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Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: A profile of Samsung union leader Choi Seung-ho, who helped win a ~$26B bonus package for chip employees, as he tries to resolve the rift over bonus gaps — Avoiding old-school
Cloud security company Sysdig Inc. has documented what it says is the first ransomware operation carried out from start to finish by an autonomous artificial intelligence agent, a campaign it calls Ja
Olivia Fletcher / Bloomberg: AI-driven drops in labor income and gains in capital income could hit Ireland's tax base, with 6%+ of its workforce in tech and heavy exposure to US companies — The countr
Bespoke Labs Inc., a startup working to streamline the post-training phase of artificial intelligence projects, has raised 40 million in funding. The company stated today that the capital arrived in t
This Databricks resource covers best practices for implementing automatic upgrades on lakehouse tables, likely discussing how to leverage automated features to optimize table performance, maintain dat
In this post, we present a multi-step pipeline directed by Amazon Nova, which uses its contextual vision reasoning to coordinate complementary tools, including Meta’s open-source Segment Anything Mode
Barracuda has integrated with Databricks' AI assistant Genie to enable natural language querying of security logs, allowing security teams to analyze and extract insights from log data through convers
Armin Ronacher / Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings: Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 seem worse at tool calls than older models, likely due to post-training that assumes Claude Code-like harnesses as
Databricks describes contextual policies in Omnigent, a framework that leverages session state to implement more effective governance and control mechanisms for AI agents. By maintaining and utilizing
In this post, you deploy a two-phase infrastructure for multi-turn RL using Amazon Nova Forge on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. By the end, you have an event-driven pipeline that starts training when you
Eric Katz / NOTUS: Document: a draft US Treasury Department report is set to warn about the AI market's risks, likening some key aspects to the dotcom crash in the early 2000s — Publicly, the Trump ad
Nonuniform Tensor Parallelism (NTP) enables large-scale LLM training jobs to dynamically adapt tensor parallelism degree in response to transient GPU unavailability, ensuring sustained Goodput and min
Race control displayed a 'Safety Car in this lap' message during the 2026 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, raising expectations for a final lap restart that never materialized, as the message was er
The FCC has proposed to streamline its broadband labeling rules by eliminating several requirements it views as unduly burdensome, including itemized pass-through fees . Instead of itemizing, ISPs wou
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Filing: Brookfield-backed data center company Csquare seeks to raise up to 1.35B in an IPO, selling 50M shares at 23 to 27 each for an up to 4.18B valuation — Csquare Inc.
Today, we’re excited to announce a deep-link integration between Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker AI. Developers can now go from model discovery to hands-on experimentation in SageMaker Studio with a
David Keohane / Financial Times: How Masayoshi Son is remaking SoftBank in his own image, betting on AI; SoftBank trades at a ~50% discount to its net asset value, as some question the strategy — The
Nations have long invested in domestic infrastructure to advance their economies, protect and use their data, and take advantage of technology opportunities in areas such as transportation, communicat
Every year, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) reveals where thousands of AI researchers have decided to put their work. This year’s accepted papers reveal a clear direction: open
This article from Modal explains the pricing models and cost considerations for serverless GPU services, likely covering how providers like Modal calculate charges based on GPU usage, execution time,
I've long argued that Hollywood has simultaneously set and ruined our expectations for smart glasses. But after binge-watching two seasons of Netflix's A Man on the Inside, this is perhaps the first t
This Import AI newsletter issue covers Fable's development of GPU kernel writing capabilities, likely discussing how AI systems can automatically generate optimized code for graphics processors, along
Katalyst Space Technologies' LINK spacecraft successfully launched on July 3, 2026 , and will take approximately one month to rendezvous with NASA's Swift Observatory . The mission aims to boost Swift
Hugging Face announced major updates to their Kernels platform, which is their cloud-based computational environment for machine learning and data science projects. The revamp likely includes improvem
An International Institute for Strategic Studies report identified 144 suspected drone sightings across Europe between August 2024 and February 2026 spanning NATO countries and Ireland, assessing it i
A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximately
IBM Research explores the application of quantum computing to model the chemical behavior of molten salts used in fusion reactor materials and cooling systems. The work addresses the computational com
The NRC proposed replacing the longstanding 'as low as reasonably achievable' (ALARA) principle with clearer, more objective requirements focused on compliance with regulatory precautions and establis
Over 7T AI debt by 2029, There can be no Neoclouds without the Trinity. Nvidia's Backstop Economics Explained. AI Debt Needs Quantified. Nvidia's Objective is to Broaden Compute Access, Develop AI Fin
