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Together AI announced an $800 million Series C funding round to support its mission of advancing open-source artificial intelligence development and deployment. The funding will be used to accelerate

The 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge recognized and celebrated winning startups that built innovative solutions using the Databricks data and AI platform. The competition showcased emerging

Nikkei Asia: Japan commits up to 6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 — TOKYO — Japan will provide up

Lambda Labs presented a keynote address at the ALVR (Augmented Language and Vision Research) workshop, which was held in conjunction with ACL 2026, a major computational linguistics conference. The pr

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman acknowledged the May 28, 2026 New Glenn rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral, noting that spaceflight development is extraordinarily difficult and pledging NASA's suppo

Bloomberg: Taiwanese authorities detain two Super Micro staff and an Albatron manager after a raid of Super Micro's local offices this week over Nvidia shipments to China — Taiwanese prosecutors detai

After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access W

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams — As compa

Couchbase Inc. is trying to solve one of the hardest problems in enterprise artificial intelligence today: turning brittle, chat-style pilots into production-grade agents capable of remembering, reaso

Wall Street Journal: Filings: Microsoft's Ireland hub generated $47B in pretax profits for FY 2025, or 38.1% of its global total; new EU rules require country-by-country reporting — Country-by-country

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: Getty Images announces plans to end its Shutterstock merger after the UK CMA conditioned approval of the deal on Shutterstock selling its editorial business — A

Computational chemistry researchers have traditionally faced a frustrating trade-off when simulating molecular interactions: use fast classical force fields that sacrifice precision or rely on accurat

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which is building software, sensors, and drones to autonomously monitor the Arctic, raised a CA139M Series A led by Georgian — Six months after cl

Perforce Software Inc. today expanded its Perforce Intelligence lineup with an agentic gateway for managing artificial intelligence agents, an autonomous testing platform driven by natural language an

Pie Tech Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to provide growth tools for small businesses, today officially launched with an announcement that it has raised 19.5 million in new funding to ex

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: SpaceX cuts monthly Starlink prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its Colossus data centers — SpaceX is offering

Together AI presented research at ICML 2026 covering advances across the full technology stack, likely including foundational model improvements, inference optimization, and practical deployment solut

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Agentic coding startup Baz Technologies Inc. said today it’s launching a new platform that sits between developers and the code bases they’re working on in order to catch software vulnerabilities befo

Matt Burgess / Wired: Google VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins warns the EU's DMA proposals to open Android and Search could lead to a significant rise in fraud within weeks — Europe's pro-com

Bloomberg: Nebex, a fintech startup aiming to act as a broker platform connecting US space tech suppliers, foreign governments, and investors, raised a 30M seed led by GV — Alphabet Inc.'s GV venture

Laura Kreutzer / Wall Street Journal: Quantifind, whose AI products help banks combat financial crimes such as money laundering, raised $200M led by Summit Partners — Its Graphyte platform aims to hel

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that broad geofence surveillance constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. The ruling does

Written by: James Sadowski, Alden Wahlstrom Introduction Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the pro-Russia influence ecosystem has evolved from a tool of war back into a global s

Within hours of the first U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran in February 2026, hacktivists went to work launching massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. Both pro- and anti-Iranian groups targete

Hack Your Summer I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning: It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who want

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin Technology plans a Hong Kong IPO at a $50B target valuation, asking investors to buy chips worth 3-7x their IPO investment — In China

Catherine Perloff / The Information: AWS hikes prices for Nvidia GPUs in its EC2 Capacity Blocks service, which let businesses rent AI compute in advance, by 20%; Trainium chip pricing is unchanged —

Semafor: Letter: the US lifts its block on Mythos 5, allowing Anthropic to release it to more than 100 US institutions; sources: talks about Fable 5 are ongoing — THE SCOOP — The US government Friday

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI hopes to make GPT-5.6 generally available in the coming weeks and says “this kind of government access process” should not become the long-term default —

Thomas Claburn / The Register: OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees are now using Codex, up from ~40% in August 2025; non-developer usage of Codex has risen 137x for individual users — Codex, it's not j

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle's stock fell 19% this week, the steepest weekly drop since a 20% plunge in August 2001, amid concerns about its debt load and AI investments — Oracle just wrapped up its wo

Fast-growing world model startup Patronus AI Inc. is priming itself for even more rapid growth after raising 50 million in Series B funding today. The round was led by Greenfield Partners and saw the

This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few post-re

Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic and the White House are moving closer to an agreement to lift US restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — Anthropic PBC and the Trump administration are moving closer to an

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's 14' and 16' OLED touch screen MacBook Pros will be powered by the existing M5 Pro and M5 Max chips and have an updated industrial design — Apple Inc.'s first-

George Steer / Financial Times: Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~300K in Kalshi equity after becoming a strategic adviser in 2025, when Kalshi was valued at ~2B; now it's worth $22B+ — Privately owned c

Tyler Katzenberger / Politico: Sources: Meta lobbyists are urging California lawmakers to exempt social media platforms from legislation that would increase penalties in child-harm cases — Meta's plea

SpaceX is planning to launch a direct-to-consumer Starlink mobile service in the US , as SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell discussed during a recent investor roadshow . A standalone mobile service woul

California's State Bill 576, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, prohibits streaming services from airing commercials louder than the programs they accompany, taking effect July 1, 2026. The law requires

Bloomberg: The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers — Elon Musk received a regula

Unconventional AI Inc. has developed an artificial intelligence architecture that could improve the power efficiency of image generation models. The technology is the basis of a new neural network ser

Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is reportedly preparing a major overhaul that could eliminate up to 100,000 jobs worldwide and eventually close four factories in Germany. The plants targeted for closure a

Gianluca Lo Nostro / Reuters: Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic “better understand and adapt” its products to Europe and Africa — The artif

LucidLink Corp., the maker of a cloud network-attached storage system based on object storage technology, today extended its distributed file system technology into agentic artificial intelligence wit

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised 320M led by Khosla at a 2.3B valuation, for $454M in total funding — As soon as