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OpenAI released ChatGPT Work, a general-purpose productivity agent designed to help people with ambitious tasks beyond traditional coding projects. The tool performs actions autonomously across connec

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Oxylabs, which develops web data scraping infrastructure, received a 130M investment at a 3.6B valuation from Warburg Pincus, its first outside investment — Data scraping

I found search results covering multiple Windows Defender zero-days from 2026, but the specific article about a disk-fill vulnerability isn't in these results. However, based on the Ars Technica title

Unified identity security platform provider Permiso Security Inc. today launched the Risk Score Engine, a model that assigns continuous, multidimensional risk scores to every human, machine and artifi

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: PitchBook: US venture funding hit 412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or 355.9B; Q2 saw seven 1B+ rounds — U.S. venture c

U.S. venture capital deal value hit 412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 30% more than investors put to work in all of last year — and a small cluster of giant artificial intelligence round

Artificial intelligence training startup Prime Intellect Inc. has raised 130 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. The consortium included Nvidia Corp.’s NVentures, Intel Capital and

Aaron Tilley / The Information: PrismML shrunk Qwen 3.6 to 27B parameters and ran it on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior mobile model; sources: Apple talked with PrismML about its tech — Apple

Cybersecurity startup QIZ Security Ltd. today announced it has raised 17 million in seed funding to expand a platform that discovers and governs the encryption buried across enterprise systems ahead o

Long-context handling remains a core challenge for language models: even with extended context windows, models often fail to reliably extract, reason over, and use the information across long contexts

Ruf unveiled a new 1,000+ horsepower twin-turbo flat-eight engine at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, paired with a six-speed manual transmission . The prototype engine is installed in an elongated Ruf

Here’s a question we hear often at Google Cloud: How do you safely run AI-generated code or untrusted binaries without putting your host application, data, and cloud credentials at risk? In other word

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: SAP will make it easier for customers to switch to rival service providers or end contracts, averting a possible EU antitrust fine after a September 2025 probe — SAP (SAPG.DE),

The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber - and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a '

DigitalOcean has released a public preview of Managed Weaviate, a fully managed vector database service that enables users to scale AI and machine learning applications without managing infrastructure

SensorFM is a foundation model that analyzes multimodal wearable sensor signals from devices like smartwatches and fitness trackers to generate insights into health and activities. The model was train

Bloomberg: Shanghai-based GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX raised ~902M in a Hong Kong share sale; the company's stock has soared 257% since its January IPO, which raised 473M — Shanghai Iluvatar CoreX Semico

Bloomberg: SK Hynix raises 26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for 149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed — SK Hynix Inc. raised $26.5 billi

Many of the most challenging and valuable problems in the world are related to optimization. Now, AI is now making these problems tractable. If you've ever tried to design a microchip, plan a delivery

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock — Streamer is rethink

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Sources: Sonos' layoffs include some top design and product executives, like VP of Design Dana Krieger; CEO Tom Conrad says the move reduces management layers — Sonos Inc. has

Sparse V3 is Pinecone's updated sparse indexing technology designed to improve efficiency by skipping irrelevant data during vector search operations. The advancement likely focuses on optimizations t

NVIDIA's NeMo framework addresses the challenge of limited, imbalanced financial NLP data by generating synthetic financial news headlines to fill gaps for trading research, risk modeling, and surveil

Financial Times: The AI data center boom has led to surging demand for power transformers, with average lead times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years — Surging data-centre

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of n

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. Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US —Casey Cro

Meta has made significant progress on its superintelligence research agenda, which aims to develop advanced AI systems with broad capabilities. The update covers Meta's infrastructure investments, res

OpenAI's latest flagship model hit general availability this morning, and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest). The new models are priced per 1M input/output tokens as

Impulse Space, an orbital transportation company, has been added to the Space Force's National Security Space Launch program's Phase 3 Lane 1 contract alongside launch startup Relativity Space. Unlike

A new economic analysis from theCUBE Research found that migrating from a fragmented, on-premises data estate to Oracle Corp.’s Autonomous AI Database on Multicloud can deliver meaningful modernizatio

Token per watt — not raw compute — is emerging as the defining efficiency metric for AI data centers, putting storage at the center of an infrastructure rethink that is reshaping how the industry meas

Kubernetes is strong for long-lived services, but it is often a poor default for short-lived agent sandboxes. Trace sandbox creation, tool execution, eval latency, and full trajectory time before you

On-policy distillation offers dense, per-token supervision for training reasoning models; however, it remains unclear under which conditions this signal is beneficial and under which it is detrimental

Paul Sandle / Reuters: US cybersecurity and data resilience company Rubrik plans to invest 500M+ in the UK over the next five years and establish its European headquarters in London — U.S. cybersecuri

Introducing VultronRetriever, a family of open visual document retrieval models built on Vultr. Achieve state-of-the-art retrieval performance with smaller indexes, higher throughput, and support for

Vercel announced integration support allowing developers to deploy applications built with Lovable directly to the Vercel platform. This integration streamlines the deployment workflow by connecting L

Physical AI and robotics are moving beyond impressive demonstrations into a new phase of practical deployment, with companies now targeting specific, high-value use cases in manufacturing and logistic

CNBC: A look at Chinese lidar maker Hesai, blacklisted by the US DOD in 2024, as it expands in the US; Hesai says it has ~33% of the global automotive lidar market — Robots on the factory floor. Self-

Lilian Weng provides a comprehensive summary of 35 research papers focusing on Harness Engineering approaches for Reasoning and System Integration (RSI), covering recent developments in this specializ

I cannot verify this information as accurate. The article claims Anthropic achieved over $1B in profit in Q3 2026, but I have no reliable data confirming Anthropic's actual financial performance, IPO

Apple Inc. said today it has penciled in a new multiyear deal with Broadcom Inc. that’s expected to be worth more than 30 billion, in what is the iPhone maker’s largest commitment to U.S. manufacturin

The AI infrastructure boom has trained the industry’s attention on silicon and power, but a more fundamental constraint within the capital stack is quietly throttling the speed of global data center d

Federal contracting software startup Arkenstone Defense Inc. formally launched today with 35 million in new funding to take on the compliance, security and workforce setup that keeps many commercial t

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

This Databricks blog post evaluates the performance and capabilities of coding agents when applied to real-world scenarios involving their own multi-million line codebase, likely assessing metrics suc

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: Block agrees to pay 45M and offer live customer support for Cash App to settle claims by 46 US states that the company failed to protect users from fraud — Block (XYZ.N) has