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Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Xiaomi claims MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed tops 1K tokens/second, a first at the 1T-parameter scale, using a standard 8-GPU commodity node; API trial starts June 9 — Most peop

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Amazing Digital Dentures was a hackathon project showcased on Hugging Face that attempted to apply AI or digital technology to denture design or manufacturing but ultimately did not reach completion o

Bloomberg: As wealth managers confront an AI reckoning, the tech is, for now, easing their workloads by picking up routine tasks, freeing up more time to advise clients — Wealth managers, who can make

Toby Sterling / Reuters: ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet applauds the EU's tech sovereignty plans but says substantial EU involvement in steering “strategic projects” is a cause for concern — The CEO of t

Release: datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 I'm planning several plugins for Datasette Agent which can make edits to existing pieces of text - things like collaborative Markdown editing, updating large SQL qu

Reuters: French carriers Bouygues Telecom, Orange, and Free-iliad sign an MOU with Altice France to acquire SFR for €20.35B, including debt, expected to close in H2 2027 — Bouygues Telecom (BOUY.PA),

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: Fusion energy startup Helion raised a 465M Series G led by Thrive Capital at a 15.5B valuation, nearly tripling the valuation from its January 2025 round — Helion, the fusio

Tanya Pandey / The Economic Times: Industry data: India's six largest IT companies grew combined revenue from 95.9B in FY23 to 103.1B in FY26, while headcount remained broadly steady at ~1.9M — India'

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time — Also: What to

Wall Street Journal: KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing — Only 26% of comp

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Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: Memory chip vendors say CXMT's DDR5 prices match Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, and it has a supply advantage in client markets as it is not prioritizing HBM — CXMT's DDR5 m

The Guardian: Microsoft says it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry found Israel's Unit 8200 violated its ToS — Announcement seeks to close

NVIDIA and Doosan Group are expanding their collaboration to advance new opportunities across physical AI, robotics and AI factory infrastructure, spanning Doosan Robotics, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Enerb

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Nvidia and SK Hynix sign a multiyear chip deal to develop next-gen memory; SK Hynix will diversify into infrastructure, physical AI, and memory for Vera Rubin — Nvidia Corp. an

At GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX last week, NVIDIA unveiled RTX Spark, the superchip that reinvents Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents. On the heels of this announcement, NVIDIA founder and CEO Je

Heekyong Yang / Reuters: Nvidia says South Korea-based Naver will use Nvidia's DSX tech to build AI factories at “gigawatt scale” to meet global demand for AI services and physical AI — Nvidia (NVDA.O

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: OpenAI plans to overhaul ChatGPT in the coming weeks, turning it into a superapp with coding tools and AI agents to serve as a gateway to higher-margin products — $

OpenAI Group PBC is still focused on its plans to transform ChatGPT into some kind of “superapp,” and it will have a heavy focus on artificial intelligence agents and autonomous coding bots, according

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Google DeepMind's Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas and Epoch AI's Phil Trammell on what remains scarce after AGI, redistributing AI wealth, and more — “O

A student injured in the January 2025 Antioch High School shooting has filed a lawsuit against Omnilert, the company behind the school's AI gun detection system. The school had an Omnilert AI-powered

Agentic artificial intelligence is being misread as a set of separate battles – for example, Snowflake Inc. versus Databricks Inc., copilots versus agents, model makers versus application vendors. We

Bloomberg: Sources: Beijing-based Moonshot, which makes the Kimi chatbot, is in talks to raise up to 2B at a 30B valuation, up from a 20B+ valuation in a May round — Moonshot AI is seeking as much as

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Spotify has approached concert promoters about licensing music festival livestreams, aiming to add more video to become a one-stop shop for music fans — Spotify is loo

This resource describes sponsor vouchers, particularly OpenAI Codex credits, available to participants in a Hugging Face hackathon event. It likely outlines how participants can access and use the pro

Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: UK-based Creator Fund closes a 56M fund to back European PhD founders, reaching them in universities before they're pulled into academia, Big Tech, or US labs — Creator Fu

After Dell Technologies Inc. saw an 88% jump in revenue reported last week, it’s safe to say the hardware and data management company is on a roll. Although the hype is primarily around Dell’s artific

This article describes a collaborative hackathon project involving five research labs that developed a financial simulation drama using small language models, focusing on building complex multi-agent

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: FOIA docs reveal Amazon's extensive control over delivery drivers it insists are not employees, in a case the NLRB sought to settle on terms favorable to Amazon — The feds w

Apple has been on its back foot, AI-wise, for the past few years. But in a strange way, playing from behind might not be such a bad move. At WWDC on Monday, Apple appears to be getting ready to reintr

Isabella Kwai / New York Times: How LinkedIn is transforming into a “post-cringe” social network as it courts high-profile influencers, who are building audiences on corporate-friendly topics — Celebr

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: Inside the Trump admin's push to integrate AI into the healthcare system, including an FDA regulatory fast track for digital health tech like AI chatbots — The adm

Job Searcher is a project showcased in a Hugging Face hackathon blog post that demonstrates how to build a job search application, likely leveraging machine learning and Hugging Face tools to help use

Max Tani / Semafor: Kalshi and Polymarket sponsored X posts promoting viral LA mayoral election fraud conspiracy theories; Kalshi says it asked its paid influencers to remove posts — THE SCOOP — Kalsh

Ami Yamada / Nikkei Asia: Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of 124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings — TOKYO — Funding in Jap

This resource compiles significant large language model research papers published between January and May 2026, curated by Sebastian Raschka. It serves as a reference guide for tracking recent advance

Facebook has long been filled with feeds of clickbait articles. Now, Meta is making its own clickbait articles with AI. The standalone Meta AI app now has a 'For You' section that populates a list of

Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a2 I added a CLI to micropython-wasm (issue #7), inspired by the first draft of the blog entry when I realized it would be a great way to illustrate the Try it yourself se

Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times: Paris-listed Teleperformance, the world's largest customer service company, has become one of Europe's most shorted stocks, as hedge funds bet on AI disruption — Outs

Financial Times: Raspberry Pi closed up 27%+ on June 5 after saying it expects adjusted EBITDA of at least 38M in H1, putting it on track to beat 42M est. for the full year — UK maker of tiny low-cost

Caleb Mutua / Bloomberg: Report: in May, supply of unsecured bonds from hyperscalers passed $155B, up over 45% from 2025's total issuance; some AI-infra bond sales are 4x oversubscribed — Credit heavy

I've been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics I've been lookin

Five scientists, including the editor-in-chief of America's leading diabetes journal, were removed from the American Diabetes Association's annual conference in New Orleans on June 5, 2026, after dist

Robert Wright / Financial Times: Several UK police forces have been told to stop using AI to prepare court statements, citing concerns that inaccurate outputs could contaminate legal procedures — Safe

Mayumi Negishi / Bloomberg: SoftBank's PayPay, Japan's dominant payments app, says it will take a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance for 840M, expected to close in October 2027 — SoftBank Gro