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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. A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial A startup ca
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: The FTC says Shutterstock will pay 35M to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel — Shutterstock
Shiona McCallum / BBC: The Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Project Intercept, a partnership with Google, TikTok, and Meta, sent 70M+ warning messages to users seeking CSAM in two years — More than 70 mill
In the healthcare and life sciences industries, speed saves lives, but meeting regulatory requirements and other administrative burdens often pumps the brakes for manufacturers of software as a medica
Databases have introduced new AI-powered SQL functions which take natural language instructions as input and are evaluated using LLMs. They leverage the power of LLMs to answer new kinds of queries: W
Claroty developed an AI-powered library that serves as a translation tool for industrial control system (CPS) protocols and communications, helping security teams understand and analyze diverse indust
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others — TikTok anno
NVIDIA's video analytics AI agents analyze and process large volumes of video data through natural language tasks to provide critical insights , powered by vision language models, large language model
Vercel introduced a trusted sources feature for deployment protection that allows teams to control which sources can trigger deployments, enhancing security by restricting deployment access to verifie
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: UK chip startup Fractile raised a $220M Series B led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Founders Fund to make specialized logic and memory chips for inference — Factori
Veeam Software Group GmbH today debuted new features that will make it easier for enterprises to back up their records and protect them from hackers. Some of the capabilities are rolling to the compan
Veeam Software Group GmbH used VeeamON 2026 in New York City this week to punctuate its shift from “the backup company” to a data and artificial intelligence trust platform for the agentic era. With a
This article argues that infrastructure quality and architecture are more critical to AI/ML project success than the choice of underlying model. It likely explores how proper deployment, scaling, moni
Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1
The enterprise artificial intelligence stack is getting smarter — but is it getting the context it needs to make agentic AI deployment actually work? The defining problem of the agentic era might neve
MatterSim is expanding what AI can do for materials science—from faster large-scale simulations to MatterSim-MT, a new multi-task model for simulating properties beyond potential energy surfaces alone
Agentic security operations startup Exaforce Inc. today announced that it has raised 125 million in new funding to scale up its AI-driven security operations platform and expand its real-time threat r
Vercel's AI Gateway production index is a monitoring tool that tracks the performance and reliability of AI services and models in production environments. It likely provides metrics on latency, uptim
Artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Grego AI formally launched today with a claimed method of using existing AI models to find critical software vulnerabilities that human auditors and other
Thinking Machines released TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B parameter model with a 12B active subset designed for real-time voice interactions that reportedly surpasses standard voice activity detection
As enterprises push AI beyond the pilot stage, the cost and complexity of running inference at scale are forcing a fundamental rethink of how infrastructure is designed, governed and sourced, putting
Amazon employees are reportedly using the company's internal AI platform MeshClaw to automate routine or unnecessary tasks as pressure grows to demonstrate AI adoption, in a practice known as 'tokenma
Google announced a slew of upcoming features for Android 17 operating system, including advanced capabilities for the company's Gemini AI assistant, redesigned emoji and video improvements. The event
Databricks announced a Student Fellows program designed to provide educational opportunities and professional development for undergraduate and graduate students interested in data engineering, data s
Databricks announced a new feature called Native Lakehouse Sync, which enables seamless synchronization of data between external data sources and Databricks' lakehouse platform. This capability likely
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Anthropic announces 12 Claude plugins for the legal sector, including a “commercial counsel” tool for reviewing vendor agreements and a bar exam study tool — Anthropic PBC is
Bloomberg: Anthropic In Talks to Raise 30 Billion at 900 Billion Valuation — Anthropic PBC is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, according to people famili
In this post, we'll show you how our multi-document discovery feature solves this problem. It serves as an automated pre-processing step, analyzing unknown documents, clustering them by type, and gene
AutoScout24, a leading European online automotive marketplace, implemented AI-powered workflows to optimize and scale their engineering operations. The implementation likely leveraged OpenAI's technol
Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to get rid of the bottleneck between architectural planning and code execution with a number of upgrades to its artificial intelligence software development tool Kir
As AI coding agents become deeply embedded in developer workflows, defenders must evolve their definition of malicious files and rethink how to protect against them. Autonomous AI agents operate acros
