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Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Microsoft releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions — AI researchers and labs have ad

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Microsoft releases Web IQ, a search service for AI agents that is powered by Bing, currently used by Copilot, ChatGPT, and other platforms — Table of Contents — Mi

Much like Google, Microsoft is launching its own version of OpenClaw. Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, all

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Microsoft unveils Majorana 2, a quantum chip that it developed using AI tools for materials science, and says it will have commercial quantum machines by 2029 — Microsoft (MS

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Microsoft unveils Microsoft Execution Containers for Windows, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI, Nvidia, Manus, and Nous Research as partners — For the past t

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others — [Editor's Note:

Microsoft just announced 'Project Solara,' a new OS designed for gadgets that run AI agents, at Build 2026. The company is calling it 'a new platform built from the ground up to power agent-driven exp

Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new 'flagship' model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its

Microsoft announced two new text LLMs this morning - MAI-Thinking-1 (reasoning, 35B parameters, available to 'select early partners') and MAI-Code-1-Flash (5B parameters, 'purpose-built for GitHub Cop

Microsoft has developed Project Solara, a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows. The platform is Microsoft's bet that AI will open up entirely ne

Patient-controlled health data startup Novellia Inc. today announced it has raised 18 million in Series A funding to scale up a platform that lets patients consolidate their medical records and choose

The DRC Ministry of Health removed suspected cases that have been ruled out after investigation on May 29, resulting in a significant reduction in suspect case counts . Improved laboratory capacity, i

Agentic AI is getting physical. At COMPUTEX on Tuesday, NVIDIA announced NVIDIA JetPack 7.2 and NVIDIA NemoClaw support on NVIDIA Jetson. JetPack 7.2 brings agentic AI skills, Yocto project support, N

The agentic AI moment has arrived, but delivering on its promise requires more than good models. It also takes fast hardware, secure runtimes, a responsive data layer and models tuned for long-running

In this post, we'll walk through implementing object detection with Amazon Nova 2 Lite. You'll learn how to deploy an object detection application using Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, and Amazon API Gate

NVIDIA and DigitalOcean are collaborating to develop an open infrastructure stack designed to support autonomous AI agents that operate continuously. The initiative emphasizes open-source principles a

OpenAI Group PBC today released a set of features that will make it easier for nontechnical people to use its Codex automation tool. The update comes five months after Anthropic PBC added similar capa

OpenAI: OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users — OpenAI today released a new report

OpenAI: OpenAI says it has not donated to any super PACs and does not have an employee-funded PAC, and that Greg Brockman's support for Leading the Future is personal — AI is going to be one of the mo

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI unveils new Codex plugins for tasks related to public equity investment, banking and sales, and other roles, and plans to integrate Codex into ChatGPT — OpenAI is e

Opus 4.8 likely refers to a software release, update, or feature announcement covered by Ben's Bites, a technology newsletter focused on AI and software developments. Without access to the specific ar

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital — UK company has deployed q

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to 3B, including 388M from CyberArk and Chronosphere, vs. $2.94B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. — - Palo Alto Network

Shares of Palo Alto Networks Inc. edged down in late trading today despite the cybersecurity company beating expectations on earnings and revenue in its fiscal third quarter and raising its outlook fo

Tool: Pasted File Editor I really like how you can paste a large volume of text into claude.ai (or the Claude desktop/mobile apps) and it will detect it as a large paste and turn it into a file attach

This guide provides best practices and architectural principles for designing effective data warehouses, covering topics such as schema design, performance optimization, and scalability considerations

Bloomberg: Procurement records show at least seven Chinese universities that support the country's military and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia's H200 chips — At least seven Chinese univ

Query Tags is a Databricks feature that adds contextual metadata to warehouse queries, enabling better tracking, organization, and management of query workloads. This capability allows users to label

The global health care sector is under increasing strain. Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Ga

Enterprise decision intelligence startup RelationalAI Inc. is advancing its capabilities for Snowflake Inc.’s AI Data Cloud platform. At Snowflake Summit 2026 today, it announced a series of updates t

Bloomberg: Russia's Federal Security Service claims it uncovered a large-scale spyware operation by “foreign intelligence operatives” on senior officials' mobile phones — Russia's Federal Security Ser

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M — Ope

MiniMax-M3 is a large language model capable of handling 1 million token contexts and multimodal inputs while maintaining efficient inference performance. Together AI's blog post discusses techniques

Vercel Blob now supports signed URLs, enabling developers to generate time-limited, secure links to access stored blobs without exposing the blob's public URL or requiring authentication headers. This

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: SK Hynix Chair Chey Tae-won says the company plans to double its memory chip capacity over the next five years, responding to a shortage that could last to 2030 — SK Hynix Inc. p

Slate Auto's bare-bones electric pickup truck features a minimalist design stripped down to just 600 parts, including manual windows and no infotainment system, while still prioritizing privacy by avo

In the era of artificial intelligence, some companies have struggled to adopt artificial intelligence and others have pivoted to an AI framework that has yielded positive results. Snowflake Inc. this

This research note is based on four primary inputs: 1) An assessment of Snowflake Inc.’s announcements at this year’s Summit; 2) Information captured in private analyst and journalist sessions with Sn

Gowri Gurumurthy / Bloomberg: Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised 900M via five-year junk bonds, priced at par to yield 7.5%, as the sector increasingly turns to high-yield bonds — A data cent

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Source: Google asked Google Play app devs to join a “confidential content offer pilot”, offering to pay for access to codebases to use them to train AI tools — Google is try

Echo Wang / Reuters: Source: SpaceX plans to raise 75B in its IPO by selling 555.6M shares at 135 each, an unusual move since most companies set a price range before the roadshow — SpaceX plans to rai

Bloomberg: Sources: a Broadcom-backed portion of Apollo and Blackstone's $36B debt deal to buy TPUs for Anthropic to lease may yield ~5.75% vs. 8%-9% for a riskier portion — Broadcom Inc.'s promise to

Wired: Sources: after Trump nixed an AI EO on May 21, US officials are navigating internal strife and chaotic talks; early model access was the most contentious issue — Donald Trump killed an executiv

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research — Goog

Bloomberg: Sources: the EU's €20B investment plan for five AI data centers is floundering, with delays and funding issues alienating some potential partners — SoftBank Announces €75 Bln AI Data Center

Impulse Space Inc. today announced that it has closed a 500 million late-stage investment led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC. The Series D round brings the company’s outside funding to over 1 billion.