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Taylor Swift has been at the center of AI imitation controversies for years, and now, she's become the latest celebrity who's escalating attempts to protect herself from AI copycats. As usual, however

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. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s futu

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: The FIDO Alliance launches two working groups to establish industry standards for securing AI agent transactions; Google contributes the Agent Payments Protocol — AI agents ma

Google LLC and Anthropic PBC are two of the most powerful forces shaping enterprise AI. As agentic deployments demand platforms that are both capable and safe to build on, the Google-Anthropic partner

The expansion of AI infrastructure across the United States has sparked significant debate between urban and rural areas, with large tech companies and the federal government advocating for data cente

Together AI announced immediate availability of NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano Omni model to developers through its platform on the day of its release. The Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is a lightweight multimodal m

Samantha Subin / CNBC: True Anomaly, which makes autonomous spacecraft and software for the US Space Force, raised a 650M Series D at a 2.2B valuation, bringing total funding to $1B — True Anomaly, a

Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune: US prosecutors allege Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen known as Bouquet, is a Scattered Spider member; he was arrested in a Helsinki airport — The

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model — The AI rac

Welcome to the agentic era! Last week, leaders from our public sector customer and partner ecosystem took the stage at Google Cloud Next to share how they are leveraging AI and agents to scale their i

What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns! Richard Si describes an excellent set of upgrades to Python's default pip tool for installing dependencies. This version drops support for

The modern data stack might already be the new legacy. In response, Google Cloud is rebuilding for a world where AI agents — not humans — are the primary users of data infrastructure, unveiling an age

Neil Hacker / Works in Progress: A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, close collaboration with TSMC and the US government, and more — By betti

Bloomberg: A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical — More than three years after

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: A look at what's next for Netflix and Comcast's Peacock after the WBD-Paramount deal; Nielsen says Netflix had six of the top 10 original streaming shows in Q1 — The company's

Boaz Sobrado / Forbes: A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized “clipping” for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake — Anthony Fujiwara is

Accenture's Microsoft case reports a phased Copilot rollout and employee-reported speed and productivity gains; it does not measure causal ROI.

Consumer packaged goods companies face mounting pressure to grow profitably while operating on razor-thin margins — and agentic AI is emerging as the tool that can close the gap between fragmented dat

Nicole Sperling / New York Times: Amazon reaches a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey to produce twice-a-week video podcasts starting in July, repurpose The Oprah Winfrey Show, and more — The

Symphony is an open-source specification for orchestration released by OpenAI, designed to provide standardized patterns and tools for coordinating complex AI workflows and system interactions. The sp

The Information: Analysis: as of late 2025, 79 of 500 tracked software companies including HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce adopted usage-based AI fees, more than doubling on 2024 — Dozens of enterprise

Sam Goldfarb / Wall Street Journal: Analysis of 100 actively traded software company loans since January 20 finds sector-wide price pressure as investors seek defensive moats against AI disruption — M

Google DeepMind announced a partnership with South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) , marking the 10th anniversary of the historic AlphaGo match. Google will establish an AI Campus in Seoul

Amazon Quick Flows enables users to build automations for repetitive or routine tasks using simple, everyday language prompts , with no technical expertise required. The service uses an AI-powered UI

In this post, we explore an automated solution that detects S3 events and triggers ingestion jobs while respecting service quotas and providing comprehensive monitoring. This serverless solution uses

In this post, we demonstrate how to build AI agents using Strands Agents SDK with models deployed on SageMaker AI endpoints. You will learn how to deploy foundation models from SageMaker JumpStart, in

One of the most popular Linux distributions is about to get an influx of AI features. As reported by Phoronix, Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Ubuntu developer Canonical, shared a blog post on Monday

One of Canva's new AI features has been caught replacing the word 'Palestine' in designs. The Magic Layers feature - which is designed to break flat images out into separate editable components - isn'

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Canva says it “moved quickly to investigate and fix” an issue with its Magic Layers feature that replaced the word “Palestine” in designs, after a viral X post — The Magi

Financial Times: China blocks Meta's 2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 — Regulators had reviewed

The Chinese government today ordered Meta Platforms Inc. to scrap its acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus. The development comes about five months after the Facebook parent announced

Choco uses AI agents powered by OpenAI technology to automate and optimize food distribution processes, improving efficiency across supply chain operations. The system likely leverages machine learnin

As AI rapidly rewrites enterprise economics, cloud cost optimization has become essential for preventing budgets from collapsing under AI workloads, enabling organizations to slash expenses and redire

The cost to build natural gas power plants has spiked 66% in the last two years, with prices rising from less than 1,500 per kilowatt in 2023 to 2,157 in 2025 , driven by surging demand from data cent

After a yearslong legal feud, Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are heading to trial this week in Northern California in a case that could have sweeping consequences. Ahead of OpenAI’s highly antici

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are set to face off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of tech’s leading AI startup, OpenAI. The trial begins with jury selection on April 27th, as Musk pushes

On March 5, 2026, the much-anticipated paper for FlashAttention-4 (FA4) was published. The code was dropped on GitHub months ago; early benchmarks circulated, and preliminary results were presented at

Northrop Grumman confirmed corrosion in both the HALO and I-HAB modules of NASA's Lunar Gateway space station, citing a 'manufacturing irregularity.' The company attributed the issue to the French-Ita

Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits — Starting June 1, your Copilot u

Over 600 Google employees signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that Google block the Pentagon from using its AI models for classified purposes, reports the The Washington Post. Its organizer

Google is trying out an AI Mode-like search experience for YouTube. The company is now testing 'a new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a conversation,' with results pulling in things like

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 — The

AI-native healthcare has arrived, with the convergence of cloud infrastructure and intelligent data rewriting how insurance companies engage members, run campaigns and measure business outcomes. The r

Vercel has updated its default deployment retention policy for hobby tier projects to automatically retain deployments for 30 days. This change simplifies deployment management for free-tier users by

Databricks discusses how leading technology companies are using Lakebase to eliminate 'builder's tax'—the overhead and complexity costs associated with building and maintaining data infrastructure. Th

In this post, we share how we applied Amazon Bedrock and the Amazon Nova family of models to reimagine our Title Suggestion feature. By combining metadata, computer vision, and retrieval-augmented gen