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Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to “build more compute” — Chief executive Sam Al

Axios: Sources: the White House is developing rules for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard new models like Mythos — - One source described the Whit

True Anomaly Inc., a startup that develops satellites optimized for maneuverability, has raised 650 million in late-stage funding. CNBC reported today that the Series D round values the company at 2.2

Reuters: SpaceX IPO filing: Elon Musk can only be removed as CEO via a vote by holders of Class B super-voting shares, which he will control post-IPO, a rare provision — SpaceX is telling investors th

Stripe payment data is now accessible directly through the Databricks Marketplace, enabling users to integrate and analyze Stripe transaction and business data within their Databricks workspace. This

Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors N.V. more than doubled its total profit as it saw strong growth across all four of its major business segments in the first quarter. The company today reported earni

Scammers are using AI-generated videos of celebrities including Taylor Swift and Rihanna to promote shady services on TikTok, according to authentication company Copyleaks. The ads typically show cele

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. It’s time to make a plan for nuclear waste Today, nuclear ener

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services — The Europe

The momentum is undeniable: the world’s fastest-growing AI startups are building with Google Cloud. Instead of stitching together fragmented point solutions, founders are building their businesses her

AI scaling challenges are intensifying as enterprises continue commiting serious budgets. However, cultural and structural barriers — not technology — are now the biggest obstacle to closing the gap b

Seven families of victims injured or killed in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company and its leadership of negligence

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber partners with Expedia to launch a hotel booking integration in its app in the US, and plans to add Expedia's Vrbo brand later in 2026 — Uber Technologies Inc. is adding

Canonical's plan to add AI features to Ubuntu has some users asking for 'a version of Ubuntu that does not include these features,' while others say they'll stick with older versions of the Linux dist

At UKG, we’ve spent years building and expanding our human capital management (HCM) and workforce management (WFM) solutions with new products, capabilities, and a series of acquisitions. Our cloud pl

Enterprise software is on the verge of its first compounding data loop, the same kind of self-reinforcing mechanism that built the most valuable consumer businesses of the last twenty years.... The po

Vercel has extended Pro plan support to Stripe Projects, enabling developers using Stripe's platform to access Vercel's Pro tier features for their deployments. This integration allows Stripe customer

AI-driven workflows are quietly redefining how work actually gets done. As organizations move beyond isolated automation, the emphasis is shifting toward embedding intelligence directly into the flow

Agentic enterprise is moving artificial intelligence from isolated tools into systems that actively run business operations. The transition reflects a broader shift in enterprise strategy, where organ

Dell Technologies’ AI Factory is emerging as a core building block for enterprise AI deployment, delivering full-stack infrastructure for training and inference since its 2024 launch. Yet as AI moves

On April 22, 2026, attackers hijacked Checkmarx's KICS security scanner and Bitwarden's CLI within hours of each other, both using the same command-and-control domain in a coordinated supply chain cam

A new report out today from Google LLC-owned cloud security company Wiz Inc. finds that artificial intelligence has shifted from experimental tooling to default cloud infrastructure, with 81% of obser

Jay Peters / The Verge: YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023 — Custom multiview

The 2026 Vercel AI Accelerator was a program designed to support and mentor early-stage AI startups, providing resources, mentorship, and potentially funding to help them grow and scale their products

NVIDIA and SLB are collaborating to build generative AI models using NVIDIA NeMo and NIM for subsurface exploration, production operations, and data management in the energy industry. This approach ac

At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we announced that more than 50 Google-managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are generally available or in preview, with more on the way. Why it matters: To move beyond

GM's Super Cruise hands-free driving system has reached 1 billion cumulative miles driven across nearly 750,000 vehicles , marking a major achievement since the feature's 2017 debut. Nearly half of th

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: A US judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF tried to withdraw his request, but the judge refused — A federal jud

This entry describes NVIDIA's NV-Raw2Insights-US AI model, which uses physics-informed machine learning to enhance ultrasound imaging by adaptively processing raw ultrasound data. The system applies d

This Databricks blog post discusses agentic data engineering capabilities enabled by Genie Code and Lakeflow, which are tools designed to automate and streamline data engineering workflows through AI-

talkie: AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical text with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific breakthroughs — Why vintage language models? — H

AI-generated code is accelerating how quickly applications can be built, but creating reliable, enterprise-grade systems remains far more challenging. As organizations embrace rapid prototyping, many

This article from Latent Space discusses how ImageGen, an image generation model, may represent progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). The piece likely explores capabilities demonstrat

Altair Semiconductor Ltd. has returned to its roots as an independent company after its parent completed a strategic spinoff from Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. With the successful split, Altair h

Ina Fried / Axios: Amazon and OpenAI announce an expanded deal that will make OpenAI's models available from AWS, a day after OpenAI revised its Microsoft partnership — Amazon and OpenAI on Tuesday an

It has been just under a decade since Amazon Web Services Inc. launched Amazon Connect, taking its own internal contact center-as-a-service solution and commercialized it. At the time, there were many

Amazon.com Inc. is digging further into the artificial intelligence assistant game today with a major update to Amazon Quick. Whereas other chatbots offer tons of promise but often result in more work

Matthew Gault / 404 Media: An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted — Researchers foun

Anthropic: Anthropic partners with Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and others to launch connectors that integrate Claude directly into professional creative workflows — Creative professionals look

Business process automation software company Appian Inc. is stepping up its game in agentic artificial intelligence, announcing major updates to its platform focused on AI-assisted application develop

Aranya Inc., a startup building a cluster-scale operating system built to meet demand for the next generation of supercomputer, launched today with major partnerships with top artificial intelligence

New York Times: As Russia throttles popular apps and intermittently cuts off internet access, ordinary citizens, politicians, TV stars, and others criticize the restrictions — From beauty influencers

Last August, some of the best cybersecurity teams in the business gathered in Las Vegas to demonstrate the strength of their AI bug-finding systems at DARPA's Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (

The Guardian: Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is “simply wrong” — Google also rejects nee

Amazon Web Services Inc. is moving agentic artificial intelligence up the software stack with the launch today of an expanded Amazon Connect portfolio, which has evolved into four distinct offerings t

Amazon Web Services Inc. today made OpenAI Group PBC’s large language models available on its cloud platform. The algorithms are accessible through Amazon Bedrock alongside Codex, the ChatGPT develope