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Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Series, founded by two seniors at Yale to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, raised a 5.1M pre-seed from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others — Series, a
Serving the For You feed One of Bluesky's most interesting features is that anyone can run their own custom 'feed' implementation and make it available to other users - effectively enabling custom alg
Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after 15 years, during which he transformed the company from a 350 billion valuation to a 4 trillion powerhouse. His legacy centers on operational leadership and
For years, AI conversations at major tech events centered almost exclusively on large enterprises, leaving small and medium-sized businesses on the margins of a transformation reshaping the global eco
Cloudsmith Inc., a startup that helps software teams manage application components, has secured 72 million in new funding. The Series C round was led by TCV, which was also the biggest backer of the c
A U.S. Army Special Forces soldier was charged with using classified information about the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to win more than 400,000 in bets on the Pol
Aroon Deep / The Hindu: Source: Meta has a system in India to “automatically restrict content, at scale” to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers — India is now part of a
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
Networking technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced a new networking switch for quantum systems that routes quantum information between computers while preserving quantum state. The Cisco
Claude users can access more apps with Anthropic's AI now thanks to new connectors for everything from hiking to grocery shopping. Anthropic already supported connecting numerous work-related apps to
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: Cloudsmith, which is building a cloud-native system to manage software artifacts, raised a 72M Series C, following a 23M Series B in 2025 — Cloudsmith, a platform that prote
Codex settings refers to configuration options and parameters available for OpenAI's Codex model, a machine learning system trained to understand and generate code. This documentation likely covers ho
Copperhelm Inc., a startup building agentic artificial intelligence for cloud cybersecurity, today announced its launch with $7 million in seed funding led by TLV Partners. ToDay Ventures, ICON and Sa
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced the launch of Project QuiltWorks, an industry coalition aimed at helping enterprises find and fix the wave of software vulnerabilities being surfaced by front
Artificial intelligence and data security company Cyera Ltd. announced today that it has acquired Ryft Data Inc., an Israeli startup with an automated data lake platform designed for enterprises deplo