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John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current 852B valuation, the stake is worth 5B+ — Speaking of c

Bloomberg: Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA8.5B, months after raising 20B — Alphabet Inc. needs to borrow he

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots — Social media platfo

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram — Meta Plat

Politico: Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's use of models — A White House spokesperson sai

Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker AI MLflow Apps now support MLflow version 3.10, bringing enhanced capabilities for generative AI development and streamlined experiment tracking

Subquadratic, a company developing a novel generative artificial intelligence model, launched today with 29 million in seed funding. The new large language model, dubbed SubQ, uses what the company ca

Juby Babu / Reuters: Super Micro reports Q3 revenue up 123% YoY to 10.24B, vs. 12.33B est., forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted profit above estimates; SMCI jumps 17%+ after hours — Super Micro Computer

Super Micro Computer Inc.’s shares surged more than 18% in after-hours trading today after the server maker reported a mixed fiscal 2026 third quarter, missing revenue estimates but topping earnings e

Digital native companies often face significant challenges in scaling AI systems beyond initial proof-of-concept stages, despite their technical advantages and cloud infrastructure. The article examin

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. Week one of the Musk v. Altman trial: what it was like in the

MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection) is OpenAI's networking technology designed to enable efficient large-scale AI training by improving communication reliability and performance across distributed sup

New York Times: US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare — Economists aren't sur

Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: Vodafone plans to take full ownership of its VodafoneThree joint venture with Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison, which agrees to sell its 49% stake for £4.3B — T

The cars rolling off production lines right now are filled with old ideas. From beginning to end, the creation of a new vehicle can take five years or longer - which is plenty of time for a lot of tas

The agentic enterprise is here — but it may be too soon for companies trying to protect their data from rogue artificial intelligence. Boomi LP, which specializes in integration platform as a service,

Reddit is locking out some mobile browser users with an un-dismissable banner, forcing them to download the official app instead. The popup freezes the entire page, preventing users from scrolling, ac

Kaspersky researchers discovered a supply chain attack targeting the official Daemon Tools website, where compromised installers deliver a backdoor alongside legitimate software, enabling remote code

Open-source technology provider WS02 LLC today announced the launch of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open control plane for artificial intelligence agents that gives enterprises a unified way to identify, go

Jay Peters / The Verge: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Xbox “will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console” as part of a strategic shift — New Xbox CEO Asha Sha

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate business functions, raised 60M led by Accel at a 500M valuation, two months after exiting stealth — Zyg, an artifici

IBM Research reflects on ten years of quantum computing development and deployment through cloud-based platforms, documenting the evolution from early experimental systems to more practical quantum pr

Jacob Shamsian / Business Insider: A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition — - W

Amazon SageMaker AI now offers an agentic experience that changes this. Developers describe their use case using natural language, and the AI coding agent streamlines the entire journey, from use case

The rapid rise of agentic development has radically transformed the software engineering landscape, compelling enterprises to embrace a multi-model AI ecosystem. The pace of change in software develop

Cerebras Systems Inc., a maker of supersized artificial intelligence chips, today disclosed the financial terms of its upcoming public offering. The company hopes to raise as much as 3.5 billion by se

Most discussions about artificial intelligence security are focused on what models might do wrong. The more urgent issue is what our detection systems still cannot see — and side-channel attacks are m

This article from Latent Space likely explores the distinction between AI systems designed for general-purpose utility versus those optimized for specific alternative applications or use cases. The pi

Deborah Sophia / Reuters: Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, allowing other companies to use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver raw materials, final products, and more — Amazon.com (A

AMD has announced HDMI 2.1 support for Linux and SteamOS, enabling higher bandwidth for 4K 120Hz gaming and variable refresh rate (VRR) . The initial update includes HDMI Fixed Rate Link but excludes

Wall Street Journal: An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users take 67% of profits, with the highest-frequency traders seeing the most success — A WSJ analysis shows a

Most enterprise AI pilots are failing to deliver measurable AI business value, and Appian Corp. is suggesting that the culprit isn’t the technology. The gap between AI experimentation and real enterpr

I just sent out the April edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. In this month's newsletter: Opus 4.7 and GPT-

Owen Tucker-Smith / Wall Street Journal: As Colorado tech leaders say that burdensome regulations are driving companies away, lawmakers introduce a slimmer version of an AI anti-discrimination bill —

This article likely argues that improving the underlying language models is insufficient for building effective AI agents, and that other critical components—such as knowledge retrieval, context manag

Business leaders across industries rely on operational dashboards as the shared source of truth that their teams execute against daily. But dashboards are built to answer known questions. When teams n

This Modal blog post describes a performance optimization technique for multimodal AI inference that achieves over 10% improvement through a simple Python dictionary-based approach. The article likely

Supabase Branching 2.0 removes the Git requirement, allowing users to create branches directly from the dashboard, CLI, or Management API without GitHub integration . Users can now create and manage b

Kate Rooney / CNBC: Bret Taylor's Sierra, which sells AI customer service agents, raised a 950M Series E led by Tiger and GV at a 15.8B post-money valuation, up from $10B in 2025 — Artificial intellig

Today, Amazon SageMaker AI introduces capacity aware instance pool for new and existing inference endpoints. You define a prioritized list of instance types, and SageMaker AI automatically works throu

This case study examines how Metrum AI leveraged Vultr's cloud infrastructure and services to accelerate the transition of AI projects from prototype to production environments. It likely covers the t

Reuters: Cerebras seeks a valuation of up to 26.62B in its US IPO, aiming to raise 3.5B by selling 28M shares at 115 to 125 apiece in its second attempt to go public — Nvidia-rival Cerebras is seeking

New York Times: Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas to be worth 3B+ in 2026, out of a 14B+ total microdrama market, boosted by tools like Seedance 2.0 — This actor was just hitting h

The healthcare landscape is undergoing a massive transformation. As electronic health records (EHRs) and critical applications move to the web, the browser has become the new frontline for patient car

Meir Orbach / CTech: Cisco agrees to acquire Astrix Security, which helps companies monitor and control the permissions granted to AI agents, a source says for approximately $400M — The Israeli startu

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compromise on the CLARITY Act to preserve stablecoin rewards under certain conditions; Circle's stock closed up ~20% — Shares of Circ