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Fine-tuning for domain-specific tasks means improving performance in one area without degrading the model’s general capabilities, and getting that balance right is harder than it looks. This post walk

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. How small businesses can leverage AI From accounting to design

Fine-tuning isn't dead, but the way most teams iterate on AI products has split in two. A tiny fraction run continuous RL against their own environments; everyone else has moved the iteration loop out

The Economist: The IPOs of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI could add up to 4T to US stock market value within months, fueling concerns they could trigger more capital-raising — They promise to be the bi

Gavin Finch / Reuters: The US sanctions Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, accusing it of helping Iran's government and blacklisted state institutions evade Western sanctions — The United States

Anna Tong / Forbes: Thrive Holdings, a spinoff of Thrive Capital, commits $1B to acquire local accounting firms through its subsidiary, Current, and use AI to automate them — In Thrive Holdings' live-

Travelers Insurance has deployed an AI system powered by OpenAI technology across its operations nationwide to streamline and improve claims processing. The implementation leverages OpenAI's capabilit

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a 'voluntary framework' for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released 'to promot

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool “to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption” — Uber Technologies Inc. has set

Cade Metz / New York Times: University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer — Researchers a

Cloud security startup Upwind Security Inc. today announced it has integrated its runtime security platform with Cisco Cloud Control, the unified platform for agentic information technology operations

A few weeks ago, we announced the public preview refresh of hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service — a fundamentally re-imagined agent runtime built for operationalizing production-grade AI agents in

Microsoft Build 2026 brings a major set of Microsoft Foundry updates for developers building agents: hosted runtimes, Toolboxes, memory, Voice Live, Foundry IQ, new models, managed compute, and trust,

The Neo Geo's 2D-only sprite-based design makes a native Doom port functionally impossible , as the console has no bitmap graphics mode needed for 3D games and instead relies on predefined sprite imag

Financial institutions have spent years building AI: fraud models, credit models, recommendation engines and risk systems. While this sprawl of task-specific models has been effective, it’s also const

Workday Inc. today announced new capabilities aimed at providing developers new ways to build on top of its platform using their own tools. During DevCon 2026, the company’s annual developer conferenc

Reuters: Zhipu AI says it plans to apply for a listing in Shanghai; Zhipu's Hong Kong-listed shares are up over 10x since its January IPO, giving it an $83B market cap — Knowledge Atlas Technology JSC

New York Times: A look at the Seckinger school cluster in Georgia, including the US' “first AI-themed educational institution”, as parents say AI integration is often sparse — It was 9 a.m. on a Thurs

If you’re iterating on deploying large language models (LLMs) on AWS GPU instances, you’ve probably noticed the larger the model to be loaded into GPU High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), the longer the painf

When you build agentic AI solutions, you face unique operational challenges. Agents make unpredictable decisions, costs spiral unexpectedly, and debugging non-deterministic failures seems impossible.

GitHub Copilot transitioned to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026 , replacing request-based pricing with a system where each plan includes a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits calculated based on

Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI

The Bot Company, a 2 billion San Francisco startup founded by Tesla and Cruise alumni, rented residential properties through Airbnb under false pretenses to conduct prototype testing on household robo

Bloomberg: Alphabet is raising 80B in equity offerings, including a 10B investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway, to help raise money for its AI spending plans — Google parent Alphabet Inc. is raising

Google LLC parent company Alphabet Inc. is seeking to raise a massive 80 billion in equity capital through a stock sale in an effort to bankroll the ballooning costs of its artificial intelligence inf

In this post, we walk through a practical implementation using KDB-X MCP server integration with Amazon Quick, demonstrating how traders and analysts can ask questions using conversational language an

AMD extended its commitment to support the Socket AM5 platform through 2029, two years longer than its original 2027 pledge, providing seven years of CPU compatibility since the socket's 2022 launch.

An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics. The proof came from a new general-pur

Anthropic PBC today disclosed that it has confidentially filed to go public. The company didn’t share any details about its planned listing in the brief blog post that announced the move. Anthropic is

Anthropic: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC — Today, Anthropic, PBC confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commiss

After months of speculation about whether OpenAI or Anthropic would be first in their race to IPO, Anthropic on Monday reached a key milestone: filing to kick off the process with the U.S. Securities

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in preparing to go public this year — The artificial intelligence company has seen explosi

Bernie Sanders / New York Times: Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates “must benefit humanity”, calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in the top AI companies — Artif

Enterprise AI adoption at scale requires moving beyond large language models to implement agent logic systems that can handle complex reasoning, planning, and decision-making autonomously. Agent-based

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Binance launches trading for 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for non-US users, with zero commissions and fractional share purchases, as part of its “super app” push — Binance, t

Kalley Huang / New York Times: Box says it created 13 new AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow its staff to 3,000 by early 2027, up from 2,900 — Box, a Silic

OpenAI announced plans to build significant AI infrastructure in Michigan to support the growing computational demands of advanced AI systems. The project, referred to as Stargate, represents investme

One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in China’s Henan province, Dong Hui decided to see if he could hold a pen to write. Dong, 39, had sustained spinal cord injuries in a car ac

Juro Osawa / The Information: Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Opus 4.7, costing 0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with 5 for Opus 4.7 — Chinese AI dev

Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries — Coinbase annou

This Databricks article challenges common misconceptions about data layout optimization strategies, comparing Liquid Clustering with traditional partitioning approaches. It examines eight specific myt

NVIDIA Cosmos 3 is a frontier foundation model for physical AI that combines physical reasoning, world generation, and action generation within a single open model. The model uses a Mixture-of-Transfo

DigitalOcean's serverless inference offering enables developers to deploy and run machine learning models without managing underlying infrastructure, automatically scaling resources based on demand. T

On June 1, 2026, multiple official packages from the @redhat-cloud-services scope on NPM were compromised with a credential-stealing worm, affecting 96 versions across 32 packages totaling 116,991 wee

Vercel has enhanced its Elastic Build Machines with protections against out-of-memory errors during builds, improving build reliability and preventing failures caused by insufficient memory allocation

While deploying Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in production, enterprises need fine-grained access control across servers, observability into which teams use which tools, security guarantees aga