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About 600 employees at Google LLC have signed a letter urging Chief Executive Sundar Pichai not to make the company’s artificial intelligence tools available to the Pentagon in classified settings. Th

Ineffable Intelligence Ltd., a British artificial intelligence startup founded a few months ago, has raised 1.1 billion in seed funding. The investment values the company at 5.1 billion. CNBC reported

Manufacturing is shifting from relying solely on real-world testing, as high-fidelity simulation now produces synthetic training data accurate enough for production-grade AI. NVIDIA Omniverse librarie

DigitalOcean announced a new AI-native cloud platform designed to support production artificial intelligence workloads with optimized infrastructure and services. The offering likely provides speciali

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is a lightweight multimodal AI model capable of processing documents, audio, and video inputs for building intelligent agents. The model supports long-context understandi

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 New project from Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford (of GPT, GPT-2, Whisper fame). talkie-1930-13b-base (53.1 GB) is a '13B langua

The OSSCAR Index is a quarterly ranking of the fastest-growing open source organizations, ranked by composite growth across GitHub stars, contributors, and package downloads. It is updated quarterly b

Alice Hancock / Financial Times: Kpler, an online analytics platform tracking global maritime traffic and energy flows, says it has gained millions of new users since the war in Iran began — Kpler rep

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate their reasoning ability through chain-of-thought (CoT) generation. However, LLM’s autoregressive decoding may limit the ability to revisit and refine earlier t

Software-defined test and measurement startup Liquid Instruments Pty. Ltd. today announced that it has raised 50 million in new funding to accelerate product development, scale up its artificial intel

Conditional diffusion models appear capable of compositional generalization, i.e., generating convincing samples for out-of-distribution combinations of conditioners, but the mechanisms underlying thi

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, letting users code via voice or text AI prompts, and allowing them to switch between a PC and mobile — Apple's recent c

Financial Times: Many US rural communities oppose the AI data center buildout; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are rural, while 87% of existing ones are in urban areas — Many rural communities ar

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Match Group invests 100M in Seattle-based Sniffies, a web-only platform for queer men with ~3M MAUs worldwide, paving the way for a possible acquisition — Match Group Inc.,

Aditya Soni / Reuters: Microsoft is rolling out Copilot 365 to all of Accenture's roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for Copilot, following a 2023 pilot — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is

In this post, we explore what it takes to migrate a traditional text agent into a conversational voice assistant using Amazon Nova 2 Sonic. We compare text and voice agent requirements, highlight desi

Mitchell Hashimoto: Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages — I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. —

The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI is officially upon us. And it is going to be a mess. As the two sides fight over the early days of AI, who deserves credit and cash for what, and more, we're lik

Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because “it is not okay to steal a charity” and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts — Elon Musk testified Tuesda

Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: the judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse”, as opening statements begin — The judge ove

Native Deployment Checks can now be run on every Vercel deployment, processing linting and typechecking in parallel with the build process. These built-in checks integrate with existing integrations (

Neanderthal and modern human brains from the same time period had similar sizes , though average Neanderthal brain volume was roughly 1410 cm³, higher than the mean value for humans today . However, w

Now Available on Qdrant Cloud: GPU Indexing, Multi-AZ, and Audit Logging We’re excited to announce some Qdrand Cloud upgrades to address AI workloads that write continuously, must meet higher uptime S

Mobile app security company NowSecure Inc. today announced Mobile App Risk Intelligence, new capabilities that are designed to give enterprises evidence-based visibility into third-party mobile apps a

Nvidia Corp. today launched a powerful reasoning artificial intelligence model that unifies text, vision and speech, capable of acting as the “brains” of faster, smarter agentic AI applications. Dubbe

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year — Nvidia Cor

AI agent systems today juggle separate models for vision, speech and language — losing time and context as they pass data from one model to the other. Unveiled today, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is an

Today, we are excited to announce the day zero availability of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. In this post, we walk through the model architecture and key capabilities of N

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, a compact multimodal AI model, is now available for deployment on Vultr's cloud infrastructure, enabling developers to run efficient vision and language tasks at scale. Th

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is a 30B hybrid mixture-of-experts model that brings multimodal perception and reasoning into a single system, natively supporting text, image, video, and audio inputs whil

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to 3.18B, vs. 3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; NXPI jumps 13%+ after hours — NXP Semiconductors NV jumped in l

Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg: OpenAI describes a report that it has missed internal goals as “prime clickbait” and says its consumer and enterprise businesses are “firing on all cylinders” — OpenAI push

OpenAI announced the availability of its models, including Codex, and managed agent capabilities on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. This integration enables AWS customers to access OpenAI's

Will Knight / Wired: OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures — “Never talk about gobl

This article discusses the practical implementation of AI systems in government agencies to detect and prevent fraudulent activities, likely covering deployment challenges, best practices, and real-wo

OpenAI outlines its commitment to implementing safety measures and responsible practices in the development and deployment of AI systems to protect users and communities. The statement likely covers O

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and which offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a 100M Series B at a 2B valuation — Parallel

Artificial intelligence-based human resources company Phenom People Inc. announced today that it has acquired Plum.io Inc., a psychometric-based talent assessments company that measures the durable sk

Enterprise AI orchestration has become the defining challenge of the agentic era — not because the models aren’t ready, but because most enterprises aren’t. The whole software stack is being reimagine

NASA officially delayed Artemis III to no earlier than 2027 in December 2024 , with the launch currently targeted for Q2 2027 . The mission will launch crew on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket car

In an indication of how rapidly the world of artificial intelligence is evolving, Amazon Web Services Inc. today unveiled an expanded portfolio of offerings designed to move agentic AI up the software

Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter: Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a “crucible” moment for Snap, and more — Snap's

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more — As I noted yesterday, today's Strate

Open-source vector database startup Qdrant Solutions GmbH today announced three new enterprise-grade capabilities on its cloud service to address performance, availability and compliance requirements

Five months in, I think I've decided that I don't want to vibecode — I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that the

Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query. — OpenAI Codex base_instruct