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David McCabe / New York Times: Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products — The sta
Following last year's AI-powered Darth Vader in Fortnite that swore in a re-creation of James Earl Jones' voice, Epic Games is now letting Fortnite creators experiment with a new 'conversations' tool
Andreas Rinke / Reuters: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will push to ease the EU's “regulatory burden” on AI and possibly exempt industrial AI to boost productivity — Germany's Chancellor Fr
The Data+ AI Summit features hands-on workshops and sessions covering practical applications of AI agents, vibe coding (a Databricks term for intuitive, conversational AI development), and other emerg
F1's 2026 regulations feature new V6 hybrid engines with a near 50/50 split between combustion and electrical power, creating challenges with energy management and an unpopular driving style among dri
This article from SemiAnalysis analyzes the total cost of ownership for GPU clusters, likely covering hardware expenses, infrastructure requirements, power consumption, and operational overhead beyond
This newsletter covers three main topics: advances in automating alignment research to improve AI safety processes, a safety evaluation study of a Chinese AI model, and technical details about HiFloat
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: In an email to employees, Johny Srouji details newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division, organized across five key areas — Apple Inc.'s newly com
CNBC: John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board — Apple said on Monday that John Ternus is s
Apple announced that Tim Cook will step down as CEO on September 1, 2026, ending his 15-year tenure, with John Ternus, the senior vice president of hardware engineering, succeeding him as chief execut
Vercel's AI Gateway now supports Kimi K2.6, a language model that developers can access through Vercel's unified AI platform. This integration allows users to leverage Kimi K2.6's capabilities alongsi
Danny Park / The Block: LayerZero says North Korea's Lazarus is likely behind the 292M Kelp DAO exploit on April 18, which triggered 10B in outflows from Aave over bad debt concerns — Quick Take — Lay
Release: llm-openrouter 0.6 llm openrouter refresh command for refreshing the list of available models without waiting for the cache to expire. I added this feature so I could try Kimi 2.6 on OpenRout
Bruce is a kea parrot native to New Zealand who has lived in captivity at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve for about 12 years after being discovered as a juvenile with his entire upper beak missing . He de
Mercedes-Benz implemented a cross-cloud data mesh architecture using Databricks Delta Sharing and intelligent replication to optimize their data infrastructure across multiple cloud providers. The sol
The GitHub Blog: Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ — As shared in our recen
NVIDIA researchers discovered a vulnerability in AI coding assistants where malicious software dependencies can inject harmful instructions into AGENTS.md configuration files, allowing attackers to re
Moonshot AI today released Kimi-K2.6, the latest addition to its popular Kimi series of open-source large language models. The Chinese artificial intelligence startup says that the algorithm outperfor
Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg: Nigeria-based Terra, which makes pilotless drones and defense systems, raised $34M from Joe Lonsdale, Lux Capital, and others, as jihadist groups drive demand — Terrahaptix
Manufacturing is at an inflection point. Across every major industrial economy, the pressure to do more with less — due to faster design cycles, leaner operations and strain on skilled labor pools — i
In this post, we'll show you how to build a complete omnichannel ordering system using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, an agentic platform, to build, deploy, and operate highly effective AI agents securely
Artificial intelligence infrastructure is now the deciding force behind enterprise competitiveness. What was once a backend concern has moved directly into the center of business strategy, shaping how
OpenAI partnered with Hyatt Hotels to implement ChatGPT Enterprise across their organization, enabling employees to leverage advanced AI capabilities for business operations. The collaboration demonst
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI rolls out Chronicle, which builds memories from screen captures to make Codex more aware of context, as a research preview for Pro subscribers on macOS — Last week, OpenAI r
Cloudflare discusses their approach to implementing AI-powered code review systems across large-scale development operations, likely covering how they leverage AI models to automate code quality check
Aditya Kalra / Reuters: Order: India's CCI sets May hearing on penalties after Apple failed to submit info on alleged app market abuse; Apple said it fears it could be fined up to $38B — Apple has not
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the company's growth in enterprise, competing with AI labs, token pricing, investing in its own models, and more — Today, I'm talking wit
André Beganski / Decrypt: RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated — RaveDAO's to
This article analyzes the performance differences between open-source and closed-source AI models in the current landscape, examining factors that influence their relative capabilities and market posi
Qiskit v2.4 represents the latest release of IBM's open-source quantum computing framework, introducing new features and improvements to the software development kit for quantum programming. The relea
