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Standard Intelligence Inc., a six-person artificial intelligence startup, today announced that it has raised 75 million in funding. Sequoia and Spark Capital led the round. They were joined by multipl

Lisa Richwine / Reuters: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issues new rules saying acting and writing must be performed by humans and not AI to be eligible for Oscars — Academy Awards or

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. A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and g

Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY —

The Federal Data Paradox examines how U.S. federal agencies accumulate vast amounts of data but face significant barriers to accessing and utilizing it effectively. The article likely discusses challe

Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: The gender gap in AI use may be a matter of visibility more than usage, as data suggests women face more judgment for using AI and are less likely to admit it — Women are u

Mike Stone / Reuters: The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz — The U.S. Navy is ra

Greg Otto / CyberScoop: The US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand publish guidance on orgs' use of agentic AI systems, saying many give AI more access than can be safely monitored — The guidance

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Tim Cook says that the Mac Studio and the Mac mini, which many are buying for AI and agentic tools, “may take several months to reach supply demand balance” — During today's e

This past week delivered another gut punch for science in the US. This time, the target was the National Science Foundation—a federal agency that funds major research projects to the tune of around $9

Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack , with the hacktivist group The Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq, aka 313 Team claiming re

Virgin Galactic has completed assembly of its first Delta-class SpaceShip and begun ground testing in April 2026, with a second ship expected to enter service between late Q4 2026 and early Q1 2027. T

Aarian Marshall / Wired: Waymo says it is continuing to “refine” its system preventing kids under 18 from riding alone, after adult riders reported new age-verification checks — As adult riders report

Western Digital Corp. and Sandisk Corp. delivered stellar earnings and revenue beats thanks to the skyrocketing price of memory chips and other compute infrastructure amid a global supply crunch. Both

Enterprise agents are moving from demos into production workflows, which creates a basic problem: teams need to understand what those agents actually did. The post Why agent telemetry needs standards

Agentic artificial intelligence misbehavior is reaching epidemic proportions. Today’s AI governance solutions aren’t stopping the madness. We need to rethink our entire approach to AI governance. Even

Three women from Arizona filed a lawsuit alleging that an artificial intelligence platform and related companies scraped their social media photos and turned them into explicit AI-generated content wi

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring “always-on reasoning”, 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices — While Elon M

SiliconANGLE was able to review an Oracle Corp. security alert that went out to customers this week. We believe it was a direct response to Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos artificial intelligence model, an

Will Knight / Wired: A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a “vision-force-action model” incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation — From sorting chi

AI-led process modernization is redefining how enterprises deploy AI — moving beyond broad rollouts to embedding intelligence into specific, governed business processes that actually scale. But the li

In corporate parlance, any metric on a chart that shows rapid, significant growth over a short period of time is known as a “hockey stick.” On Wednesday, Stripe Inc. Chief Executive Patrick Collison s

Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. Humans

IBM Research describes how artificial intelligence and accelerated computing are being applied to high-speed racing design, likely through collaboration with racing teams or manufacturers like Dallara

AI workflow automation is emerging as a critical solution for private markets as they undergo a structural shift. What was once the exclusive domain of institutional investors is now opening to thousa

This article from Latent Space discusses a pivotal shift in AI development toward inference—the computational process of running trained models—suggesting this represents a critical turning point comp

Alert fatigue occurs when security teams receive excessive alerts, causing them to miss critical threats due to desensitization and reduced response effectiveness. This represents a significant busine

I'm currently wearing a pair of smart glasses called the Even Realities G2. Another two pairs, from Rokid, sit on my desk. A few feet away, I've got the Meta Ray-Ban Display charging alongside their N

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Alphabet's stock climbed 10% on Thursday and 34% in April, its best month since 2004; Meta's stock plunged 8.5% on Thursday, its steepest drop since October — Alphabet's stock sur

Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. delivered a stunning earnings beat as it reported its first-quarter financial results today, with sales also surpassing expectations thanks to rampant growth

Shares of Amazon.com Inc. edged higher in late trading today after the company reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings and revenue, as cloud computing sales topped analysts’ expectations.

Financial Times: Analysis: Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon's combined capex hit a record 130B in Q1, and it is set to reach 725B in 2026, up 77% from $410B in 2025 — Meta stock drops on capex in

Together AI announced a strategic partnership with Adaption to advance AI capabilities and deployment. The collaboration likely focuses on integrating Adaption's technology or services with Together A

Anthropic PBC announced the launch of Claude Security in public beta mode today to help cybersecurity teams scan their codebases for vulnerabilities and generate patches. Part of Claude Enterprise, th

Anthropic: Anthropic unveils BioMysteryBench to test Claude's bioinformatics skills against human experts, and says Mythos solved ~30% of 23 questions that stumped experts — In this post, Brianna, a r

Enterprise software has no shortage of AI enthusiasm, but the gap between AI potential and production-ready results continues to frustrate organizations investing in enterprise process automation. As

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates and reports Q2 results above projections in China but below expectations in the Americas and Europe regions — Apple Inc. delivered a

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Apple Q2: iPhone up 22% YoY to 56.99B, vs. 57.21B est., Mac up 6% to 8.4B, iPad up 8% to 6.91B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories up 5% to $7.9B — Apple issued a better-than-

Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, and more, grew 16.3% YoY to 30.98B, beating estimates of 30.4B — Apple hit another

Apple: Apple reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to 111.18B, vs. 109.66B est., net income up 19% to 29.6B, and authorizes an additional 100B share buyback program — March quarter records for total company r

Counterpoint Research: Apple shipped 71.6% of all smartphones with satellite connectivity in 2025; smartphones with satellite connectivity to reach 46% of global shipments by 2030 — - Driven by premiu

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: Atlassian reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to 1.79B, vs. 1.69B est., and raises its annual revenue forecast; TEAM jumps 17%+ after hours — Atlassian (TEAM.O) raised its annual r

Shares of Atlassian Corp., Twilio Inc. and Five9 Inc. all jumped in late trading today after the three software companies posted better-than-expected quarterly results, with each pointing to artificia

The TileGym project developed an AI-driven skill-based workflow that encodes 17 critical translation rules, static validation scripts, and example kernels, enabling automated conversion of cuTile Pyth

In this post, we introduce a systematic framework for LLM migration or upgrade in generative AI production, encompassing essential tools, methodologies, and best practices. The framework facilitates t

Backstage with Lakebase is a Databricks blog post that likely explores the integration or collaboration between Backstage (an open-source developer portal platform) and Lakebase (Databricks' data lake