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Australian chip manufacturing startup Syenta Inc. today announced that it has raised 26 million in funding to expand its production capacity. Playground Global and Australia’s National Reconstruction

This article from Ben's Bites likely discusses Claude, an AI assistant, in the context of design or designer tools, possibly exploring how Claude can assist with design work or comparing it to other d

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. The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

Tyler Kingkade / NBC News: The Los Angeles Unified School District's board votes to require screen time limits, making it the first major American school system to do so — The resolution followed pres

Single-use plastics are a persistent source of environmental pollution, and the need to house a growing global population puts increasing pressure on resources such as timber. MIT engineers have an id

Maddy Varner / Wired: The nonprofit Consumer Federation of America sues Meta, accusing it of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scam ads on Facebook and Instagram — A lawsuit from the Co

How does the physical matter in our brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions? It’s hard to explore that question without neurosurgery. But in a recent paper, MIT philosopher Matthias M

Database powerhouse Oracle Corp. is making its case that database architecture must serve as a trusted foundation for the AI that gets built on top. The company’s major step into the AI database as a

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Tim Cook reshaped Apple in his own image and exits as CEO on his own terms, seemingly picking the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook — It's a p

Financial Times: Top law firm Sullivan & Cromwell told a US federal bankruptcy court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained multiple AI hallucinations — Firm whose partners bill

Todd Spangler / Variety: Trump Media & Technology Group names Kevin McGurn as interim CEO, succeeding Devin Nunes; McGurn previously worked as an executive at Hulu, Vevo, and T-Mobile — Trump Media &

Real value is emerging as process-centric AI becomes embedded in how work actually gets done. Enterprises are moving beyond isolated automation and embedding AI directly into workflows where decisions

NASA's next-generation spacesuit for the Artemis III mission, the AxEMU developed by Axiom Space, has passed a contractor-led technical review and continues undergoing testing with NASA astronauts and

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 today, their latest image generation model. On the livestream Sam Altman said that the leap from gpt-image-1 to gpt-image-2 was equivalent to jumping from GPT-3 to G

Wasabi Technologies Inc. today said it has secured a $250 million credit facility, choosing to forego equity financing for the flexibility of debt. The decision highlights an issue that often faces gr

Yelp is giving its chatbot assistant a major upgrade, turning the platform into something closer to a digital concierge with a suite of new features designed for 'getting things done.' The move, one o

Yelp Inc., the popular local business discovery and recommendation engine, today announced the launch of a new chatbot assistant alongside 35 new features and updates that will provide recommendations

Zero-trust security startup Zero Networks Ltd. today announced the launch of AI Segmentation, a set of platform capabilities designed to give enterprises identity-based control over autonomous artific

Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: A Blue Origin rocket failed to correctly place a BlueBird satellite from satellite networking company AST into its intended orbit; ASTS falls 14% pre-market — AST SpaceMobi

a16z: A new media company called MTS launches for “monitoring the situation” across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others — Thrilled to announce our investment in a

Washington Post: A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from “fanatical” donors since early 2025 — Summary — Kristine Kasu

Emily Steel / New York Times: A US jury finds Uber liable for a sexual assault by a driver in 2019, handing Uber a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of 3,000+ pending lawsuits — The ride-h

An unpublished USC study found an association between healthier diets rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and higher rates of early-onset lung cancer in nonsmoking adults, suggesting possible

Today, we are thrilled to announce the availability of G7e instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on Amazon SageMaker AI. You can provision nodes with 1, 2, 4, and 8 RT

Adobe Inc. today unveiled a new enterprise platform designed to coordinate artificial intelligence agents across marketing, content and customer engagement workflows, as the company seeks to position

Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security BV today launched Endpoint, a lightweight security agent designed to secure artificial intelligence use on developer workstations and address supply chain

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Amazon agrees to invest up to 25B in Anthropic, on top of the 8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend 100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years — Amazon has agreed

Anthropic announced its Mythos AI model on April 7 and refused to release it publicly, citing its unprecedented ability to find and exploit software vulnerabilities . The company is instead limiting a

Apple: Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering — Apple today announced that, effective immedi

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple says Tim Cook, as executive chairman, “will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world” — Apple confirmed today th

AI agents are transforming how work gets done across all industries, accelerating everything from content creation to decision-making. NVIDIA’s expanded strategic collaborations with Adobe and WPP are

Databricks announced an integration of its Delta Sharing technology with Adobe Experience Platform to enable seamless data exchange for marketing workflows. The integration facilitates agentic marketi

Agents Week 2026 is a wrap. Let’s take a look at everything we announced, from compute and security to the agent toolbox, platform tools, and the emerging agentic web. Everything we shipped for the ag

Doug Burger, sustainability expert Amy Luers, and optimization researcher Ishai Menache examine the global emissions implications of datacenter operations, efficiency gains, and AI's potential across

Eunice Xu / South China Morning Post: Chinese PCB maker Victory Giant surges ~57% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising ~2.6B in its IPO, the largest in the city so far this year — Nvidia suppl

Tech workers in China are being instructed by their bosses to train AI agents to replace them—and it’s prompting a wave of soul-searching among otherwise enthusiastic early adopters. Earlier this mont

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them. As far as I can tel

Keynotes at Europe’s first flagship AI Engineer Conference shared one theme: code generation has accelerated past our ability to verify it, and the industry is quietly reorganizing around that fact...

If you want to capture something wolflike, it’s best to embark before dawn. So on a morning this January, with the eastern horizon still pink-hued, I drove with two young scientists into a blanket of

Artificial intelligence security platform company DeepKeep Ltd. today announced the launch of Vibe AI Red Teaming, a capability designed for human-steered, dynamic testing and attack simulation on AI

Deezer announced that AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded to its platform, receiving almost 75,000 AI-generated tracks per day. AI-generated music accounts for only 1-3% of

A hacker has stolen a limited amount of customer data from Vercel Inc., a major developer tooling provider. The company disclosed the incident late Sunday. Vercel, which received a $9.3 billion valuat

Edward Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At: Docs: Microsoft plans to eventually move GitHub Copilot from request- to token-based billing, as the week-over-week cost to run it has nearly doubled si

David McCabe / New York Times: Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products — The sta

Following last year's AI-powered Darth Vader in Fortnite that swore in a re-creation of James Earl Jones' voice, Epic Games is now letting Fortnite creators experiment with a new 'conversations' tool

Andreas Rinke / Reuters: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will push to ease the EU's “regulatory burden” on AI and possibly exempt industrial AI to boost productivity — Germany's Chancellor Fr