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Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Katie Haun raises $1B for two funds split between early and later-stage investments, looking at startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets — Kati

Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: Lattice Semiconductor agrees to acquire AMI for 1.65B in cash and stock; Georgia-based AMI provides firmware and infrastructure manageability for cloud and AI — Hillsboro-bas

Pieter Haeck / Politico: Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs — Critics argue

This podcast episode from Last Week in AI discusses recent developments in large language models, including updates on GPT 5.5 and DeepSeek V4, while also covering concerns about potential sabotage or

MIT engineers have developed a 'computational violin' that uses physics-based simulation to realistically produce violin sound by modeling how the instrument and its vibrating strings interact with su

AI compute resources should not be treated as interchangeable commodities, as different hardware configurations, providers, and architectures significantly impact training costs, inference latency, an

Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now worth ~30B; a Musk attorney asks why he hasn't donated 29B to OpenAI's nonprofit arm — OpenAI co-founder and President G

In his landmark trial against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk testified that he was deceived into funding the company , and argued he was trying to save OpenAI's mission to develop AI safely by resto

Bloomberg: Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to companies like Meta, TikTok, Google — Nearly all of the 20 state-

Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: New Mexico child safety trial: New Mexico asks a judge to declare Meta a public nuisance and to order it to pay $3.7B and overhaul its apps to protect children — The U.S.

Confidential artificial intelligence platform provider Opaque Systems Inc. today announced it has acquired advanced cryptographic AI technologies from the Technology Innovation Institute, the applied

OpenAI and PwC announced a collaboration to explore how AI technologies can transform financial operations and the chief financial officer (CFO) role within organizations. The partnership likely focus

The strongest witness for Elon Musk's case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman's journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual w

NVIDIA cuOpt Agent Skills integrate LLM reasoning with GPU-accelerated solvers to enable AI agents to translate natural language supply chain problems into optimized mathematical models, with skills e

Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc. sagged more than 2% in late trading today despite the big-data analytics company beating first-quarter expectations and raising full-year guidance for the second c

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to 1.63B, vs. 1.54B est., US government revenue up 84% to 687M, and US commercial revenue up 133% to 595M — Palantir Technologies (PLTR

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised 140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a 1B valuation — US tech bi

Amazon.com Inc. and Penske Logistics, the transportation solutions division of Penske Corp. Inc., today separately announced supply chain solutions aimed at easing business operations. Penske announce

Pinecone announced the launch of its first serverless region in Asia, specifically in Singapore, expanding its vector database infrastructure to the Asia-Pacific market. This new cloud region enables

Pinecone Nexus is a knowledge infrastructure platform designed to enable AI agents to access, retrieve, and reason over enterprise data at scale. The system addresses the challenge of integrating larg

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to 1B, vs. 966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17%+ after hours — Pinterest reporte

DigitalOcean outlines its AI-native cloud infrastructure designed to support the inference phase of AI model deployment, emphasizing tools and services that enable businesses to run and scale AI model

[...] Between 2000 and 2024, farmers sold in total a Colorado-sized chunk of land all on their own, 77 times all land on data center property in 2028, and grew more food than ever on what was left. No

Tool: Redis Array Playground Salvatore Sanfilippo submitted a PR adding a new data type - arrays - to Redis. The new commands are ARCOUNT, ARDEL, ARDELRANGE, ARGET, ARGETRANGE, ARGREP, ARINFO, ARINSER

SAP SE today announced plans to acquire two startups that help organizations analyze tabular data, or information stored in rows and columns. Santa Clara, California-based Dremio Inc. raised more than

Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab — S

Orchestration is no longer just about moving data; it is about governing enterprise intelligence. To reflect our deep commitment to and embrace of open-source software, we shared earlier that Cloud Co

The enthusiasm for enterprise AI is outpacing strategic thinking — and process automation, not more AI tools, is the fix most organizations might be missing. The wall that most enterprises face is an

Bloomberg: Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and its executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US — Apple Inc. has held explorat

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple prepares a “Create a Pass” feature for iOS 27, which lets users take a QR code and generate a custom pass around it for concerts and other venues — Apple Inc. i

Suzanne McGee / Reuters: Sources: more than two dozen prediction-market ETFs have been pushed back as the SEC seeks more information; they were originally expected to launch this week — More than two

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI's robotics and consumer hardware divisions in late 2025 to give them more room to grow; the plan was rejected — Comp

Natsuki Yamamoto / Nikkei Asia: Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY 2027, as Japan tries to cut its reliance on Chinese metals — TOKYO

Financial Times: Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount — Global lenders explor

As we have built our own harness management tools internally at Arize, and watched external systems like Devin @cognition start managing other Devins, managed agents at @AnthropicAI and long running T

The AI market is full of big promises of grand transformation. Health care is a prime target for those promises, beset as it is by financial pressures, labor shortages, and the growing burden of carin

Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people's homes, is back with a new robot. But this one is designed as a companion, not a cleaner. The f

The article discusses concerns about the widespread use of knowledge distillation in AI development, where larger models' outputs are used to train smaller models, potentially creating a cycle of degr

This Databricks blog post discusses how organizations can achieve AI scalability through unified infrastructure and organizational alignment, emphasizing the importance of consolidating teams, platfor

Google announced major AI infrastructure and platform advances at Google Cloud Next '26 in April 2026, including the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with new Agent Designer capabilities, and 8th Gene

Toyota's Woven City is a $10 billion 'living laboratory' where the company tests futuristic mobility technologies with real residents , located at a former factory site in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefec

Research: TRE Python binding — ReDoS robustness demo If it's good enough for antirez to add to Redis I figured Ville Laurikari's TRE regular expression engine was worth exploring in a little more deta

The Trump administration has brought onshore wind development to a halt, with the Pentagon holding up approvals for approximately 165 wind projects on private lands, citing national security concerns.

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Trump's World Liberty Financial countersues Tron founder Justin Sun, alleging defamation, contract violations, and more — One of the Trump family's biggest early crypto backers is

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