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Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Sources: Nintendo asked partners and suppliers to assemble ~20M Switch 2 consoles by March 2027, ~20% above the 16.5M public sales outlook issued in early May — Nintendo

Scott Patterson / Bloomberg: Sources: the SEC has delayed the release of a plan for an “innovation exemption” that would allow crypto firms to trade tokenized versions of US stocks — The Securities an

New York Times: Sources: WH approved a $9B request to acquire advanced AI chips for spy agencies; Anthropic is finalizing a classified contract for NSA to keep using its tools — The C.I.A. and N.S.A.

This article argues that specialized AI models often outperform larger, general-purpose models for specific use cases, challenging the common procurement assumption that bigger is always better. It li

AI covers and remixes of songs are already a blight on the internet. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are awash in flat reggae versions of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' dinky country renditions of

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit on May 21, 2026, accusing Meta and WhatsApp of misleading millions of users about the privacy of WhatsApp chats. The lawsuit alleges WhatsApp deceives user

O.J. Simpson was ordered to pay $25,000 in damages for pirating satellite television signals from DirecTV using illegal devices known as 'bootloaders.' Federal agents seized the illegal devices from S

Welcome to The Blueprint, a regular feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hop

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. Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whethe

This Sunday, a group of 42 athletes will gather in Las Vegas to compete in a somewhat unusual sporting competition. Participants in the inaugural Enhanced Games are being encouraged to take performanc

View the official memo here. An internal model at OpenAI has autonomously disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry, a mathematical field with applications in cryptography, wireless device c

Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selection

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics David Oks provides the clearest explanation I've seen yet of why consumer products that use memory are likely to get significantly mo

A Reddit user reported that their metallic smartwatch strap accidentally touched the Steam Controller's magnetic charging puck's exposed contacts, creating a short circuit that caused the device to si

Peter Wells / Financial Times: The Trump administration plans to require most green card applicants to return to their home countries to apply, which could adversely impact tech workers — Move to tigh

Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: The US Ambassador to Canada accuses Canada of imposing trade barriers by requiring that US streamers contribute 15% of Canadian revenue to local programming — Remark

Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica: The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI — Pilots' vo

U.S. President Donald Trump has delayed the signing of an executive order designed to regulate advanced artificial intelligence models. “I didn’t like certain aspects of it. I postponed it,” Trump tol

The Trump-appointed FCC chairman Brendan Carr initiated an inquiry into whether ABC's daytime talk show 'The View' qualifies as a 'bona fide news program' exempt from political equal-time rules. The p

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: US and Canadian authorities arrest 23-year-old Jacob Butler, known online as “Dort”, for allegedly operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet, which infected ~2M devices — U.S

This article discusses how organizations can leverage observability data—including metrics, logs, and traces—to proactively identify and prevent incidents before they impact systems and users. It like

Streaming vision-language models (VLMs) continuously generate responses given an instruction prompt and an online stream of input frames. This is a core mechanism for real-time visual assistants. Exis

Tech Xplore: A study conducted in the Phoenix metro area finds that waste heat from data centers can raise air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4°F — Waste heat from data centers c

James Peckham / PCMag: Adobe, Canva, and CapCut announce Gemini integrations to let users access the companies' image and video editing tools within the Gemini app — Adobe, Canva, and CapCut all plan

AdventHealth has partnered with OpenAI to enhance its whole-person care approach, likely implementing AI technologies to improve patient outcomes across clinical, behavioral, and spiritual dimensions

Automated code quality and security heavyweight SonarSource Sàrl said today it’s buying a rival startup called Gitar Inc. that specializes in artificial intelligence-native code reviews. According to

Enterprise AI governance is becoming increasingly important as organizations race toward ROI, demanding AI systems that are scalable, predictable and built to deliver measurable business outcomes. Wit

For years, enterprises wanting to use AI had to do things the hard way — extract data from their databases, send it somewhere else for processing and then bring it back. SQL Server 2025 reflects a tur

At Google I/O 2026, we announced updates to the integration between Google AI Studio and Google Cloud: New users can deploy up to two full-stack applications to the Google Cloud Starter Tier, no billi

AI adoption is maturing past the pilot phase, but organizations that treat the transition as a single-gear shift risk stalling before they reach production. The real challenge is navigating multi-spee

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Hollywood is cooked - or so a growi

OpenAI's GPT-next model reportedly resolved the Erdős planar unit distance problem, a mathematical conjecture that had remained open for approximately 80 years, at a computational cost under $1000. Th

Amazon Nova Act is a service for building and managing AI agents that automate browser-based UI workflows, powered by a custom Nova 2 Lite model. It is particularly valuable for industries with fragme

Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: AMD pledges to invest $10B+ in Taiwan's chip industry to make advanced chip packaging for AI, and says TSMC will ramp up production of its next-gen Venice chips — The

Bloomberg: Analysis: Samsung is set to distribute ~26.6B to its 78,000 chip employees, or a ~340K bonus to each, in early 2027 as part of a last-minute labor union deal — Samsung Electronics Co. could

Preeti Singh / Bloomberg: Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal — The new artif

Earlier this month, SpaceX and Anthropic announced a new compute partnership that provides access to the rocket company's Colossus data centers in Memphis, TN. Now, with the release of SpaceX's IPO fi

The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropic’s two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Google’s I/O in Palo Alto. (A coincidence, not a flex,

Today, AI services rely heavily on API keys. To run AI agents, users provide API keys that signify paid tokens, subscriptions, or paid accounts. While API keys are easy to use, it is just as easy to u

Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones — Apple has freque

August Robotics Ltd., a robotics automation company for construction and industrial applications, today announced it raised has 30 million in new funding led by Big Pi Ventures. Existing investors Bla

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Scapia, which offers travel-focused co-branded credit cards and an app, raised 63M led by GC, a source says at a 500M+ post-money valuation — Scapia, an Ind

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: Bluesky and Clemson researchers detail a novel Russian influence campaign that hijacked legitimate, influential accounts to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda — The compa

In this post, you will learn how to implement Recursive Language Models (RLM) using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter and the Strands Agents SDK. By the end, you will know how to process docum

Crowdsourced cybersecurity company Bugcrowd Inc. today launched Reinforcement Learning Environments, a new offering that lets frontier artificial intelligence labs train models on real vulnerable soft

This guide demonstrates how to build a coding assistant using Weaviate's Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, enabling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities over codebases and documen