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Today on Decoder, let’s talk about the looming AI monetization cliff, and whether some of the biggest companies in the space can become real, profitable businesses before they careen right off it. My

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. Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over

AWS Agent Registry, now in preview as part of AgentCore, provides a single place to discover, share, and reuse AI agents, tools, and agent skills across an enterprise. As enterprises scale to hun...

The Artemis II crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen — launched on April 1, 2026, sending the first humans toward the Moon since 1...

NASA's Artemis II mission, which launched April 1, 2026, sent four astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen — on the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1...

Databricks has announced that its support for Apache Iceberg v3 is now in Public Preview (available in Databricks Runtime 18.0 and above), introducing key capabilities including Deletion Vectors, R...

As AI agents demand real-time access to live, governed data, database lifecycle management has moved from a back-office task to a strategic imperative for enterprise infrastructure. The complexity of

A three-judge panel of Trump appointees on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — including Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, both veterans of Trump's first administration — denied Anthropic'...

The Trump administration's Department of Energy has invoked Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act — a provision granting broad emergency authority over the electricity system that had previously...

The world's largest known wild chimpanzee group — the roughly 200-member Ngogo community in Uganda's Kibale National Park — split in 2015 into two factions called Western and Central, after which t...

This post shows you how to manage FM transitions in Amazon Bedrock, so you can make sure your AI applications remain operational as models evolve. We discuss the three lifecycle states, how to plan mi

Volkswagen ended production of the ID.4 electric SUV at its Chattanooga, Tennessee plant in mid-April 2026, primarily due to a sharp drop in EV demand following the Trump administration's withdraw...

Wasabi Technologies Inc. has agreed to acquire the Lyve Cloud business from Seagate Technology Inc., expanding its position in the market for object storage compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s

Waypoint-1.5 is Overworld's updated real-time generative world model, trained on nearly 100x more data than its predecessor to deliver improved visual fidelity and environmental coherence. It intro...

March ships Foundry Agent Service GA with private networking, GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Mini, Priority Processing, Phi-4 Reasoning Vision, SDK 2.0 GA across Python, JS/TS, Java, and .NET, Fireworks AI and

Behavioral artificial intelligence company Yobi Ventures Inc. today announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft Corp. to unlock predictive consumer intelligence for U.S. enterprises. The partners

Zencoder, a startup building an artificial intelligence orchestration layer for software development and business, today announced the launch of Zenflow Work, a major expansion of its platform that fo

Anthropic announced it has grown its ARR from $19B to $30B in just one month, coinciding with the formal unveiling of Claude Mythos Preview — described in leaked company documents as 'by far the m...

Muse Spark is the first model from Meta's Superintelligence Labs division and the debut entry in the new Muse model family, representing a 'ground-up overhaul' of the company's AI efforts. It is ...

ALTK-Evolve, published by IBM Research, is a memory system for AI agents that enables on-the-job learning by helping agents improve over time, learning from and using guidelines generated from pre...

By Vivek Trivedy, Product Manager💡TL;DR: We can build better agents by building better harnesses. But to autonomously build a “better” harness, we need a strong learning signal to “hill-climb” on. We

This post walks you through understanding audio embeddings, implementing Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, and building a practical search system for your audio content. You'll learn how embeddings r

Supabase Auth now supports custom OAuth/OIDC providers, allowing developers to connect any standards-compliant identity provider — such as GitHub Enterprise or regional providers — beyond the built...

In this post, we'll walk you through a complete implementation of model fine-tuning in Amazon Bedrock using Amazon Nova models, demonstrating each step through an intent classifier example that achiev

Building and serving models on infrastructure is a strong use case for businesses. In Google Cloud, you have the ability to design your AI infrastructure to suit your workloads. Recently, I experiment

Google's Gemini is getting a feature called 'notebooks' to help you organize things about certain topics in a single place while using the AI chatbot, the company announced on Wednesday. You can pull

In today’s global economy, data is a strategic asset. For many organizations — particularly those in highly regulated industries and the public sector — the ability to innovate with AI is often balanc

Enterprise multi-agent AI systems produce thousands of inter-agent interactions per hour, yet existing observability tools capture these dependencies without enforcing anything. OpenTelemetry and Lang

Financial services institutions (FSIs) traditionally rely on fragmented, siloed systems — such as portfolio platforms, reconciliation software, and ERP tools — that prevent client-facing, operation...

In healthcare and life sciences, AI agents help organizations process clinical data, submit regulatory filings, automate medical coding, and accelerate drug development and commercialization. However,

Google Research introduced two AI agents to streamline academic workflows: **PaperVizAgent**, a visualizer agent for drawing academic figures, and **ScholarPeer**, a reviewer agent that automatica...

NVIDIA has introduced a modular, library-based architecture for Omniverse, exposing core components—RTX rendering, PhysX-based simulation, and data storage pipelines—as standalone, headless-first C...

Stability AI launched Brand Studio on April 8, 2026, a fully managed end-to-end creative production platform built specifically for professional marketing and advertising teams. Teams can embed t...

OpenAI's Child Safety Blueprint, released in April 2026, is a policy framework aimed at combating the rise of AI-enabled child sexual exploitation by combining legal, operational, and technical app...

Meta announced Muse Spark today, their first model release since Llama 4 almost exactly a year ago. It's hosted, not open weights, and the API is currently 'a private API preview to select users', but

We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catas

In the world of AI/ML, data is the fuel that drives training and inference workloads. For Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) users, Cloud Storage FUSE provides high-performance, scalable access to data st

Vultr has upgraded its Identity and Access Management (IAM) framework by replacing legacy ACLs with fine-grained, policy-driven access controls, enabling organizations to assign roles, manage permi...

Happy ceasefire day and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech's rocky journey through the world of politics. If you're not a subscriber yet, you can do so here, but m

Today, at the Apache Iceberg Summit in San Francisco, we are announcing the preview of read and write interoperability between BigQuery and Iceberg-compatible engines, including Trino, Spark, and othe

I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession. — Giles Turnbull, AI and the human vo

Physical Intelligence (Pi) is building a general-purpose robotic intelligence system whose core Visual-Language-Action (VLA) model takes visual observations, natural-language instructions, and the...

In this post, we explore where RFT is most effective, using the GSM8K mathematical reasoning dataset as a concrete example. We then walk through best practices for dataset preparation and reward funct

Safetensors, a secure tensor serialization format originally developed by Hugging Face, has joined the PyTorch Foundation as a foundation-hosted project under the Linux Foundation, alongside DeepSp...

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. Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulner

Enterprise revenue now accounts for more than 40% of OpenAI's total revenue and is on track to reach parity with consumer revenue by the end of 2026. The company is observing a key shift in how l...