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Release: datasette 1.0a28 I was upgrading Datasette Cloud to 1.0a27 and discovered a nasty collection of accidental breakages caused by changes in that alpha. This new alpha addresses those directly:

As artificial intelligence scales, AI infrastructure is becoming the deciding factor in whether enterprise AI delivers real value or stalls. AI is shifting from experimentation to unified systems wher

Vercel has updated its deployment retention policies to automatically preserve active branch deployments, preventing them from being deleted even when retention limits are reached. This feature ensure

Editor’s note: In this post, we share joint insights from Raj Gulani, Director of Product Management for Network Experiences, and Dan Rayburn, Industry analyst with 30-plus years of experience coverin

Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: Figma stock closed down 6.84% on Friday after Anthropic launched Claude Design, a dedicated app powered by its latest model Claude Opus 4.7 — Today Anthropic launched Claud

In this post, we share how AWS Marketing’s Technology, AI, and Analytics (TAA) team worked with Gradial to build an agentic AI solution on Amazon Bedrock for accelerating content publishing workflows.

Databricks' Unity AI Gateway provides governance and control mechanisms for managing the proliferation of coding agents across enterprises, addressing challenges of oversight, security, and standardiz

Bloomberg: Hangzhou-based Manycore shares rose 187% early in its Hong Kong debut after raising $156M in its IPO; it is pivoting to selling AI training data to robot makers — Manycore Tech Inc. built a

GitBook, a documentation platform serving 30,000 sites, leverages Vercel's infrastructure to achieve sub-second content update propagation across its global network. The solution likely demonstrates h

Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants.

Zo Computer achieved a 20-fold improvement in AI reliability by leveraging Vercel's infrastructure and deployment capabilities. The optimization likely involved implementing better error handling, red

Zscaler Inc.‘s new partnership with OpenAI Group PBC has the potential to transform the security firm’s cloud-native zero-trust platform into an engine that can both harden its own stack and help cust

Martin Peers / The Information: In disclosures due to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan's presence on the Meta board, Meta says it paid Broadcom 2.3B in 2025; Tan is leaving the board — Meta Platforms paid Broadc

ICLR 2026 is a major international conference on machine learning and deep learning where Apple's research team will present their latest work and innovations in representation learning. The conferenc

We are launching Flagship, a native feature flag service built on Cloudflare’s global network to eliminate the latency of third-party providers. By using KV and Durable Objects, Flagship allows for su

Databricks introduced Genie Agent Mode, a feature that enables autonomous AI agents to perform tasks within the Databricks platform by interpreting natural language instructions and executing data ope

Amazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM principal (users and roles) in AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 and Cost Explorer, enabling customers to understand and attribute inference costs across

The Agent Readiness score can help site owners understand how well their websites support AI agents. Here we explore new standards, share Radar data, and detail how we made Cloudflare’s docs the most

This year's PyCon US is coming up next month from May 13th to May 19th, with the core conference talks from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th and tutorial and sprint days either side. It's in Long Beach, Cal

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered — The former Inst

Nicholas Moore, who pleaded guilty to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court's electronic document filing system dozens of times over several months, was sentenced on Friday to a year of probation. Moore also

Meta is raising the price of its entire Quest VR headset lineup due to an AI-driven squeeze on components required to make the headsets. Memory chips are in high demand from AI infrastructure expansio

NanoCo, the startup behind NanoClaw, a fast-growing alternative to OpenAI Group PBC’s OpenClaw project, said today it’s teaming up with Vercel Inc. and OneCLI to try to fix the “trust problem” holding

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Netflix plans to launch a vertical video feed, to help with content discovery, this month, and plans to use AI for content creation and recommendations — Netflix is going to l

This hands-on guide walks through every step of fine-tuning an Amazon Nova model with the Amazon Nova Forge SDK, from data preparation to training with data mixing to evaluation, giving you a repeatab

Financial Times: OnlyFans is in advanced talks to sell Architect Capital a below 20% stake at a 3B+ valuation, down from a previously reported ~60% stake at a ~5.5B valuation — Discussions with Archit

OpenAI Group PBC today announced a major revamp of its artificial intelligence coding tool Codex, giving it a number of new “agentic” capabilities that enable more complex task automation. The ChatGPT

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company. OpenAI has been shifting its priorities as

In this post, we show you how to use Model Distillation, a model customization technique on Amazon Bedrock, to transfer routing intelligence from a large teacher model (Amazon Nova Premier) into a muc

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an “early sign” of generalization, surprising researchers — Physical Int

Ellie’s Pi Day post: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute/ How Ellie orchestrated the baking of 30 pies: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/behind-the-scenes-of-thirty-p

In this post, we show you how to build a video semantic search solution on Amazon Bedrock using Nova Multimodal Embeddings that intelligently understands user intent and retrieves accurate video resul

Q-Day—the moment when quantum computers can break widely used cryptography—may be approaching faster than expected due to recent algorithmic and hardware advances. Advances in algorithms and design ar

Soft directives don’t stop crawlers from ingesting deprecated content. Redirects for AI Training allows anybody on Cloudflare to redirect verified crawlers to canonical pages with one toggle and no or

Resolve AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises make their infrastructure more reliable, has raised 40 million in funding. DST Global and Salesforce Ventures led the investment. It comes as an exten

SpaceX completed a full-duration static fire test of Starship V3, igniting all 33 Raptor 3 engines at Starbase and clearing the final major technical hurdle before Flight 12. The upgraded megarocket i

Shared Dictionaries is a web compression technology developed by Cloudflare that enables more efficient data transmission by allowing browsers and servers to reference common dictionary files rather t

Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - and it's just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, wh

Financial Times: Sources: China mobilizes multiple agencies to probe Meta's 2B Manus deal; some officials worry aggressive measures may send chilling signals to the tech sector — The landmark tech exi

Bloomberg: Sources: Cursor is in advanced talks to raise about 2B co-led by a16z at a pre-money valuation of more than 50B, with Nvidia participating — Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startu

Axios: Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is sc

Reuters: Sources: Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, laying off ~10% of its global workforce, or ~8,000 employees — Meta (META.O) intends to cond

Financial Times: Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised 500M+ — Group founded by former

Bloomberg: Sources: Sequoia raised ~7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a 3.4B vehicle in 2022 — Sequoia Capital, one of the lar

Financial Times: Sources suggest Anthropic is holding off from a wider Mythos release until it can reliably serve it to customers; Anthropic has suffered outages in recent weeks — Dario Amodei met wit

Financial Times: SynMax: ~40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays, with major sites for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others likely set back by more than three months — Delays to a swath of new