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The Information: Nvidia acquired Kumo, which sells predictive AI software to enterprises, a source says for 400M+; PitchBook: Kumo raised 37M at a 250M valuation in 2022 — Nvidia has bought Kumo AI, a

NVIDIA DSX OS is an open source, modular software platform designed for operating and scaling multi-tenant AI factories. It provides foundational technologies for building and operating AI factories,

Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense: Picogrid, which is building a hardware and software integration layer for military systems, raised a $45M Series A led by Bessemer — Picogrid is proving that teamwork

Wired: Socket: TeamPCP, the gang claiming GitHub's repositories breach, also executed 20 “waves” of supply chain attacks recently, compromising 500+ pieces of software — GitHub is just the latest vict

Alexander Martin / The Record: Sources: an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei router software caused a three-hour nationwide telecoms outage in Luxembourg in 2025 — An atta

Jason Nelson / Decrypt: Vitalik Buterin says AI-assisted “formal verification” could help secure blockchain networks, smart contracts, and cryptographic systems against software flaws — Ethereum co-fo

Bloomberg: California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes a new 7.25% tax on web-based software sales, targeting $1.1B in state and local tax revenue in the upcoming budget year — California Governor Gavin New

Rivian released its new Rivian Assistant AI feature as part of software update 2026.15, enabling owners to interact more naturally with their vehicles through voice commands. Unlike phone-mirroring vo

Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to get rid of the bottleneck between architectural planning and code execution with a number of upgrades to its artificial intelligence software development tool Kir

Reuters: The US DOD says it is deploying Mythos to find and patch software vulnerabilities across the US government, even as it works on a transition away from Anthropic — WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters)

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Waymo recalls ~3,800 robotaxis in the US to fix software issues that may cause them to drive onto flooded roads, after some were seen stalled on flooded streets — Waymo is recalli

Michael Kan / PCMag: The FCC says foreign-made routers and drones can now receive software updates at least until 2029, extending its earlier 2027 cutoff — The FCC's bans on foreign-made Wi-Fi routers

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 — Freshworks (FRSH.O) sai

Dyna Software Inc., a company that provides platform governance and health provider for ServiceNow Inc., today announced the launch of Platform Copilot, an agentic artificial intelligence tool the com

Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence software for robots. The social media giant announced the deal today without disclosing the fina

Ben Shimkus / Business Insider: Pushing back on AI job loss fears, AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, a figure in line with recent years — - AWS

Chloe Meley / Bloomberg: European software companies, including SAP, Capgemini, Nemetschek, Hexagon, and Dassault, report better-than-expected earnings despite AI fears and the Iran war — Europe's sof

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

Shares of the European enterprise software maker SAP SE registered solid gains in late trading today after the company delivered earnings results that beat expectations. The company’s American deposit

Cloudsmith Inc., a startup that helps software teams manage application components, has secured 72 million in new funding. The Series C round was led by TCV, which was also the biggest backer of the c

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: Cloudsmith, which is building a cloud-native system to manage software artifacts, raised a 72M Series C, following a 23M Series B in 2025 — Cloudsmith, a platform that prote

Jordan Novet / CNBC: IBM reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to 15.92B, vs. 15.62B est., software revenue up 11% to $7.05B, and maintains FY 2026 guidance; IBM drops 7%+ after hours — IBM shares slipped 6% i

Reuters: Meta is installing tracking software on US staffers' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in work-related apps for use in AI training — Meta (META.O) is installing new

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Filings: Caterpillar acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor's assets, after it raised $200M+ and struggled to pivot to software services — Monarch Tra

Madison Mills / Axios: Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a 28M Series A led by a16z — Hilbert, an AI startup rethinkin

Quantum-HPC integration may still be in its earliest chapters, but the race to build the software infrastructure it will need is already underway. As the quantum technology market matures toward a pro

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a 45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a 500M valuation — It's just one of

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Warehouse robotics startup Ultra raised a 12M seed and a 50M Series A, and expands its deal with Physical Intelligence to supply AI software for its robots — Finance edito

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model — The focus of

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spen

Anup Roy / Bloomberg: ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work — India's outsour

Thomas Claburn / The Register: TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using “Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions” to produce typed probabilistic decisions that software can use directly — ‘Jev’ d

The Information: Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton limit Fable use as Anthropic doesn't guarantee zero data retention; source: Palantir hasn't made Fable available via its software — As paranoia rises ov

Bloomberg: Threat intelligence report: Anthropic says it disrupted a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to develop guidance software for missiles — Anthropic PBC uncovered a grou

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic says Fable 5.1 sets new standards on coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks, and can fix the root causes of software issues — It's only th

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Rundoo, a provider of AI-powered business operations software for independent supply stores, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures — Rundoo Inc., the creator of

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare: Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a 45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~70M — seri

Irina Anghel / Bloomberg: Indeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior staff in software engineering and IT, where AI enhances the value of experience, while cutting back elsewhere — UK employers

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

Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider: Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a 300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures — - Or

Boone Ashworth / Wired: The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years — After more th

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to web and mobile in beta for Max plan subscribers, and says 90%+ of Cowork usage is unrelated to software development — ZDNET's key takeaways —

This dispatch covers developments from the AI Engineer World Fair, likely discussing emerging trends in AI engineering including feedback loops in AI systems, the concept of software factories powered

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which is building software, sensors, and drones to autonomously monitor the Arctic, raised a CA139M Series A led by Georgian — Six months after cl

Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal: An interview with Axon CEO Rick Smith, who transformed the Taser maker into a policing software company, as its revenue from AI policing tools rises 700%+ YoY —

Laura Bratton / The Information: Sources: Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry — When Anthr