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Database startup Keewano today launched KeewanoDB, an event-oriented database designed to give artificial intelligence agents real-time context for analytics and decision-making. The startup also anno
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. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs D
Claire Moses / New York Times: The Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says “we can harness AI for good” — Bill G
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed — Former Open
Tom Giles / Bloomberg: Zuckerberg says “Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security” and didn't call on other AI labs to do the same before acting — Meta Platforms In
Robotics forces AI models to run on‑device because real‑time control loops cannot tolerate the latency or capital cost of sending data to a datacenter, so manufacturers must embed compute within each
Jeremy Stern / Colossus: A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, based on interviews with him, his parents, and dozens of others, looking at his MMA training, AI pivot, management style, and more — A journey to
Learn how Abnormal AI deployed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter as an ephemeral compute scratch pad for the agents behind its real-time email threat detection at billion-message scale, plus t
**AI Knowledge‑Base Summary** NVIDIA’s Transformer Engine augments JAX for dropless Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) training, delivering a 10.4× throughput boost on NVIDIA GB200 GPUs and raising DeepSeek‑V3
BigQuery now features a suite of augmented analytics Table-Valued Functions (TVFs) designed to automate complex data analysis at scale. Augmented analytics combines AI, ML and statistical methods to a
Artificial intelligence now touches nearly every customer service operation, yet most deployments still stop at a single chatbot or an assist panel beside a human agent. The harder work — coordinating
A cancellation-policy fix raised action safety and dropped average task completion from 0.89 to 0.72. This walkthrough shows how to regression-test agent changes with Agent Experiments in Arize AX. Th
A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent
AI bots named “Timmy,” “Ren” and “Jackie” are flooding social‑media platforms with automated, low‑quality messages that present themselves as newly‑created agents on a small platform called iLands. Th
Software delivery platform company Akuity Inc. today introduced Agentic Control Plane, a layer that lets artificial intelligence agents read its pipeline data and act on it under the permissions the p
OverviewAs enterprises scale their AI and agentic workflows, they require serverless platforms that make data preparation for model training, evaluation, and inference effortless and efficient. Datafl
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others — AI l
Foundation models made catalog-wide demand forecasting easy; the hard part is now acting on the forecast. This post builds a closed detect-decide-act loop on Databricks and Amazon Quick that reconcile
This guide identifies six leading knowledge‑engine platforms in 2026—Pinecone Nexus, Databricks Genie, Snowflake Cortex, Microsoft IQ, Palantir Foundry, and Glean—that each transform heterogeneous dat
Artificial intelligence-powered construction management startup Buildots Ltd. said today it has raised 130 million in new late-stage funding to expand its platform and capitalize on rising investment
Bloomberg: China's Foreign Ministry criticizes warnings about AI risks, saying “fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition ... serve the interests of no one” — China criticized calls from l
Release: commit-rewriter 0.1 I built this little web app the other day to help edit the commit messages for the Datasette security releases. The initial commits were full of coding agent cruft and ref
The next phase of contact center artificial intelligence will be measured less by how many interactions machines handle and more by whether customers actually get their problems resolved. That was one
Copado Inc., a low-code DevOps solution provider for Salesforce, today announced it’s extending its Agentia platform with Headless, bringing it directly into developer tools and operational workflows.
Real-time event and risk detection company Dataminr Inc. today made its threat detection feed and agentic artificial intelligence tools available inside Crisis24 Horizon, the integrated risk managemen
DevFest 2026 is back from October 1 to December 31, 2026, welcoming nearly one million developers worldwide through Google Developer Groups (GDGs). The event focuses on building, securing, and scaling
We are excited to share that Google Cloud was named a Leader and received the highest score in the ‘current offering’ category in the Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Platforms, Q3 2026 report, which exa
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg: House Speaker Johnson says there's “potentially” a role for Congress in creating AI guardrail legislation and that he plans to hold a meeting with AI executives — House Speake
Learn how Ninth Wave built Compass, a multi-agent AI onboarding assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that validates bank APIs against Financial Data Exchange (FDX) standards, scores compliance, and c
Intelligence was yours. A founder’s intellectual property, business logic, differentiation, their intelligence, was once theirs alone. You built it, you owned it, and no tools/platform vendor stood be
Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Internal OpenAI docs detail contractors evaluating anonymized prompts and chats to improve the models; model training is turned on by default for consumer plans — Humans are re
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotte
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on Monday while onstage at the All-In Podcast's All-In Summit. It's not the first time Huang has taken a call from the president during work, b
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, September 14, 2026 — Lambda, Inc. (“Lambda”), the Superintelligence Cloud, today announced it has signed the White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge, affirming its commitment to ens
Chris Metinko / Axios: London-based Jack & Jill, which offers Jack, an AI agent for job seekers, and Jill, an agent for companies, raised a 40M Series A, after raising 20M in 2025 — Jack & Jill, a Lon
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a Consent portal, a managed web experience and session binding endpoint for AgentCore Gateway. This post walks through provisioning a portal, configuring G
Microsoft is publishing a 37-page 'humanist AI code of conduct' today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slow down of AI developm
Shubhangi Goel / Business Insider: Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face conversations, raised a 50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating — A sta
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
Zhiye Liu / Tom's Hardware: Nvidia announces the RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, offering comparable specs to the RTX 5090 but with 84GB of GDDR7 memory, vs. RTX 5090's 32GB — The GeForce
Nvidia Corp. said today it’s tackling one of the major headaches for developers of quantum applications with the launch of a new orchestration layer within its open-source CUDA-Q platform. The announc
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring: OpenAI employees need to oppose its support for Leading the Future, which seeks to chill federal regulation, and Congress should hold hearings on AI risks — When I saw
OpenAI Group PBC has apparently bought smartphone camera software startup Glass Imaging Inc. for more than 300 million in a deal first reported today by The Wall Street Journal. Neither company has co
Daniel Kokotajlo / @dkokotajlo: OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research — Dan S
As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device. Portable Computer is a local version of the agent Perplexity Com
The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually
Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei has once again called for the artificial intelligence industry to slow down the pace of frontier model development, only this time he’s being backed by two b
Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at 300M+; it was valued at ~100M last year — Glass Imaging, value
MS NOW: Sources: Trump met privately with Sam Altman backstage at the GOP midterm convention, where they discussed AI and its growing power, at Altman's request — Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic chief
This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for
The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI 'could kill us all by the end of the decade'.
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Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg: Trump slams Dario Amodei, saying “the only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!” — Preside
Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: US-Israeli startup Buildots, which uses AI to speed up construction of mega-projects like data centers and chip factories, raised 130M at a near-1B valuation — Buildots, a
**Summary for AI knowledge base** Vera Rubin NVL72 is a co‑designed platform combining the Rubin GPU, Vera CPU, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX‑9, BlueField‑4, and Spectrum‑6, targeting agentic inference wo
Bryan Shan / SemiAnalysis: Vera Rubin NVL72 inference tests show up to 7x better token throughput per MW vs. Blackwell on a 1.6T DeepSeek model, above Huang's 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs — Jensen Sandbagg
David Sacks / @davidsacks: Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to “pace the frontier” and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework — Dario has w
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Dario Amodei says the “toughest dilemma” about his proposal to “pace the frontier” is what happens if China does not do the same — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Sunday that the
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Leo Schwartz / The Information: Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI — Anthropic, OpenAI and Goo