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Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsAp

Michigan experienced a rapid cyclosporiasis outbreak, with nearly 700 confirmed cases quadrupling from roughly 170 in less than a week . The leading theory links the infection to contaminated fresh pr

Microsoft Corp. is reportedly transitioning away from using OpenAI Group PBC’s and Anthropic PBC’s most advanced artificial intelligence models in favor of its own — increasingly leaning on the new Mi

Implementing a data and model monitoring solution is necessary to maintain prediction accuracy and help achieve the best outcome for your machine learning use case. This post shows how you can use ope

Vercel has enhanced observability capabilities for Vercel Sandbox, enabling developers to gain more detailed insights into their sandbox environments. This update likely provides granular monitoring a

Recent breakthroughs in instruction-based image editing have captured significant attention, as models are now capable of handling real-world editing demands with the practicality required by everyday

Multi-dataset Topic in Amazon Quick Chat defines multi-dataset relationships with support for natural-language join definitions . Best practices include migrating business context such as friendly nam

Bloomberg: Munich-based nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion raised €411M led by trading firm XTX and UK-based East X at a €2.4B valuation, with participation from Google — German startup Proxima Fus

This article presents Ben's personal analysis and perspective on Fable, likely covering the platform's features, capabilities, and potential impact in the AI or data space. The piece probably evaluate

William Earl / Variety: Netflix signs deals with Penske Media, Condé Nast, Hearst, People, and other publishers to carry a range of programming from 2 to 20+ minutes, starting August 3 — Netflix is fu

Scientists recently published a catalogue of RNA viruses infecting humans that helps identify the riskiest ones for pandemic risk, with only 239 human-infecting RNA virus species identified despite th

Nomos Ai Inc., a company building a platform to embed legal operations into artificial intelligence agents, today announced it has raised 120 million in new funding, bringing the company’s valuation t

Guinevere Grant / Bloomberg: Norm, which runs an AI law firm that provides AI-powered legal services to clients alongside human lawyers, raised 120M led by Khosla at a 1.2B valuation — Norm Ai has rai

Open source AI has shown how quickly developers can innovate when models, data and tools are shared. Robotics has the same opportunity, but advancements in physical AI development can still be gated b

NVIDIA Vera is a CPU designed to help AI factories scale agentic AI and reinforcement learning by shortening CPU execution time, increasing task throughput, and enabling smarter, longer-thinking agent

Wall Street Journal: OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are offering startups token credits and special promotions, as the AI labs seek lasting streams of enterprise revenue — Pitched battle for

Axios: OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly on Thursday; a source says the US Department of Commerce cleared a broad rollout — The U.S. Department of Commerce has g

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: OpenRouter: Chinese AI models have drawn 30%+ of token use by US companies each week since February 8, peaking at 46%, up from 11% over the previous 12 months — Chinese-built

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Paris-based UMA, founded by ex-Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadene and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Pierre Sermanet, demos its Northstar AI humanoid robot — A former Tes

Cybersecurity validation startup Picus Security Inc. today launched the Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform, a system that merges breach and attack simulation, autonomous penetration testing

Application and network security company Radware Ltd. today expanded its Agentic AI Protection product with compliance reporting, deeper visibility into artificial intelligence agent activity, and new

For years, enterprise AI has been synonymous with conversational AI — the customer service bots and digital assistants we interact with every day. But today, the market has shifted. We’ve officially m

DeepSeek Ltd., one of China’s most visible artificial intelligence companies, is pushing to design its own, in-house silicon aimed at inference workloads, according to a report by Reuters today. The r

SkyPilot enables users to run AI workloads across multiple cloud providers while storing data on Hugging Face with zero egress costs, eliminating expensive data transfer fees. This integration allows

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Samsung announces a Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22 in London, where it is expected to debut new foldables, including a Fold 8 with a shorter and wider design — Samsung Elect

Record-breaking memory chip sales and prices are set to drive a 19-fold increase in Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s second-quarter operating profit, according to a preliminary earnings report issued by

The Supreme Court allowed Texas to continue enforcing a law requiring app stores to verify buyers' ages and obtain parental consent for minors to download apps and purchase paid content. Challengers a

Puyaan Singh / Reuters: Sleep apnea device maker ResMed agrees to sell its software business MatrixCare to PE firm Frazier for 490M in cash; ResMed bought MatrixCare for 750M in 2018 — ResMed (RMD.N)

Solos announced a new version of its AirGo smart glasses, one that forgoes cameras for a sleeker design and an AI assistant that relies on voice interactions. Last year's AirGo A5 weighed 36 to 40 gra

Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: Solos unveils the AirGo A6 camera-less smart glasses, cutting the weight to 19g from the AirGo A5's 36g to 40g, and V2 privacy accessories like a clip-on shield — The Air

Fanny Potkin / Reuters: Sources: Beijing recently held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, Z.ai, and others to discuss restricting overseas access to advanced open and closed AI models — Chinese authori

Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek is in the early stages of developing its own AI chip designed for inference, in a bid to reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei hardware — Chinese startup DeepSeek is deve

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Sources detail Xbox's big reset after its Game Pass strategy failed; Xbox spent nearly 80B on content deals, but gamers prefer to stick with a handful of games — Micro

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft, looking to reduce AI costs, is starting to replace models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook — Microsoft Corp.

sqlite-migrate is a simple database migration system for SQLite, based on sqlite-utils. Version 0.2 represents sqlite-migrate as a database migrations system for SQLite, loosely inspired by Django mig

sqlite-utils 4.0 introduces three major new features: database migrations for schema evolution, nested transaction support via db.atomic(), and support for compound foreign keys. The release includes

This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0, the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant breaking changes (des

The year 2026 could be remembered as the moment when storage technology received a massive promotion. The reason is that the current transition from simple chatbots to agentic AI systems has raised th

Byron Kaye / Reuters: Study: 50 test accounts created in Australia across nine platforms were never asked to verify their age, despite the Australian law mandating a ban on under-16s — Australia's onl

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Super.com, which offers a savings app for lower-income consumers, raised a 65M Series D led by TPG at a 1.2B valuation and says it is profitable — In 2022, Hussein Fazal fl

Nearly a quarter of adults in states with lone star ticks have alpha-gal antibodies in their blood, according to recent CDC estimates. Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is a serious, potentially life-threateni

Gao Yuan / Bloomberg: Survey: Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI accelerator budget to domestic products in the next 12 months, up from 30% today, a shift from Nvidia — Chinese compani

A chipmaker called Syntiant Corp. that specializes in making low-powered processors that run artificial intelligence locally on devices has filed to go public. The company filed its initial public off

This study focuses on Text-to-Sounding-Video (T2SV) generation, which aims to generate a video with synchronized audio from text, with both modalities aligned to the text conditions. Despite progress

Tangos AI Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to conduct financial crime investigations at unprecedented scale, said today it has closed on 20 million in seed funding. The round was led

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Tangos, which uses AI to conduct financial crime investigations at scale, raised a 20M seed led by Red Dot — Tangos AI Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence t