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20x Faster Training Data Reads with Alluxio and Ray Data: A Cross-Region Benchmark

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This benchmark demonstrates how integrating Alluxio with Ray Data achieves 20x faster training data read speeds for cross-region machine learning workloads on Anyscale's platform. The study shows perf

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Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal proprietary model with a 1M-token context window, costing $2 per 1M tokens, 60% less than text-only Qwen3.7-Max (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal proprietary model with a 1M-token context window, costing $2 per 1M tokens, 60% less than text-only Qwen3.7-Max — However, like

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3 Jun 2026

As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise

This week we've got tandem hands-ons with Google's new Gemini AI agent - Spark - from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. Their takeaways are similar: It's so effective that it's scary. Spark k

Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory — While many AI open source

Google launches Dreambeans, an AI app that curates daily stories from Google data

Google LLC today launched Dreambeans, an experimental app from its Google Labs division that uses artificial intelligence to assemble a finite set of personalized daily stories drawn from a user’s own

Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM

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Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 12B, an open AI model that brings multimodal capabilities to everyday laptops by processing text, images, and audio natively without separate encoders. Small enough to

How Wasmer used Codex to build a Node.js runtime for the edge

Wasmer leveraged OpenAI's Codex to develop a Node.js runtime optimized for edge computing environments. The project demonstrates how AI-assisted code generation can accelerate the creation of speciali

Introducing new capabilities to GPT-Rosalind

GPT-Rosalind is an OpenAI model with newly introduced capabilities designed to enhance its performance in specific tasks or domains. The update likely expands the model's functionality in areas such a

Sources: Benchmark raised 2B across two new funds, including a 1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Benchmark raised 2B across two new funds, including a 1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups — After a

Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL at a valuation of between ~52B and ~$59B (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL at a valuation of between ~52B and ~59B — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is set to ra

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would ha

Accelerating data lakes: Optimizing Apache Iceberg and Spark with gcs-analytics-core

Many data engineers spend significant time managing compatibility and getting best performance across multiple analytics engines. To help solve this pain point, we are excited to announce gcs-analytic

[AINews] NVIDIA Cosmos 3, Nemotron 3 Ultra, and RTX Spark

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NVIDIA announced three new offerings: Cosmos 3, an advanced video generation model; Nemotron 3 Ultra, an upgraded language model; and RTX Spark, likely a tool or framework for developers. These releas

Announcing Spanner Graph algorithms: Google-grade intelligence for connected data

At Google Cloud Next, we announced the preview of graph algorithms with Spanner Graph, bringing Google Research’s state-of-the-art graph mining capabilities natively to your database. These graph inte

Anthropic expands Project Glasswing cybersecurity program to 150 more organizations

Anthropic PBC is expanding a program that enables organizations to test their cybersecurity defenses using its Claude Mythos Preview model. The initiative, which is known as Project Glasswing, launche

Codex for every role, tool, and workflow

OpenAI's Codex is an AI system that translates natural language instructions into code, designed to assist users across different roles, tools, and workflows. It enables developers, non-technical user

Codex is becoming a productivity tool for everyone

OpenAI's Codex is evolving beyond code generation to become a general productivity tool accessible to non-programmers for knowledge work tasks. The tool leverages large language models to assist with

Connecting AI agents with unstructured data using Google Cloud Storage MCP Servers

Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is a foundational component of the modern agentic tech stack and the preferred home for unstructured data at scale. As enterprises deploy agents in production, the critical

datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0

Release: datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0 I want Datasette Agent to be able to generate and execute Python code safely. This alpha is looking promising so far. GPT-5.5 has so far failed to break out

Experimenting with TPUs, GKE Managed DRANET, and Multi-cluster Inference Gateway

What happens when your workload fails in one region but you need access to service? This is a common case for availability and uptime. With recent enhancement to the Kubernetes ecosystem and capabilit

Gemini Spark is the most impressive and terrifying AI experience I’ve had yet

According to every product demo from the last four years, planning a trip is a killer use case for AI. Just tell it where you're going, they all promise, and your chatbot / agent / other buzzword will

JupiterOne launches Continuous Controls Monitoring to test security controls against live asset data

Artificial intelligence risk management platform provider JupiterOne Inc. today announced the launch of JupiterOne Continuous Controls Monitoring, a new product that tests whether security and complia

MazeBolt launches RADAR VectorAI to test enterprise defenses against AI-generated DDoS attacks

Israeli distributed denial-of-service resilience company MazeBolt Technologies Ltd. today launched RADAR VectorAI, a new module that uses artificial intelligence to generate previously unseen DDoS att

Microsoft launches Rayfin to let developers and agents build app backends on Fabric