A humanoid robot named Lightning, developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, completed a 21-kilometer half-marathon in Beijing in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, surpassing the human world record by over
Rogue Trooper is an upcoming adult animated military science fiction film based on the 2000 AD comic strip, written and directed by Duncan Jones. The film follows 19, a 'Genetic Infantryman' who is th
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses the idea of vibe coded CRM replacing SaaS companies, saying data security and compliance make Salesforce indispensable —
One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery that they believe they have made. Recently, I ran into an ac
The Korea Herald: SK hynix says it has begun mass production of the 192GB SOCAMM2, a next-gen LPDDR5X low-power DRAM module designed particularly for Nvidia's Vera Rubin — SK hynix Inc. said Monday it
Financial Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is close to a 10B fundraising deal, which includes an initial 6.2B raise in November, at a 38B post-money valuation — Company code-named Projec
TIL: SQL functions in Google Sheets to fetch data from Datasette I put together some notes on patterns for fetching data from a Datasette instance directly into Google Sheets - using the importdata()
This Databricks resource explains how to implement customer-managed keys (CMK) for encryption in Lakebase Postgres, enabling users to control their own encryption keys rather than relying on provider-
We built our internal AI engineering stack on the same products we ship. That means 20 million requests routed through AI Gateway, 241 billion tokens processed, and inference running on Workers AI, se
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. No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all In Feb
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: The US Air Force cancels RTX's ground-control network for the US' next generation of GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns — The Air Force on Monday canc
Apple Inc. announced today that John Ternus, its senior vice president of hardware engineering, will become chief executive officer on Sept. 1, succeeding Tim Cook, who will transition to executive ch
You can use ToolSimulator, an LLM-powered tool simulation framework within Strands Evals, to thoroughly and safely test AI agents that rely on external tools, at scale. Instead of risking live API cal
Noetik uses transformer neural networks and machine learning to improve cancer drug trial success rates, addressing the historically high failure rate (95%) in clinical development. The approach lever
The U.S. government launched an online portal (CAPE) on April 20, 2026, allowing businesses to request refunds for tariffs deemed illegal by the Supreme Court. The government could owe businesses up t
A transactional database is a database system designed to process and manage individual transactions with strict ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) compliance to ensure data integrit
Advances in the use of artificial intelligence by major providers such as Google Cloud are not confined solely to the hyperscaler’s own customers. Partners, such as the AI-first digital engineering co
IBM Quantum's Q1 2026 updates likely cover recent advances in quantum computing hardware, software, and applications, including announcements about processor improvements, new quantum algorithms, or e
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp Plus, which includes features like expanded pinned chats, custom lists, and new chat themes — WhatsApp is testin
Abram Brown / The Information: A look at Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis, an AI newsletter and research firm that expects $100M+ in 2026 revenue from subscriptions and AI supply chain research — For Dylan
Kevin Roose / New York Times: A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems — A chart cr
Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: A profile of Maria Davidson, who heads California Renewal, a pro-business political group backed by Silicon Valley power players, seeking to raise $100M i
Amanda Mull / Bloomberg: A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at 10B+, which has found success by using data analysis and close manufacturer ties to keep prices low — The online appa
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools — Everyone said AI
The agentic artificial intelligence era is forcing a reset in enterprise architecture. Agents that take action go well beyond analyzing data sitting in lakehouses. When agents operate on behalf of hum
Reuters: At the Beijing half-marathon, several humanoid robots beat human winners by 10+ minutes; a robot made by Honor beat the human world record held by Jacob Kiplimo — Dozens of Chinese-made human
Sneha Kumar / Reuters: Australian data center operator NextDC plans to raise AU1.5B in equity for its 350MW Sydney site rollout, and raises its FY26 capex by AU300M to AU2.7B-AU3B — Australia's NEXTDC
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Binance and Bitget to probe a rally in RaveDAO's RAVE token, which surged 4,500% in a week, after ZachXBT alleged RAVE insiders engineered a large short squeeze — Nearl
Blue Origin successfully reused a New Glenn rocket booster for the first time, but failed to deliver an AST SpaceMobile communications satellite to its intended orbit. The upper stage placed the BlueB
Vercel, a major development platform that hosts and deploys web apps, was compromised, and the hackers are attempting to sell stolen data. A person claiming to be a member of ShinyHunters, which was b