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Ryan Lawler / Axios: MDOTM, which makes AI software for asset and wealth managers, raised 27M led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to 36.5M — MDOTM, which makes AI software for
Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman - the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures - was a bit like watching a to
Reuters: Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details — China's food delivery giant Me
Announcing: AI StopWatch In our last update, we mentioned we had something new in the works: a dedicated channel for news and analysis about AI. Subscribe to AI StopWatch An experiment from the writer
The financial services industry (FSI) operates under a unique set of non-negotiable requirements: the need for strict regulatory compliance, sub-millisecond transactional speeds, and security that ver
Nano Banana 2 Lite Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API), this is the 'fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale'. I use
Vercel has announced the availability of Nano Banana 2 Lite, a lightweight image variant featuring Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash model, through its AI Gateway service. This release likely provides develop
NASA is considering repurposing an engineering development version of a nuclear-powered Mars rover for the moon's south polar region in a mission called PROMISE ('Polar Rover for Observation, Mapping
A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka's The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its Squid Game reality show in the trend of creating real competitions based on fict
AI browsers can be manipulated through prompt injection or memory poisoning to create false operational contexts where they bypass security guardrails, treating harmful actions as game logic rather th
Amazon Web Services Inc.‘s next-generation silicon is working its way deeper into the company’s cloud compute infrastructure offerings with the debut of the new Amazon EC2 C9g and EC2 C9gd instances t
Life sciences has entered an era of computational scale, and for more than a decade, NVIDIA has built the full GPU-accelerated computing stack — spanning hardware, frameworks, libraries, models, micro
Data center coolant monitoring startup Omen AI Inc. is trying to fix one of the most pressing yet little-known challenges in the artificial intelligence industry after raising 31 million in Series A f
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a 31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to 41.5M — The AI-driven
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
Lisa Bonos / Inc: Pie, a startup that uses AI to optimize marketing for brick-and-mortar small businesses, emerges from stealth with a $19.5M Series A led by Lightspeed — Pie, which spent the past yea
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
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: Political campaign managers and consultants are using AI to analyze voter data, create campaign materials, and more; survey: 87% of campaigners use AI daily — A.I.
Agentic AI is driving key technology providers to rethink the computing architecture required to run rapidly expanding autonomous systems. In response to this challenge, two leading tech companies hav
Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning Grindr into an “AI-native company”, “impos[ing]” AI on staff, facing “opposition”, using AI as a CEO, and more — George Ari
Queue, a company building an autonomous “robotic” pharmacy kiosk that dispenses medication, today announced that it has raised 12.6 million in seed funding led by AlleyCorp. The company is launching t
Ray Data 2.56 introduces reliability improvements for AI data pipelines, likely including enhancements to data processing, fault tolerance, and stability features within the Ray distributed computing
Reddit is implementing a requirement for users to log in to access old.reddit.com, the legacy version of the platform. This change is part of Reddit's broader effort to increase user registration and
Listen to the session or watch below Billions of dollars are flooding into efforts to reverse aging as scientists explore ways to return cells to a younger state. But how far off are these experimenta
Vercel announced support for running any Dockerfile on their platform, allowing developers to deploy custom containerized applications beyond the traditional Node.js, Python, and Go runtimes. This fea
Vercel Services allows developers to run multiple web frameworks within a single project, enabling polyglot architecture patterns and flexible technology choices. This feature likely simplifies managi
ScarfBench is a benchmarking framework designed to evaluate AI agents' capabilities in migrating enterprise Java applications to modern frameworks. The benchmark likely assesses how well AI systems ca
French multinational energy giant Schneider Electric SE said today it’s buying an industrial artificial intelligence company called Cognite Holding B.V. in a 3.1 billion all-cash deal, with an eye to
Frank Connelly / Bloomberg: Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a 3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva — Schneider
Mike Scarcella / Reuters: SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 contempt ruling in its Epic case after a district judge found Apple violated an order to make App Store changes — The U.S. Supr
shot-scraper is a command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites . It is designed primarily for documentation but also has scraping applications . The 1.10 release likely includes u
In this post, we show you how to use managed entitlements for Amazon Bedrock to subscribe once from a central account and distribute model access across your organization. This approach removes the ne
AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavio
Israeli startup Arato Software Ltd. is developing tools for developers to test and evaluate their artificial intelligence applications, and it has just gotten 10 million in seed funding to pursue that
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference — We closely track efforts b
Nikkei Asia: Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026 shipment targets, with Xiaomi cutting 30% to ~95M units — TAIPEI — Major Chinese sma
Bloomberg: Sources: Kalshi agreed to pay 20M to sponsor the World Cup knockouts, after initially balking at FIFA's 150M asking price, alongside ADI Predictstreet — When the World Cup knockout round be
Bobby Allyn / NPR: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, before directing Meta employees to build a prediction market app — Before Meta CEO Ma
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources: Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox — -
Politico: Sources: the Trump administration plans to lift export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 as early as Tuesday evening, making it available to all general users — Anthropic and the administr
Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok settles a lawsuit before a second California trial over social media harm to minors for an undisclosed sum; Meta and Snap remain defendants — TikTok is finalizing a settleme
Rocket Lab Corp. today announced plans to acquire Iridium Communications Inc., a major satellite operator, for 8 billion in cash and stock. The companies expect to complete the transaction in mid-2027
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
Nano Banana 2 Lite is Google's fastest and most cost-efficient image generation model, generating images in approximately 4 seconds , while Gemini Omni Flash is a multimodal model supporting high-qual
OpenMatter Network Inc. today launched a platform it says lets organizations collaborate, run sensitive workloads and deploy artificial intelligence agents across computing environments they do not fu
Chip component supplier Stathera Inc. today announced that it has closed a 35 million funding round. Semiconductor-focused fund Maverick Silicon led the Series A deal. It was joined by chipmaker Media
The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), held annually for over forty years, is among the most influential conferences in modern AI research. This year in Seoul, ICML is hosting its se
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that law enforcement’s use of warrants to collect large amounts of cellphone location data requires privacy protections under the Fourth Amendment. The case centered
The AI Compass This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit. I'm impressed that my answe
John Harney / Bloomberg: The DOD seeks to recruit engineers experienced in frontier AI, machine learning and automation, and data systems, to embed them “down to the unit level” — The Trump administra
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. AI agents are not your “coworkers” Imagine coming in to work t
This article likely examines the limitations and declining effectiveness of current chatbot technology, exploring why large language models may be reaching performance plateaus and what challenges lie
Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment “steering” rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it “already made the changes” — Britain's com
A study from the American Lung Association found that if the U.S. transitions to a 100% zero-emission passenger vehicle fleet by 2050, it would result in 89,300 fewer premature deaths and $978 billion
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
TokenBudgeting examines enterprise spending patterns and cost management strategies related to AI token consumption, based on SemiAnalysis's direct conversations with corporate customers. The analysis
Vercel Agent pricing has been updated, likely reflecting changes to the cost structure for using Vercel's AI agent capabilities. The specific details of the new pricing tiers, feature inclusions, and
Vercel and Shopify collaborated to rebuild Hydrogen, Shopify's React-based framework for building custom storefronts. The rebuild likely focused on improving developer experience, performance, and int
Vercel Private Blob, a storage solution for secure file management, has reached general availability status. This feature enables developers to store and manage private files within Vercel deployments