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Bloomberg: Sources: China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition — Chinese regulators plan to re

The Information: Sources: Cursor hit 2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a ~900M loss in its last fiscal year on 770M in total revenue — Weeks before Cursor agreed

Reuters: Sources: India is piloting 10 schemes to test whether its CBDC, the e-rupee, can deliver welfare payments more efficiently, as it looks to boost e-rupee usage — In the western Indian village

Wall Street Journal: Sources: JPMorgan Chase and other banks struggled to spread the risk of billions in loans they made for data centers leased to Oracle in Texas and Wisconsin — The AI boom has hit

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sources: Stanford University professor James Zou aims to raise ~100M at a ~1B valuation for Human Intelligence, which aims to use AI to study physiology — Stanford Univer

Ian Duncan / Washington Post: Sources: the WH pushed out the head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Collin Burns, a former Anthropic researcher, after just four days on the job — The Depa

Tanya Pandey / The Economic Times: Staffing experts say India's IT sector is seeing a rise in replacement hiring as companies adapt to Gen Z staff leaving jobs faster than previous generations — India

Bloomberg: The AI boom has pushed the market cap of Shenzhen-listed Zhongji Innolight, a leading optical communications device maker, close to $146B, a record high — Chinese optical stocks are attract

This analysis examines the token consumption and economics of coding assistants, likely comparing different AI models' efficiency and cost-effectiveness for code generation tasks. The piece probably d

Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: The DOJ joins xAI in its legal challenge to a new Colorado law that seeks to prevent discrimination by AI tools in employment and other areas — The Trump administration i

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. We’re in a new era of AI-driven scams When ChatGPT was release

The people do not yearn for automation This written and video essay by Nilay Patel explores why AI is unpopular with the general public even as usage numbers for ChatGPT continue to skyrocket. It’s a

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: The US CFTC sues New York, accusing the state of invading its authority to regulate prediction markets by filing lawsuits against Coinbase and Gemini — The U.S. Commodity F

@themidasproj: The Wire by Acutus, an AI-generated site with articles attacking AI industry critics, appears to be funded by the OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future — The reporters at this news

On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design t

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Thrive is taking a stake in the San Francisco Giants via a new venture that will invest in franchises and cultural institutions that can't be replicated by AI — It's

Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from 16.7B in 2021 to 2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 — Vent

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have spent the last year attempting to weaken the Endangered Species Act, but one major effort faced a significant setback when Republicans in th

A U.S. special forces soldier who was part of the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested and charged for allegedly betting on the operation in the prediction market

NASA has put its Lunar Gateway space station project on hold because of corrosion found in two main modules, HALO and I-HAB. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman testified before Congress that both the L

A version of this article originally appeared on X. Someone asked me at a hacker event last week: “Can anyone actually tell me what a harness really is?” It was... The post What is an agent harness? a

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: X launches its standalone messaging app XChat on the App Store, saying it supports end-to-end encryption and has no ads — XChat, the standalone messaging app from X, is now availab

Enterprise AI ambitions are stalling not because models are hard to build, but because the data foundations underneath them were never designed to support intelligent workloads at scale — and a unifie

Tom Warren / The Verge: A look at Microsoft's recent wave of executive departures, as it struggles to retain talent and changes its annual rewards and performance programs in response — Leadership res

IBM Research has developed an AI model designed to analyze and predict the behavior of fusion plasma, advancing computational capabilities for nuclear fusion research. The model likely leverages machi

GPT-5.5 is out. It's available in OpenAI Codex and is rolling out to paid ChatGPT subscribers. I've had some preview access and found it to be a fast, effective and highly capable model. As is usually

This episode discusses developments in unsupervised learning and latent space technologies presented at AIE Europe 2026, with particular focus on how unsupervised learning techniques intersect with la

This episode of AINews from Latent Space likely discusses strategies for optimizing token usage and efficiency in AI models, focusing on practical approaches to maximizing computational value while ma

Amazon Quick changes how you work. You can set it up in minutes and by the end of the day, you will wonder how you ever worked without it. Quick connects with your applications, tools, and data, creat

Databricks announced the public preview of Lakeflow Designer, a tool designed to simplify data pipeline creation and management within the Databricks platform. The feature likely provides a visual int

Kaye Wiggins / Financial Times: Anthropic and law firm Freshfields sign a deal to develop specialized legal AI tools for document drafting, contract review, due diligence, and more — Tech group will t

Anthropic: Anthropic says it has fixed three causes of recent Claude Code quality issues: reduced default reasoning, a caching bug, and a system prompt to reduce verbosity — We traced recent reports o

Anthropic's tightly controlled rollout of Claude Mythos has taken an awkward turn. After spending weeks insisting the AI model is so capable at cybersecurity that it is too dangerous to release public

Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Anthropic's valuation has hit 1T on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, surpassing OpenAI's valuation on the platform of 880B — - Anthropic's valuatio

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Apple fixes a bug that stored notifications for deleted messages on iPhone and iPad, following a report that police used it to extract deleted Signal messag

The base model $599 M4 Mac mini with 256GB storage is now completely out of stock on Apple's Store with no option to order it. Other Mac mini configurations face significant delays, with wait times ra

In this post, we'll explore how multimodal BioFMs work, showcase real-world applications in drug discovery and clinical development, and contextualize how AWS enables organizations to build and deploy

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Around 30K attend a Samsung union rally demanding 15% of operating profits for chip division staff amid the AI boom; the demand totals 27B or 400K+ per worker — Tens of thousan

Tom Warren / The Verge: At a town hall, Asha Sharma said Microsoft is returning to using Xbox for its gaming division, instead of Microsoft Gaming, as “Xbox needs to be our identity” — Xbox is Microso

OpenAI's Automations documentation covers tools and techniques for automating repetitive tasks using AI models, likely including practical examples of how to use their APIs to create automated workflo

Building an AI agent has never been easier. But getting one into production that’s reliable is still hard. Most teams can ship a working demo in a day. The agent... The post Beyond models: How context

Project Poseidon is DigitalOcean's initiative focused on achieving zero-downtime reliability in cloud infrastructure and services. The project addresses the technical challenges of maintaining continu

The 2027 BMW 7 Series is the most extensive update the car has ever received, with BMW rolling its next-generation Neue Klasse technology into a current-production model for the first time. The electr

Customer engagement platform company Braze Inc. today announced a new pair of agentic artificial intelligence tools for marketers and launched a new Creative Studio that links design software directly

Researchers have developed copper-coated carbon nanotube fibers with electrical conductivity reaching approximately 50% that of pure copper , representing significant progress toward competitive alter

This appears to be a Ben's Bites newsletter article discussing ChatGPT's 'Nano Banana' feature or update, likely covering a new capability, model variant, or feature release from OpenAI. Without acces