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SensorFM is a foundation model that analyzes multimodal wearable sensor signals from devices like smartwatches and fitness trackers to generate insights into health and activities. The model was train
Bloomberg: Shanghai-based GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX raised ~902M in a Hong Kong share sale; the company's stock has soared 257% since its January IPO, which raised 473M — Shanghai Iluvatar CoreX Semico
Bloomberg: SK Hynix raises 26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for 149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed — SK Hynix Inc. raised $26.5 billi
Many of the most challenging and valuable problems in the world are related to optimization. Now, AI is now making these problems tractable. If you've ever tried to design a microchip, plan a delivery
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock — Streamer is rethink
Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Sources: Sonos' layoffs include some top design and product executives, like VP of Design Dana Krieger; CEO Tom Conrad says the move reduces management layers — Sonos Inc. has
Sparse V3 is Pinecone's updated sparse indexing technology designed to improve efficiency by skipping irrelevant data during vector search operations. The advancement likely focuses on optimizations t
NVIDIA's NeMo framework addresses the challenge of limited, imbalanced financial NLP data by generating synthetic financial news headlines to fill gaps for trading research, risk modeling, and surveil
Financial Times: The AI data center boom has led to surging demand for power transformers, with average lead times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years — Surging data-centre
OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of n
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. Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US —Casey Cro
Meta has made significant progress on its superintelligence research agenda, which aims to develop advanced AI systems with broad capabilities. The update covers Meta's infrastructure investments, res
OpenAI's latest flagship model hit general availability this morning, and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest). The new models are priced per 1M input/output tokens as
Impulse Space, an orbital transportation company, has been added to the Space Force's National Security Space Launch program's Phase 3 Lane 1 contract alongside launch startup Relativity Space. Unlike
A new economic analysis from theCUBE Research found that migrating from a fragmented, on-premises data estate to Oracle Corp.’s Autonomous AI Database on Multicloud can deliver meaningful modernizatio
Token per watt — not raw compute — is emerging as the defining efficiency metric for AI data centers, putting storage at the center of an infrastructure rethink that is reshaping how the industry meas
Kubernetes is strong for long-lived services, but it is often a poor default for short-lived agent sandboxes. Trace sandbox creation, tool execution, eval latency, and full trajectory time before you
On-policy distillation offers dense, per-token supervision for training reasoning models; however, it remains unclear under which conditions this signal is beneficial and under which it is detrimental
Paul Sandle / Reuters: US cybersecurity and data resilience company Rubrik plans to invest 500M+ in the UK over the next five years and establish its European headquarters in London — U.S. cybersecuri
Introducing VultronRetriever, a family of open visual document retrieval models built on Vultr. Achieve state-of-the-art retrieval performance with smaller indexes, higher throughput, and support for
Vercel announced integration support allowing developers to deploy applications built with Lovable directly to the Vercel platform. This integration streamlines the deployment workflow by connecting L
Physical AI and robotics are moving beyond impressive demonstrations into a new phase of practical deployment, with companies now targeting specific, high-value use cases in manufacturing and logistic
CNBC: A look at Chinese lidar maker Hesai, blacklisted by the US DOD in 2024, as it expands in the US; Hesai says it has ~33% of the global automotive lidar market — Robots on the factory floor. Self-
Lilian Weng provides a comprehensive summary of 35 research papers focusing on Harness Engineering approaches for Reasoning and System Integration (RSI), covering recent developments in this specializ
I cannot verify this information as accurate. The article claims Anthropic achieved over $1B in profit in Q3 2026, but I have no reliable data confirming Anthropic's actual financial performance, IPO
Apple Inc. said today it has penciled in a new multiyear deal with Broadcom Inc. that’s expected to be worth more than 30 billion, in what is the iPhone maker’s largest commitment to U.S. manufacturin
The AI infrastructure boom has trained the industry’s attention on silicon and power, but a more fundamental constraint within the capital stack is quietly throttling the speed of global data center d
Federal contracting software startup Arkenstone Defense Inc. formally launched today with 35 million in new funding to take on the compliance, security and workforce setup that keeps many commercial t
Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense: Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 Ventures — You kn
This Databricks blog post evaluates the performance and capabilities of coding agents when applied to real-world scenarios involving their own multi-million line codebase, likely assessing metrics suc
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: Block agrees to pay 45M and offer live customer support for Cash App to settle claims by 46 US states that the company failed to protect users from fraud — Block (XYZ.N) has
