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Denver-based Luxonis Holding Corp. announced Thursday it raised 14 million in early-stage funding to transform industrial automation with cameras and machine vision, providing a perception layer for r
This changelog entry announces the ability to manage Vercel Flags segments directly through the Vercel Command Line Interface (CLI), enabling developers to create, update, and configure feature flag s
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal town hall meeting that the company’s work on artificial intelligence agents hasn’t progressed as quickly as he had hop
Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis: Meta could use its compute for its own models, ad scaling, SpaceX-like neocloud deals, and hosting 3rd-party models; it may be close to an Anthropic deal — Zu
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout — Their need to diversify the
Meta Platforms Inc. is gearing up to release a new version of its flagship Muse Spark artificial intelligence model. Alexandr Wang, the company’s chief AI officer, wrote on X today that the update wil
Gene Maddaus / Variety: Midjourney wants Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to reveal in court how they use AI across their companies; studios sued Midjourney in 2025 for infringement — The studios s
Open Source AI Gap Map Current AI is 'a global partnership building a public option for AI', founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 and backed by serious capital ($4
OpenAI reportedly has floated giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, perhaps the start of a series of such stakes in other AI companies as well. This no doubt has traditional anti-indus
Declan Harty / Politico: Pitch document: Chris Larsen and Palmer Luckey invested an undisclosed amount in APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the son of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand — Democratic meg
I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales a
India's first space unicorn is preparing for its first orbital launch , with Skyroot Aerospace developing the Vikram series of launch vehicles . In 2025, SpaceX posted a net loss of $4.9 billion , hig
The Information: Sources: Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers, citing security concerns — Alibaba Group has banned
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic moves to close loopholes that let Chinese firms like Ant use its models via workarounds including cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries — Engineers are still fi
Giles Turner / Bloomberg: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opens an investigation into StubHub following complaints of last-minute ticket cancellations for FIFA World Cup 2026 matches — Texas Attorne
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 UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporti
As the parent of two little girls, I often think about how their childhood is different from mine. The seven-year-old is learning about AI at school. The five-year-old is given internet-based homework
Vercel Sandbox has added support for FUSE-based (Filesystem in Userspace) filesystems, enabling developers to implement custom filesystem behaviors within sandbox environments. This enhancement expand
Andrew Qu from Vercel discusses how AI agents represent a fundamentally different category of software compared to traditional applications, exploring their unique characteristics and implications for
Wing Commander was a popular 1990s space combat simulator series known for strong narratives that switched to full-motion video starting with Wing Commander III, with Wing Commander IV: The Price of F
As organizations race to operationalize generative and agentic artificial intelligence, the conversation is shifting from pilots and proofs of concept to real-world AI deployments that deliver measura
Bloomberg: A look at the CSOP SK Hynix Leveraged ETF, which trades in Hong Kong and has ballooned into a $13B fund, becoming the world's largest single-stock leveraged ETF — A Hong Kong fund tied to S
Pew Research Center: A survey of US adults finds 56% support banning social media for under-16s, while 21% oppose; majorities across demographic and partisan groups support a ban — Nearly six-in-ten U
Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity in the chaos—a structured way to bring order to messy, sprawling operations. Le
Ugandan health authorities confirmed an isolated case of Marburg virus disease, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever, while conducting surveillance for an ongoing Ebola outbreak. No contacts of the M
Prague-based artificial intelligence developer EquiLibre Technologies Inc. has raised funding at a valuation exceeding 500 million. The company stated late Tuesday that the Series A round was led by C
This dispatch examines the emerging capabilities and challenges of AI autoresearch systems, analyzing the tension between autonomous AI agents conducting research and the preservation of human agency
Thomas Ricker / The Verge: Amazon says Leo reached 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit following a recent launch, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes” — Early adopter
Maximum inner product search (MIPS) is a crucial subroutine in machine learning, requiring the identification of a vector taken within a database (the keys) that best aligns with a given query. We pro
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with AI-enabled gadgets, and more — Amazon is focusing o
