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Karen Freifeld / Reuters: Sources: Micron is pushing the US Congress to pass the “MATCH Act”, which would put new export restrictions on equipment its Chinese rivals use to make chips — Micron Technol
CNBC: Sources: Microsoft considered buying Cursor in recent weeks but didn't make an offer; Microsoft has been working to boost GitHub Copilot's popularity — Prior to SpaceX's announcement this week t
Sam Sabin / Axios: Sources: OpenAI has been briefing US federal agencies, state governments, and Five Eyes allies on the capabilities of its GPT-5.4-Cyber model over the past week — OpenAI has been br
Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI has pledged up to 1.5B to a new joint venture with PE firms to help deploy AI across their portfolio companies, starting with 500M in equity — Start-up backing new com
Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank seeks a 10B two-year margin loan secured by its OpenAI shares, with an option for a year extension, as SoftBank aims to become an AI linchpin — SoftBank Group Corp. is see
Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX isn't acquiring Cursor immediately because the deal could delay its IPO; Cursor is no longer proceeding with its reported 2B funding round — SpaceX said it has an agreement
The Information: Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a 20B+ valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an 18B valuation — Chinese tech giants Tenc
Grace Kay / Business Insider: Sources: xAI held talks in recent weeks with Mistral and Cursor about a potential three-way partnership; Mistral co-founder Devendra Chaplot joined xAI in March — - Elon
As regulatory pressure intensifies and geopolitical uncertainty reshapes technology procurement, enterprises are rethinking control over their entire stack, with sovereign architectures emerging as th
SpaceX Corp. will help Cursor, a venture-backed vibe coding startup, train artificial intelligence models optimized for programming tasks. The companies announced the initiative on Tuesday. According
This OpenAI article describes how to use WebSockets with the Responses API to improve performance and reduce latency in agentic AI workflows. WebSockets enable real-time, bidirectional communication b
The future is taking shape in Las Vegas this week, where the world’s leading startups are showcasing their groundbreaking AI work at Google Cloud Next. Whether they need the top AI models, infrastruct
This article from Databricks discusses the challenges and inefficiencies of manually building Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines and advocates for automated or framework-based approaches to streamlin
At Google Cloud Next, we are announcing innovations across every layer of our storage stacks — performance, intelligence, and management — to ensure your data is as fast and as useful as the AI models
On Substack: Substack adds translation tools, and says ~100K publishers earn on the platform, including ~30K outside the US; European creators earn $90M+/year collectively — Who changed your life toda
The FBI is looking for any connections among the recent deaths and disappearances of at least 10 scientists who had ties to government science projects or other sensitive information. At least 10 indi
T. K. Lin / KrASIA: Tencent launches an international beta for QClaw, its OpenClaw-based AI agent, and says the Chinese version, launched in March, reached over 1M users in 10 days — OpenClaw's founde
Tesla reported Q1 2026 earnings-per-share of 0.41 and revenues of 22.387 billion, beating analysts' EPS expectation of 0.37 and estimated revenue of 21.92 billion. While the company reported better-th
Ian King / Bloomberg: Texas Instruments reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to 4.83B, vs. 4.52B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 10%+ after hours — Texas Instruments Inc. shares sur
The fight for the agent control plane is underway — and it might determine who controls enterprise artificial intelligence for the next decade. Google LLC came into Google Cloud Next 2026 with a clear
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now What actual
The DP World Tour will become the first professional sports organization to use Amazon Leo as its official satellite connectivity partner, deploying low Earth orbit or LEO terminals at tournament venu
Traditional lakehouses were engineered for the era of reporting, not the high-velocity, multimodal demands of AI agents. To bridge this gap, architecture must evolve into an AI-native foundation — one
This article examines the fundamental trade-offs in large language model inference operations, specifically the competing priorities of maximizing throughput, minimizing latency, and reducing costs. I
The first wave of AI changed how we find information; the next wave is changing how we get work done. Today, we’re enhancing our most powerful AI tools and bringing them together under one roof. Gemin
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: The UK FCA says it has carried out its first joint operation to disrupt illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading, targeting eight premises across London — Quick Take — The UK'
Mason Boycott-Owen / Politico: The UK's GCHQ believes ~100 countries have procured cyber intrusion software, such as Pegasus, suggesting the barrier to get access to the tech is dropping — GLASGOW — M
When people talk about “nature,” they’re generally talking about things that aren’t made by human beings. Rocks. Reefs. Red wolves. But while there is plenty of God’s creation to go around, it is hard
Financial Times: TikTok's plan to build a ~38B data center campus in Brazil, its first in Latin America, is facing local pushback over sustainability in a semi-arid area — TikTok's plan for 9.5bn data
Treehub, a new Stanford University-adjacent residency program backed by the AI Health Fund, launched today, with billionaire investor Tim Draper and 23andMe Holding Co. founder Anne Wojcicki among the
Google LLC introduced two new custom silicon chips for artificial intelligence today at Google Cloud Next 2026, unveiling two distinct Tensor Processor Unit architectures built for training and infere
Vast Data Inc. today said it has raised about 1 billion in a late-stage Series F funding round that values the company at 30 billion amid growing demand for infrastructure to support artificial intell
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Vast Data, which makes software infrastructure for managing large amounts of data with a focus on AI applications, raised a 1B Series F at a 30B valuation — Vast Data announc
Humans have been building ping-pong playing robots for decades, such as Omron's FOREPHUS that challenged amateur competitors at CES 2017. What sets Ace apart from the rest is that the robot, which was
By combining the analytical depth of Looker with Google’s Agentic Data Cloud, the potential to transform how we model, interact with, and act on our data appears limitless. This week at Google Cloud N
Google announced Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU that is twice as power efficient as the previous generation, alongside specialized hardware designed to support the emerging agentic AI era. Ironw
Succeeding in the agentic era requires a transformation in your data strategy: moving from human-scale to agent-first workloads, evolving from reactive intelligence to proactive action, and shifting f
From vibe-coded and large-scale apps to AI models and agents, Cloud Run delivers on-demand compute with zero overhead and pay-per-use pricing for all of your workloads. Last year, the number of extern
This week at Google Cloud Next ‘26, we are sharing the evolution of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), delivering leading performance, efficiency, security, and scale for your most demanding and complex
Companies are shifting from gen AI that simply answers questions to autonomous agents that perceive, reason, and act on their behalf. Attempting to scale these agents on legacy stacks exposes structur
At Google Cloud Next, we’re announcing a range of compute capabilities to enable your core general purpose and AI workloads for the agentic world with higher performance and lower costs. Why it matter
While generative AI sparked a revolution, the true paradigm shift is the rapid evolution from standalone AI models to multi-agent autonomous systems. In this new era, the network transcends basic conn
AI is evolving from answering questions to reasoning and taking action. Companies who want to lead in today’s agentic era require computing infrastructure designed and optimized for these new requirem
Enterprises are locked in a long-term standoff with legacy infrastructure, with growing demand for virtualization modernization that doesn’t require a full rebuild. SUSE S.A. has positioned itself to
Google Cloud is taking a massive leap toward building the autonomous enterprise with the launch of the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, an evolution of the existing Vertex AI platform that becomes it
Google Cloud has long believed that one of most compelling benefits of artificial intelligence is that it helps people get more work done faster, and that’s the main purpose behind a slate of new capa
Workspace agents are AI systems designed to automate tasks and workflows within collaborative work environments, likely covering how these agents can handle scheduling, communication, document managem
Nikita Bier / @nikitabier: X launches Custom Timelines, a Grok-powered feature letting users pin any of over 75 topics to their home tab, in early access to Premium subscribers on iOS — Ladies and gen
Ads Advisor is an agentic conversational experience built with Gemini in Google Ads designed to help maximize performance based on business goals. The tool can help users get personalized answers, und
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple's management changes and several key executives' futures; sources say Mike Rockwell has considered leaving or taking an advisory role next year — John Ternus,
Wall Street Journal: A look at transnational scam syndicates in Cambodia, running hundreds of online scam operations and call centers and infiltrating Cambodia's ruling class — Crime syndicates in Cam
Embedded in the body’s mucosal surfaces, proteins called lectins bind to sugars found on cell surfaces. A team led by MIT chemistry professor Laura Kiessling has found that one such protein, intelecti
This guide from Databricks covers practical techniques and best practices for fine-tuning large language models, including methodologies for adapting pre-trained LLMs to specific tasks and domains. It
As open-source platforms scramble to close the infrastructure gap, enterprises are discovering that autonomous operations expose a deeper problem than performance: control. The conversation around ent
Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: AcuityMD, which provides AI tools that automate sales call recaps, CRM data entry, and more for medtech companies, raised an 80M Series C at a 955M valuation — Medtech softw
Ed Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At: After users reported Claude Code appeared to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan, Anthropic says it's “running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups”
This article examines the role of artificial intelligence in advancing cybersecurity practices and argues for the importance of transparency and open approaches in AI-driven security solutions. It lik
At MIT, AI has become so pervasive that you can almost find your way into it without meaning to. Take Sili Deng, an associate professor of mechanical engineering. Deng says she still doesn’t know whet
Ask Americans how they feel about AI and most say they have concerns. Communities have mounted resistance to data center projects, stalling them across the US. On social media, anger at AI companies a
This guide from Databricks covers data transformation techniques and best practices essential for preparing data for AI/ML projects, addressing workflows that both data engineers and data scientists e