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At the Android Show yesterday, we introduced Googlebooks: a new category of premium laptops built with Gemini’s helpfulness at the core. Designed for Gemini Intelligence, Googlebooks will give persona

OpenAI details its response to the TanStack “Mini Shai-Hulud” supply chain attack, outlines protections taken to secure systems and signing certificates, and explains why macOS users must update OpenA

Analysis of proteins in six 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China identified genetic variants shared with Denisovans, providing the first evidence of genetic mixing between the two groups. On

Ashlee Vance / Core Memory: Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stack, launching Muse Spark, personal superintelligence, acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence, and more — Last June, Meta pri

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Q&A with Amazon SVP of Devices and Alexa Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, its Leo satellite broadband business, and more — Execu

Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the “cone of uncertainty” in AI, allocating compute, returns to frontier intelligence, platform vs. application, and more — In th

“11 AI agents” is meaningless as a phrase. If I said “I have 11 spreadsheets” or “I have 11 browser tabs” to do my work, it means about the same thing. — Boris Mann Tags: ai-agents, ai, agent-definiti

Recursive Superintelligence Inc., a startup that hopes to develop self-improving artificial intelligence models, launched today with 650 million in funding. Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund and Greycroft led t

As companies move from testing AI to broader adoption, the biggest challenge is building scalable AI inference systems that perform without breaking the budget. The next wave of AI won’t be won on raw

Cade Metz / New York Times: Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised 650M+ from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a 4B valuation to pursue “recursive self-improvement” — Recursive S

Rivian released its new Rivian Assistant AI feature as part of software update 2026.15, enabling owners to interact more naturally with their vehicles through voice commands. Unlike phone-mirroring vo

Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's Mind Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots for manufacturing tasks, raised 400M, source says at a 3.4B valuation — Funding for AI-po

Mind Robotics Inc., an industrial robotics startup founded by Rivian Automotive Inc. Chief Executive RJ Scaringe, said today it has raised 400 million in new funding to put more of its artificial inte

OpenAI Group PBC co-founder and Chief Executive Sam Altman faced the witness stand today in the high-stakes trial that could determine the future of the company. Elon Musk is suing the company and its

The Cisco and AWS partnership addresses three challenges enterprises face when scaling AI agents: visibility gaps, security bottlenecks, and compliance risks. In this post, we explore how you can over

What does transportation mean to you? For some, it’s making sure the train is on schedule so they can get to work on time. Maybe it’s making sure you have time connecting between flights. Maybe it’s a

David Keohane / Financial Times: SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~11.6B, above ~1.5B est., driven by a 25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit 64.6B — Japanese

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Source: Cerebras priced its IPO at 185 per share, above the expected range of 150 to 160, raising at least 5.55B and valuing it at 56.4B fully diluted — Cerebras Systems, a maker

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work — Elon Musk'

Bloomberg: Sources: Arm and SoftBank expressed preliminary interest in acquiring Cerebras weeks before its expected IPO; Cerebras rebuffed them — Arm Holdings Plc and its majority owner SoftBank Group

Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its I/O conference next week; the model will land roughly in the class of GPT-5.5, but short of Mythos — Sources say that

Reuters: Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is shopping for artificia

Bloomberg: Sources: Mistral has been developing a cybersecurity-focused AI model and held discussions about it with European banks, which don't have access to Mythos — French artificial intelligence s

Bloomberg: Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~28.9B, below ~29.4B est., and net income of ~$8.5B, meeting est., amid a costly AI pivot; its stock is down 23% YTD — Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported

The Information: Tencent says it plans to spend significantly more on AI infrastructure in H2 2026 as more China-designed AI chips become available “month by month” — Tencent Holdings is gearing up to

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. A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial A startup ca

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: The FTC says Shutterstock will pay 35M to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel — Shutterstock

Shiona McCallum / BBC: The Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Project Intercept, a partnership with Google, TikTok, and Meta, sent 70M+ warning messages to users seeking CSAM in two years — More than 70 mill

In the healthcare and life sciences industries, speed saves lives, but meeting regulatory requirements and other administrative burdens often pumps the brakes for manufacturers of software as a medica

Databases have introduced new AI-powered SQL functions which take natural language instructions as input and are evaluated using LLMs. They leverage the power of LLMs to answer new kinds of queries: W

Claroty developed an AI-powered library that serves as a translation tool for industrial control system (CPS) protocols and communications, helping security teams understand and analyze diverse indust

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others — TikTok anno

NVIDIA's video analytics AI agents analyze and process large volumes of video data through natural language tasks to provide critical insights , powered by vision language models, large language model

Vercel introduced a trusted sources feature for deployment protection that allows teams to control which sources can trigger deployments, enhancing security by restricting deployment access to verifie

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: UK chip startup Fractile raised a $220M Series B led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Founders Fund to make specialized logic and memory chips for inference — Factori

Veeam Software Group GmbH today debuted new features that will make it easier for enterprises to back up their records and protect them from hackers. Some of the capabilities are rolling to the compan

Veeam Software Group GmbH used VeeamON 2026 in New York City this week to punctuate its shift from “the backup company” to a data and artificial intelligence trust platform for the agentic era. With a

This article argues that infrastructure quality and architecture are more critical to AI/ML project success than the choice of underlying model. It likely explores how proper deployment, scaling, moni

Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1

The enterprise artificial intelligence stack is getting smarter — but is it getting the context it needs to make agentic AI deployment actually work? The defining problem of the agentic era might neve

MatterSim is expanding what AI can do for materials science—from faster large-scale simulations to MatterSim-MT, a new multi-task model for simulating properties beyond potential energy surfaces alone

Agentic security operations startup Exaforce Inc. today announced that it has raised 125 million in new funding to scale up its AI-driven security operations platform and expand its real-time threat r

Vercel's AI Gateway production index is a monitoring tool that tracks the performance and reliability of AI services and models in production environments. It likely provides metrics on latency, uptim

Artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Grego AI formally launched today with a claimed method of using existing AI models to find critical software vulnerabilities that human auditors and other

Thinking Machines released TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B parameter model with a 12B active subset designed for real-time voice interactions that reportedly surpasses standard voice activity detection

As enterprises push AI beyond the pilot stage, the cost and complexity of running inference at scale are forcing a fundamental rethink of how infrastructure is designed, governed and sourced, putting