The problem of domain generalization concerns learning predictive models that are robust to distribution shifts when deployed in new, previously unseen environments. Existing methods typically require
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created the world's first synthetic cell called SpudCell that can feed, grow, and reproduce, built entirely from non-living chemical components . SpudCe
Katie Paul / Reuters: At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and its reorganization was not as “clean” as it could have been — Meta (META.O) C
In this post, we share best practices for reliable multi-turn RL training. We cover how to build a training environment you can trust, set up an external evaluation, design a reward aligned with the e
This article shares practical lessons and best practices from teams operating large-scale machine learning inference systems in production environments. It covers challenges and solutions related to m
CarbonSix Inc., a developer of deploy-ready robotic artificial intelligence solutions, announced Wednesday it raised 40 million in early funding to change how manufacturing works. The company focuses
Samantha Elkins / NBC News: Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked — Cloudflare gave
For more than 35 years, Dell Technologies Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have collaborated on a wide range of enterprise technology offerings. From support for Azure hybrid cloud to server-based Windows sol
Wall Street Journal: Emails disclosed in a court filing detail the uneasy back-and-forth between Dario Amodei and DOD's Emil Michael and how Anthropic's relationship with DOD soured — Undersecretary E
This SemiAnalysis article discusses advanced semiconductor packaging technologies and innovations presented at or related to ECTC 2026, including Intel's EMIB-T chiplet interconnect roadmap, custom HB
The FAA proposed noise standards for civilian supersonic aircraft, moving to lift the decades-old ban on flights exceeding Mach 1 over U.S. land due to sonic booms. The proposal establishes a noise-ba
Fable, a platform or service, has made a return or comeback according to reporting from Ben's Bites, a newsletter covering AI and tech developments. The article likely discusses the relaunch or reviva
New York Times: Filings: President Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day as his AI action plan — President Trump and hi
Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2% in its Nasdaq debut Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~1.9B valuation — IQM, a full-stack quantum company ou
Jim Tankersley / New York Times: German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 — The Ger
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised 1.2B led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent at an ~8B valuation — Quantum Systems
Startups worldwide raised a record 510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to a new report out today from market intelligence company Crunchbase Inc. The figure was more than investors put in
Google LLC has disrupted NetNut, one of the largest residential proxy networks in operation, degrading a service that had turned more than 2 million home devices worldwide into relays for other people
Google lost its long-running fight against a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc's top judges said regulators were right to punish the company for abusing Android'
Google's electricity consumption grew 37 percent in 2025, its largest year-on-year annual increase to date, driven predominantly by AI demand. This brought cumulative growth in electricity use to more
Background Today, in coordination with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google took action against the NetNut residential proxy network, also known as Popa. This action builds on our disruption of the IPID
NVIDIA Confidential Computing addresses data privacy and security concerns for AI workloads by protecting data during inference and engagement with models, offering high-performance protection in loca
Homebuilding artificial intelligence startup Higharc said today it has raised 95 million in a new round of funding to transform the way construction projects are planned and run. Today’s Series C roun
Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose a new challenge for security teams managing email s
Agent evals are repeatable tests that score whether AI agents completed a task correctly. Learn how to design rubrics, test suites, and trace-based evals that catch failures and prevent reward hacking
This article examines the infrastructure approaches and strategies that leading AI companies use to support their AI development and deployment at scale. It likely covers key components such as data p
Grace Kay / The Information: Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a 200-per-week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6; the tally excludes beta versions of xAI products — Tesla told employees
Summer is heating up — and GeForce NOW is taking players along for the ride. Start the month with Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains, bringing a galaxy far, far away to the iconic board-game fran
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised 2B at a 15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as 3B — China's Kling AI has raised an
Large language models can exhibit emergent reasoning behaviors, often manifested as recurring lexical patterns (e.g., “wait,” indicating verification). However, complex reasoning trajectories remain s