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This post was co-written with Yash Munsadwala, Adam Hood, Justin Guse, and Hector Hernandez from PwC. Contract analysis often consumes significant time for legal, compliance, and procurement teams, es

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: Filing: TSMC sold its remaining 1.11M Arm shares at 207.65 per share for a total of ~231M this week; TSMC invested ~100M in Arm's 2023 IPO at 51 per share — Taiwan Semiconductor

Google Research scientists have demonstrated applications of Empirical Research Assistance across diverse scientific domains, with the system generating novel, testable hypotheses across scientific an

Enterprises are pushing past AI experiments and demanding production-grade deployments, but fragmented data and poorly scoped agents are stalling progress. The question is no longer whether AI agents

Organizations are shifting away from broad digital transformation efforts and instead targeting high-impact bottlenecks where AI and automation can deliver immediate results. These targeted changes ar

General Motors is planning to bring Google's Gemini AI assistant to around four million vehicles across the US. Model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles with Google built

GitHub employees fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in less than six hours last month. Wiz Research used AI models to uncover a vulnerability in GitHub's internal git infrastructure

Macy Meyer / CNET: Google celebrates 20 years of Translate with a new AI pronunciation practice tool for Android users in the US and India; Translate gets 1B+ queries per month — Google's new AI-power

Financial Times: Google has told employees in a memo that it “proudly” works with the US military and will continue to do so, amid opposition from some staff over DOD contracts — The tech giant signed

Google Photos is launching a new AI-powered feature you can use to virtually try on clothes you already have. Using the photos in your gallery, Google will create a virtual 'wardrobe,' allowing you to

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google says paid subscriptions reached 350M in Q1, up 25M QoQ, driven by YouTube and Google One, while Gemini Enterprise paid MAUs grew 40% QoQ — Google has added another 25

Google Search queries hit an 'all time high' in the first quarter of 2026, according to a statement from CEO Sundar Pichai published as part of Alphabet's earnings on Wednesday. 'Our AI investments an

IBM's Granite 4.1 is a series of large language models with improved capabilities over previous versions, likely trained on diverse datasets and optimized for various enterprise and general-purpose ta

Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: Hightouch, which uses AI to help marketers create and manage campaigns, raised 150M led by Goldman Sachs and Bain at a 2.75B valuation, up from 1.2B in 2025 — The

Regulated industries across Latin America and beyond are navigating a trust-centered AI inflection point — one defined less by raw capability and more by whether AI can be explained, audited and trust

Roku's Howdy, launched in August 2025, is the company's first paid, ad-free streaming service priced at $2.99 per month . The service surpassed 1 million subscribers in eight months since launch, acco

Bloomberg: Indonesia sentences eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah to nine years in prison, concluding a 300M scandal that destroyed one of Southeast Asia's top startups — Indonesia handed eFishery found

As AI transforms healthcare operations, the industry’s most consequential challenge has shifted from building models to deploying them responsibly in regulated workflows where trust, accuracy and huma

Databricks has implemented catalog federation capabilities that enable Unity Catalog to interoperate with Google BigQuery, allowing users to access and manage BigQuery datasets through the Unity Catal

IBM Granite 4.1 is a family of foundation models released by IBM Research designed for enterprise AI applications. The models likely offer improvements in performance, efficiency, and capabilities com

Today, nuclear energy enjoys a rare moment of support across the political spectrum in the US. Interest from tech companies that are scrambling to meet demand for massive data centers has sparked a re

Natasha Voase / Bloomberg: Knight Frank: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies have leased 1M+ square feet of London office space since the start of 2025, or ~7% of available listings — Artificial

If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there's only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That's right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted

LLM 0.32a0 is an alpha release of Simon Willison's LLM Python library and CLI tool for accessing large language models, featuring consequential architectural changes. The release includes two key chan

I just released LLM 0.32a0, an alpha release of my LLM Python library and CLI tool for accessing LLMs, with some consequential changes that I've been working towards for quite a while. Previous versio

Cybersecurity company Lookout Inc. today announced the launch of Lookout AI Visibility & Governance, a new mobile-native solution designed to provide organizations with the visibility needed to discov

Jason Gale / Bloomberg: Mayo Clinic researchers detail an AI system called Redmod that identified pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans an average of 475 days before clinical diagnosis — An artificial

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Meta raises its 2026 capex to between 125B and 145B, exceeding analysts' estimates, after previously forecasting 115B to 135B; META drops 6%+ after hours — Meta Shares Plung

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta reports Reality Labs Q1 revenue of 402M, vs. 488.8M est., and a 4.03B operating loss, vs. 4.82B est.; Reality Labs has $80B+ in losses since late 2020 — As Meta pumps incr

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta says Q1 family daily active people fell 20M QoQ to 3.56B, vs. 3.62B est., due to internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp access restrictions in Russia — Meta shares fell

Meta Platforms Inc. ‘s shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading today after the social networking company reported strong beats in revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2026 first quarter but rais

Emma Roth / The Verge: Microsoft reports Q3 Xbox hardware revenue fell 33% YoY and Xbox content and services revenue, which includes Game Pass, dropped 5% YoY — Xbox hardware revenue took a 33 percent

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft's Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue was 34.68B vs. 34.27B est., with Azure and other cloud services surging 40% YoY; Microsoft 365 Copilot has 20M+ seats — Microsoft issued h

Motorola announced its 2026 Razr lineup featuring familiar designs with price increases across all models. The lineup received battery upgrades, with the base Razr gaining a 4,800mAh cell, the Razr+ r

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Motorola unveils its 2026 foldables lineup, including its first book-style model, which costs 1,900; prices for clamshell models have gone up by up to 200 — The company's clam

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says he was a “fool” for backing OpenAI, accusing Altman and Brockman of manipulating him into donating tens of millions of dollars — Bi

Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's motion for a new trial on April 28, 2026, determining that his arguments lacked legal merit and relied on evidence that was neither new nor c

Sofia Chierchio / Forbes: New York-based Actively, which offers AI sales agents for account management, raised a 45M Series B co-led by TCV and First Harmonic at a 250M valuation — Actively AI has rai

Nvidia demonstrated Neural Texture Compression technology at GTC 2026, which uses small neural networks to compress game textures and reconstruct them in real time using the GPU's Tensor Cores, reduci

I need to verify this information before creating a knowledge base entry, as it's a specific claim about OpenAI's Codex system prompt. OpenAI implemented explicit guardrails in its Codex tool to preve

Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics: OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific photonic chips, raised 50M in a Series A extension, after raising 34M in August 2025 — Startup designs cust

In this post, you will learn how to design namespace hierarchies, choose the right retrieval patterns, and implement AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)-based access control for AgentCore Memory.

Panzura LLC, maker of a global cloud file system, today announced the general availability of Nexus, a new platform designed to connect enterprise file data to Microsoft 365 Copilot while preserving e

Former Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Parag Agrawal has raised 100 million to fund his new startup Parallel Web Systems Inc., which is focused on enabling artificial intelligence agents to search the we

Seema Mody / CNBC: Pentagon's Digital and AI Chief Cameron Stanley confirms the DoD is expanding its Google Gemini use, saying “overreliance on one vendor is never a good thing” — Pentagon AI chief Ca

When Ali Aoun Mehdi watched two major global news outlets report opposite facts during the Iran-US conflict, he saw a critical problem: misinformation spreading in real-time. From Islamabad, participa