Silencio leveraged Vultr's full-stack infrastructure platform to optimize their operations, likely achieving improvements in performance, scalability, or cost efficiency through Vultr's cloud computin
Tobias Burns / CNBC: CME Group and Silicon Data announce a futures market for computing capacity, with contracts based on daily GPU benchmarks for on-demand rental rates — A new futures market for sem
Space technology startup Cowboy Space Corp. today disclosed that it has raised 275 million in funding at a 2 billion valuation. Index Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by NEA, IVP and sev
Vercel introduced a natural language interface for creating Web Application Firewall (WAF) custom rules, allowing users to define firewall policies without writing complex rule syntax. This feature si
Release: datasette 1.0a29 New TokenRestrictions.abbreviated(datasette) utility method for creating '_r' dictionaries. #2695 Table headers and column options are now visible even if a table contains ze
Intelligent trust is not just a bonus for artificial intelligence systems, but a vital factor in their success. Although the AI train doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon, security concerns a
eBay rejected GameStop's unsolicited 56 billion takeover bid, with eBay's board declaring the offer 'neither credible nor attractive.' The proposal called for purchasing eBay shares at 125 apiece with
Elliptic Enterprises Ltd., a startup that helps crypto industry players detect illicit blockchain transactions, has raised 120 million in late-stage funding. The startup stated in its announcement of
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Exaforce, which uses AI agents to detect and thwart cyberattacks, raised a 125M Series B at a 725M valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M — As bad actors weaponize
ClickUp, the business name of Mango Technologies Inc., today is introducing what it says is a major overhaul of its Brain artificial intelligence assisting inside its workplace collaboration platform,
Vercel has introduced a fast mode option for Claude Opus 4.7 on its AI Gateway service, enabling faster response times for users integrating the model through their platform. This feature likely provi
The Databricks JDBC driver is an open-source tool that enables Java applications to connect to Databricks SQL warehouses and clusters with improved query performance and enhanced capabilities. The dri
FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary resigned after a rocky tenure marked by complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists, and vaping lobbyists, stepping down after just over a yea
Foundry Local 1.1 adds live transcription, embeddings, Responses API, WebGPU plugin, and download cancellation. The post Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API appeared f
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Foxconn says some of its North American factories suffered a cyberattack in recent days; ransomware group Nitrogen claims it stole 8TB of data — Famous for helping build Apple
It is, once again, Gemini season. Google is announcing a host of new Gemini features during its pre-I/O Android showcase, many of which aim to help use your phone for you. You'll find Gemini in more p
Hollywood actors and producers are standing behind a new AI licensing standard that will tell AI systems whether they'll need to pay to use a person's likeness, creative work, characters, and designs.
German defense technology firm Helsing GmbH is reportedly on the verge of securing a bumper 1.2 billion in funding that would bring its valuation to around 18 billion, making it one of Europe’s most v
Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google announces Gemini Intelligence, bundling existing and new Gemini features, including task automation across apps and vibe-coding own Android widgets — We're one ste
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google announces Pause Point, an Android 17 feature that forces a mandatory 10-second pause before opening any app a user has labeled as a distraction — An anti-doomscrolling
Enterprise software buyers are moving fast — and they’re no longer shopping the way they used to. The shift toward platform-centric, outcome-driven procurement is accelerating the new agentic reality
Google LLC is upgrading its consumer device portfolio with a set of Android features called Gemini Intelligence and a new laptop series. The company debuted the products today during a virtual event c
Google DeepMind: Google DeepMind details a Gemini-powered mouse pointer that understands what it is pointing at, allowing users to perform tasks without using text-heavy prompts — We are developing mo
Tim Starks / CyberScoop: Google launches Intrusion Logging, an Android feature developed in partnership with Amnesty International and others, on Android 16 Pixel devices for now — Intrusion Logging m
Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more — ZDNET key takeaways — Google par
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google unveils a “full bleed” Android Auto design that fills unconventionally shaped screens like in the BMW Neue Klasse, plans to add YouTube video streaming — The phon
Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Google unveils Android security features, including protection from spoofed banking calls, default theft protection, and biometric protection for Mark as lost — Here
Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: Google unveils Googlebook, its new laptop lineup featuring a unified OS merging ChromeOS and Android, with devices from Dell, HP, and others coming this fall — ZDNET's key take
Google introduced Googlebooks, a new high-end laptop segment that will run Android and prominently feature Gemini artificial intelligence . Googlebooks, launching this fall, are the first laptops desi