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Microsoft Corp.’s push for artificial intelligence independence is gaining traction with today’s release of MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a lean and mean version of its flagship image generation model that d
IBM Research has demonstrated that mid-training — a dedicated training phase between initial pre-training and fine-tuning — is essential for improving reasoning capabilities in large language models (
Today, we’re announcing U.S. and EU multi-region endpoints for Claude on Vertex AI are available in public preview. By pooling capacity across multiple regions, these endpoints dynamically route reque
A mid-2026 outlook piece from the Interconnects AI newsletter in which the author makes specific predictions about the trajectory of open-weight language models, likely covering expected capability mi
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its five-year survey, producing the largest-ever 3D map of the universe using data from tens of millions of galaxies and quasars to study
The NAB Show 2026 trade show, running April 18-22 in Las Vegas, is set to showcase a wave of new features and optimizations for top video editing applications. Bringing together over 60,000 content pr
The Ars Technica article covers the first teaser trailer for *Godzilla Minus Zero*, the sequel to the Oscar-winning *Godzilla Minus One*, which was debuted by writer/director Takashi Yamazaki at Cinem
For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting-edge, irresistibly exciting ideas
Simon Last and Sarah Sachs from Notion discuss their extensive experimentation with AI-native product development, including rebuilding core Notion features five times as capabilities evolved and inte
Chris Metinko / Axios: NY-based Auctor, which uses AI to curate resource plans and process flows to help companies adopt new software, raised 20M in a combined seed and Series A — Auctor, a startup he
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000 — After he
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks — Agentic AI is the tech industry's new
Enterprise AI deployments are stalling not because agents are hard to build, but because organizations lack the data infrastructure to run them reliably at scale. The shift from chatbots to autonomous
Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Parasail Inc. today announced that it has raised 32 million in early-stage funding. Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures jointly led the Series A round.
Parcae is a stable looped language model that matches the quality of a Transformer twice its size — a 770M model reaching 1.3B-level performance. We introduce the first scaling laws for looping and sh
Sequoia Capital's 'Partnering with Auctor' article announces the firm's lead investment in Auctor, a New York-based AI-native startup that emerged from stealth on April 15, 2026. Auctor raised a total
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised 23.6B YTD, up from 7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom — U.
During the NBA Play-In Tournament on April 15, 2026, Amazon Prime Video's stream of the Miami Heat vs. Charlotte Hornets game went offline for nearly two minutes in overtime, with the audio feed cutti
Project Think is Cloudflare's initiative to develop next-generation AI agents built on its global network infrastructure, leveraging tools like Workers AI, Durable Objects, and the Workers platform to
John Collison / Cheeky Pint: Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more — Mati Stan
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more — “If o
Quantum-HPC integration may still be in its earliest chapters, but the race to build the software infrastructure it will need is already underway. As the quantum technology market matures toward a pro
The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac
I think we will see some people employed (though perhaps not explicitly) as meat shields: people who are accountable for ML systems under their supervision. The accountability may be purely internal,
This post is cowritten by Renata Salvador Grande, Gabriel Bueno and Paulo Laurentys at Rede Mater Dei de Saúde. The growing adoption of multi-agent AI systems is redefining critical operations in heal
Vercel has reduced the pricing for Turbo build machines, which are high-performance compute options designed to accelerate build times for projects deployed on the Vercel platform. These machines offe
The Cloudflare Registrar API is now in beta. Developers and AI agents can search, check availability, and register domains at cost directly from their editor, their terminal, or their agent — without
Traditional data centers only stored, retrieved and processed data. In the generative and agentic AI era, these facilities have evolved into AI token factories. With AI inference becoming their primar
Salesforce Inc. wants to make conversation the interface for developers, bringing agents to the foreground with a “headless” version of its platform designed to let humans and artificial intelligence
Discover how Vultr values and rewards the ethical disclosure of security vulnerabilities with its new bug bounty program. Report issues, get compensated, and help improve Vultr's web ecosystem through
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Vultr Global Load Balancers is a managed service that distributes incoming traffic across multiple regions and backend servers worldwide, helping businesses improve application availability, reduce la
SolarWinds Worldwide LLC is making its play for the future of autonomous information technology operations with the launch of a new “agentic AI teammate” called SW1. Available starting today, it’s des
Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: a Snap-Perplexity AI search deal calling for Perplexity to pay Snap $400M has fallen apart; Snap is set to announce significant layoffs on Wednesday — Mass layoffs land
Financial Times: Sources: ahead of US midterms, Democrats have been advised not to antagonize a ~$300M pro-AI lobby; internal polling shows broad support for tougher AI rules — Pro-industry campaign g
Financial Times: Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend 7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and 2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years — Ride-hailing app races to make
The Information: Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp — Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back
Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its 40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~5B each; SoftBank has already invested 30B — More banks are being invited
The US Space Force is reassessing its launch strategy following repeated technical malfunctions experienced by ULA's Vulcan rocket, particularly issues with its solid boosters. These reliability conce
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages — In Febru
Norwegian defense technology startup Stendr said today it has closed on 5.4 million in pre-seed funding in order to deliver advanced artificial intelligence capabilities for modern weapons systems. Th
Washington Post: Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks — Virginians previously embra
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat — EToro Group L
AI-driven decision-making has arrived, putting a focus on trusted data and strong governance so outputs stay reliable at scale. The shift is rewriting the relationship between people and data. Instead
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. NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanet
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: The EU unveils an open-source age verification app that requires legal ID to shield minors from harmful content, aiming to standardize verification in the bloc — The Europ
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block rivals — Meta Platform
Written by: Jamie Collier, Robin Grunewald Germany has reclaimed its position as a primary focus for cyber extortion in Europe. While data leak site (DLS) posts rose almost 50% globally in 2025, Googl
The AI bottleneck isn’t the model — it’s everything that has to happen to the data before the model can even touch it. Conversational analytics is now emerging as the bridge to turn already-curated da
OpenAI's Agents SDK represents an evolution of their framework for building agentic AI applications, providing developers with tools to create, orchestrate, and deploy AI agents that can perform multi
Molly Taft / Wired: The US Energy Information Administration plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use — In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy In
Security researcher Alexander Hagenah released 'TotalRecall Reloaded,' a tool that exploits a weakness in Windows 11's Recall feature by injecting a DLL payload into `AIXHost.exe` — the unprotected pr
Bloomberg: Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional 1B stake in CoreWeave, and plans to spend ~6B to access CoreWeave's Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI — Jane Street Group, a trading firm,
Bryce Elder / Financial Times: Trainer maker Allbirds, which sold last week for 39M after its valuation fell from 4B in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 150%+ — Ah, zeit
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Ford CEO Jim Farley, in an interview on Fox News, argued that Chinese EVs should not be allowed into the U.S. market due to the 'devastating' impact they would have on the American auto industry. He h
Vultr, a cloud infrastructure provider, has successfully met the requirements of the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) according to an independent assessment, demonstrating its compliance
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Weaviate's Shared Cloud offering is now generally available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), providing users with a managed, multi-tenant vector database deployment option on AWS infrastructure. This lau
Among the three companies that dominate the global cloud infrastructure market, Google Cloud remains in third place — behind Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. — with 12% to 14% market share