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Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Ramp told investors it is raising 750M co-led by Iconiq Capital and GIC at a valuation of 40B+ before the investment, up from $32B in November 2025 — The fin

Elon Musk's plans to get into the AI chip manufacturing business are going to be costly. As the New York Times and CNBC report, SpaceX is planning to invest at least $55 billion into its 'Terafab' chi

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload AI-generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account — A new comma

Anna Tong / Forbes: Tessera Labs, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise IT migrations and ERP transformations, raised a 60M Series A led by a16z at a 320M valuation — Kabir Nagrecha is tackling

OpenAI announced a test of advertisements within ChatGPT, marking the company's exploration of ad-supported monetization models alongside its existing subscription offerings. The initiative aims to ba

Dozens of US states are considering legislation to allow people to install plug-in solar systems, often called balcony solar. These small arrays require little to no setup and could help cut emissions

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. What’s next for IVF IVF has brought millions of babies into th

Vercel Flags has been updated to support JSON values, expanding the types of data that can be stored and managed through the feature flags system. This enhancement allows developers to use more comple

Vibe Inc., the creator of a contextual artificial intelligence workspace platform that handles real-world meetings, introduced a wearable device today that brings an AI assistant to professionals wher

Vultr has launched Archival Object Storage, a new storage service offering cost-effective long-term data retention and backup solutions. This service is designed for infrequently accessed data with lo

One of the major differentiators unlocked by learned codecs relative to their hard-coded traditional counterparts is their ability to be optimized directly to appeal to the human visual system. Despit

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Forty-eight years ago this July

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training —

Enterprise AI implementations often fail due to insufficient focus on talent transformation and workforce upskilling, despite heavy investment in technology infrastructure. Organizations need to syste

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: A US appeals court strikes down a 2023 FCC rule banning broadband access discrimination based on income, race, and more; Chair Brendan Carr welcomes the ruling — An appeals

This article discusses the integration of Benchmaxxer Repellant into the Open ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Leaderboard, likely a tool or mechanism designed to prevent gaming or manipulation of l

Adobe Inc. today introduced an artificial intelligence experience embedded in its ubiquitous PDF document reader and creator, Acrobat, to transform how people create, understand and share information.

Autonomous agents are rapidly redefining how enterprise systems operate, exposing new security gaps as machine-driven activity begins to outpace the infrastructure designed for human users. Systems bu

Law enforcement worldwide is under pressure — rising complexity, shrinking budgets and an explosion of AI-driven crime. In response, AI policing modernization looks to replace fragmented legacy tools

Silicon Valley companies are increasingly shifting focus toward AI service offerings and applications rather than solely developing foundational models, reflecting a maturing market where practical de

Semiconductor giant Advanced Micro Devices Inc. coasted to another solid earnings and revenue beat as it delivered its first-quarter financial results today. Its guidance for the current quarter came

Shares of Amplitude Inc. dropped sharply in late trading today after the analytics company reported a mixed fiscal 2026 first quarter that beat on revenue but missed slightly on adjusted earnings, eve

Anthropic has signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee, providing access to over 300 megawatts of capacity (220,000+

Anthropic: Anthropic researchers detail “model spec midtraining”, which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training — Sara Price2, Samuel Marks2,

Axios: Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use “all of the compute capacity” at Colossus 1, giving it access to over 300 MW of new capacity within the month — Anthropic said Wednesday it ha

Anthropic PBC today announced that it will use SpaceX Corp.’s Colossus 1 supercomputer to power its Claude chatbot. The system was originally built in 2024 by xAI Holdings Corp., an artificial intelli

Shares of Arista Networks Inc. were tumbling in late trading today, even though the company delivered a solid earnings and revenue beat and offered guidance that came in above Wall Street’s expectatio

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Arm reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to 1.5B, says AGI CPU demand will drive 2B in sales in 2027 and 2028, over 2x its prior guidance; ARM jumps 11%+ after hours — SoftBa

IBM Corp. entered Think 2026 with a different posture than the market is used to. In this artificial intelligence cycle, the company is leaning hard into openness and ecosystem – and doing it without

Atlassian Corp. today unveiled a sweeping set of artificial intelligence updates at its annual Team ’26 conference, headlined by the broad opening of its Teamwork Graph and the evolution of its Rovo A

AI-native teamwork has arrived, and the enterprise that controls context might very well control everything else. That theme came through clearly during this week’s Atlassian Team event in Anaheim, Ca

This Vercel feature automatically adds Git committers to a team workspace based on their commit activity, streamlining team collaboration by eliminating manual member invitations. The auto-add functio

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Pronto, an on-demand home-help service, raised a 20M Series B extension from Lachy Groom at a 200M valuation, up from $100M in March — Lachy Groom, one of S

Application security startup Boost Security Inc. today announced two acquisitions and an additional 4 million in funding as it builds out what it pitches as an artificial intelligence-native defense p

Farah Stockman / New York Times: Bristol Myers Squibb's Massachusetts facility boosted drug production volume for clinical and commercial use by ~40% with AI, a bright spot in US manufacturing — A Bri

Builder Plan is Pinecone’s $20/month flat-rate pricing tier built for builders who’ve outgrown Starter but aren’t ready for usage-based pricing. It adds capacity for dev/staging/production workflows,

Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser's system folders. User

Big data management startup Collibra BV is trying to position itself as the nerve center for artificial intelligence agents with the launch of its new AI Command Center offering. It’s designed to give

Corgi Insurance Inc., an artificial intelligence-native insurance carrier built for startups, revealed today that it has raised 160 million in new funding at a 1.3 billion valuation to expand its star

Richard Nieva / Forbes: Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes, manage claims, and more, raised a 160M Series B led by TCV at a 1.3B valuation — Named after the co

Tomofun, the Taiwan-headquartered pet-tech startup behind the Furbo Pet Camera, is redefining how pet owners interact with their pets remotely. To reduce costs and maintain accuracy, Tomofun turned to

On May 6, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated the FCC's rules prohibiting digital discrimination in broadband access . The court held that the FCC erred by adopting a dispar

The general-purpose data center computing environment is taking on a new role as the AI factory, transforming data into intelligence at industrial scale. The rise of the AI factory has captured the at

The rise of AI coding agents has commoditized code generation, exposing a deeper challenge for software teams: the non-coding friction that consumes the vast majority of a developer’s day. Fixing that

Koyena Das / Reuters: DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to 4.04B, vs. 4.14B est., and forecasts Q2 marketplace gross order value above estimates; DASH jumps 11%+ after hours — DoorDash (DASH.O) o

ElevenLabs Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence models optimized for audio processing, today announced that several dozen investors have joined its latest funding round. The startup first clos