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OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system, Codex, with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. The package of update
Caroline O'Donovan / The San Francisco Standard: OpenAI's global policy chief, Chris Lehane, calls out AI “doomers” and says “when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have cons
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, how Altman changed in 18 months of reporting, OpenAI's board drama and enterprise shift, and more — Today on Dec
George Hammond / Financial Times: Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more — The
Data integration and analytics heavyweight QlikTech International AB took the wraps off a number of new agentic artificial intelligence capabilities today as it opened the doors to its annual customer
For anyone who has been (inadvisably) taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning's two big model releases - Qwen3.6-35B-
In 2023, the FDA removed 19 peptides from the list of drugs that compounding pharmacies could produce, and in 2026 the FDA announced it will review whether to add back 7 of these peptides following pr
Jessica Hill / Associated Press: Roblox agrees to pay 12.5M and implement age verification for all users as part of a settlement with Nevada over claims it failed to protect young users — Roblox, a ga
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Ronan Farrow, one of the biggest stars of investigative reporting working today. He broke the Harvey Weinstein story, among many, many others. And just last week, he
Vercel's AI Gateway now supports Seedance 2.0, a video generation model that allows developers to create AI-generated videos through Vercel's unified API infrastructure. This integration enables users
In a surprising and perhaps ridiculous turn of events, the struggling sneaker company that once tried to make shoes eco-sustainable announced today that it has metamorphosed into artificial intelligen
Business banking startup Slash Financial Inc. today announced that it has raised 100 million in new funding on a 1.4 billion valuation to continue product development and build out its artificial inte
Solidroad Inc., a startup that develops software for use in training and coaching customer service agents, today said it has raised 25 million in an early-stage funding. The Series A round, led by U.K
The Information: Sources: Cerebras plans to make its IPO public as soon as Friday, aiming to raise 3B+ at a 35B+ valuation, a 60% premium to its $22B February valuation — Chip startup Cerebras is plan
The Information: Sources: OpenAI agrees to pay Cerebras $20B+ to use its server chips, double the amount previously associated with the deal, and may receive equity in Cerebras — OpenAI recently struc
Swathi Moorthy / The Economic Times: Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled — W
Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX told employees that it has moved up the scheduled date for when shares awarded to employees become eligible for sale from May to April — SpaceX has moved up a scheduled vest
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: UK paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for Apple Vision Pro series Adventure when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 — Claire Lomas
Bloomberg: Sources: Upscale AI, which builds AI networking infrastructure, is in talks to raise 180M to 200M at a 2B valuation, its third funding round in seven months — Artificial intelligence startu
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. Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools
Most enterprises have committed budget to AI, but few have built the data infrastructure needed to turn that spending into scalable AI outcomes. The problem is less about model capability than it is a
Heterogeneous computing, which combines multiple types of GPUs and processors, is becoming standard in enterprise environments to handle diverse workloads more efficiently than traditional homogeneous
When the covid-19 pandemic started, Jennifer Phillips thought about the songs of the sparrows. They were easier to hear, because the world had suddenly become quieter. Car traffic plummeted as people
This blog post discusses how the Hugging Face team ported the Transformers library to Apple's MLX framework, detailing the process and considerations for adapting machine learning models to run effici
As a movement, environmentalism has been pretty misanthropic. Understandably so—we humans have done some destructive things to the ecosystems around us. In the 21st century, though, mainstream conserv
The U.S. and China are each planning to land spacecraft near the Moon's Shackleton crater in 2026, with whoever arrives first securing the best access to its water ice resources. Blue Origin's Blue Mo
Joel Khalili / Wired: The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together — In a bid to min
Metro 2039 has been fundamentally shaped by Ukrainian developer 4A Games' experience of Russia's invasion, with the entire planned story reworked to reflect the real lives of those making it. The game
Wall Street Journal: The US and the Philippines agree to launch a high-tech industrial hub on the island of Luzon to counter China's supply chains; the US will run it as an SEZ — Hub will aim to forge
Agentic infrastructure is quickly becoming the foundation for how enterprises build and run AI at scale. What’s emerging is a shift from piecemeal tools to integrated systems where data, models and op
This guide covers how to train and fine-tune multimodal embedding and reranker models using the Sentence Transformers library, enabling systems to work with both text and image data simultaneously. It
Online retailers face a persistent challenge: shoppers struggle to determine the fit and look when ordering online, leading to increased returns and decreased purchase confidence. The cost? Lost reven
There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning
Wall Street Journal: TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts — Taiwan company ex
Dylan Butts / CNBC: TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue — Taiwan Semiconductor
Generative AI is democratizing application development, putting code-generation tools in the hands of virtually any developer. But as AI-assisted development accelerates, the enterprise technology ind
Rina Chandran / Rest of World: Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances — Voice AI t
Open-source platforms are rapidly becoming the control layer for managing AI and Kubernetes at enterprise scale, reshaping how organizations operate distributed infrastructure. The industry has underg
April 2026 brings three major Reinforcement Fine-Tuning updates: Global Training for o4-mini with lower per-token rates across 12+ regions, new GPT-4.1 model graders for richer reward signals, and a c
April 13 - April 17 We announced we are reintroducing Data Studio to play a significant role in the AI era, expanding from data visualizations and reports to host BigQuery conversational agents and da
The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This debate has become urgent, with AI playing a bigger role than
AI agents struggle to effectively process and extract information from complex enterprise documents due to limitations in context windows, reasoning capabilities, and handling of unstructured data for
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes — All YouTub
NBC News: A jury finds that Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled — The federal government stru
Pew Research Center: A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep — Teens largely turn
Bloomberg: A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; the apps earned $122M+ in revenue — Apple Inc. and Google have
Rachel Scharf / Billboard: A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated — At least fo
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Accel raised 5B, including a 4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a 650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to 36B — Accel, the ven
Speculative decoding is a technique used to accelerate the slow, sequential token generation (decode stage) in LLM inference. This method significantly reduces latency and improves hardware utilizatio
Discover how Vultr's Reserved IPs enhance your cloud environment with robust control, simplified upgrades, and increased redundancy. Allocate specific IPs, streamline server migrations, and eliminate
An experimental voice pipeline for the Agents SDK enables real-time voice interactions over WebSockets. Developers can now build agents with continuous STT and TTS in just ~30 lines of server-side cod
Adobe is fully embracing AI tools that enable creators to edit their work using descriptive prompts, instead of manually using specific Creative Cloud apps. The software giant's new Firefly AI Assista
Adobe has introduced the **Firefly AI Assistant**, a new agentic tool that brings autonomous, multi-step workflow capabilities to Creative Cloud — drawing comparisons to AI coding agents like Claude C
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks — Last October,
Enterprise database infrastructure is undergoing its most consequential redesign in decades, as agentic AI workloads demand a level of elasticity that legacy architectures were never built to provide.
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: AI cloud infrastructure company Parasail raised a 32M Series A led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, bringing its total funding to 42M — “Give me tokens. Just give me
Databricks' AI Gateway provides a centralized governance and control layer designed to manage agentic AI systems, enabling organizations to enforce policies, monitor usage, and maintain oversight acro
Databricks AI Gateway provides a secure mechanism for connecting AI agents to external Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, enabling agents to access external tools and data sources without exposing
'Humanity's Last Gasp' is an AI news roundup from the Latent Space newsletter, likely covering significant developments in AI safety, existential risk discussions, or major industry milestones that pr
Allbirds is abandoning its core footwear business and pivoting to AI compute infrastructure, backed by a $50 million convertible financing facility — more than double its prior market value. The move