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Metro 2039 has been fundamentally shaped by Ukrainian developer 4A Games' experience of Russia's invasion, with the entire planned story reworked to reflect the real lives of those making it. The game

Wall Street Journal: The US and the Philippines agree to launch a high-tech industrial hub on the island of Luzon to counter China's supply chains; the US will run it as an SEZ — Hub will aim to forge

Agentic infrastructure is quickly becoming the foundation for how enterprises build and run AI at scale. What’s emerging is a shift from piecemeal tools to integrated systems where data, models and op

This guide covers how to train and fine-tune multimodal embedding and reranker models using the Sentence Transformers library, enabling systems to work with both text and image data simultaneously. It

Online retailers face a persistent challenge: shoppers struggle to determine the fit and look when ordering online, leading to increased returns and decreased purchase confidence. The cost? Lost reven

There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning

Wall Street Journal: TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts — Taiwan company ex

Dylan Butts / CNBC: TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue — Taiwan Semiconductor

Generative AI is democratizing application development, putting code-generation tools in the hands of virtually any developer. But as AI-assisted development accelerates, the enterprise technology ind

Rina Chandran / Rest of World: Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances — Voice AI t

Open-source platforms are rapidly becoming the control layer for managing AI and Kubernetes at enterprise scale, reshaping how organizations operate distributed infrastructure. The industry has underg

April 2026 brings three major Reinforcement Fine-Tuning updates: Global Training for o4-mini with lower per-token rates across 12+ regions, new GPT-4.1 model graders for richer reward signals, and a c

April 13 - April 17 We announced we are reintroducing Data Studio to play a significant role in the AI era, expanding from data visualizations and reports to host BigQuery conversational agents and da

The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This debate has become urgent, with AI playing a bigger role than

AI agents struggle to effectively process and extract information from complex enterprise documents due to limitations in context windows, reasoning capabilities, and handling of unstructured data for

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes — All YouTub

NBC News: A jury finds that Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled — The federal government stru

Pew Research Center: A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep — Teens largely turn

Bloomberg: A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; the apps earned $122M+ in revenue — Apple Inc. and Google have

Rachel Scharf / Billboard: A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated — At least fo

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Accel raised 5B, including a 4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a 650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to 36B — Accel, the ven

Speculative decoding is a technique used to accelerate the slow, sequential token generation (decode stage) in LLM inference. This method significantly reduces latency and improves hardware utilizatio

Discover how Vultr's Reserved IPs enhance your cloud environment with robust control, simplified upgrades, and increased redundancy. Allocate specific IPs, streamline server migrations, and eliminate

An experimental voice pipeline for the Agents SDK enables real-time voice interactions over WebSockets. Developers can now build agents with continuous STT and TTS in just ~30 lines of server-side cod

Adobe is fully embracing AI tools that enable creators to edit their work using descriptive prompts, instead of manually using specific Creative Cloud apps. The software giant's new Firefly AI Assista

Adobe has introduced the **Firefly AI Assistant**, a new agentic tool that brings autonomous, multi-step workflow capabilities to Creative Cloud — drawing comparisons to AI coding agents like Claude C

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks — Last October,

Enterprise database infrastructure is undergoing its most consequential redesign in decades, as agentic AI workloads demand a level of elasticity that legacy architectures were never built to provide.

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: AI cloud infrastructure company Parasail raised a 32M Series A led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, bringing its total funding to 42M — “Give me tokens. Just give me

Databricks' AI Gateway provides a centralized governance and control layer designed to manage agentic AI systems, enabling organizations to enforce policies, monitor usage, and maintain oversight acro

Databricks AI Gateway provides a secure mechanism for connecting AI agents to external Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, enabling agents to access external tools and data sources without exposing

'Humanity's Last Gasp' is an AI news roundup from the Latent Space newsletter, likely covering significant developments in AI safety, existential risk discussions, or major industry milestones that pr

Allbirds is abandoning its core footwear business and pivoting to AI compute infrastructure, backed by a $50 million convertible financing facility — more than double its prior market value. The move

Allbirds had a hit a decade ago with its Wool Runner shoes, but after a 4 billion IPO in 2021, the business never turned a profit, and sales dropped nearly 50 percent between 2022 and 2025. The compan

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest 60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its 1.2B Series D, announced in February — Chipmakers AMD, Ar

Vultr offers preemptible cloud instances powered by AMD Instinct GPUs, providing a cost-effective option for running GPU-accelerated workloads such as AI/ML training, inference, and high-performance c

Matt Burgess / Wired: Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600 students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 — An analysis by WI

Discover Vultr’s commitment to IT service management and data security with ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 certifications. Learn how Vultr ensures compliance with industry best practices and protects your da

Vercel has made anomaly alerts generally available, a feature that automatically detects and notifies users of unusual patterns in their application's performance metrics, such as unexpected spikes or

Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities” — Anthropi

Anthropic PBC is making it easier to automate tasks using Claude Code without relying on autonomous artificial intelligence agents with the launch of a new service called “routines.” The routines allo

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, citing a “proven track record” with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar — Amazon.com Inc.'s takeov

Six-month-old cybersecurity startup Artemis Global Technologies Inc. today disclosed that it has raised 70 million in funding. The capital arrived in two tranches. Felicis led the largest of the two t

Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Artemis, which aims to replace rule-based cybersecurity systems with an AI-driven centralized “brain”, emerges from stealth with a $70M Series A led by Felicis — Artemis, a n

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: Asia's startup funding rose 93% YoY to 27.4B in Q1, the highest quarterly total in 3+ years, with Chinese startups raising 16.5B and Indian startups $3.8B — Asia's st

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, above €8.5B est., a €2.8B net profit, above €2.5B est., and raises 2026 net sales forecast to €36B to €40B from €34B to €39B — ASML raised its