OpenAI and Databricks collaborated at the DAIS 2026 conference to demonstrate practical applications of enterprise AI solutions. The partnership likely focused on integrating OpenAI's language models
As models become cheaper and more interchangeable, the durable advantage shifts to the agent harness: the loop, tools, memory, permissions, and workflow you can own and refine. The post Own the loop:
Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures route each token through a subset of experts at each layer independently. We propose viewing MoE computation through the lens of expert paths—the sequence
This article discusses Photoroom's data strategy for their PRX project, likely covering approaches to data collection, curation, and management used in developing their AI models or systems. The piece
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more — The humanoid ro
Databricks introduces Vibe Data Modeling, a new approach to data modeling designed specifically for lakehouse architectures that aims to simplify and improve how organizations structure and manage dat
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known “agentic ransomware”, which adapts in real time and retries steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation — Resear
Language models play a central role in automatic speech recognition (ASR), yet most methods rely on text-only models unaware of ASR error patterns. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been app
Brian Danga / The Block: Ripple secures CASP authorization from Luxembourg's financial regulator, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries — Quick Take — Ripple
In this post, we walk through how to get started with MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock, including the capabilities supported by these models, the service tiers available, how on-demand inference scale
This article describes how organizations can use specialized AI agents on the Databricks platform to automate and scale the triage of security alerts, improving the efficiency of security operations t
We address the fundamental incompatibility of attention-based encoder-decoder (AED) models with long-form acoustic encodings. AED models trained on segmented utterances learn to encode absolute frame
Anniek Bao / CNBC: SemiAnalysis: Nvidia delays its next-gen AI rack system Kyber NVL144 by 12+ months to 2028 due to PCB manufacturing issues, and cancels its NVL72x2 architecture — NVIDIA's next marq
Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~892.5M in a new share sale to boost GPU production; Biren's stock is up 150%+ since its January Hong Kong IPO — Chinese ar
Kate Park / TechCrunch: Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent — Meta and Snap rolled out new smart g
The automotive industry is at a pivotal crossroads as it hits the gas on adopting new technology. The era of the traditional connected vehicle has shifted into the age of the software-defined vehicle
Reuters: SK Hynix launches a US share sale on the Nasdaq to raise ~28B, selling 17.79M new shares; the final listing price is due Thursday before trading starts Friday — South Korean chipmaker SK Hyni
Even Realities Ltd., a Shenzhen-based smart glasses startup, has raised 150 million in funding at a 1 billion valuation. TechCrunch reported today that the round was led by Meituan, China’s largest fo
Jennifer Medina / New York Times: Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media — It ta
Baek, a 35-year-old manager at the South Korean semiconductor titan SK Hynix, was enrolled in Sunoo, a matchmaking company based in Seoul, a year ago. In a move typical of anxious South Korean parents
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc3 I hoped to release sqlite-utils 4.0 stable this weekend, but as I worked through the backlog of issues and PRs with a combination of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 the changel
In this post, you learn how to use the new MLflow integration with Amazon SageMaker AI optimized inference recommendation jobs and Amazon SageMaker AI benchmark jobs to automatically stream experiment
In this post, we introduce Reverse Direct Preference Optimization (rDPO), the novel unlearning technique behind Amazon Nova Customizable Content Moderation Settings (CCMS), and show how it reduces ove
tencent/Hy3 New Apache 2.0 licensed model from Tencent in China: Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters and 3.8B MTP layer parameters, developed by the Tence
The Czinger 21C is a $2.35 million American hypercar built using groundbreaking AI design and 3D-printed structural parts with a power-to-weight ratio that challenges conventional physics. It features
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. South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers Baek, a 3
Xbox announced approximately 3,200 layoffs throughout fiscal 2027 as part of the most significant restructure in its history , with 1,600 staff cut immediately on July 6, 2026 . Four video game studio
Gigawatt factories in the Texas scrub. Thirty trillion tokens a day. A $30 billion storage company, a search engine built for machines, and a continent trying to buy its independence one graphics proc
An unusually large near-Earth asteroid, (152637) 1997 NC1, made a close but safe approach to Earth on June 27, 2026, passing within about 1.6 million miles of the planet. A second asteroid, 2026 JH2,
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has warned of an emerging 'arms race' between the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence in financial services and the regulator's ability to keep pace, as millio
Safety policies define what constitutes safe and unsafe AI outputs, guiding data annotation and model development. However, annotation disagreement is pervasive and can stem from multiple sources such