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Open source AI models and their underlying code enable organizations and nations to develop artificial intelligence capabilities independently, without reliance on proprietary systems or external vend
OpenAI Group PBC has reportedly floated the idea of giving a 5% stake to the U.S. government. Sources told the Financial Times today that the ChatGPT developer’s executives made the suggestion during
OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Fin
Paraguay is entering a new era of connectivity 🇵🇾 Paraguay is working with Starlink through MITIC and COPACO to bring high-speed internet to more than 1,600 schools in isolated areas This will connect
New York Times: President Trump says Micron will invest 250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a 250 deposit in some US states — President Trump said the
Rampart from the @ndstudio @WhiteHouse is number one trending token classification model on HF. Very cool to see public organizations starting to own and build their weights instead of renting them fr
Sam Altman / Financial Times: Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies — The labs devel
Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank Group Corp. and its telecommunications subsidiary SoftBank Corp. are planning to launch a new neocloud business in the U.S. that will rent access to artificia
Lucinda Shen / Axios: Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~2B valuation, six months after raising 75M at a 1B valuation — Binance is set to lead
The Information: Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal — A British law firm h
Bloomberg: Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October — Crusoe, the data center upstart wi
Bloomberg: Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~22B; it was valued at 11B in February — ElevenLabs has held early ta
Bloomberg: Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank is in talks to raise money at an 8B+ valuation, up from 4.35B in 2025; its deposits are up from 1.1B in March to 4.05B — Erebor Bank is in talks to rais
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincided with suspicious Kalshi wagers — Pl
British data intelligence startup StirlingX Ltd. has raised 20 million in an early-stage round to accelerate product development and push into new markets. StirlingX describes itself as a data intelli
Clem Delangue argues that AI companies should not be referred to as 'labs,' characterizing such terminology as pretentious and inaccurate since these organizations operate as commercial enterprises ra
This article outlines three key questions organizations should address when scaling AI initiatives from pilot projects to production impact. Based on the Databricks focus, it likely covers questions r
Bloomberg: The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android market power should stand — Google lost its long-running fi
Joe Warminsky / The Record: The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks — A 19-year-old
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Travel app Hopper agrees to a 35M FTC settlement over allegations the company misled users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs — Hopper, the trav
Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: Tripo AI, which is developing 3D foundation models and world models for use in games, raised 150M, a month after it said it raised 200M — Tripo AI, a global artificial inte
Elon Musk posted about 'Turbo America,' likely referencing initiatives related to rapid technological advancement, economic growth, or entrepreneurial development in the United States. Without access
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: UK-based StirlingX, which develops secure data intelligence systems for defense and critical infrastructure, raised a 20M Series A, following a 11M seed — The UK company, whic
Clem Delangue announced the term 'Summer of Open-source AI' in a live discussion with Dee Bosa and Vipul Ved, indicating a period focused on advancing and promoting open-source artificial intelligence
The 2026 Volvo EX30 Cross Country is a small electric SUV that is a joy to drive with a stylish cabin, though the rugged Cross Country variant sacrifices only modest range compared to the standard mod
Christopher Beam / Bloomberg: A look at Manifest, an annual convention for prediction markets where many purists worry that Kalshi and Polymarket are undermining the technology's public good — At Mani
Joseph Cox / 404 Media: A researcher says a vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email tool lets anyone see a user's real email address; first reported in June 2025, Apple has not fixed it — “Hide My Emai
The Viking 1 lander used its robotic arm to perform the first Martian soil sample analysis , collecting samples for biological experiments that involved scooping soil and testing it with nutrient solu
Amazon Web Services Inc. is reinventing the way data-intensive analytical workloads are handled by the Amazon OpenSearch Service with the launch of a new, purpose-built log analytics engine today. The
Decision Execution Platforms represent an evolution beyond traditional dashboards by enabling organizations to not only visualize data insights but also automatically trigger and execute business deci
Peter Millard / Bloomberg: ByteDance is building a 39B data center complex in a free-trade zone in Brazil's Ceará, set to be its largest facility outside of China with a 1GW capacity — The TikTok crea
The 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge recognized and celebrated winning startups that built innovative solutions using the Databricks data and AI platform. The competition showcased emerging
This Databricks article discusses advanced forecasting techniques and tools designed to meet the rapid decision-making demands of contemporary retail operations. It likely covers how modern retailers
GLM 5.2 just became the first open-source model to lead a category on APEX-SWE. It scored a 55.3% Pass@1 on Integration, the top score we've recorded for any model, open or closed source. On the overa
This Databricks resource explains how to implement granular usage attribution in dbt data transformation pipelines using query tags, enabling detailed tracking of compute resources and costs at a fine
Grok Build just got another workflow-focused update, bringing smarter controls, improved reliability, and better performance. Release Notes: v0.2.80 — 2026-07-01 Features: • Command timeouts can now b
Pivot 0.5 is the first trained model released by the organization, available as a free research preview with open weights coming soon to Hugging Face. The announcement was made by Clem Delangue on X (
Bloomberg: How a new Amazon-built transatlantic fiber-optic link in Ireland is symbolic of the country's AI ambitions, but also of its chronic lack of defense spending — A new Amazon transatlantic fib
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: How the rapid rise in US- and China-made AI abilities is leading to both a transformation in AI use at work, and sudden lurches in policies and markets — How work cha
In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work. He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in.
