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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like, “emotionally intelligent” robot that reacts to owner's feelings —

Kimi Antonelli won the 2026 Miami Grand Prix, extending his championship lead after surviving a close chase from McLaren's Lando Norris. Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull brought major upgrade packages to

Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Filing: Blackstone's data center acquisition vehicle seeks to raise as much as 1.75B in its IPO, and will target newly built data centers valued at 250M-1.5B — Blackstone D

In the era of AI agents, the distance between a big idea and a working application has never been shorter. As we lean more heavily on agents to help us build applications, a critical question remains:

This article from Together AI discusses foundational research techniques and methodologies used to enable efficient large-scale language model inference. It likely covers optimization strategies, hard

Amazon Quick introduces Amazon S3 Tables (Apache Iceberg tables) as a new data source. With this feature, customers can directly query and visualize Apache Iceberg tables stored in an Amazon S3 table

Building meaningful dashboards demands hours of manual setup, even for experienced BI professionals. Amazon Quick now generates complete multi-sheet dashboards from natural language prompts, taking yo

The race to capture tangible AI value – and to extract a genuine return on investment – has officially moved from isolated experiments to the core of enterprise operations. As enterprises turn to agen

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Grab reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to 955M, above est., and a 154M adjusted EBITDA, vs. $146.3M est., helped by resilient demand for ride hailing and delivery — Grab Holdings L

Granite 4.1 3B SVG Pelican Gallery IBM released their Granite 4.1 family of LLMs a few days ago. They're Apache 2.0 licensed and come in 3B, 8B and 30B sizes. Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built by Gr

Peter Loftus / Wall Street Journal: How AI is transforming the pharma industry, with most gains so far from back-office streamlining and faster manufacturing rather than breakthrough drug research — D

Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times: How AI tools such as Naver's Talking Buddy and SuperBrain are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies, and slow cognitive decline — In the wor

Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic: How “emotion AI”, the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias — The good

General Intelligence built their agent platform using AI agents themselves, leveraging Vercel's infrastructure and deployment capabilities. The approach demonstrates how autonomous agents can be used

OpenAI describes its technical approach to delivering real-time voice AI services with minimal latency across large user bases, likely covering infrastructure optimization, model serving strategies, a

This newsletter entry discusses advancements in automating AI research and development processes, exploring how artificial intelligence systems are becoming capable of autonomously designing and impro

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a 107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik; it currently supports more than 190 open models — Dedicated inference clo

A meta-analysis claiming ChatGPT has positive effects on students' learning performance, perception, and higher-order thinking was retracted on April 22, 2026 . The retraction highlighted that 'educat

Alex Bronzini-Vender / New York Magazine: Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state pow

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters added Instructure to its victims list and claims it has 3.65TB of data from ~9K institutions — Hackers disrup

Dylan Martin / CRN: Intel taps Alex Katouzian, an ex-Qualcomm EVP, to lead Client Computing & Physical AI group, and names Pushkar Ranade as CTO, after serving on an interim basis — With the hiring of

Generate recommendations from production traces, validate them with batch evaluation and A/B testing, and ship with confidence. AI agents that perform well at launch don’t stay that way. As models evo

In this post, you learn how to get started with Dataset Q&A, explore real-world use cases with hands-on examples, and discover advanced capabilities like auto-discovery across all your data assets and

Deepsec is a security tool introduced by Vercel designed to identify and help remediate vulnerabilities within codebases. The tool functions as a security harness that automates vulnerability detectio

Generate recommendations from production traces, validate them with batch evaluation and A/B testing, and ship with confidence. AI agents that perform well at launch don’t stay that way. As models evo

Generate recommendations from production traces, validate them with batch evaluation and A/B testing, and ship with confidence. AI agents that perform well at launch don’t stay that way. As models evo

Reuters: Investment and tech firm Long Lake says it will buy corporate travel operator Amex GBT for $6.3B, citing AI's ability to modernize the business travel sector — Investment and technology firm

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has “now dropped to zero” and that US export policy “has already largely backfired” — US export restr

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Katie Haun raises $1B for two funds split between early and later-stage investments, looking at startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets — Kati

Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: Lattice Semiconductor agrees to acquire AMI for 1.65B in cash and stock; Georgia-based AMI provides firmware and infrastructure manageability for cloud and AI — Hillsboro-bas

Pieter Haeck / Politico: Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs — Critics argue

This podcast episode from Last Week in AI discusses recent developments in large language models, including updates on GPT 5.5 and DeepSeek V4, while also covering concerns about potential sabotage or

MIT engineers have developed a 'computational violin' that uses physics-based simulation to realistically produce violin sound by modeling how the instrument and its vibrating strings interact with su

AI compute resources should not be treated as interchangeable commodities, as different hardware configurations, providers, and architectures significantly impact training costs, inference latency, an

Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now worth ~30B; a Musk attorney asks why he hasn't donated 29B to OpenAI's nonprofit arm — OpenAI co-founder and President G

In his landmark trial against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk testified that he was deceived into funding the company , and argued he was trying to save OpenAI's mission to develop AI safely by resto

Bloomberg: Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to companies like Meta, TikTok, Google — Nearly all of the 20 state-

Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: New Mexico child safety trial: New Mexico asks a judge to declare Meta a public nuisance and to order it to pay $3.7B and overhaul its apps to protect children — The U.S.

Confidential artificial intelligence platform provider Opaque Systems Inc. today announced it has acquired advanced cryptographic AI technologies from the Technology Innovation Institute, the applied

OpenAI and PwC announced a collaboration to explore how AI technologies can transform financial operations and the chief financial officer (CFO) role within organizations. The partnership likely focus

The strongest witness for Elon Musk's case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman's journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual w

NVIDIA cuOpt Agent Skills integrate LLM reasoning with GPU-accelerated solvers to enable AI agents to translate natural language supply chain problems into optimized mathematical models, with skills e

Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc. sagged more than 2% in late trading today despite the big-data analytics company beating first-quarter expectations and raising full-year guidance for the second c

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to 1.63B, vs. 1.54B est., US government revenue up 84% to 687M, and US commercial revenue up 133% to 595M — Palantir Technologies (PLTR

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised 140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a 1B valuation — US tech bi

Amazon.com Inc. and Penske Logistics, the transportation solutions division of Penske Corp. Inc., today separately announced supply chain solutions aimed at easing business operations. Penske announce