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Financial Times: How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing “recursive self-improvement”, in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input — Industry chiefs say tech

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: How Revolut founder Nikolay Storonsky's Elon Musk-style pay incentives pushed his fortune to ~$20.4B, making him the UK's richest person, ahead of a planned IPO — CEO Nik Sto

Kylie Robison / Core Memory: How startups Westmag, which raised an $11M, a16z-led seed in August 2025, and Atlas are seeking to make actuators, the foundation of hardware, outside of China — Westmag a

In this post, we introduce Amazon Bedrock Ops Alert, a three-layer automated monitoring solution that proactively detects operational issues, dynamically adjusts alarm thresholds, classifies alarms by

Would you take a payment to ramp down your electricity use? Would it change anything if you were doing so to help power a local data center? Google just signed a new deal to help pay for a virtual pow

Wasmer leveraged OpenAI's Codex to develop a Node.js runtime optimized for edge computing environments. The project demonstrates how AI-assisted code generation can accelerate the creation of speciali

In this post, you learn how to use Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) together to improve the tool-calling accuracy of a small language model (SLM). The example uses

Bloomberg: In a report, UK lawmakers call on the government to end a £330M NHS deal with Palantir and disclose more details of a military contract with the company — British members of parliament are

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal documents: Meta is considering tiered pricing for “Hatch”, its planned OpenClaw-like AI agent tool, including a 200-per-month premium subscription — Meta Platfor

With hosted agents, we made it straightforward to build and deploy agents on Foundry. You write your logic, run azd deploy, and your agent is live. But “live” and “production-ready” aren’t the same th

GPT-Rosalind is an OpenAI model with newly introduced capabilities designed to enhance its performance in specific tasks or domains. The update likely expands the model's functionality in areas such a

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a 100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a 600M valuation — Samsung, Mitsubishi

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Layup Parts, which aims to digitize the composite manufacturing supply chain for aerospace, defense, and motorsports, raised a $42M Series A led by Marlinspike — Before Zack

Memory has always mattered for personalization and continuity. But as customers move agents from demos into production, another requirement becomes just as important: reliability. Enterprise teams nee

Helene Braun / CoinDesk: Mastercard says it plans to offer on-chain settlement using several regulated USD stablecoins, initially supporting USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD — The company p

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Meta is alerting Instagram users whose accounts were taken over using Meta AI chatbot; some hackers claim to still be able to exploit Meta AI chatbot — The

At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a super app, in-house reasoning models, a cybersecurity tool, and OpenClaw-

Microsoft and Atom Computing achieved a major quantum computing milestone by creating and entangling 24 logical qubits on a commercial quantum machine. The breakthrough demonstrated significant error

Microsoft's open trust stack for AI agents puts ASSERT and Agent Control Specification on top of OpenInference, connecting evaluation, runtime controls, and observability through a shared trace contra

Cory Weinberg / The Information: Nearly 40% of Alphabet's planned ~85B in equity offerings for AI will go toward covering tax obligations tied to employee equity awards, amid the AI talent war — Alpha

Plex unveiled several social features aimed at changing how users interact with the platform , including Discussions, a community forum where users can post comments and talk about movies or TV shows

The Information: Nvidia acquired Kumo, which sells predictive AI software to enterprises, a source says for 400M+; PitchBook: Kumo raised 37M at a 250M valuation in 2022 — Nvidia has bought Kumo AI, a

At CVPR, NVIDIA is unveiling new physical AI agent skills that help researchers and developers speed the development of autonomous vehicles, robots and vision AI systems. The core challenge in physica

What makes a robot gripper useful isn’t that it can pick up one object — it’s that it can pick up the next one, and the one after that, with a tool it’s never held before. What makes an autonomous veh

As enterprises race to support machine learning, agentic workflows and analytics on the same infrastructure, open data architecture has emerged as the dividing line between platforms that scale and th

Brendan Bordelon / Politico: OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA — OpenAI's ne

OpenAI's public policy agenda outlines the organization's priorities and positions regarding AI regulation and governance. The document likely details OpenAI's recommendations for government policies,

British quantum computing startup OQC today announced that it has raised £260 million, or 350 million, in new funding. Bullhound Capital led the oversubscribed Series C round. It was joined by more th

Pinecone Nexus has integrated with Microsoft OneLake, enabling AI agents to access and work directly with enterprise data stored in OneLake without requiring data movement or copying. This integration

The USDA announced it is testing a suspected case of New World screwworm in South Texas, which would be the first of its kind in the U.S. in decades. Samples were taken from two calves on a ranch in L

DigitalOcean discusses infrastructure and platform capabilities designed to support the inference phase of machine learning, where trained models are deployed to make predictions on new data at scale.

Qiskit Fall Fest 2026 is an event organized by IBM that focuses on quantum computing education and community engagement through the open-source Qiskit framework. The event likely provides opportunitie

French quantum computing startup Quobly SAS today announced that it has raised €130 million, or about 150 million, to commercialize its technology. The Series A round was led by publicly traded chipma

In this post, we look at how to use SOCI on publicly available Deep Learning AMIs and Containers, when to use the various SOCI modes provided by the tool, and how to quickly and efficiently use this t

The pharmaceutical industry’s research and development marathon — stretching 10 to 12 years from hypothesis to approval — is set to shrink as AI-driven drug development compresses that timeline. The s

This episode features Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, in a crossover special between the 'No Priors' and 'Latent Space' podcasts, likely discussing Microsoft's AI strategy, product developments, and

Databricks Genie enables enterprise conversational intelligence across multiple industries through partner technology and functional solutions, allowing organizations to interact with data and systems

Carina Hong discusses how Axiom Math is scaling beyond informal AI approaches to create more rigorous, systematic methods for AI-assisted mathematics education and problem-solving. The episode likely

The Hacker News: Security firm Calif says it used OpenAI's Codex to discover HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS exploit affecting web servers like Nginx, Apache HTTPD, and Microsoft IIS — Cybersecurity researc

Sema4.ai Inc. a startup that provides tools for building and managing artificial intelligence agents, today announced a massive revamp of its platform, with big changes coming to every layer of the ag

As AI moves from analytical tool to active participant in daily business operations, solutions like Snowflake CoWork are helping to close the gap between data insight and real-world execution faster t

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Benchmark raised 2B across two new funds, including a 1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups — After a

Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL at a valuation of between ~52B and ~59B — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is set to ra

Bloomberg: Sources: Lila Sciences, which uses AI tools to speed up the rate of scientific discovery, is in talks to raise a 2B Series B at an expected valuation of ~8.5B — Artificial intelligence rese

Historically, investment research involved human analysts spending days reading and evaluating massive financial reports. Now, AI-driven financial analysis is covering all of that work in just a few m

Richard Milne / Financial Times: Supercell, King, and Sybo warn that EU's Digital Fairness Act, requiring pop-ups showing real-world values of virtual currencies, could make games “unplayable” — Maker