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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more — The humanoid ro

Databricks introduces Vibe Data Modeling, a new approach to data modeling designed specifically for lakehouse architectures that aims to simplify and improve how organizations structure and manage dat

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known “agentic ransomware”, which adapts in real time and retries steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation — Resear

Language models play a central role in automatic speech recognition (ASR), yet most methods rely on text-only models unaware of ASR error patterns. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been app

Brian Danga / The Block: Ripple secures CASP authorization from Luxembourg's financial regulator, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries — Quick Take — Ripple

In this post, we walk through how to get started with MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock, including the capabilities supported by these models, the service tiers available, how on-demand inference scale

This article describes how organizations can use specialized AI agents on the Databricks platform to automate and scale the triage of security alerts, improving the efficiency of security operations t

We address the fundamental incompatibility of attention-based encoder-decoder (AED) models with long-form acoustic encodings. AED models trained on segmented utterances learn to encode absolute frame

Anniek Bao / CNBC: SemiAnalysis: Nvidia delays its next-gen AI rack system Kyber NVL144 by 12+ months to 2028 due to PCB manufacturing issues, and cancels its NVL72x2 architecture — NVIDIA's next marq

Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~892.5M in a new share sale to boost GPU production; Biren's stock is up 150%+ since its January Hong Kong IPO — Chinese ar

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent — Meta and Snap rolled out new smart g

The automotive industry is at a pivotal crossroads as it hits the gas on adopting new technology. The era of the traditional connected vehicle has shifted into the age of the software-defined vehicle

Reuters: SK Hynix launches a US share sale on the Nasdaq to raise ~28B, selling 17.79M new shares; the final listing price is due Thursday before trading starts Friday — South Korean chipmaker SK Hyni

Even Realities Ltd., a Shenzhen-based smart glasses startup, has raised 150 million in funding at a 1 billion valuation. TechCrunch reported today that the round was led by Meituan, China’s largest fo

Jennifer Medina / New York Times: Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media — It ta

Baek, a 35-year-old manager at the South Korean semiconductor titan SK Hynix, was enrolled in Sunoo, a matchmaking company based in Seoul, a year ago. In a move typical of anxious South Korean parents

Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc3 I hoped to release sqlite-utils 4.0 stable this weekend, but as I worked through the backlog of issues and PRs with a combination of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 the changel

In this post, you learn how to use the new MLflow integration with Amazon SageMaker AI optimized inference recommendation jobs and Amazon SageMaker AI benchmark jobs to automatically stream experiment

In this post, we introduce Reverse Direct Preference Optimization (rDPO), the novel unlearning technique behind Amazon Nova Customizable Content Moderation Settings (CCMS), and show how it reduces ove

tencent/Hy3 New Apache 2.0 licensed model from Tencent in China: Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters and 3.8B MTP layer parameters, developed by the Tence

The Czinger 21C is a $2.35 million American hypercar built using groundbreaking AI design and 3D-printed structural parts with a power-to-weight ratio that challenges conventional physics. It features

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. South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers Baek, a 3

Xbox announced approximately 3,200 layoffs throughout fiscal 2027 as part of the most significant restructure in its history , with 1,600 staff cut immediately on July 6, 2026 . Four video game studio

Gigawatt factories in the Texas scrub. Thirty trillion tokens a day. A $30 billion storage company, a search engine built for machines, and a continent trying to buy its independence one graphics proc

An unusually large near-Earth asteroid, (152637) 1997 NC1, made a close but safe approach to Earth on June 27, 2026, passing within about 1.6 million miles of the planet. A second asteroid, 2026 JH2,

The UK Financial Conduct Authority has warned of an emerging 'arms race' between the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence in financial services and the regulator's ability to keep pace, as millio

Safety policies define what constitutes safe and unsafe AI outputs, guiding data annotation and model development. However, annotation disagreement is pervasive and can stem from multiple sources such

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp went on CNBC this week and delivered what one outlet generously called a “televised nervous breakdown.” He called the artificial intelligence indus

Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg: WiseTech co-founder Richard White steps down as chair amid a police probe over claims he exploited a woman's immigration status for sex; WTC jumps 7%+ — Billionaire Richard W

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s oft-discussed promise that Americans w

Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media addiction — Kaley Glen

Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: A US federal judge orders the DOD to shield Alibaba from a law that led lobbyists to drop it as a client while she weighs the measure's constitutionality — A federal judge o

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp’s recent broadside against the frontier model vendors put a knife to the throat of the central enterprise artificial intelligence debate. Karp’s ar

Amazon Web Services Inc. is no longer accepting new customers for its decades-old Mechanical Turk service, in what is likely a death knell for the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace. Launched in 200

New York Times: Analysis: ~1M TRUMP retail buyers lost a combined 3.81B, while ~500K mostly-early wallets captured $4B in gains, a textbook memecoin wealth transfer — A report from a cryptocurrency an

Financial Times: Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged internet company with ~$4.4B in debt — Nasdaq listing caps

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will disable humanlike and user-created agents before July 15, as China's anthropomorphic AI interaction rules take effect

Patricia Kowsmann / Wall Street Journal: Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received 100B+ in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024 —

Chemical accidents involving releases of dangerous chemicals rose 57 percent between 2021 and 2025, from 83 to 131 incidents , with injuries or deaths rising from 60 to 89 over the same period . The E

Josh Zoffer / Financial Times: Data centers offer US a chance to get ahead in the next key technologies and to build domestic supply chains based on demand rather than subsidies and tariffs — America

Sejal Sharma / Hindustan Times: India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an action-taken report within 15 days — The Mi

'Group project, but make it 1776.' That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turn

Ming-Chi Kuo: Kuo: suppliers plan to ship less than 1M iPhone fold units in 3Q26, which may push the start of device pre-orders and sales to Q4, with weeks of delivery delays — My latest industry surv

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Sofia Chesnokova / Tech Funding News: NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge funds, raised a 22M Series A co-led by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures — -

Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy,