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Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Depart

As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation into production, government agencies are becoming an unexpected proving ground for large-scale workforce transformation. Faced with mounting opera

GPT-5.5 Instant is OpenAI's faster, more efficient variant of their GPT-5.5 model, designed to deliver improved reasoning and clarity while maintaining lower latency for real-time applications. The mo

GPT-5.5 Instant is a faster, more efficient variant of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 model designed for real-time applications and lower-latency tasks. The system card documents the model's capabilities, limitatio

Ford's Long Beach skunkworks operation houses an engineering team developing a new electric vehicle lineup that breaks with convention . The 350-member team has engineered Ford's Universal Electric Ve

Hapag-Lloyd's Digital Customer Experience and Engineering team, distributed between Hamburg and Gdańsk, drives digital innovation by developing and maintaining customer-facing web and mobile products.

KIKO Milano, an Italian cosmetics brand, leveraged Vercel's platform to handle massive traffic spikes during Black Friday sales, ensuring reliable performance and fast load times during peak shopping

nOps rebuilt their cloud optimization platform using Databricks Lakehouse, leveraging its unified data and analytics capabilities to improve performance and scalability. The article discusses the tech

The automotive cockpit is undergoing a fundamental shift from rule-based interfaces to agentic, multimodal AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, and acting. This is enabled by an agentic AI pipel

IBM Corp. will use its Think 2026 conference today to outline a broad expansion of its enterprise artificial intelligence portfolio, positioning a new “AI operating model” as the next stage in its cus

Counterpoint Research: In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone, with 6% of global sales; the iPhone 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro were 2nd and 3rd, and Galaxy A07 was 4th — Harshit Rastog

In this post, you will learn how you can use Amazon Nova Foundation Models in Amazon Bedrock to apply generative AI techniques for both business protection and enhancement. You can identify obvious an

Managing agents and their actions can quickly grow in complexity and introduce security risks unique to AI. To address these challenges, at Google Cloud Next we announced Agent Gateway to provide simp

We’re announcing OS Level Actions for AgentCore Browser. This new capability unblocks these scenarios by exposing direct OS control through the InvokeBrowser API, so agents can interact with content v

Pinecone Marketplace is a platform feature that enables users to quickly deploy pre-built vector database solutions and integrations to production environments. The marketplace likely provides curated

New York Times: Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-LG chair's estate prompts a criminal complaint over how the dynastic South Korean chaebol family divides assets — On a Thursday afterno

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates — Daemon Tools, a wi

@mingchikuo: Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 — 【Industry Check Update】O

Lambda Labs has assembled a new leadership team to develop and manage large-scale AI infrastructure capable of supporting gigawatt-level power consumption for advanced AI models. The company is positi

This newsletter episode covers recent AI industry developments including a legal dispute between OpenAI and Elon Musk, Microsoft's involvement in AI developments, the release of DeepSeek's v4 model, a

Alice Speri / The Guardian: Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal — Exclusive

Release: llm-echo 0.5a0 New -o thinking 1 option to help test against LLM 0.32a0 and higher. This plugin provides a fake model called 'echo' for LLM which doesn't run an LLM at all - it's useful for w

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Match Group reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to 864M, vs. 855M est., as Tinder's new user registrations grew for the first time since 2024, up 1% — Match Group Inc. reported fi

Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” — ‘We want to be

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US, ahead of the UK and EU in June — Meta Platforms

Lola Murti / CNBC: Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past 700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12% — Micron's historic ra

Microsoft researchers share advances in building and operating large-scale distributed systems, spanning datacenters, networking, and the growing intersection with AI during NSDI ’26. The post Microso

Xbox is 'winding down Copilot on mobile' and 'will stop development of Copilot on console,' new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sharma's reorganization of the Xbox platform

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation — [Editor's Note:

The Netherlands approved Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system under UN Regulation 171 on April 10, 2026, becoming the first European country to do so. Other EU member states can recognize the

Chris Metinko / Axios: Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI models tailored to their business' mission and language, raised a 21.5M seed led by Walden Catalyst — Nace.AI, which lets busi

OpenAI introduced new advertising purchasing options for ChatGPT, expanding how businesses can buy ad placements within the platform. These new methods likely provide advertisers with additional flexi

Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in Portugal in an expansion of its Microsoft partnership, supplying 66K+ Nvidia Rubin GPUs from late 2027 — Nscale Global Hol

RadixArk Inc., a startup that provides tools for artificial intelligence developers, has raised 100 million from a group of high-profile backers. Nvidia Corp.’s NVentures fund led the seed round with

Enterprise AI has learned to generate. It has learned to reason. Now companies are asking the next question: How should AI act? Early agent systems have shown what’s possible, moving beyond simple pro

OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has 'significant imp

OpenAI's first hardware product might be a phone instead of a mysterious Jony Ive gadget. As reported by MacRumors, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared details about the rumored phone, claiming O

OpenAI Group PBC co-founder and President Greg Brockman today disclosed in an ongoing landmark trial that his stake in the company is worth close to 30 billion, a windfall Elon Musk has invoked in his

Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm Andon Labs previously started an AI-run retail store in San Francisco. Now they're running a similar experiment in Stockholm, Sweden, only this time it's a cafe. The

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: PayPal reports Q1 net revenue up 7% YoY to 8.4B, total payment volume up 11% YoY to 464B, active accounts up 1% to 439M, and seeks $1.5B+ in cost savings — PayPal Holdings Inc

This Databricks blog post likely discusses how predictive analytics and machine learning can improve insurance payouts and risk assessment in volatile market conditions. The article probably covers te

Pinecone launched a new cloud region in Frankfurt, Germany to expand its vector database infrastructure in Europe and better serve Central European enterprises building AI applications. This regional

The agentic era is here, and the public sector is at the forefront of leading this transformation.At Google Cloud Next ’26, it was clear that academia and public sector organizations are no longer jus

IBM researchers demonstrated a quantum-centric supercomputing approach that successfully simulated a protein containing 12,635 atoms in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic and RIKEN, combining classic

Netherlands-based quantum computing hardware company QuantWare B.V. said today it has raised 178 million in funding to accelerate its plans of creating an “open architecture” for the industry. The rou

The Vercel CLI now includes functionality to query and monitor observability metrics directly from the command line, allowing developers to inspect performance data without leaving their terminal envi