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NVIDIA and LG Group are building an AI factory to accelerate LG Group’s next wave of AI-driven businesses, spanning robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services. The A

Artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia Corp. today announced a slate of new partnerships with some of South Korea’s biggest technology, including the memory chip supplier SK hynix Inc., internet gia

Artificial intelligence companies are competing for dominance over the emerging AI stack, and it’s anyone’s game. The AI market is maturing. SpaceX Corp. wants to raise $75 billion to go public, and A

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO, says it has “not decided on timing yet”, as “there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company” — OpenAI has conf

OpenAI on Monday checked off a preliminary step in the IPO race that it and rival Anthropic have been competing in for the better part of a year: The company announced it has confidentially submitted

U.K. photonic networking startup Oriole Networks Ltd. today announced that it will deploy what it describes as the world’s first large-scale artificial intelligence system running on a pure photonic n

Workflow automation vendor Pegasystems Inc. today unveiled a broad set of artificial intelligence enhancements aimed at helping enterprises deploy AI agents in mission-critical business processes whil

Phoenix crossed 10,000 GitHub stars. Here is how the open-source AI observability project grew from a Jupyter notebook extension into a community-shaped platform for traces, evals, OpenInference, and

PhysicsX Ltd., a startup using artificial intelligence to speed up hardware design projects, today announced that it has raised 300 million in funding. Returning investor Temasek led the Series C roun

Reuters: Report: UK PM Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on “harmful” online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some “safer” social media — British Prime Minister Keir Sta

OpenAI: Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki claim OpenAI is “entering the third phase”, aiming to automate AI research, boost the economy, and give everyone a personal AGI — Every few generations, a new tec

Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026, a completely rebuilt digital assistant designed to move beyond traditional voice commands and become a more conversational assistant capable of understanding perso

Identity security company Silverfort Inc. today launched an integration that applies its identity and access controls to artificial intelligence agents built into Microsoft Corp.’s Copilot Studio, enf

Given how badly burned anyone who took Apple's 2024 WWDC Apple Intelligence announcements at face value was, I'm holding to a strict 'I'll believe it when I see it' policy for everything they announce

As AI agents gain access to sensitive enterprise data, AI agent security is becoming a top priority for organizations. The challenge is no longer just protecting systems, but ensuring autonomous agent

Richard Nieva / Forbes: Source: Cursor, which is prepping for an expected acquisition by SpaceX, passed 4B in annualized revenue in the last week, up from 3B in April and $2B in Feb. — Elon Musk's roc

Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: Sources: former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, has $20B+ AUM, after launching less than two years ago —

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University identified Russian early-warning satellites in Molniya orbit as the source of GPS interference affecting Europe, Canada, and

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NASA's Artemis II crew are the fastest people alive and now have the patch to prove it. The Mach 39 patch updates the 40-year-old original Mach 25 patch, an honor given to astronauts who achieve extre

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: The first developer beta of iOS 27 offers the clearest signs yet of Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, with references to folding hardware and flexible displays — Apple Inc.'s

OpenEnv is an open-source framework backed by the community for training and developing agentic reinforcement learning systems. The project represents collaborative efforts within the open-source ecos

Axios: The Trump administration relaunches efforts to block state AI laws; Sen. Blackburn is leading negotiations and pushing KOSA as part of an AI preemption package — The White House is negotiating

Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: The US DOD designates some of China's biggest companies, including Alibaba, BYD, and Baidu, as entities that support the Chinese military — The Pentagon identified some of C

This NVIDIA technical article addresses how low-bit mixed-precision pre-training accelerates large language model training, where optimizing numerical precision can reduce training time across distrib

This article explores how Databricks' Genie product and AI agents can automate and improve the processing of maintenance reports for renewable energy installations, specifically solar and wind facilit

Reuters: UK PM Keir Starmer says tech companies must introduce “device controls” that stop kids from sending and receiving nude images or face laws forcing them to do so — Big tech firms operating in

With access to the latest generative AI models and high-performance accelerated compute in high global demand, AWS customers need tools to take advantage of model availability and capacity across mult

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: watchOS 27 Drops Support for Apple Watch Series 9, Ultra 1, SE 2, and Older — Apple today confirmed that watchOS 27 will not support the Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch

Much is new about this month’s upcoming FIFA World Cup tournament, which will be held in the US, Canada, and Mexico. It hosts more teams than ever before. It’s the first to occur in three different ho

Apple's biggest event of the year is nearly here. The company's Worldwide Developers Conference will spotlight updates to iOS, macOS, and all of Apple's other operating systems, and this year's event

Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new exclusivity strategy, saying new games will be reviewed case-by-case and multiplayer games will stay multiplatform — Today's Xbox

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