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In this episode of The Agent Factory, Vlad Kolesnikov and I sat down with Omar Sanseviero from the Developer Experience team at Google DeepMind. We explored the groundbreaking release of Gemma 4: a ne

AI agents require specialized testing and debugging approaches that differ from traditional software due to their non-deterministic behavior and complex decision-making processes. This entry likely co

Eight months after closing a 350 million funding round, Sierra Technologies Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional 950 million at a 15 billion valuation. Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capi

Artificial intelligence data center operator IREN Ltd. today announced plans to acquire Mirantis Inc., a provider of infrastructure management software. The all-stock transaction is worth 625 million.

Claims automation has evolved from a competitive advantage into a survival imperative for global healthcare and insurance organizations, as rising payer expectations and demands for real-time patient

Data quality is a foundational prerequisite for successful AI applications, often more important than model complexity or sophistication. The article emphasizes that clean, well-organized data directl

Seattle-based artificial intelligence research institute Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, today announced its next-generation open-source foundation artificial intelligence models, aimed at enabling r

Reuters: AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to 10.25B, vs. 9.89B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ after hours — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) f

Artificial intelligence giants Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC are going after the enterprise in full force now, announcing the creation of new AI services companies in joint ventures with some of

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would a

The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to allow third

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a “personalized” Siri in 2024 — iPhone bu

The artificial intelligence era is widening the gap between winners and laggards, and the delta is not only determined by who has the most AI but also how deeply AI is embedded into business processes

Sovereign AI is changing more than technology stacks — it’s forcing organizations to confront who governs the workforce and what the very nature of work itself has become. The shift is far more than j

Networking chip company Astera Labs Inc. is trying to ease the traffic congestion in artificial intelligence data centers with the launch of the latest generation of its Scorpio smart data fabric swit

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs — I've been playing

Enterprise productivity has long been measured by output and headcount, yet the tools and overhauls meant to improve it keep delivering diminishing returns. The discipline software teams quietly perfe

Autonomous software development startup Blitzy Inc. said today it has raised 200 million in new funding on a valuation of 1.4 billion to expand its enterprise coding platform. The company was founded

Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company 'engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history'

Cisco Systems Inc. today revealed it will buy the Israeli cybersecurity firm Astrix Security Ltd. in an effort to bolster the defenses of artificial intelligence agents. The startup has developed a pl

The world of AI is rapidly shifting from experimental Large Language Models to an era of Agentic AI. In the agentic era, autonomous software agents act on behalf of employees and consumers—driving a f

Codex, likely referring to OpenAI's code generation model, is experiencing increased adoption and usage. The article from Ben's Bites discusses the growing momentum and applications of this AI coding

Reuters: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying “AI is changing how we work” — Coinbase (COIN.O) said on Tues

Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Brian Armstrong announced today that the company intends to cut its headcount by 14%, or roughly 700 jobs, citing a combination of market forces and artificial int

The Korea Herald: Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to 8.5B and a net loss of 266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 — US-listed e-commerce giant Coupang

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 — Freshworks (FRSH.O) sai

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire Equiniti, a UK-based financial services outsourcing business, from Siris Capital in a 4.2B deal, set to close in 2027 — Bullish agr

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a7 Mechanism for configuring default options for specific models. Part of Datasette's evolving support mechanism for plugins that use LLMs. It's now possible to configure a m

Release: datasette-referrer-policy 0.1 The OpenStreetMap tiles on the Datasette global-power-plants demo weren't displaying correctly. This turned out to be caused by two bugs. The first is that the C

Dedicated inference cloud startup Deepinfra Inc. is looking to expand its global capacity after raising 107 million in a Series B round of funding led by 500 Global and Georges Harik, who was one of G

The Department of Homeland Security demanded that Google turn over location data and activity logs from a Canadian man who had criticized U.S. government actions following ICE killings, invoking a 'cu

Shares of DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. rocketed more than 40% today after the developer-oriented cloud infrastructure provider topped Wall Street targets in its fiscal 2026 first quarter. It also lifted

Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf — - Go

Alex Lupsasca from OpenAI discusses unconventional or intuitive approaches to physics research and problem-solving, likely exploring how intuition, visualization, and creative thinking ('vibe') comple

Dyna Software Inc., a company that provides platform governance and health provider for ServiceNow Inc., today announced the launch of Platform Copilot, an agentic artificial intelligence tool the com

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to 1.86B, vs. 2B est., weighed down by a post-launch drop-off in engagement for Battlefield 6 — Videogame publisher Electronic Arts (EA

Regulated industry AI is evolving beyond compliance foundations to drive greater efficiency gains, reducing routine work and freeing teams to focus on critical, higher-impact decisions. Years ago, Pfi

Building AI agents that work well in a demo is one thing, but running them in production requires serious infrastructure. At Google Cloud Next '26, we introduced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to he

Semiconductor Industry Association: Global chip sales hit 298.5B in Q1 2026, up 25% from Q4 2025, and March sales were up 79.2% YoY to 99.5B, driven by strong sales in Asia and the Americas — Worldwid

Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily: GlobalFoundries reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.63B, in line with est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted earnings above estimates; GFS closes up 9.28

Staffers at Google DeepMind's headquarters have voted to unionize in an effort to prevent the AI firm's technology from being used by Israel and the US military. In a letter to Google management on Tu

Google Home's May 2026 update brings a faster camera experience, Gemini 3.1 for complex voice commands, and new web-based controls. The refreshed camera UI features faster navigation and zoomed-in pre

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will imp

Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Depart

As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation into production, government agencies are becoming an unexpected proving ground for large-scale workforce transformation. Faced with mounting opera

GPT-5.5 Instant is OpenAI's faster, more efficient variant of their GPT-5.5 model, designed to deliver improved reasoning and clarity while maintaining lower latency for real-time applications. The mo