Blue Origin announced its first external funding round on July 8, 2026, aiming to raise 10 billion with a 130 billion post-money valuation. This marks the first significant outside investment since it
In this post, you build and connect that server end to end. You will implement MCP tools, set up two-layer JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication, deploy with AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), and con
As organizations scale modern workloads — from high-throughput databases and network/security appliances to real-time analytics and AI/ML inference — network and block storage performance can quickly
Vercel's Chat SDK now includes support for Dial, expanding its capabilities for developers building conversational applications. This addition likely enables integration with Dial's features or servic
Vercel's Chat SDK has been updated to include support for Photon, likely expanding real-time communication or messaging capabilities for developers building on the Vercel platform. This addition enabl
Vercel has announced support for Vercel Connect within its Chat SDK, enabling developers to integrate real-time chat functionality with Vercel's infrastructure and deployment services. This update lik
OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT's voice mode with a new model that it says is more like 'talking to another person.' The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to co
Rajasik Mukherjee / Reuters: China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to raise around 890.37M in its Hong Kong share sale by offering 216.2M shares at ~4.12/share, the top of its range — China's Nex
Cognition: Cognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7 and available at 1,000 tokens/second, claiming it nears GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on benchmarks at a lower cost — Today, we're launching SWE-1.
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised 1.2B, its fourth fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, like AI and robotics; Paradigm had 11.9B in AUM at the end of 2025 — Paradigm,
This resource discusses open datasets and data resources designed to support the development and training of AI agents, likely covering data collection methodologies, benchmark datasets, and best prac
Supply chain artificial intelligence startup DeepFabric today announced the general availability of an AI agent platform built for supply chain execution, and a roster of enterprise customers is alrea
The next generation of AI is evolving from a tool into a platform where models, applications, and human workflows converge to create integrated operating environments capable of automating tasks and e
Entire Inc., the developer-platform startup founded by former GitHub Chief Executive Thomas Dohmke, today launched a preview of a distributed Git network built to let artificial intelligence coding ag
The Information: Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds of millions at a 9B valuation; source: founder Marc Lore indicated he'll contribute 200M to the round — Wonder, the owner of GrubHub
Vercel announced a significant performance improvement to its Flags SDK, enabling flag evaluations to run 10 times faster than the previous version. This enhancement improves the speed of feature flag
Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results. Flint is an open-source visualization language that offers a middle path, letting AI agents create expressive chart
Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia — ZDNET's key
The agentic AI era is here, transforming how higher education institutions innovate, operate, and fundamentally empower learners, faculty, and researchers. AI agents can deliver unprecedented efficien
Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal: GM-backed Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta saw a muted trading debut in its Hong Kong IPO, up 2.8% to value the company at ~9B, after raising 751M — Momen
In the agentic era, AI is evolving from answering questions to reasoning and taking action. Companies who want to lead in this next phase of AI need computing infrastructure that’s designed and optimi
Google updated Android Bench in July 2026 by adopting the Harbor framework and adding eight new models including Claude Fable 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and others to its LLM leaderboard for Android developm
Axios: Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs 2 per 1M input tokens and 6 per 1M output tokens — Elon Musk's SpaceXAI is launching G
Vercel has made Grok 4.5, xAI's large language model, available through its AI Gateway service, allowing developers to access the model via Vercel's unified API platform. This integration enables deve
Researchers discovered a HalluSquatting attack that exploits AI tools' tendency to hallucinate package names, which attackers can register to trick AI assistants into running malicious code and assemb
OpenAI provides resources and guidance to help K-12 educators develop practical skills in teaching and implementing artificial intelligence concepts in their classrooms. The initiative aims to equip t
This guide provides criteria and best practices for assessing enterprise analytics platforms, likely covering key evaluation factors such as scalability, performance, integration capabilities, ease of
Chip startup SambaNova Inc. today announced that it has raised 1 billion in funding at a 11 billion valuation. General Atlantic led the Series F round with contributions from more than a dozen others.
Today, we're announcing the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that gives organizations a single point of control over access, cost, and policy for Claude Code and Claude Desktop