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This week Miguel Fierro, a former Microsoft principal researcher who recently founded his own company, RecoMind, joined data and AI evangelist Christina Stathopoulos to talk about the state of recommendation systems. Christina also ran through the latest AI news she’s been watching, from Anthropic’s continued rise to responsible AI, announcements from Google’s I/O 2026 conference, and (continuing the discussion from last week) the growing backlash against tokenmaxxing as a productivity metric. Here are three takeaways from the conversation. Recommendation systems are a bigger deal than most companies realizeMiguel has spent the better part of a decade building recommendation systems for…

by Sidnee Michelle June 13, 2026 This comes as city leaders and entrepreneurs look to expand opportunities for small business owners. Several new businesses, including multiple Black woman-owned ventures, are opening at the Atlanta Municipal Market, a historic public marketplace in the Sweet Auburn district. This comes as city leaders and entrepreneurs look to expand opportunities for small business owners, The Atlanta Voice reported. Officials, business owners, and residents gathered on June 5 for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and market tour celebrating four businesses that have recently opened or are preparing to open inside the market. Among them is A Taste…

The discovery of a years-old vulnerability in Zcash’s shielded pool, found with the help of an Anthropic AI model just days before the company launched its most powerful version yet, points to a shift that could reshape crypto security. As AI makes it cheaper and faster to find flaws buried deep in complex systems, the dynamic matters most for DeFi, where composability, bridges and shared infrastructure create a far broader attack surface.” The discovery of a critical vulnerability affecting privacy-focused blockchain Zcash (ZEC) in late May 2026 stands out among the many other crypto-related security incidents this year for one…

Bitcoin was designed as a hedge against inflation, but every hot inflation report in the past year has knocked its price lower, and Thursday’s data was no different. The Producer Price Index rose 1.1% in May, lifting the annual increase to 6.5%, the fastest pace since November 2022 and well above the 0.7% monthly gain economists had expected.Energy did most of the damage, as final demand goods climbed 2.8%, the largest monthly increase since the series began in December 2009, with energy prices up 10.7% and gasoline surging 23.4% as the Iran conflict keeps oil supply at risk. Even after…

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school piqued her curiosity about the natural world. During that time, she was introduced to Logo, a computer program with a turtle cursor to help children learn basic coding through hands-on experimentation.It was Kuo’s introduction to programming logic. Yen-Ling Kuo EmployerUniversity of Virginia in CharlottesvilleTitleAssistant professor of computer science Member gradeMemberAlma matersNational Taiwan University; MITIn high school she learned the capacity computers held. She could write programs that completed tasks independently, she realized.“Once I discovered how…

As contact centers push the boundaries of efficiency in customer service and call answering through the use of artificial intelligence (AI), there’s a dark underlord at play behind the curtain. AI can now clone a voice with three seconds of audio. So, how can your AI receptionist, automated answering service, or human agent detect who’s real and who’s a deepfake? We’ve been relying on knowledge-based authentication (KBA) like: What’s your mother’s maiden name? What was the name of your first pet? What street did you grow up on? What was your first school? But the answers to these are more…

We’re excited to announce that Wirex has joined the Visa Agentic Ready programme as an issuer. We’ll be supporting the development of secure, scalable agent-initiated payments on stablecoin rails, as part of the next generation of digital commerce.  The agentic economy is growing at a rate of 44% per year, and it’s already proving its ability to transform banking, where traditional banking rails suffer with cut-off times, correspondent banking delays, and have human approval loops ingrained. In contrast, autonomous AI agents can work 24/7. But to continue scaling, the agentic economy needs programmable, always-on financial rails that can execute transactions without human intervention, and stablecoins are the…

TL;DR Coinbase’s Quantum Advisory Council says post-quantum migration planning should begin before quantum attacks become practical. The report estimates about 7 million BTC are quantum-vulnerable because public keys are exposed through legacy formats or address reuse. About 1.7 million BTC are said to sit in legacy Pay-to-Public-Key addresses, including early mined and potentially abandoned coins. The council frames the issue as a long-term governance challenge, not an immediate emergency. Coinbase’s Quantum Advisory Council has warned that Bitcoin and other crypto networks need to begin planning for post-quantum migration well before quantum computers can realistically break today’s public-key cryptography. In a…

For the past year, Spotify has been quietly purging tens of thousands of podcasts that advertised illegal online pharmacies. A report released Thursday by Senator Maggie Hassan, ranking member of the Joint Economic Committee, faults the company for acting only after news outlets exposed the content and her office spent nearly a year pressing for answers.None of what it removed was sent to law enforcement, the report says.Spotify reportedly removed more than 57,000 podcast episodes and 3,000 shows, and took enforcement action against 3,500 accounts, all pushing links to illegal online pharmacies advertising opioids, benzodiazepines, and stimulants for sale without…

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions.The NeeDoh Nice Cube is a lump of soft plastic a little over 2 inches tall. It comes in blue, pink, or purple, and retails for $5.99. When you squeeze it, it produces a pleasing, squishy sensation, subtly relieving the stress of the day and replacing it with a sense of calm and peace.At least, I have to assume it does. The Nice Cube — and other NeeDoh variants, like globs, donuts, and kittens — are so popular that it’s become nearly…