Dune cuts 25% of staff to sharpen focus on AI and institutional data products

May 14, 2026 — Forget spreadsheets. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) STEM with Phones student workshop, students are using smartphones and artificial intelligence (AI) to conduct advanced scientific analysis. Led by […] The post LLNL’s ‘STEM with Phones’ Program Brings AI-Powered Physics Research to Students appeared first on AIwire.

Crypto data firm Dune has laid off 25% of its workforce, with CEO Fredrik Haga citing a sharpened focus on artificial intelligence (AI)-powered data tools and institutional clients moving onchain. Dune Cuts 25% of Staff, Bets Future on AI and Institutional Onchain Data Haga announced the cuts this week, framing the decision as a restructuring […]

Concern over AI governance is not a geopolitical abstract but an unavoidable local actuality, and the U.S. may be amenable to cooperation with China despite the AI race between the superpowers.

Tens of thousands of Democratic voters in Kentucky got messages tailored to their work, their neighborhood and their voting history, tying it to one of a handful of bills David Kloiber plans to file if elected.

Enterprise AI systems are entering a phase where inference design matters as much as model capability itself. The post The Next AI Bottleneck Isn’t the Model: It’s the Inference System appeared first on Towards Data Science.

The misuse of AI metrics at Amazon highlights the pitfalls of incentive structures, potentially skewing genuine AI adoption and innovation. The post Amazon employees reportedly use MeshClaw to game AI usage leaderboards appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Apple has a design for AI life. It hopes to build on the outstanding hardware performance its systems already provide to create a fantastic environment in which AI developers can thrive. If this plan sounds familiar it’s because it’s all about the App Store, and while it’s easy to expect Apple’s revenue share to change, the plan still makes the company the custodian of the AI age. The way it should work is if app developers see that one way to bring their AI services to billions of iPhones, iPad, and Mac users is to make AI agents available via Apple’s own portals. These will likely be via App Intents, enabling Siri to execute actions inside their apps without actively opening them.  The Information reports some developers are resistant to joining the initiative, in part because they want to avoid paying any fees. All the same, consider the moment, consider the meaning, and I think the significance is that Apple has at last got its act together with AI. Ecosystem, services, store Apple

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