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French cybercrime authorities escalated an investigation into Elon Musk and X to a criminal probe after Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino declined to appear for summons issued in April. The invest

EMO is a pretraining approach that uses mixture of experts (MoE) architecture to develop emergent modularity in language models, enabling different experts to specialize in different types of knowledg

This article likely explores how Databricks' unified analytics platform enables energy traders to process and analyze market data in real-time, supporting faster decision-making and risk management in

NASA's next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blades broke the sound barrier during March tests at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , with rotor tip speeds reaching Mach 1.08 and boosting lift capability

Alex Lekander / CyberInsider: EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing” — The European Parliamen

Sometimes, companies pick CEOs based on carefully laid succession plans designed to maximize investor confidence and future performance. Other times, apparently, companies pick CEOs based on a bunch o

Growth analytics represents the next evolution beyond growth hacking, shifting focus from rapid experimentation and acquisition tactics to data-driven analysis of sustainable growth patterns and custo

In this post, we'll explore how we built a proof-of-concept that converts natural language queries into executable seismic workflows while providing a question-answering capability for Halliburton's S

Technology is changing the way we make babies. The pioneering work of the scientists who invented IVF led to the birth of the first “test tube baby” in 1978. We’ve come a long, long way since then. Th

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Eight passengers aboa

Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a 136.6M net loss on revenue of 5.2M for the three months ended March 31; sources: it could raise $1.5B+ — Quantinuum

Climate change is making pollen season longer and more intense, worsening health effects for millions of Americans with seasonal allergies and asthma . Warmer weather signals plants to bloom earlier a

Superhuman and Databricks collaborated to build a high-performance inference platform capable of handling 200,000 queries per second (QPS), leveraging Databricks' infrastructure and optimization capab

Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: Impressions of China's AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs there, and the similarities and differences in working on LLMs in China and the West — Lesson

Grammar-constrained decoding modifies language model generation by applying grammar constraints at each step to block structurally invalid tokens , ensuring syntactically correct Bash command generati

Intel Corp. has reportedly inked a preliminary deal with Apple Inc. to produce chips for some of its devices. The Wall Street Journal today cited sources as saying that the contract was signed in rece

Researchers demonstrated that spin qubits hosted in bulk-manufactured quantum dots can be moved between quantum dots without losing quantum information. The ability to move qubits around could enable

The MCP Marketplace enables agentic applications to access real-time intelligence and data through a centralized platform of Model Context Protocol integrations. Databricks has launched this marketpla

When OpenAI was busy experimenting with AI-powered gaming bots, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were in the early days of forming an AI partnership. Court documents from the ongo

In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny. Last week, Musk took the stand, alleging that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been unusually quiet recently. While competitors such as Govee and Philips Hue have been pumping out new products and innovative features at an impressive pace, Nan

OpenAI Group PBC has developed a version of GPT-5.5 that is specifically optimized for cybersecurity research. GPT‑5.5‑Cyber, as the model is called, made its debut on Thursday. It’s available in limi

This article explores how healthcare organizations can uncover insights about operating room efficiency and utilization rates by analyzing scheduling data, likely demonstrating techniques for identify

As part of an earnings presentation on Friday, Sony shared how it's thinking about AI at the company, including many details about how it's evaluating AI as part of making PlayStation games. Generativ

Databricks' Genie is an AI-powered data agent designed to enable natural language interactions with data, allowing users to query, analyze, and generate insights without requiring SQL or coding expert

Enterprise artificial intelligence is growing more complicated, and platform engineering is becoming the control layer that keeps it moving. As AI moves into production, the challenge is no longer jus

Firefly Aerospace plans to debut the upgraded Alpha Block 2 rocket late summer 2026, following a successful return to flight in March and seeing strong demand particularly for national security applic

This OpenAI article outlines safety practices and guidelines for responsibly deploying and using Codex, their code generation model. It likely covers potential risks associated with automated code gen

Current critic-less RLHF methods aggregate multi-objective rewards via an arithmetic mean, leaving them vulnerable to constraint neglect: high-magnitude success in one objective can numerically offset

DeepSeek-V4 makes million-token context a serving-systems problem. Together AI explores the inference work behind V4 on NVIDIA HGX B200, including compressed KV layouts, prefix caching, kernel maturit

With AI coding tools like Antigravity and Claude Code, I can build a working web app in record time. But deploying it? That's where I'd historically lose the rest of the afternoon to Dockerfiles, IAM

Sony Interactive Entertainment President Hideaki Nishino says efficient AI development tools will accelerate the rate of new game releases as they lower creation barriers for developers of all sizes.

Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are among private credit lenders in talks with Broadcom over a ~$35B financing deal to fund the development of AI chips — Apollo Global Management Inc.

Bloomberg: Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from 115-125 per share to 125-135 after drawing orders for more than 20x the number of shares available — Cerebras Systems Inc. is set t

Bloomberg: Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ led by Thrive Capital — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug di

Bloomberg: Sources: WH is preparing to order US agencies to partner with AI companies on cybersecurity; the EO wouldn't require pre-release model testing by the government — The Trump administration i

Quantum computing has been the subject of both excitement and skepticism for years. Advocates tout its promise as the first new computing architecture in 80 years, while critics argue that quantum’s c

Supabase is now an official app in ChatGPT, allowing users to connect their Supabase projects and manage entire database infrastructure by telling ChatGPT what they need. Users can execute SQL queries

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Michael Kan / PCMag: The FCC says foreign-made routers and drones can now receive software updates at least until 2029, extending its earlier 2027 cutoff — The FCC's bans on foreign-made Wi-Fi routers

Nintendo will increase the Nintendo Switch 2's price in the U.S. from 449.99 to 499.99 beginning September 1, 2026 , with similar increases across Japan, Canada, and Europe, though Japan's increase ta

The Pentagon released declassified UFO/UAP files following President Trump's directive, with the initial batch containing 162 documents outlining decades-old investigations of reported unidentified ae

Todd Spangler / Variety: Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to 871,200 and a 405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 2026 for a market cap of ~$2.47B — Trump Media and

President Trump plans to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary following months of chaos at the agency . Makary has faced criticism over his handling of flavored vapes and for slow-walking a safety study

Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML Thought-provoking piece by Thariq Shihipar (on the Claude Code team at Anthropic) advocating for HTML over Markdown as an output format to req

MemAlign is a technique used within Databricks' Genie code environment to enhance the evaluation and benchmarking of traditional machine learning models by optimizing memory alignment. This approach l