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Written by: Shebin Mathew Introduction The 'Golden SAML' technique, first described by CyberArk researchers in 2017, and further detailed by Mandiant researchers in 2021, remains one of the most effec

Nintendo announced in July 2026 that it will discontinue sales of the Switch console family in Europe as of February 2027. This coincided with Nintendo announcing new Switch 2 versions with user-repla

The Weather Channel raised the price of its direct-to-consumer streaming service from 2.99 per month to 4.99 per month , representing a price increase that aligns with industry trends. Annual subscrib

Lola has replaced the original fiberglass bodywork with a composite system made from plant fibers and basalt fibers from volcanic rock, held together by plant-based resin from sugar cane. The vehicle'

Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: UK-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale secures a 900M line of credit to expand its data center buildout across Europe, the US, and the Asia Pacific — Nscale raised

ULA's last six Atlas V rockets are all reserved for Boeing's Starliner missions, with no other payloads contracted for these final launches. No Starliner flight dates are currently set as Boeing and N

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for autonomous “killer robots” to be “banned by international law”, a central issue in the US DOD-Anthropic clash — Ant

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: US autonomous military vehicle startup Forterra says it deployed 100+ Lancer UGVs, based on Polaris ATVs, in Ukraine since 2025, completing 1,100+ missions — Forterra, a US

Vercel has acquired Better Auth, an open source authentication library, to strengthen its authentication capabilities and support for developers building on its platform. The acquisition aims to accel

The web is complex, open-ended, and constantly changing, making it challenging to scale training data for visual web agents. Existing data collection attempts remain limited to offline trajectories fo

Enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure has become as critical to AI success as the models themselves. As organizations move AI into production, attention is increasingly shifting toward the

Claude is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry. Here's everything else that shipped between Build 2026 and the end of June — autopilot agents, expanded Toolboxes and Routines, Agent Optimizer'

Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips on his family’s land in Hickman, a tiny town in the state’s agricultural heartland. He re

Vercel has added the ability to view activity logs at the project level, allowing users to monitor and track actions, changes, and events specific to individual projects. This feature enhances visibil

Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: A profile of Rachel Whetstone, who has led comms for Google, Meta, Uber, Netflix, and now Sierra, as her husband Steve Hilton runs for California governor

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: