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CNBC: Quantinuum closed up 0.63% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, with a market value of 15.7B, after raising 1.68B in an upsized IPO — Quantinuum closed little changed in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday

After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that 'it's critical that we

Radiant Logic Inc., a platform that provides identity visibility and intelligence, today announced it’s extending its services to agentic artificial intelligence to help companies control and govern t

Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs discuss their work on evaluation methods and benchmarking for AI systems, likely covering approaches to assessing AI capabilities and safety in real-wor

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Robinhood plans to route some 2026 soccer World Cup bets to Rothera, shifting away from Kalshi as it seeks to diversify its prediction markets providers — Robinhood Markets

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised 400M led by Radical Ventures at a 2B valuation — The company raised

Shares in Rubrik Inc. fell more than 2% in late trading today despite the security and AI operations company reporting beats in revenue and earnings in its fiscal first quarter and raising its outlook

Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Sam Altman says he has no plans to put money into the 2026 US midterms; OpenAI has tried to distance itself from the Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future PAC — OpenAI Ch

While building AI agents locally using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) is an excellent way to prototype, production-ready agents require a robust, scalable infrastructure. For developers looking

John Kruzel / Reuters: SCOTUS sides with the FCC in its clash with wireless carriers, upholding the agency's in-house system for levying fines for regulatory violations — The U.S. Supreme Court backed

Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations — Arrangement comes as AI

Bloomberg: Sources: Brian Chesky is starting a new AI lab and considering a focus on user interaction and design; he will remain Airbnb CEO and will not be the lab's CEO — Airbnb Inc. Chief Executive

NOTUS: Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025 — Senior U.S. officials have held p

Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg: S&P Dow Jones rejected proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX, which remains ineligible until one year after going public — S&P Dow Jones

Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. said today it’s hoping to raise a staggering 75 billion when it goes public later this month, setting the stage for what would be the largest stock mar

Legacy code modernization startup Kodesage Ltd. said today it has closed on a $6.6 million seed funding round to accelerate its mission of helping enterprises transform their on-premises software stac

Supabase announced a 500 million Series F funding round that values the company at 10.5 billion . The funding round was led by GIC and included Accel, Y Combinator, Craft, Felicis, Coatue and Stripe .

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a 500M Series F led by GIC at a 10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025 — Vibe coding needs infrastru

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. How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits Mo

IBM Research highlighted quantum computing developments and applications at NY Tech Week, showcasing the technology's potential impact on industry and research. The event featured discussions on quant

Google Research developed PHRM, a deep-learning system that uses facial video-based photoplethysmography to passively measure heart rate and resting heart rate during everyday smartphone use . The sys

Healthcare AI is moving out of the pilot phase and into production environments, where the gap between a compelling demo and a clinically trustworthy output has never been more consequential. As AI ag

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. - the world's biggest semiconductor-maker - is struggling to meet demands from American customers even with its factory buildout in the US, according to reports

Politico: Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans — But it's the proposal to preemp

Bloomberg: Unsealed 2020 lawsuit: ex-IBM VP of threat intelligence alleges that IBM and AT&T concealed foreign cyber breaches to maintain eligibility for federal contracts — International Business Mac

Vercel announced updates to its legal terms and conditions in June 2026, likely covering changes to their service agreements, privacy policies, or terms of service. This update would apply to users of

Waymo has announced a deal with energy storage company B2U to use retired robotaxi batteries to serve electricity grids in California and Texas. The used battery packs will be installed into grid-conn

Artificial intelligence is rewriting how software gets built inside large enterprises — not just at the tooling level, but at the level of culture, governance and organizational change. The rise of vi

VoidZero, a security company, has joined Cloudflare as part of an acquisition or partnership announcement. The integration likely expands Cloudflare's security capabilities and product offerings for i

Enterprise AI is forcing companies to rethink where their most sensitive workloads should live, and private cloud is moving deeper into the center of that decision. For many organizations, the cloud c

At Google Cloud, our goal is to let you run large-scale analytical and data science workloads with maximum efficiency so you can process big data pipelines, machine learning, and ETL tasks. We recentl

Agentic AI is making the semantic layer an essential enterprise priority because headless agents asking thousands of questions simultaneously have zero tolerance for inconsistent data definitions. Thi

This benchmark demonstrates how integrating Alluxio with Ray Data achieves 20x faster training data read speeds for cross-region machine learning workloads on Anyscale's platform. The study shows perf

This OpenAI publication outlines a proposed framework for establishing democratic oversight and governance structures for advanced AI systems, addressing how frontier AI development should be regulate

This article describes how to integrate Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools with Reachy Mini, a small humanoid robot platform. It likely covers the technical steps for extending Reachy Mini's capabilit

In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center buildout throughout the US, Google is touting its efforts to minimize the environmental impact by actually increasing water for local communiti

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: AI market research platform AlphaSense raised 350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a 7.5B valuation, up from 4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO — Firm rai

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: AI music startup Suno raised 400M led by Bond at a 5.4B valuation, up from 2.45B after raising 250M in November 2025, and passed 2M subscribers in February — Suno Inc., a start

Microsoft announced the MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI family of models at their Build conference, representing new advances in their AI model lineup. These models likely focus on improved reasoning capabilit

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal proprietary model with a 1M-token context window, costing $2 per 1M tokens, 60% less than text-only Qwen3.7-Max — However, like

Amazon's updated search bar will now show you AI-generated images of products as you describe them. For now, the in-app feature only surfaces AI images of clothing and home goods, allowing you to tap

Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute is a new GPU platform-as-a-service for hosting open-source and custom AI models behind the same endpoint, SDKs, and bill as frontier models. The post Announcing Found

This Databricks article explores Apache Spark's real-time mode capabilities for gaming applications, specifically focusing on how to implement efficient real-time sessionization to group and analyze p

Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: Apoha, which is developing a “Liquid State Intelligence” data layer to measure molecules in the real world, emerges from stealth with 36M led by Singular — Apoha has emerg

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple says users in Texas must confirm they are 18 years or older or obtain parental consent to create an Apple Account starting June 4, after a court ruling — Apple today sai

This week we've got tandem hands-ons with Google's new Gemini AI agent - Spark - from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. Their takeaways are similar: It's so effective that it's scary. Spark k