its help most.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to soon close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center,
a 6,500-acre agricultural research station in Maryland that is home to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis hub, the Beltsville Bee Research Lab.
The closure comes at a critical moment for bees.
In winter 2025, many beekeepers lost over half their operations as…

Shutting down federal bee labs threatens bees, beekeepers and the US food system
When honey bees get sick, their beekeepers turn to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis lab for help. That crucial resource is now disappearing.

London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end AI platform for drug development is being used by top pharmaceuticals, raised a $12M seed led by Accel (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/2…

Exclusive: Perceptic, a startup automating drug discovery end-to-end for Big Pharma, emerges from stealth with $12 million in seed funding
Accel is leading the seed funding round for Perceptic, which emerges from stealth today.