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Ben Weiss / Fortune: New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised 60M, including a 25M Series A — Data is the oil of the AI boom—and

The NVIDIA AI Cloud ecosystem is accelerating the global buildout of AI factory infrastructure. Partners are expanding capacity to meet growing demand from enterprises, startups, nations, AI labs and

Nvidia Corp. today introduced a system-on-chip designed to power Windows laptops and compact desktops. RTX Spark, as the processor is called, will roll out alongside Windows upgrades that will make th

NVIDIA DSX OS is an open source, modular software platform designed for operating and scaling multi-tenant AI factories. It provides foundational technologies for building and operating AI factories,

As factories move from isolated automation to plant-wide intelligence, manufacturers need AI systems that can connect live machine signals, quality systems, work instructions and operational alerts in

Not content with just providing the infrastructure for the next generation of artificial intelligence agents, Nvidia Corp. is also providing the tools for developers to build them. At Nvidia GTC Taipe

Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter MoE open model; Artificial Analysis: it's the smartest open US model but trails the Chinese model Kimi K2.6 — It

Personal agents are exploding in popularity, with open source projects like OpenClaw and Hermes seeing rapid adoption by AI developer communities on GitHub. Built to adapt to individual preferences an

Nvidia Corp. said early Monday at the Computex conference in Taipei that it’s gearing up the production of its forthcoming Vera Rubin platform, which is set to become the foundation of a new generatio

NVIDIA Vera is a purpose-built CPU for agentic AI and reinforcement learning, delivering twice the efficiency and 50% faster performance than traditional rack-scale CPUs. The processor helps AI factor

Artificial intelligence adoption has brought hardware back in style, with Dell Technologies Inc. having an astounding week. The hardware firm saw an 88% jump in revenue and its stock closed up at 33%

This article analyzes the diverging performance trajectories between open-source and closed-source AI models, suggesting they follow different exponential growth curves rather than converging paths. T

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already u

OpenAI frontier models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4, and Codex, the OpenAI coding agent, are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. AWS customers can access these latest OpenAI models through the same Amaz

OpenAI outlines its positions on AI policy priorities and explains its approach to political engagement and advocacy efforts. The document likely covers key regulatory areas OpenAI supports, such as s

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Palo Alto Networks says Mythos found 24+ critical bugs using $1M+ in tokens; Anthropic subsidizes Mythos but some companies plan to boost their Mythos budgets — When Pa

IBM Research's June 2026 Ponder This Challenge presents a mathematical or logical puzzle involving superhero team movies. The challenge likely requires solvers to work through constraints and combinat

@theallinpod: Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic staffers believing “they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species”, and more — Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thi

Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in “founder mode”, differences between “founder mode and hustle culture”, AI customer service, listing hotels, and more — The ho

Vercel has made Qwen 3.7 Plus, an AI model, available through its AI Gateway service, allowing developers to access this model via Vercel's platform. This addition expands the model options available

Today, we’re excited to announce the ability to reference a secret in AWS Secrets Manager for AgentCore Identity, so you can reference your own preconfigured secret from Secrets Manager and retain ful

This article argues that the primary challenges in deploying reinforcement learning systems are infrastructure-related rather than algorithmic, focusing on issues like distributed training, simulation

Renowned mathematician Subhash Khot has joined IBM Research, bringing his expertise to the organization's research initiatives. Khot is known for his work in theoretical computer science and computati

Rohan Prabhu / Step Security Blog: Researchers find packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware that harvests credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, Azure, and others — Sev

The Information: Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; source: Salesforce paid between 1B and 1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021 — Salesforce is acquiring Conten

In this post, we use a lakehouse data agent to demonstrate how you can use Policy for deterministic access control and Lambda interceptors for dynamic validation. We then show how to combine Lambda in

Kerry Flynn / Axios: Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a 20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a 6M seed in 2025 — Sekai has raised a $

Financial Times: SoftBank becomes Japan's biggest company by market value after hitting an all-time high, overtaking Toyota, which has been the country's largest for 20+ years — Demand for AI stocks p

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Source: Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth ~5B; Salesforce first invested about 50M in an early 2023 round and has continually invested in rounds since — Salesforce Inc.

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic plans to let the EU's cyber agency ENISA join Project Glasswing, giving it access to Mythos; EU officials went to the US to ask for access — Anthropic P

Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning AI model developed by Microsoft AI, and lots of Windows developer features — Build will incl

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Tencent, which has fallen behind domestic rivals in AI models, plans to test an AI agent for WeChat with a small group of users before a phased rollout — Maker of

Hugh Son / CNBC: Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220+ are “fallen unicorns” — Five years ago, ventu

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised 50M led by a16z — Endra, a startup automating the design of plumbing

The popular fitness-tracking platform, Strava, is restricting access to its API as part of efforts to clamp down on AI scraping, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Developers who want to build an app

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Strava is adding a $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping — AI companies

Taiwan is home to more than 500 NVIDIA ecosystem partners. More than 1 million NVIDIA MGX rack components for NVIDIA Vera Rubin infrastructure come together in Taiwan, from across 25 factory sites. As

A practical comparison of production AI evaluation harnesses, including what to look for across instrumentation, evaluators, online evals, CI gates, and agent workflows. The post The best eval harness

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. China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer c

AI agents possess incredible reasoning capabilities and can perform increasingly complex actions. But the reliability of agentic outcomes depends entirely on the quality of the context they can access

This article discusses how prefix-aware routing and prefix caching techniques can reduce the computational overhead and costs associated with running large language models at scale by eliminating redu

Nvidia's announcement that it's getting into the consumer laptop chip space with RTX Spark is huge. Apple has proved for years that Arm-based chips can perform incredibly well while also delivering gr

In this post, we walk through how to use Amazon Quick Research to integrate biomedical data sources for rare cancer research. The walkthrough uses pediatric sarcoma as the research domain and draws on

When we design large GPU clusters, the network is no longer a background system. It's part of the compute envelope. At the 800G and NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 scale, the back-end fabric accounts for 86% of ne

Vercel Blob has added support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication, enabling more secure and flexible identity verification for accessing blob storage. This enhancement allows users to authenticat

NVIDIA Cosmos 3 is an open-source omni-model designed for physical AI reasoning and action tasks, representing an advancement in multimodal AI systems. The model integrates multiple modalities to enab