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Databricks announced a Student Fellows program designed to provide educational opportunities and professional development for undergraduate and graduate students interested in data engineering, data s

Databricks announced a new feature called Native Lakehouse Sync, which enables seamless synchronization of data between external data sources and Databricks' lakehouse platform. This capability likely

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Anthropic announces 12 Claude plugins for the legal sector, including a “commercial counsel” tool for reviewing vendor agreements and a bar exam study tool — Anthropic PBC is

Bloomberg: Anthropic In Talks to Raise 30 Billion at 900 Billion Valuation — Anthropic PBC is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, according to people famili

In this post, we'll show you how our multi-document discovery feature solves this problem. It serves as an automated pre-processing step, analyzing unknown documents, clustering them by type, and gene

AutoScout24, a leading European online automotive marketplace, implemented AI-powered workflows to optimize and scale their engineering operations. The implementation likely leveraged OpenAI's technol

Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to get rid of the bottleneck between architectural planning and code execution with a number of upgrades to its artificial intelligence software development tool Kir

As AI coding agents become deeply embedded in developer workflows, defenders must evolve their definition of malicious files and rethink how to protect against them. Autonomous AI agents operate acros

Silencio leveraged Vultr's full-stack infrastructure platform to optimize their operations, likely achieving improvements in performance, scalability, or cost efficiency through Vultr's cloud computin

Tobias Burns / CNBC: CME Group and Silicon Data announce a futures market for computing capacity, with contracts based on daily GPU benchmarks for on-demand rental rates — A new futures market for sem

Space technology startup Cowboy Space Corp. today disclosed that it has raised 275 million in funding at a 2 billion valuation. Index Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by NEA, IVP and sev

Vercel introduced a natural language interface for creating Web Application Firewall (WAF) custom rules, allowing users to define firewall policies without writing complex rule syntax. This feature si

Release: datasette 1.0a29 New TokenRestrictions.abbreviated(datasette) utility method for creating '_r' dictionaries. #2695 Table headers and column options are now visible even if a table contains ze

Intelligent trust is not just a bonus for artificial intelligence systems, but a vital factor in their success. Although the AI train doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon, security concerns a

eBay rejected GameStop's unsolicited 56 billion takeover bid, with eBay's board declaring the offer 'neither credible nor attractive.' The proposal called for purchasing eBay shares at 125 apiece with

Elliptic Enterprises Ltd., a startup that helps crypto industry players detect illicit blockchain transactions, has raised 120 million in late-stage funding. The startup stated in its announcement of

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Exaforce, which uses AI agents to detect and thwart cyberattacks, raised a 125M Series B at a 725M valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M — As bad actors weaponize

ClickUp, the business name of Mango Technologies Inc., today is introducing what it says is a major overhaul of its Brain artificial intelligence assisting inside its workplace collaboration platform,

Vercel has introduced a fast mode option for Claude Opus 4.7 on its AI Gateway service, enabling faster response times for users integrating the model through their platform. This feature likely provi

The Databricks JDBC driver is an open-source tool that enables Java applications to connect to Databricks SQL warehouses and clusters with improved query performance and enhanced capabilities. The dri

FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary resigned after a rocky tenure marked by complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists, and vaping lobbyists, stepping down after just over a yea

Foundry Local 1.1 adds live transcription, embeddings, Responses API, WebGPU plugin, and download cancellation. The post Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API appeared f

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Foxconn says some of its North American factories suffered a cyberattack in recent days; ransomware group Nitrogen claims it stole 8TB of data — Famous for helping build Apple

It is, once again, Gemini season. Google is announcing a host of new Gemini features during its pre-I/O Android showcase, many of which aim to help use your phone for you. You'll find Gemini in more p

Hollywood actors and producers are standing behind a new AI licensing standard that will tell AI systems whether they'll need to pay to use a person's likeness, creative work, characters, and designs.

German defense technology firm Helsing GmbH is reportedly on the verge of securing a bumper 1.2 billion in funding that would bring its valuation to around 18 billion, making it one of Europe’s most v

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google announces Gemini Intelligence, bundling existing and new Gemini features, including task automation across apps and vibe-coding own Android widgets — We're one ste

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google announces Pause Point, an Android 17 feature that forces a mandatory 10-second pause before opening any app a user has labeled as a distraction — An anti-doomscrolling

Enterprise software buyers are moving fast — and they’re no longer shopping the way they used to. The shift toward platform-centric, outcome-driven procurement is accelerating the new agentic reality

Google LLC is upgrading its consumer device portfolio with a set of Android features called Gemini Intelligence and a new laptop series. The company debuted the products today during a virtual event c

Google DeepMind: Google DeepMind details a Gemini-powered mouse pointer that understands what it is pointing at, allowing users to perform tasks without using text-heavy prompts — We are developing mo

Tim Starks / CyberScoop: Google launches Intrusion Logging, an Android feature developed in partnership with Amnesty International and others, on Android 16 Pixel devices for now — Intrusion Logging m

Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more — ZDNET key takeaways — Google par

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google unveils a “full bleed” Android Auto design that fills unconventionally shaped screens like in the BMW Neue Klasse, plans to add YouTube video streaming — The phon

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Google unveils Android security features, including protection from spoofed banking calls, default theft protection, and biometric protection for Mark as lost — Here

Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: Google unveils Googlebook, its new laptop lineup featuring a unified OS merging ChromeOS and Android, with devices from Dell, HP, and others coming this fall — ZDNET's key take

Google introduced Googlebooks, a new high-end laptop segment that will run Android and prominently feature Gemini artificial intelligence . Googlebooks, launching this fall, are the first laptops desi

Monica Hunter-Hart / Forbes: Havoc, which offers autonomous boats and software to control thousands of vessels at once, raised a 100M Series A led by Cobalt and Boardman Bay — Interest in drone boats

Full-stack observability startup Hound Technology Inc., which does business as Honeycomb, introduced a number of new platform updates aimed at investigating artificial intelligence agent activity in p

In this post, we demonstrate how Amazon FinTech teams are using Amazon Bedrock and other AWS services to build a scalable AI application to transform how regulatory inquiries are handled. Each team us

This article discusses how Chief Financial Officers at consulting firms can use Databricks' data and AI platform to improve operational margins and profitability. It likely covers strategies for lever

This OpenAI Academy article explores how finance teams leverage Codex, OpenAI's code generation model, to automate financial analysis, reporting, and data processing tasks. It likely covers practical

The modern web is extremely visual. People are busy and easily-distracted, and smart companies know they have just seconds to attract would-be customers with compelling images, videos, animations, and

NVIDIA engineers and researchers utilize OpenAI's Codex, a large language model trained on code, to accelerate software development and improve productivity across their engineering workflows. The art

This article examines how open-source AI model ecosystems create compounding effects through community contributions, fine-tuning, and iterative improvements that accelerate innovation and accessibili

Sapu is an early-stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for hard-to-treat cancers. From its San Diego facility, the team is pioneering a nanomedicine pipeline that takes existing FDA-ap