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Databricks has announced a partnership with OpenAI to integrate GPT-5.5, OpenAI's latest language model, into its data and AI platform. This collaboration enables Databricks customers to leverage GPT-

At Google Cloud, every day is Developer Day, but none so much as day 2 of Google Cloud Next, when we hold the developer keynote. This year’s topic? An in-depth look at Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Vercel announced support for DeepSeek V4 model through its AI Gateway service, enabling developers to access this AI model alongside other supported models on the platform. This addition expands Verce

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is targeting launch as early as September 2026, ahead of the May 2027 deadline. The telescope is ready for launch ahead of schedule and under budget. Roman wil

Reuters: Elon Musk says Tesla plans to use Intel's 14A process technology to make chips at its Terafab project, which would make Tesla the first major customer for 14A — Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk s

The agentic AI era is forcing a fundamental redesign of enterprise infrastructure — not just in the cloud, but all the way to the on-premises data center. Regulated industries, governments and enterpr

Enterprises are investing heavily in AI customer experience, but many experiments are stalling out before ever going live. The culprit is a confidence gap, according to Chris Mina (pictured), chief pr

LlamaIndex have a most excellent open source project called LiteParse, which provides a Node.js CLI tool for extracting text from PDFs. I got a version of LiteParse working entirely in the browser, us

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Filing: Netflix plans a 25B share buyback, adding to a Dec. 2024 program that still has 6.8B for purchases; NFLX is down 13% since its Q1 earnings on April 16 — Netflix Inc. p

Gianluca Lo Nostro / Reuters: France-based Univity, which seeks to build 3,400 VLEO satellites to reduce Europe's reliance on Starlink, raised €27M, bringing its total funding to €68M — Univity, a sat

Nvidia Corp. and Google LLC used the search giant’s annual Cloud Next event to deepen their long-running partnership, creating a full-stack “artificial intelligence factory” that integrates Google’s A

DigitalOcean transitioned from traditional incident counting metrics to Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for measuring and managing availability, adopting a more nuanced approach to understanding syste

Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default — Opt-out instructions inclu

AI agents depend on the quality and accessibility of the data behind them, placing Google Cloud databases at the center of that equation. The agentic data cloud introduced at Google Cloud Next 2026 un

Thinking Machines Lab Inc. will expand its use of Google LLC’s cloud platform as part of a partnership the companies announced this morning. TechCrunch cited a source as saying that the deal is valued

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty program invites security researchers to identify and report vulnerabilities in GPT-5.5's biological information handling capabilities, focusing on potential misuse risk

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: GPT-5.5 is priced at 5/1M input tokens and 30/1M output tokens, double GPT-5.4's pricing; GPT-5.5 Pro costs 30/1M input tokens and 180/1M output tokens — After months of ru

The Verge: GPT-5.5 is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex, and GPT-5.5 Pro to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT — The new model ‘excels’ at tasks

Data center facilities linked to major tech companies could emit 129 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, potentially surpassing the total emissions of entire nations like Morocco. Tech companie

Healthcare has long operated in data silos — payers, providers and patients each holding fragmented pieces of the same clinical story. That fragmentation, once accepted as the cost of doing business,

Shawn Wen / Bloomberg: How Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted — The 2023 murder o

OpenAI's Codex is a code-generating AI model that translates natural language instructions into functional code across multiple programming languages. This guide provides foundational steps for develo

This guide explains how to integrate Transformers.js, a JavaScript library for running machine learning models, into Chrome extensions to enable on-device AI capabilities. It covers the technical setu

A 7B agent that beats GPT-4o. Lossless weight compression that speeds up inference by 177%. An arena where 23 teams battled across 103,000 adversarial rounds. This year at ICLR, Lambda is presenting t

A ransomware gang called Kyber became the first known ransomware operation to deploy NIST standardized post-quantum cryptography in production. The Windows variant uses Kyber1024 post-quantum key enca

Enterprise AI scaling is accelerating as organizations shift from experimentation to full deployment, embedding intelligence into core workflows. At the same time, agentic systems are driving a broade

Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: Instagram launches Instants, an app for sharing disappearing photos, in Italy and Spain, after rolling out an Instants feature in its main app in some regions — - In

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to 13.58B, vs. 12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15%+ after hours — - Intel reported first-qua

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Internal memo: Amazon is replacing white-collar job titles at its Ring and Blink units with the designation “builder”, and “builder leaders” for managers — During Amazon's (A

Olivia Raimonde / Bloomberg: Joint statement: Apple, Amazon, and others push back on stricter emissions reporting rules proposed by climate body Greenhouse Gas Protocol to cut greenwashing — The tech

Prediction market platform Kalshi said today that it has suspended and fined three congressional candidates from Minnesota, Texas and Virginia for “political insider trading” relating to wagering bets

UC Santa Cruz astronomers using GPU-accelerated simulations have discovered rotating disk galaxies resembling the Milky Way appearing far earlier in the universe than expected, breaking records for th

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Manila-based Salmon, a consumer finance app targeting underbanked Filipinos, raised 60M in equity and 40M in debt; it raised 310M to date, 160M in equity — The Philippines has

AI investment is surging to manic heights, but C-suites have yet to see it translate into measurable business outcomes — a gap that is now one of the defining strategic challenges of the current techn

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Memo: Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency — Meta Platforms

Financial Times: Memo: White House says it has info indicating “foreign entities, principally based in China” are engaged in “industrial scale distillation” of American AI tech — Trump official Michae

Meta Platforms Inc. told staff today that it’s planning to lay off about 8,000 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, and cancel 6,000 open roles in an efficiency drive aimed at offsetting a mass

Meta is planning to layoff around 10 percent of employees in May, according to a memo from the company's chief people officer, Janelle Gale, published by Bloomberg. That means approximately 8,000 peop

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible — Microsoft will off

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces the first voluntary retirement program in its 50-year history, for US staffers whose combined years of service added to their age totals 70+ — Microsoft is

Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week. Previously described by Microsoft as 'vibe working,' the Agent Mode is a more powerful version

Kyle Jahner / Bloomberg Law: Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit — Publishers

Omni Analytics Inc. today announced that it has closed a 120 million funding round at a 1.5 billion valuation, more than double what it was valued at last year. ICONIQ led the Series C investment. It

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Omni, which is building a “semantic translation layer” for enterprise data, raised a 120M Series C led by Iconiq at a 1.5B valuation, up from $650M in 2025 — For years, com

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, designed to handle complex tasks with minimal guidance; the model will be used to power the company's upcoming “super app” — OpenAI is introducing an

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that is significantly better than its predecessors at solving math problems and writing code. GPT-5.5 is rolling out a week after rival Anthr