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This Databricks article examines how distributed systems architectures need to be redesigned for serverless computing environments, addressing the unique performance and reliability challenges that ar
Jen Judson / Bloomberg: Scale AI wins a 500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a 100M deal in 2025 — The Pentagon aw
Vercel introduced a security feature allowing marketplace credentials to be restricted to production-only access, preventing their use in development or preview environments. This enhancement helps pr
Scott Calvert / Wall Street Journal: Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong — AI
Security training platform startup Herd Security Inc. today announced that it has raised 3 million in new funding to expand product development across new training categories in human resources and ar
Singular Bank leverages OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex to accelerate banking operations and developer productivity. The integration enables bankers and software engineers to streamline workflows, automate
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to 1.53B, in line with est., and says it ended its 400M Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops 4%+ after hours — Snap shares dropp
The Information: Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms — Private equity firms B
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX — Rocket maker hopes to quell em
Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft is considering delaying or dropping its 2030 goal of matching its hourly power use with renewable energy purchases, amid the data center boom — Microsoft Corp. may shelve
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US and China are considering recurring talks on the security risks posed by AI models, with Scott Bessent leading the American side — Washington and Be
Enterprises are entering a new phase of cloud adoption where flexibility, control and performance are no longer trade-offs but requirements. As AI workloads become more distributed and data-intensive,
SpaceX is transitioning from the highly successful Falcon 9 rocket program toward the next generation as the Starship program enters its operational phase. SpaceX is preparing Starship V3, a larger an
xAI: SpaceX signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital compute capacity — SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models enable sparse expert activation, meaning that only a subset of the model’s parameters is used during each inference. However, to translate this sparsity into practical
Dana Goldstein / New York Times: Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being — Cellpho
Cybersecurity software provider Tanium Inc. today announced a new partnership with ServiceNow Inc. to deliver a joint autonomous information technology solution, ITOM AI Prime powered by Tanium. The j
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured the 'Hello, World' photograph of Earth from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission on April 2, 2026, during the spacecraft's outbound journey toward th
Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to
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. Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea
TSMC has signed a 30-year offshore wind power agreement to secure renewable energy as power demand from AI-driven chip production continues to climb. Taiwan's semiconductor industry faces a forecasted
Uber has integrated OpenAI's technology to enhance its platform, helping drivers optimize earnings through intelligent features and enabling users to book rides more efficiently. This partnership like
I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit's High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my highlights, including my
This article from Hugging Face discusses an approach to reinforcement learning (RL) that prioritizes ensuring model correctness as a foundational step before applying corrections or refinements. The p
Sample-based quantum diagonalization is a quantum algorithm technique that estimates the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices using measurements from quantum hardware, rather than requiring full q
Open hybrid cloud is becoming the control plane that determines how enterprise artificial intelligence actually runs in production. The conversation has moved quickly from experimentation to execution
The AI era demands a fundamental shift in security, and that includes identity and access management (IAM). Traditional controls simply aren’t built for autonomous AI agents that interact with sensiti
This article explains how retrieval quality directly impacts large language model performance in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, emphasizing that even advanced LLMs cannot produce better
Databricks describes their approach to handling massive-scale observability and monitoring infrastructure that processes 10 trillion samples daily, moving beyond conventional monitoring solutions. The
Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The printing press spread vernacular literacy, helping give rise to the Reformation and, eventually, repr
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: A US court sentences a Latvian national to 8.5 years for acting as a negotiator for Russia's Karakurt ransomware group — A Latvian national extradited to the United S
In this episode of The Agent Factory, Vlad Kolesnikov and I sat down with Omar Sanseviero from the Developer Experience team at Google DeepMind. We explored the groundbreaking release of Gemma 4: a ne
AI agents require specialized testing and debugging approaches that differ from traditional software due to their non-deterministic behavior and complex decision-making processes. This entry likely co
Eight months after closing a 350 million funding round, Sierra Technologies Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional 950 million at a 15 billion valuation. Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capi
Artificial intelligence data center operator IREN Ltd. today announced plans to acquire Mirantis Inc., a provider of infrastructure management software. The all-stock transaction is worth 625 million.
Claims automation has evolved from a competitive advantage into a survival imperative for global healthcare and insurance organizations, as rising payer expectations and demands for real-time patient
Data quality is a foundational prerequisite for successful AI applications, often more important than model complexity or sophistication. The article emphasizes that clean, well-organized data directl
Seattle-based artificial intelligence research institute Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, today announced its next-generation open-source foundation artificial intelligence models, aimed at enabling r
Reuters: AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to 10.25B, vs. 9.89B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ after hours — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) f
Artificial intelligence giants Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC are going after the enterprise in full force now, announcing the creation of new AI services companies in joint ventures with some of
Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would a
The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to allow third
Michael Acton / Financial Times: Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a “personalized” Siri in 2024 — iPhone bu
The artificial intelligence era is widening the gap between winners and laggards, and the delta is not only determined by who has the most AI but also how deeply AI is embedded into business processes
Sovereign AI is changing more than technology stacks — it’s forcing organizations to confront who governs the workforce and what the very nature of work itself has become. The shift is far more than j
Networking chip company Astera Labs Inc. is trying to ease the traffic congestion in artificial intelligence data centers with the launch of the latest generation of its Scorpio smart data fabric swit
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs — I've been playing
Enterprise productivity has long been measured by output and headcount, yet the tools and overhauls meant to improve it keep delivering diminishing returns. The discipline software teams quietly perfe
Autonomous software development startup Blitzy Inc. said today it has raised 200 million in new funding on a valuation of 1.4 billion to expand its enterprise coding platform. The company was founded
Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company 'engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history'
Cisco Systems Inc. today revealed it will buy the Israeli cybersecurity firm Astrix Security Ltd. in an effort to bolster the defenses of artificial intelligence agents. The startup has developed a pl
The world of AI is rapidly shifting from experimental Large Language Models to an era of Agentic AI. In the agentic era, autonomous software agents act on behalf of employees and consumers—driving a f
Codex, likely referring to OpenAI's code generation model, is experiencing increased adoption and usage. The article from Ben's Bites discusses the growing momentum and applications of this AI coding
Reuters: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying “AI is changing how we work” — Coinbase (COIN.O) said on Tues
Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Brian Armstrong announced today that the company intends to cut its headcount by 14%, or roughly 700 jobs, citing a combination of market forces and artificial int
The Korea Herald: Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to 8.5B and a net loss of 266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 — US-listed e-commerce giant Coupang
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 — Freshworks (FRSH.O) sai
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire Equiniti, a UK-based financial services outsourcing business, from Siris Capital in a 4.2B deal, set to close in 2027 — Bullish agr
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a7 Mechanism for configuring default options for specific models. Part of Datasette's evolving support mechanism for plugins that use LLMs. It's now possible to configure a m
Release: datasette-referrer-policy 0.1 The OpenStreetMap tiles on the Datasette global-power-plants demo weren't displaying correctly. This turned out to be caused by two bugs. The first is that the C