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DigitalOcean introduced a unified batch inference solution designed to enable scalable and cost-efficient AI model inference workloads. The offering allows users to process multiple inference requests

Delta Weight Sync (DWS) is a technique for efficiently distributing and synchronizing large language models with trillions of parameters across distributed systems using Hugging Face's TRL (Transforme

CNBC: Snowflake reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to 1.39B, vs. 1.32B est., and commits to spending 6B on AWS over five years; SNOW jumps 35%+ after hours — Amazon said Wednesday that its cloud division h

Snowflake Inc.’s shares jumped in late trading today after it announced a $6 billion spending commitment on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud infrastructure, including a deal to use the company’s custo

Bloomberg: Source: at a town hall, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told staff they will see a 30%+ bump in their profit-sharing payouts in 2026 on average, after some staff had concerns — Taiwan Semiconductor Manuf

Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance is discussing capex of up to 70B in 2026 as it builds out data centers and AI infrastructure, underwriting it with its 50B profit from 2025 — ByteDance Ltd., the develope

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: EU leaders are divided on curbing Big Tech as they weigh cloud tender rules and giving EU companies preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum — European leaders

Bloomberg: Sources: Germany and Spain are leading opposition to EU plans to ban Chinese suppliers like Huawei from telecom networks as part of new cybersecurity rules — Germany and Spain are leading o

Financial Times: Sources: software-specialist PE firm Hg agrees to acquire Rightsline, whose software helps Disney, the BBC, WBD, and others manage IP licensing, for 500M — Acquisition of rights and r

Bloomberg: Sources: Taiwan suspects three people smuggled at least one Nvidia chip shipment to China after first exporting them to Japan; Taiwan detained them last week — Taiwan prosecutors suspect th

Financial Times: Sources: Uber has increased its stake in Delivery Hero to ~37% by acquiring Aspex Management's 14.6% share at a €12B valuation, after a takeover offer last week — Share purchase from

sqlite AGENTS.md SQLite gained an AGENTS.md file five days ago - but it's not intended for their own development, it's presumably aimed at people who are pointing agents at the SQLite codebase. It inc

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Starlette, an open-source Python framework underpinning FastAPI, has a vulnerability called BadHost that can allow hackers to bypass authorization — Millions of AI agents an

Wall Street Journal: Temu owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to ~15.7B, below ~16.2B est., net profit down 15% to ~1.85B, below ~3.4B est., amid fierce competition in China — The company is rolli

Tensormesh Inc. has hit upon a way to make artificial intelligence inference more efficient by eliminating the need for redundant computations, and its technology is so convincing that several of AI i

How newsrooms should use AI - or if they should at all - has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the barg

Enterprise GPU access is expanding as Advanced Micro Devices Inc. lowers barriers with the air-cooled Instinct MI350P GPU and a ready-to-run software stack designed for standard enterprise servers. Th

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. Stay on top of what’s going on in AI this summer Here at MIT T

On Monday, Pope Leo XIV unveiled an encyclical letter addressing the societal implications of artificial intelligence. The letter, titled Magnifica Humanitas, warned that the 'use of AI is never a pur

Wall Street Journal: The Shanghai Stock Exchange says memory maker CXMT cleared a listing review for the exchange's Nasdaq-like STAR Board, in what could be China's top IPO in 2026 — The listing could

Chloe Taylor / CNBC: The UK's GCHQ head says the UK and allies have a “narrowing window” to counter cyber threats from China and Russia, as Russia intensifies “daily” hybrid warfare — Choose CNBC as y

Garrett Downs / CNBC: The US DOD announces a 9.7B five-year deal with Dell to provide Microsoft 365, advanced cloud subscriptions, and on-premises licensing to the US military — The Department of Defe

Since moving to South Carolina's Lowcountry, I've been spellbound by the myriad of beautiful birds that share the coast with us - ospreys raising their babies in towering nests beside the road to my d

Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: Trump says it is “critically important” that the CFTC has exclusive authority to oversee prediction markets, as some US states attempt to regulate them — President Trump on

U.S. law enforcement agencies are monitoring growing backlash to AI and have begun classifying anti-technology sentiment as an extremism threat, with unpublished reports from the Department of Homelan

ABC News: US prosecutors charge Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using inside information to make $1.2M on Polymarket bets about Google's Year in Search results — Michele Spagnuolo allegedly pla

The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $2.29 billion contract to build a secure, high-speed satellite communications network to connect military sensors and weapons platforms across the globe. The Spac

Jay Peters / The Verge: Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices due to “rising memory and storage costs”; the 512GB model is now 789, up from 549, and the 1TB model is 949, up from 649 — The 1TB OLED mode

Valve's Steam Deck OLED models are finally back in stock after months of shortages, but buyers are now facing much steeper prices than before. The 512GB Steam Deck OLED now costs 789, up from 549, whi

Cognition Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence programming tools, today announced that it has raised more than 1 billion in funding. Lux Capital, General Catalyst and 8VC led the Series D round

Volvo Cars, majority owned by China's Geely Holding, received approval from the U.S. government allowing it to continue selling vehicles with Chinese 'connected technology' in the country. This exempt

Warp is making a significant investment in developing open source tools and integrations built on GPT-5.5, OpenAI's advanced language model. The initiative aims to leverage GPT-5.5's capabilities to c

NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 introduces Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and a second-generation transformer model for Super Resolution to enhance game image quality and frame rates for Unreal Engine 5. The new Tens

Not content with its push into autonomous artificial intelligence workers, WisdomAI Inc. is bringing its comprehensive analytics capabilities to third-party software-as-a-service platforms with today’

Zero-trust cybersecurity company Xage Security Inc. today unveiled new capabilities in its platform designed to give enterprises deterministic visibility into autonomous artificial intelligence agents

Continuous exposure management company XM Cyber Inc. today announced an expansion of its platform with new capabilities aimed at helping enterprises enforce least-privilege access across Active Direct

Scott Stein / CNET: Xreal launches a new sub-brand, X by Xreal, and the 299 a01 display glasses with micro OLED displays, 50° FOV, and 62g weight, set for July release in the US — X by Xreal is arrivi

In the wake of Google expanding its AI verification efforts at I/O, YouTube is now finally going to start taking AI labeling seriously. YouTube has announced that it's relocating AI disclosures on Sho

YouTube is automatically applying AI-generated content labels if it detects a video includes 'significant photorealistic AI use,' while making labels more prominent by displaying them directly below t

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed Berkeley Humanoid Lite, a low-cost, open-source robot made of 3D-printed parts , which keeps hardware costs under $5,000 with a modular design allowing easy c

Agentic artificial intelligence security startup 7AI Inc. today announced the launch of PLAID ELITE, a fully managed AI-native security operations service. The new service combines autonomous investig

Audi's CEO Gernot Döllner outlines the company's strategy to maintain global brand strength through localized vehicle production and tailored models for specific markets like China. As of 2026, Audi w

Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all

Reuters: A Samsung union representing its consumer electronics division says it asked a South Korean court to block a pay deal vote that mainly benefits chip workers — A Samsung Electronics' (005930.K

In this post, we demonstrate the capabilities of AgentWatch through practical implementation. You will see how the solution performs infrastructure checks every 15 minutes, summarizing CloudWatch metr

This Databricks blog post likely examines the prerequisites and preparedness required for telecommunications companies to successfully implement and deploy AI solutions. It probable covers organizatio