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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. Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning econ

The EDA Primer covers the semiconductor design and manufacturing workflow, explaining how Electronic Design Automation tools transform Register Transfer Level (RTL) code into physical silicon through

Span, Nvidia, and PulteGroup are testing home-based data center nodes that use unused grid capacity to cut costs, ease community pushback, and support growing AI demand. The Span installation bundles

Databricks explores how lakehouse architecture enables sports organizations to process and analyze player tracking data at scale, converting raw motion capture and sensor information into actionable c

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: The US' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is testing ACCESS, an outcome-based payment model for AI-driven medical care, with 150 tech companies — Neil Batlivala has

Reuters: The US DOD says it is deploying Mythos to find and patch software vulnerabilities across the US government, even as it works on a transition away from Anthropic — WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters)

Christian Martinez / Reuters: The US FCC approves EchoStar's sale of approximately 65MHz of spectrum to SpaceX and 50MHz to AT&T — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunicati

Wall Street Journal: The US House Oversight Committee launches a probe into potential conflicts in Sam Altman's personal investments; letter: several GOP AGs call for an SEC review — Republican-led Ho

Thinking Machines Lab Inc., the artificial intelligence research startup founded by former OpenAI Group PBC Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, wants to move beyond the era of “turn-based” AI intera

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Threads is testing a Meta AI integration similar to X's Grok, letting users mention Meta AI in a post or a reply to get more context, in five countries — Threads is testing a

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Vancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised an additional 70M after a 130M raise announced in January, giving it a 2B post-money valuation — Vancouver-based Photoni

Voice artificial intelligence startup Vapi Inc. said today it has raised 50 million in new funding to change the way people talk to computers, experience phone calls and interact with customer support

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Waymo recalls ~3,800 robotaxis in the US to fix software issues that may cause them to drive onto flooded roads, after some were seen stalled on flooded streets — Waymo is recalli

Parameter Golf brought together 1,000+ participants and 2,000+ submissions to explore AI-assisted machine learning research, coding agents, quantization, and novel model design under strict constraint

Following a multiyear journey to advance its artificial intelligence agenda, Dell Technologies Inc. is arriving at a moment it has long been preparing for: the AI factory as the next model for enterpr

Human risk management is becoming a practical measure of enterprise security. The old playbook treated employees as the weak link; the new one has to account for people, AI agents and automated decisi

Data resilience is quickly becoming the line between systems that recover and businesses that stall as artificial intelligence reshapes how data is created, moved and exposed. What’s changing isn’t ju

April brings Foundry Local GA for local AI development, GPT-5.5 model support with Tier 5 and Tier 6 default quota in Microsoft Foundry, new tracing paths for Microsoft Agent Framework and hosted agen

Artificial intelligence guardrail and monitoring startup Pumpkin Intelligence Inc., which operates as White Circle, announced today it raised 11 million in seed funding from a who’s who of AI leadersh

A California couple is suing OpenAI after their 19-year-old son, Sam Nelson, died from a drug overdose following advice from ChatGPT about combining kratom and Xanax . The lawsuit alleges OpenAI desig

World models recently made our list of 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now. Watch executive editor Niall Firth explain why this emerging area of AI is gaining so much attention. Join MIT Technology

Skyroot Aerospace, founded by former ISRO engineers, is preparing for India's first orbital launch attempt by a private company with its Vikram-1 rocket, designed to carry up to 350 kilograms into low

The FCC extended its deadline for software updates on foreign-made routers from March 1, 2027, to January 1, 2029 , allowing already-authorized devices to receive critical security patches longer desp

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Agentic inference is set to be different than today's inference, and will change compute infrastructure because speed won't matter when humans aren't involved — Subscribe t

Amazon Quick helps turn your large enterprise data into fast and accurate AI-powered decisions. In this post, you will learn about five new capabilities of Amazon Quick that accelerate how data profes

Enterprise AI adoption has crossed a threshold: The question is no longer whether to invest, but how to do it wisely. As agentic workloads multiply and inference costs rise, AI choice — the ability to

@trq212: An Anthropic engineer argues HTML is a better output format for AI agents than Markdown, citing information density, ease of sharing, and two-way interaction — Using Claude Code: The Unreason

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default — iOS 26.5 is now available to

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics says Grok paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 —

Across the public sector, the conversation has shifted; we are no longer just talking about the potential of AI, we are already seeing the impact. While visionary leadership and cultural buy-in are cr

Audi's new Q9 flagship features a spacious, exclusive interior conceived as a sanctuary, offering up to seven seats with electrically powered doors and a large panoramic sunroof with switchable transp

Vercel Flags enables automated progressive rollouts, allowing developers to gradually deploy features to increasing percentages of users rather than releasing to everyone simultaneously. This approach

This article discusses AWS infrastructure, tools, and services designed to support the training and deployment of large foundation models, enabling machine learning practitioners to leverage AWS's com

In this post, you will learn how to set up the Exa integration in Strands Agents, understand the two core tools it exposes, and walk through real-world use cases that show how agents use web search to

Luke James / Tom's Hardware: Chinese state media: CAS Cold Atom Technology has built the 200-qubit Hanyuan-2, the world's first dual-core quantum computer, with a core for error correction — Metrics a

Shares of Circle Internet Group Inc. closed 15.9% higher today after it reported earnings, announced a token sale and debuted a new set of developer tools. NYSE-listed Circle issues the popular USDC s

At Google Cloud Next ’26 we announced Cloud Storage Rapid, a family of object storage capabilities for data-intensive workloads like AI and analytics. Out of the gate, Cloud Storage Rapid consists of

Frontier AI models have redefined the unit of compute. At trillion-parameter scale, AI training requires thousands of interconnected components, orchestrated in industrial-scale deployments to operate

Bruce Einhorn / Bloomberg: Cowboy Space, led by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to build data centers in orbit, raised a 275M Series B led by Index Ventures at a 2B valuation — A space unicorn starte

Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se: curl founder Daniel Stenberg says Mythos identified five vulnerabilities in curl, but a manual review found three were false positives and one was “just a bug” — yes,

A data center campus in north-central Georgia consumed more than 29 million gallons of water without the local utility company initially realizing it, triggering low-pressure water flow to the host co

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its previous reboot shut down in March — Digg is back from the

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving Nitro subscribers access to offers from gaming services like Xbox Game Pass and hardware like Logitech G at no extra cost — Disco

Formula 1 leaders agreed to change engine regulations for 2027 by adjusting the 50-50 power split to increase internal combustion output. The changes aim to address driver concerns about excessive lif

Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKinsey research. That’s because most big companies begin with te

As agents start changing software, they need a way to verify their work that includes traces, evals, feedback, and APIs. This is where Phoenix goes next — not the next release, but what this product b