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Gemini has been updated to generate highly personalized images by accessing a user's Google Photos and personal preferences. This new feature allows users to simply request scenes featuring themselves

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced an overhaul of how it processes cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its National Vulnerability Database . NIST is abandoning its lo

Head straight for orbit with GeForce NOW — no space helmet required. PRAGMATA, Capcom’s long-awaited sci-fi action adventure, touches down on GeForce NOW the same day it launches worldwide. The futuri

Data quality is emerging as the critical gating factor separating enterprise AI projects that produce results from those that fizzle out. However, leadership pressure to move fast on AI is running int

Robert Scammell / Business Insider: NYC-based Nas.com, an AI platform founded by content creator Nas Daily that helps solo entrepreneurs build online stores, raised a 27M Series A led by Khosla — - Na

Max Filby / The Columbus Dispatch: Ohio's gambling regulator proposes to fine Kalshi $5M for unlicensed sports gambling, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling — The

This article discusses how dbt integration with Databricks enables unified data transformation pipelines by combining dbt's open-source transformation capabilities with Databricks' lakehouse platform.

Megan Morrone / Axios: OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research, including drug discovery, as a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen — OpenAI announced

OpenAI has launched GPT-Rosalind, a biology-tuned large language model . This specialized LLM is designed to enhance performance on biology-specific tasks and applications. The model represents OpenAI

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more — ZDNET's key takeaway

OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system, Codex, with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. The package of update

Caroline O'Donovan / The San Francisco Standard: OpenAI's global policy chief, Chris Lehane, calls out AI “doomers” and says “when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have cons

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, how Altman changed in 18 months of reporting, OpenAI's board drama and enterprise shift, and more — Today on Dec

George Hammond / Financial Times: Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more — The

Data integration and analytics heavyweight QlikTech International AB took the wraps off a number of new agentic artificial intelligence capabilities today as it opened the doors to its annual customer

For anyone who has been (inadvisably) taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning's two big model releases - Qwen3.6-35B-

In 2023, the FDA removed 19 peptides from the list of drugs that compounding pharmacies could produce, and in 2026 the FDA announced it will review whether to add back 7 of these peptides following pr

Jessica Hill / Associated Press: Roblox agrees to pay 12.5M and implement age verification for all users as part of a settlement with Nevada over claims it failed to protect young users — Roblox, a ga

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Ronan Farrow, one of the biggest stars of investigative reporting working today. He broke the Harvey Weinstein story, among many, many others. And just last week, he

Vercel's AI Gateway now supports Seedance 2.0, a video generation model that allows developers to create AI-generated videos through Vercel's unified API infrastructure. This integration enables users

In a surprising and perhaps ridiculous turn of events, the struggling sneaker company that once tried to make shoes eco-sustainable announced today that it has metamorphosed into artificial intelligen

Business banking startup Slash Financial Inc. today announced that it has raised 100 million in new funding on a 1.4 billion valuation to continue product development and build out its artificial inte

Solidroad Inc., a startup that develops software for use in training and coaching customer service agents, today said it has raised 25 million in an early-stage funding. The Series A round, led by U.K

The Information: Sources: Cerebras plans to make its IPO public as soon as Friday, aiming to raise 3B+ at a 35B+ valuation, a 60% premium to its $22B February valuation — Chip startup Cerebras is plan

The Information: Sources: OpenAI agrees to pay Cerebras $20B+ to use its server chips, double the amount previously associated with the deal, and may receive equity in Cerebras — OpenAI recently struc

Swathi Moorthy / The Economic Times: Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled — W

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX told employees that it has moved up the scheduled date for when shares awarded to employees become eligible for sale from May to April — SpaceX has moved up a scheduled vest

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: UK paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for Apple Vision Pro series Adventure when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 — Claire Lomas

Bloomberg: Sources: Upscale AI, which builds AI networking infrastructure, is in talks to raise 180M to 200M at a 2B valuation, its third funding round in seven months — Artificial intelligence startu

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. Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools

Most enterprises have committed budget to AI, but few have built the data infrastructure needed to turn that spending into scalable AI outcomes. The problem is less about model capability than it is a

Heterogeneous computing, which combines multiple types of GPUs and processors, is becoming standard in enterprise environments to handle diverse workloads more efficiently than traditional homogeneous

When the covid-19 pandemic started, Jennifer Phillips thought about the songs of the sparrows. They were easier to hear, because the world had suddenly become quieter. Car traffic plummeted as people

This blog post discusses how the Hugging Face team ported the Transformers library to Apple's MLX framework, detailing the process and considerations for adapting machine learning models to run effici

As a movement, environmentalism has been pretty misanthropic. Understandably so—we humans have done some destructive things to the ecosystems around us. In the 21st century, though, mainstream conserv

The U.S. and China are each planning to land spacecraft near the Moon's Shackleton crater in 2026, with whoever arrives first securing the best access to its water ice resources. Blue Origin's Blue Mo

Joel Khalili / Wired: The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together — In a bid to min

Metro 2039 has been fundamentally shaped by Ukrainian developer 4A Games' experience of Russia's invasion, with the entire planned story reworked to reflect the real lives of those making it. The game

Wall Street Journal: The US and the Philippines agree to launch a high-tech industrial hub on the island of Luzon to counter China's supply chains; the US will run it as an SEZ — Hub will aim to forge

Agentic infrastructure is quickly becoming the foundation for how enterprises build and run AI at scale. What’s emerging is a shift from piecemeal tools to integrated systems where data, models and op

This guide covers how to train and fine-tune multimodal embedding and reranker models using the Sentence Transformers library, enabling systems to work with both text and image data simultaneously. It

Online retailers face a persistent challenge: shoppers struggle to determine the fit and look when ordering online, leading to increased returns and decreased purchase confidence. The cost? Lost reven

There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning

Wall Street Journal: TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts — Taiwan company ex

Dylan Butts / CNBC: TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue — Taiwan Semiconductor

Generative AI is democratizing application development, putting code-generation tools in the hands of virtually any developer. But as AI-assisted development accelerates, the enterprise technology ind