Microsoft Corp. today introduced Rayfin, an open-source software development kit and command-line interface that lets developers and coding agents define an entire application backend in code and depl

Microsoft unveils Microsoft Execution Containers for Windows, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI, Nvidia, Manus, and Nous Research as partners (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Microsoft unveils Microsoft Execution Containers for Windows, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI, Nvidia, Manus, and Nous Research as partners — For the past t

Microsoft's new MAI models

Microsoft announced two new text LLMs this morning - MAI-Thinking-1 (reasoning, 35B parameters, available to 'select early partners') and MAI-Code-1-Flash (5B parameters, 'purpose-built for GitHub Cop

OpenAI extends Codex with productivity tools for nontechnical users

OpenAI Group PBC today released a set of features that will make it easier for nontechnical people to use its Codex automation tool. The update comes five months after Anthropic PBC added similar capa

OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users (OpenAI)

OpenAI: OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users — OpenAI today released a new report

Pasted File Editor

Tool: Pasted File Editor I really like how you can paste a large volume of text into claude.ai (or the Claude desktop/mobile apps) and it will detect it as a large paste and turn it into a file attach

Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M — Ope

Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a 'voluntary framework' for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released 'to promot

Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool 'to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption' (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool “to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption” — Uber Technologies Inc. has set

Binance launches trading for 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for non-US users, with zero commissions and fractional share purchases, as part of its 'super app' push (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Binance launches trading for 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for non-US users, with zero commissions and fractional share purchases, as part of its “super app” push — Binance, t

Building the infrastructure for the Intelligence Age in Michigan

OpenAI announced plans to build significant AI infrastructure in Michigan to support the growing computational demands of advanced AI systems. The project, referred to as Stargate, represents investme

Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Opus 4.7, costing 0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with 5 for Opus 4.7 (Juro Osawa/The Information)

Juro Osawa / The Information: Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Opus 4.7, costing 0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with 5 for Opus 4.7 — Chinese AI dev

Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)

Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries — Coinbase annou

Fingerprint launches AI Assistant Detection to spot traffic from ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude

Device intelligence company FingerprintJS Inc. today launched a preview of two products built to identify traffic from artificial intelligence assistants, addressing a detection gap that has opened as

Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo

Google's new '24/7' AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. But I'm not sure it's worth the financial cost and potential privacy tradeoffs. The company gave me a

How Trustpilot built a real-time architecture for data enrichment using Gemma

Processing millions of user reviews in real-time, under strict latency and cost constraints, is no easy task. Trustpilot has been doing exactly that with custom machine learning since long before larg

Intel touts 130-plus edge design wins for Series 3 and launches OpenVINO Physical AI framework

Intel Corp. today announced that more than 130 design engagements for its Series 3 processor family for edge artificial intelligence and edge computing designs and also unveiled a new open-source fram

Introducing the GKE standby buffer: Improve node startup times without blowing your budget

Application owners and platform engineers have long faced a difficult choice: spend excessively by over-provisioning to guarantee quick startups, or minimize costs but endure slow cold starts. We are

Merge launches Agent Handler for Employees as an IT gatekeeper for workplace AI agents

Merge API Inc., a platform provider delivering connective infrastructure for artificial intelligence to business data and tools, launched Agent Handler for Employees, easing the strain on information

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter MoE open model; Artificial Analysis: it's the smartest open US model but trails the Chinese model Kimi K2.6 (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)

Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter MoE open model; Artificial Analysis: it's the smartest open US model but trails the Chinese model Kimi K2.6 — It

OpenAI models and Codex on Amazon Bedrock are now generally available

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OpenAI frontier models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4, and Codex, the OpenAI coding agent, are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. AWS customers can access these latest OpenAI models through the same Amaz

Palo Alto Networks says Mythos found 24+ critical bugs using $1M+ in tokens; Anthropic subsidizes Mythos but some companies plan to boost their Mythos budgets (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Palo Alto Networks says Mythos found 24+ critical bugs using $1M+ in tokens; Anthropic subsidizes Mythos but some companies plan to boost their Mythos budgets — When Pa

Qwen 3.7 Plus now available on AI Gateway

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Vercel has made Qwen 3.7 Plus, an AI model, available through its AI Gateway service, allowing developers to access this model via Vercel's platform. This addition expands the model options available

The fully-managed Remote MCP Server for AlloyDB is now Generally Available

AI agents possess incredible reasoning capabilities and can perform increasingly complex actions. But the reliability of agentic outcomes depends entirely on the quality of the context they can access

With DGX Station for Windows, Nvidia squeezes 1 trillion-parameter AI supercomputer into a deskside form factor

Nvidia Corp. says it’s uprooting supercomputers from the vast, sprawling data center complexes they normally live inside and squeezing them into compact, desktop-sized workstations that can sit on or