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Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Omni, which is building a “semantic translation layer” for enterprise data, raised a 120M Series C led by Iconiq at a 1.5B valuation, up from $650M in 2025 — For years, com

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, designed to handle complex tasks with minimal guidance; the model will be used to power the company's upcoming “super app” — OpenAI is introducing an

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that is significantly better than its predecessors at solving math problems and writing code. GPT-5.5 is rolling out a week after rival Anthr

OpenAI: OpenAI says “GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving, while performing at a much higher level of intelligence” — A new class of intelligence for real work — We're relea

Madison Mills / Axios: OpenAI says GPT-5.5's improvements are strongest in agentic coding, computer use, and early scientific research, which require reasoning across longer contexts — OpenAI on Thurs

OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its 'smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer.' OpenAI j

OpenAI Group PBC said today it’s pushing ChatGPT outside its usual chat interface with the launch of “workspace agents,” which is a new feature that allows business users to automate recurring tasks,

AI agents have revolutionized developer workflows, and their next frontier is knowledge work: processing information, solving complex problems, coming up with new ideas and driving innovation. Codex,

Chris Metinko / Axios: Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised 60M, including a 40M Series B led by AVP, bringing its total funding to ~90M — Orkes, which helps compani

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are naturally suited to efficient inference, requiring far less memory and compute than attention-based architectures, but the sequential nature of their computation h

Plugins and skills are extensions that enhance the capabilities of OpenAI's Codex, allowing developers to integrate custom functionality and extend the model's functionality beyond its base capabiliti

Generative artificial intelligence security startup Portal26 Inc. today announced the launch of a new module designed to rein in runaway token consumption by autonomous AI agents, a problem the compan

[...] if you ever needed another reason to learn in public by digital gardening or podcasting or streaming or whathaveyou, add on that people will assume you’re more competent than you are. This will

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: Report: China's 360 Digital Security Group has uncovered ~1,000 previously unknown vulnerabilities, including in Microsoft's Office, using an AI-powered agent — A large Chi

A startup called Rilian that’s building agentic systems integration tools for companies operating in the defense and national security industries, said today it has raised 17.5 million in seed funding

Reuters: S-1 excerpts: SpaceX says its total addressable market could be as much as 28.5T, with 26.5T from the AI sector, most of it from AI for businesses — Over the last quarter century, Elon Musk r

Salesforce Inc. said today it’s trying to break down the siloes that separate enterprise’s customer relationship management data from their productivity tools, specifically for artificial intelligence

Reuters: SAP reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to €9.56B, vs. €9.53B est., non-IFRS operating profit up 17% to €2.87B, cloud revenue up 19% to €5.96B; SAP up 10%+ after hours — Europe's largest software ma

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Sensor Tower: India's mobile app IAP revenue crossed 300M in Q1, up 33% YoY, with non-gaming apps generating 200M+, much of it captured by global platforms — India's mobile

The Robot Report: Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service robots, raised ~150M, bringing its total funding to 300M+, and says its valuation exceeds 1.5B — Pudu Technology Inc. tod

This article by Ethan Mollick likely discusses emerging capabilities and implications of GPT-5.5, OpenAI's next-generation language model, exploring how it represents advancement in AI technology and

Reuters: Singapore is slowly emerging as a neutral ground for AI companies, offering an alternative place to build without worrying about US or Chinese regulations — Singapore is transforming from Eas

Written by: JP Glab, Tufail Ahmed, Josh Kelley, Muhammad Umair Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified a multistage intrusion campaign by a newly tracked threat group, UNC6692,

Bloomberg: Sources: AI coding firm Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a 25B valuation, up from 10.2B announced in September 2025 — Cognition AI Inc. is in early ta

Reuters: Sources: Bain Capital seeks to sell a stake of 40%+ in Bridge Data Centres in a deal that would value the Singapore-based data infrastructure builder at $5B — U.S. investment firm Bain Capita

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: DeepSeek is fundraising to keep its researchers, some of whom have left for rivals whose valuations have soared; it is targeting a $20B valuation — Chinese AI sta

Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft told carbon-removal project developers it is shelving contracts under negotiation; Microsoft has been a major backer of carbon capture tech — In the earl

ABC News: Sources: the US DOJ arrested a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on his removal from office — The bet was allegedly place

Reuters: Sources: Thoma Bravo prepares to hand over customer experience management company Medallia to creditors, leading to a ~$5.1B wipeout for Medallia's investors — Private equity firm Thoma Bravo

Reuters: SpaceX's S-1 excerpts list “manufacturing our own GPUs” among the “substantial capital expenditures” it is undertaking, with the size of the expenditure TBD — SpaceX may be tackling one of th

Enterprise IT is shifting from AI experimentation to enterprise AI enablement, pushing companies to modernize systems and unlock data value. At the same time, cloud-first strategies and evolving gover

GeForce NOW is doubling down on what matters most: gamers. This week’s upgrades bring smarter libraries, making it easier than ever for gamers to turn a PC collection into a cloud-powered flex. It sta

Telecom operators worldwide are wrestling with a defining question: remain connectivity providers or evolve into full-stack technology companies in a process dubbed techco transformation. That transfo

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: Tencent releases Hy3-preview, its first AI model developed under former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu; the model features 295B parameters, down from HY2's 400B

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat Q2 guidance driven by high demand for analog chips used in AI data centers — Texas Instruments

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. Introducing: the Nature issue When we talk about “nature,” we

Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’ve been reporting on AI and having conversations here on this show. I’ve been calling it software bra

Quantum computing, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing will play complementary roles in driving the next era of technology innovation. That is, if the industry can figure out a way

Codex is OpenAI's AI model designed to understand and generate code, helping developers automate programming tasks and improve productivity. This guide from OpenAI likely outlines ten practical workpl

Connor Stringer / Telegraph: Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies — President tells The

Bloomberg: TSMC says it will hold off on using ASML's most advanced high-NA EUV machines, costing upwards of €350M apiece, for chip production through 2029 to save money — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufac

Reuters: TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang says the company plans to open an advanced chip packaging plant in Arizona by 2029 and that construction has begun — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) plans

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: TSMC unveils its process technology roadmap through 2029, aiming to launch a new node yearly for client applications and every two years for AI and HPC — Still no High-N

Andrew Wilks / Associated Press: Turkey's parliament passes a bill requiring social media and online game companies to restrict access for children under 15, following a school shooting — Turkish lawm

The White House accused foreign entities primarily based in China of conducting deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distill U.S. frontier AI systems using tens of thousands of proxy accounts . W

Bloomberg: US child safety group NCMEC received 1.5M reports of suspected CSAM with ties to AI in 2025, a significant surge compared to 67,000 in 2024 and 4,700 in 2023 — William Michael Haslach was a