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Natsuki Yamamoto / Nikkei Asia: Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY 2027, as Japan tries to cut its reliance on Chinese metals — TOKYO

Financial Times: Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount — Global lenders explor

As we have built our own harness management tools internally at Arize, and watched external systems like Devin @cognition start managing other Devins, managed agents at @AnthropicAI and long running T

The AI market is full of big promises of grand transformation. Health care is a prime target for those promises, beset as it is by financial pressures, labor shortages, and the growing burden of carin

Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people's homes, is back with a new robot. But this one is designed as a companion, not a cleaner. The f

The article discusses concerns about the widespread use of knowledge distillation in AI development, where larger models' outputs are used to train smaller models, potentially creating a cycle of degr

This Databricks blog post discusses how organizations can achieve AI scalability through unified infrastructure and organizational alignment, emphasizing the importance of consolidating teams, platfor

Google announced major AI infrastructure and platform advances at Google Cloud Next '26 in April 2026, including the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with new Agent Designer capabilities, and 8th Gene

Toyota's Woven City is a $10 billion 'living laboratory' where the company tests futuristic mobility technologies with real residents , located at a former factory site in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefec

Research: TRE Python binding — ReDoS robustness demo If it's good enough for antirez to add to Redis I figured Ville Laurikari's TRE regular expression engine was worth exploring in a little more deta

The Trump administration has brought onshore wind development to a halt, with the Pentagon holding up approvals for approximately 165 wind projects on private lands, citing national security concerns.

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Trump's World Liberty Financial countersues Tron founder Justin Sun, alleging defamation, contract violations, and more — One of the Trump family's biggest early crypto backers is

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk

An evaluation harness is the standardized infrastructure that decides what gets evaluated, runs the evaluation, and acts on the result. The post What is an evaluation harness? appeared first on Arize

Artificial intelligence has rapidly changed the cybersecurity landscape, leaving organizations reeling — and in need of new trust infrastructure. More than 70% of organizations are already deploying A

Jason Lemkin / SaaStr: A look at Atlassian and Twilio earnings beats, with early signs of Atlassian's AI response success and Twilio becoming a picks-and-shovels layer for AI agents — So this week two

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue — John Wall has spen

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~2.5B with 2M+ paying users and 300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists — The music AI

Rachyl Jones / Semafor: A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids — In recent months

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Javi West Larrañaga / Reuters: Amadeus IT Group, which operates the world's largest travel booking system, plans to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, for €1.2B in cash — Spanis

NIST: An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date — In April 2026, the Center for AI Stan

Abhishek Vishnoi / Bloomberg: Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from 65% in 2025, as latest wave of collaborations shifts from chips to physical AI — The list

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything, which say Apple is applying App Store rules erratically — iPhone maker wa

Laurie Chen / Reuters: China's Linkerbot, which holds 80%+ of global dexterous robotic hands market, raised a Series B+ at a 3B valuation and seeks a 6B valuation in its next round — Chinese robotics

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen says he is making an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay and will take the offer to shareholders if the company is not receptive — Cohen to

Chavie Lieber / Wall Street Journal: How Amazon's expansion into fashion helped Jeff Bezos enter fashion's inner circle, as he and Lauren Sánchez Bezos become underwriters for this year's Met Gala — T

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: How music streaming services are adapting to the rise of AI-generated music by labeling, deranking, and demonetizing tracks, using AI detection tools, and more — The use

It's not hyperbole to call DualShot Recorder an overnight sensation. It took only 12 hours from the time it was released to hit number one on the App Store's list of top paid apps. It was a surprise s

Financial Times: JLL: Japan's $23B data center market is set to grow ~50% by 2030, with 90% of sites concentrated in densely populated regions, prompting pushback from residents — Japan is getting rea

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David Keohane / Financial Times: Nintendo's share price has fallen by ~45% since August 2025, as rising memory chip costs drive investor concerns over profit margins for the Switch 2 — Higher memory c

The Economic Times: Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at 120M-140M — Cybersecurity giant

We used an automatic classifier which judged sycophancy by looking at whether Claude showed a willingness to push back, maintain positions when challenged, give praise proportional to the merit of ide

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a deal for a 1.5B JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and others to sell AI tools to PE-backed companies — Anthropic, Blackston

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally over failures to alert law enforcement when users describe plans for real-world violence to ChatGPT — OpenA

Enterprises are moving fast to embed artificial intelligence into everything from customer interactions to decision-making. The benefits are undeniable: speed, efficiency and scale. The danger isn’t n

Victor Swezey / Bloomberg: A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate staff just to replace them with AI, following a similar ruling by another Chinese court in December 2025 — A Chinese co

Bloomberg: A look at casino-style games, considered gambling in some US states, where player “whales” spend tens of thousands via IAP on Apple, Google, and Meta platforms — “please remove this game fr

Wall Street Journal: A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO — The chief financial o

The AI Engineer World's Fair is a conference event featuring talks on emerging AI research and engineering topics including autoresearch systems, advanced memory architectures, world models, tokenizat

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Analysis: after Trump's World Liberty raised $550M from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions in USD were privately sold in “white glove” transactions — The pitch was s

Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable: Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google — “As IAC continues to sharpen

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised 125M+ across seed, Series A, and Series B at a 1B valuation — Tyson Chen an

A startup called Sonic Fire Tech has developed an infrasound-based fire suppression system that disrupts oxygen flow to flames by vibrating oxygen at rates fire cannot consume, without using water or

This article explores the origins and development of Intel's 8008 microprocessor, a pioneering chip that played a crucial role in the early microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. It likely examines th