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire — Vinton Cerf will
Christopher Nolan directs and writes The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, the king of Ithaca , in a film set for release on July 17, 2026 . The final trailer arrives directly from the Trojan
Nikkei Asia: Japan commits up to 6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 — TOKYO — Japan will provide up
Last year, @elonmusk brought national attention to the paper-based federal retirement process hidden deep underground in Boyers, Pennsylvania. The Last Day of Paper is more than a milestone, it is pro
Marko Zivkovic / AppleInsider: Leaked Apple supplier docs show iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max may use Qualcomm modems in the US and Apple's own C2 chips elsewhere, A20 Pro packaging tech, and more — After
Financial Times: Letter: the US says Anthropic “agreed to proactively detect and address security risks” of Fable 5 and Mythos 5; a source says Anthropic developed a “safeguard” — US government move a
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Meta introduces a 20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users — “All AI glasses
Sara Fischer / Axios: Meta names Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz as its first-ever chief data officer, to manage AI analytics across the company, and names Denise Moreno as CMO — Meta has named i
Meta Platforms Inc. reportedly plans to rent its artificial intelligence infrastructure to other companies. Sources told Bloomberg and CNBC today that the Facebook parent will sell excess capacity not
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman acknowledged the May 28, 2026 New Glenn rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral, noting that spaceflight development is extraordinarily difficult and pledging NASA's suppo
A NASA Office of Inspector General audit released June 30 found that Boeing's Starliner capsule will not achieve human-rating certification until 2027 at the earliest , representing a significant dela
Now The Fountainhead – arguably the better book: 1. There are two ways to exist: create from your own vision, or live by reflecting and pleasing others – Rand calls them the first-handers and the seco
One of the reasons we brought @xAIMemphis to Mississippi wasn’t just its record-breaking $20 billion investment. It was also because the company is a great corporate partner that’s committed to giving
Orwell was a genius Animal Farm by George Orwell, in short: 1. Old Major, the fattest pig on the farm, delivers a sermon about 'liberation.' He has never missed a meal in his life – but he is the most
Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Oxmiq, which aims to combine GPUs, CPUs, and a tensor engine into a single block of IP that it can license, raised 35M led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fudomo — Artificial in
Peter: 'I heard you say you might want a mini woolly mammoth. Is that true?' Elon: 'Yeah, I think it would be really cool to have a pet miniature woolly mammoth. That'd be pretty epic.' Peter: 'I'll p
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. showed investors and other stakeholders an early prototype of a handheld artificial intelligence device ahead of its planned initial public offering, the Wall Stre
It’s our goal for AWS to be the most secure place to run any workload, and in support of that we’ve been deeply investing in security across our services since AWS's inception more than two decades ag
Multiple recent studies have found that Tylenol use during pregnancy is not associated with autism in children. These findings contradict statements made by President Trump and Health and Human Servic
Sony announced it will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games starting in January 2028, with future releases sold digitally through the PlayStation Store and other retailers. Sony