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Bloomberg: Sources: Lila Sciences, which uses AI tools to speed up the rate of scientific discovery, is in talks to raise a 2B Series B at an expected valuation of ~8.5B — Artificial intelligence rese

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about its models catching up to the state of the art from months ago, refusing to distill models, and more — THE SCENE —

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox,sign up here. From accounting to design t

Mathematicians from major institutions have published the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, which outlines key challenges that widespread AI use poses to mathematics resea

Patient-controlled health data startup Novellia Inc. today announced it has raised 18 million in Series A funding to scale up a platform that lets patients consolidate their medical records and choose

OpenAI announced plans to build significant AI infrastructure in Michigan to support the growing computational demands of advanced AI systems. The project, referred to as Stargate, represents investme

Financial Times: French private equity firm Ardian partners with data center group Verne to build an up to €5B AI “gigafactory” outside Paris, targeting 500MW in total capacity — Data centre and resea

This newsletter issue discusses three key topics in AI development and safety: the challenges involved in overseeing and controlling advanced AI systems, empirical findings about how protein folding A

Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: Internal documents: Chinese company Geedge is working to build AI tools to predict those who could pose a political risk, but US chip controls hampered its work — Ne

Mellum2 is a 12-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts language model developed by JetBrains, designed to efficiently process complex tasks by selectively activating different expert networks. The model

Nvidia Corp. says it’s uprooting supercomputers from the vast, sprawling data center complexes they normally live inside and squeezing them into compact, desktop-sized workstations that can sit on or

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2026. Today, Usman Chaudhary, Field CISO, Google Public Sector, offers a guide for CISOs protecting government agencies and critical infrastructur

Cognition, an AI company, raised 1 billion in Series D funding at a 26 billion valuation, indicating significant investor confidence in its technology and business model. The funding round reflects th

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. My favourite thing about it is this note in the release announcement: Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor. Ther

The importance of Snowflake Inc. in the enterprise AI ecosystem is not necessarily its contribution to the analytics warehouse. What will be more significant going forward is Snowflake’s role as an en

I saw a developer asking on Reddit if there was any “sane way” to manage Cloud Run cold starts for AI across multiple regions. They were experiencing startup latencies of up to 20 seconds, a frustrati

A new report out today from Cisco Systems Inc. argues that none of the closed flagship large language models it tested can be considered safe once an attacker is allowed to push past a single prompt,

Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staf

ITBench-AA is a new benchmark developed by Artificial Analysis and IBM that evaluates frontier AI models on agentic enterprise IT tasks, with results showing that current leading models score below 50

sqlite AGENTS.md SQLite gained an AGENTS.md file five days ago - but it's not intended for their own development, it's presumably aimed at people who are pointing agents at the SQLite codebase. It inc

The way we work has fundamentally changed. From automated agents to sophisticated AI services, Generative AI (GenAI) has become a daily tool for a vast majority of employees. But with this rapid adopt

The pressure Daniel Stenberg on the unprecedented level of pressure the curl team are facing right now thanks to the deluge of (credible) AI-assisted security issues being reported. The rate of incomi

This article defines and clarifies key terminology related to AI agents, including the concepts of 'harness' and 'scaffold,' which are important architectural and operational components in building an

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating — Moment, the fina

Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models represent NVIDIA's approach to achieving faster text generation through diffusion-based architectures, potentially offering significant speed improvements over

Cybercriminal group TeamPCP is executing an unprecedented wave of software supply chain attacks, compromising hundreds of open source tools and breaching organizations through poisoned code. The incid

Author Steven Rosenbaum's book 'The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality' was discovered by The New York Times to contain multiple misattributed or synthetic quotes generated by AI tools, which Ro

View the official memo here. An internal model at OpenAI has autonomously disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry, a mathematical field with applications in cryptography, wireless device c

Enterprise AI governance is becoming increasingly important as organizations race toward ROI, demanding AI systems that are scalable, predictable and built to deliver measurable business outcomes. Wit

Many healthcare organizations report that traditional worklist systems rely on rigid rules that ignore critical context, radiologist specialization, current workload, fatigue levels, and case complexi

The Trump administration awarded $2 billion in grants to nine quantum-computing companies through deals that include U.S. government equity stakes , marking a departure from traditional government fun

Google DeepMind has launched 'AI for the Planet,' a three-month accelerator program in Asia Pacific focused on leveraging advanced AI to combat environmental challenges like climate change, biodiversi

An OpenAI AI model successfully disproved a longstanding conjecture in discrete geometry, a mathematical field studying geometric properties of discrete objects. This achievement demonstrates the pote

As models and harnesses improve, agents are taking on increasingly complex tasks that can run for hours or even days. But as we push agents to do more, this has surfaced a new operational problem: lon

We have the ability to use compute resources to support our proprietary AI applications (such as Grok 5, which is currently being trained at COLOSSUS II), while also providing access to select compute

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On T

OpenAI announced its expansion into Singapore, establishing a presence in the Asia-Pacific region to better serve local customers and developers. The announcement likely covers OpenAI's commitment to

OlmoEarth v1.1 represents an updated release of Allen AI's open-source language models designed with improved efficiency compared to the original version. The update likely focuses on reduced computat

This guide demonstrates how to fine-tune NVIDIA's Cosmos Predict 2.5 video generation model using parameter-efficient techniques like LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) and DoRA (Mixture of Experts-based adap

Simon Sharwood / The Register: In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says “AI tools are great” but duplicate bug reports have made the security list “almost entirely unmanageable” — Multiple

The Open Agent Leaderboard is a benchmarking system hosted on Hugging Face that evaluates and ranks AI agents based on their performance across various tasks and capabilities. It provides a standardiz

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS' poorly considered decision to close down access to their open source repositories in res

The Gemini Live Agent Challenge is officially in the books! We challenged developers worldwide to break out of the traditional 'text box' paradigm by building next-generation AI agents. From our initi

Written by: Austin Larsen, Tyler McLellan, Genevieve Stark, Dan Ebreo Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track an expansive extortion campaign by UNC6671, a threat a

Anthropic PBC today launched an offering called Claude for Small Business that is designed to expand the adoption of its chatbot among entrepreneurs. The feature bundle is the fifth market-specific ve

In this post, you will configure Chrome enterprise policies to restrict a browser agent to a specific website, observe the policy enforcement through session recording, and demonstrate custom root CA