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South China Morning Post: Sources: ByteDance plans to increase its 2026 capex to more than $30B, up at least 25% from a preliminary plan, amid the AI boom and rising memory chip costs — TikTok owner B

AI-powered toys are rapidly emerging in the consumer market, including pocket pets, autonomous robots, and AI emotional companions that use advanced language models and adaptive learning capabilities.

AI promised to change everything about how enterprises work — and human-AI collaboration was supposed to be the easy part. But what happens when the technology is ready and the organization isn’t? Tha

Associated Press: A hack of Instructure's Canvas locked out students at schools and universities across the US in the middle of finals period; some US colleges postponed exams — Schools and universiti

This article discusses how AI technologies can help Human Resources departments address growing capacity challenges and workload demands. It likely explores how AI tools can automate routine HR tasks,

This article examines how agentic AI systems are being deployed to edge computing environments, likely challenging common assumptions about what this deployment actually entails. It discusses practica

AI Ascent 2026 is Sequoia Capital's event that convened leading AI researchers and founders including Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, and Demis Hassabis. The event featured discussions on AI agents, s

Neocloud company IREN Ltd. has secured a 2.1 billion commitment from the chipmaker Nvidia Corp. as part of a new data center partnership aimed at artificial intelligence workloads. The partners plan t

OpenAI released three new state-of-the-art voice APIs: GPT-Realtime-2 for low-latency voice conversations, GPT-Translate for real-time multilingual translation, and GPT-Whisper for advanced speech rec

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Akamai says it struck a seven-year cloud computing deal with a “leading frontier model provider”; sources: the deal was with Anthropic and is worth 1.8B — Anthropic PBC has si

Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the w

Money, and desperation, sure can pave over a lot of ill will. This week’s example: Anthropic signed a mammoth deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use all of the computing capacity of SpaceX’s Colossus dat

At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. As AI capabilities increase and become more integrated into people’s daily lives, advancing research in privacy-preserving techniques is incr

Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted a set of features that artificial intelligence agents can use to make purchases. The capabilities are available in preview through the cloud giant’s Amazon Bedro

Du Zhihang / Caixin Global: Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over 200M led by SF Group, after raising ~146M in March at a ~1.47B valuation — Chinese humanoid-robot startup Robot

Microsoft Research is excited to release an open dataset of approximate transmission topology of the U.S. power grid derived from publicly available data. The ability to study transmission-level power

A cyberattack shut down Canvas, an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US on May 7, 2026, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials during final

Vercel's Chat SDK now includes support for a Messenger adapter, enabling developers to integrate chat functionality with Facebook Messenger. This addition expands the SDK's compatibility with popular

Vercel's Chat SDK now includes web adapter support, enabling developers to integrate chat functionality into web applications more seamlessly. This enhancement expands the SDK's compatibility and make

Vercel's Chat SDK has been updated to include conversation history support, enabling developers to maintain and access previous messages within chat interactions. This feature likely allows for improv

Google has offered Gemini Nano for Chrome since 2024 as a lightweight, on-device model , but users reasonably expect the visible AI Mode to use the on-device model with queries staying local, when in

Shares of the cloud data center company CoreWeave Inc. were trading more than 8% lower after-hours following mixed first-quarter earnings results and a lower-than-expected forecast for the current qua

Google is rolling out updates to AI Overviews and AI Mode that include more direct links within responses and previews of websites to help users find trusted sources and original content more easily.

The Court of International Trade ruled that Trump's 10% global tariffs were illegal after small businesses sued, following the Supreme Court's February strike-down of his broader tariff regime. The co

CyberSecQwen-4B is a specialized 4-billion parameter language model designed for cybersecurity defense tasks that can run locally on standard hardware. The model addresses the need for small, efficien

Shares of Datadog Inc. popped after the application monitoring software firm crushed Wall Street’s expectations with its first-quarter financial results today and followed up with strong guidance. The

Learn how to deploy any Hugging Face model in one session using Goose and Together's Dedicated Container Inference. Skip the setup complexity — one prompt gets your model running in a production-grade

Researchers at the University of Waterloo identified four more members of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition through DNA analysis of skeletal remains matched with living descendants' DNA samples. The

French cybercrime authorities escalated an investigation into Elon Musk and X to a criminal probe after Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino declined to appear for summons issued in April. The invest

EMO is a pretraining approach that uses mixture of experts (MoE) architecture to develop emergent modularity in language models, enabling different experts to specialize in different types of knowledg

This article likely explores how Databricks' unified analytics platform enables energy traders to process and analyze market data in real-time, supporting faster decision-making and risk management in

NASA's next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blades broke the sound barrier during March tests at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , with rotor tip speeds reaching Mach 1.08 and boosting lift capability

Alex Lekander / CyberInsider: EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing” — The European Parliamen

Sometimes, companies pick CEOs based on carefully laid succession plans designed to maximize investor confidence and future performance. Other times, apparently, companies pick CEOs based on a bunch o

Growth analytics represents the next evolution beyond growth hacking, shifting focus from rapid experimentation and acquisition tactics to data-driven analysis of sustainable growth patterns and custo

In this post, we'll explore how we built a proof-of-concept that converts natural language queries into executable seismic workflows while providing a question-answering capability for Halliburton's S

Technology is changing the way we make babies. The pioneering work of the scientists who invented IVF led to the birth of the first “test tube baby” in 1978. We’ve come a long, long way since then. Th

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Eight passengers aboa

Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a 136.6M net loss on revenue of 5.2M for the three months ended March 31; sources: it could raise $1.5B+ — Quantinuum

Climate change is making pollen season longer and more intense, worsening health effects for millions of Americans with seasonal allergies and asthma . Warmer weather signals plants to bloom earlier a

Superhuman and Databricks collaborated to build a high-performance inference platform capable of handling 200,000 queries per second (QPS), leveraging Databricks' infrastructure and optimization capab

Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: Impressions of China's AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs there, and the similarities and differences in working on LLMs in China and the West — Lesson

Grammar-constrained decoding modifies language model generation by applying grammar constraints at each step to block structurally invalid tokens , ensuring syntactically correct Bash command generati

Intel Corp. has reportedly inked a preliminary deal with Apple Inc. to produce chips for some of its devices. The Wall Street Journal today cited sources as saying that the contract was signed in rece

Researchers demonstrated that spin qubits hosted in bulk-manufactured quantum dots can be moved between quantum dots without losing quantum information. The ability to move qubits around could enable

The MCP Marketplace enables agentic applications to access real-time intelligence and data through a centralized platform of Model Context Protocol integrations. Databricks has launched this marketpla