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The US Space Force is reassessing its launch strategy following repeated technical malfunctions experienced by ULA's Vulcan rocket, particularly issues with its solid boosters. These reliability conce

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages — In Febru

Norwegian defense technology startup Stendr said today it has closed on 5.4 million in pre-seed funding in order to deliver advanced artificial intelligence capabilities for modern weapons systems. Th

Washington Post: Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks — Virginians previously embra

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat — EToro Group L

AI-driven decision-making has arrived, putting a focus on trusted data and strong governance so outputs stay reliable at scale. The shift is rewriting the relationship between people and data. Instead

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. NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanet

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: The EU unveils an open-source age verification app that requires legal ID to shield minors from harmful content, aiming to standardize verification in the bloc — The Europ

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block rivals — Meta Platform

Written by: Jamie Collier, Robin Grunewald Germany has reclaimed its position as a primary focus for cyber extortion in Europe. While data leak site (DLS) posts rose almost 50% globally in 2025, Googl

The AI bottleneck isn’t the model — it’s everything that has to happen to the data before the model can even touch it. Conversational analytics is now emerging as the bridge to turn already-curated da

OpenAI's Agents SDK represents an evolution of their framework for building agentic AI applications, providing developers with tools to create, orchestrate, and deploy AI agents that can perform multi

Molly Taft / Wired: The US Energy Information Administration plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use — In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy In

Security researcher Alexander Hagenah released 'TotalRecall Reloaded,' a tool that exploits a weakness in Windows 11's Recall feature by injecting a DLL payload into `AIXHost.exe` — the unprotected pr

Bloomberg: Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional 1B stake in CoreWeave, and plans to spend ~6B to access CoreWeave's Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI — Jane Street Group, a trading firm,

Bryce Elder / Financial Times: Trainer maker Allbirds, which sold last week for 39M after its valuation fell from 4B in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 150%+ — Ah, zeit

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech power plays in Washington and beyond. (And when I say beyond, I mean the great beyond, like Heaven, maybe.) If you've

Ford CEO Jim Farley, in an interview on Fox News, argued that Chinese EVs should not be allowed into the U.S. market due to the 'devastating' impact they would have on the American auto industry. He h

Vultr, a cloud infrastructure provider, has successfully met the requirements of the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) according to an independent assessment, demonstrating its compliance

Enhance real-time data streaming with Vultr Managed Apache Kafka®. With expanded Kafka Connect support, data sources and destinations can be quickly integrated with just a few clicks. Get started toda

Weaviate's Shared Cloud offering is now generally available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), providing users with a managed, multi-tenant vector database deployment option on AWS infrastructure. This lau

Among the three companies that dominate the global cloud infrastructure market, Google Cloud remains in third place — behind Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. — with 12% to 14% market share

This Ars Technica article examines the complex relationship between amyloid plaques and Alzheimer's disease, including the long-debated 'amyloid cascade hypothesis' and its role in driving disease res

David McCabe / New York Times: WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers — WPP, Dentsu and Pu

Timmy Shen / The Block: X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada — Quick Take — Nikita Bier,

Jason Parham / Wired: X users complain that the latest crackdown on bots purged secret accounts they had used for years to watch and curate their favorite porn — The platform's large-scale crackdown o

AI can now generate thousands of lines of working code in minutes — but the question of whether enterprises can trust what those systems build has become the defining challenge of the current moment.

Zig 0.16.0 release notes: 'Juicy Main' Zig has really good release notes - comprehensive, detailed, and with relevant usage examples for each of the new features. Of particular note in the newly relea

Databricks outlines eight key AI and data trends expected to transform financial services in 2026, likely covering advancements in generative AI, real-time data processing, machine learning for risk m

Byard Duncan / Bloomberg: A profile of BusPatrol, whose AI-powered cameras on 35K+ school buses in 24 US states record vehicles passing illegally, claiming they help reduce violations — BusPatrol says

Dom Cooke / Colossus: A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a 10B crypto exchange that never took VC money and generated 900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees — Jeffrey Yan turned

Databricks introduced Agent Bricks as an enterprise-grade platform for building, deploying, and governing AI agents within the Databricks ecosystem. The platform is designed to address key enterprise

Databricks explores how agentic AI systems can reason over both structured data (such as tables and databases) and unstructured data (such as documents and text) to answer complex business questions.

Orbital Inc., a startup that’s aiming to bring the artificial intelligence industry into low-Earth orbit ahead of Elon Musk, said today it has closed on a funding round of an undisclosed amount led by

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About Amazon: Amazon agrees to acquire satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple say Leo will power some iPhone and Watch services — Today Amazon.com, Inc. a

Reuters: Amazon agrees to pay 11.57B for Globalstar, or 90/share in cash or Amazon stock, assuming Globalstar meets certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) said on Tues

Amazon.com Inc. today debuted a ruggedized antenna that will enable commercial aircraft to access its internet satellites. The Amazon Leo Aviation Antenna can download up to 1 gigabit of data per seco

Amazon.com Inc. has inked a 11.6 billion deal to acquire Globalstar Inc., a publicly traded operator of internet satellites. The companies announced the transaction today. It values Globalstar at 90 p

Hospitals and health systems are increasingly implementing branded AI chatbots, like PatientGPT, to serve

Anthropic: Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on “weak-to-strong supervision”, where a weak model supervises the training of a stronger one — Large language models' eve

The Information: Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription — Businesses whose employees

Claude: Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout, an integrated terminal, and a file editor — Today, we're releasing a redesi

Amazon has secured a significant agreement with Apple to provide satellite connectivity for current and future iPhones and Apple Watches, establishing Amazon as a primary satellite service provider

Modal's blog post describes how to build AI research agents that automatically scale GPU resources up and down using Modal's serverless infrastructure, eliminating the need to manage fixed GPU allocat

Reuters: AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, an AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models — Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit on