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Declan Harty / Politico: Pitch document: Chris Larsen and Palmer Luckey invested an undisclosed amount in APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the son of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand — Democratic meg

I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales a

India's first space unicorn is preparing for its first orbital launch , with Skyroot Aerospace developing the Vikram series of launch vehicles . In 2025, SpaceX posted a net loss of $4.9 billion , hig

The Information: Sources: Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers, citing security concerns — Alibaba Group has banned

Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic moves to close loopholes that let Chinese firms like Ant use its models via workarounds including cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries — Engineers are still fi

Giles Turner / Bloomberg: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opens an investigation into StubHub following complaints of last-minute ticket cancellations for FIFA World Cup 2026 matches — Texas Attorne

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. The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporti

As the parent of two little girls, I often think about how their childhood is different from mine. The seven-year-old is learning about AI at school. The five-year-old is given internet-based homework

Vercel Sandbox has added support for FUSE-based (Filesystem in Userspace) filesystems, enabling developers to implement custom filesystem behaviors within sandbox environments. This enhancement expand

Andrew Qu from Vercel discusses how AI agents represent a fundamentally different category of software compared to traditional applications, exploring their unique characteristics and implications for

Wing Commander was a popular 1990s space combat simulator series known for strong narratives that switched to full-motion video starting with Wing Commander III, with Wing Commander IV: The Price of F

As organizations race to operationalize generative and agentic artificial intelligence, the conversation is shifting from pilots and proofs of concept to real-world AI deployments that deliver measura

Bloomberg: A look at the CSOP SK Hynix Leveraged ETF, which trades in Hong Kong and has ballooned into a $13B fund, becoming the world's largest single-stock leveraged ETF — A Hong Kong fund tied to S

Pew Research Center: A survey of US adults finds 56% support banning social media for under-16s, while 21% oppose; majorities across demographic and partisan groups support a ban — Nearly six-in-ten U

Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity in the chaos—a structured way to bring order to messy, sprawling operations. Le

Ugandan health authorities confirmed an isolated case of Marburg virus disease, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever, while conducting surveillance for an ongoing Ebola outbreak. No contacts of the M

Prague-based artificial intelligence developer EquiLibre Technologies Inc. has raised funding at a valuation exceeding 500 million. The company stated late Tuesday that the Series A round was led by C

This dispatch examines the emerging capabilities and challenges of AI autoresearch systems, analyzing the tension between autonomous AI agents conducting research and the preservation of human agency

Thomas Ricker / The Verge: Amazon says Leo reached 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit following a recent launch, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes” — Early adopter

Maximum inner product search (MIPS) is a crucial subroutine in machine learning, requiring the identification of a vector taken within a database (the keys) that best aligns with a given query. We pro

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with AI-enabled gadgets, and more — Amazon is focusing o

The problem of domain generalization concerns learning predictive models that are robust to distribution shifts when deployed in new, previously unseen environments. Existing methods typically require

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created the world's first synthetic cell called SpudCell that can feed, grow, and reproduce, built entirely from non-living chemical components . SpudCe

Katie Paul / Reuters: At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and its reorganization was not as “clean” as it could have been — Meta (META.O) C

In this post, we share best practices for reliable multi-turn RL training. We cover how to build a training environment you can trust, set up an external evaluation, design a reward aligned with the e

This article shares practical lessons and best practices from teams operating large-scale machine learning inference systems in production environments. It covers challenges and solutions related to m

CarbonSix Inc., a developer of deploy-ready robotic artificial intelligence solutions, announced Wednesday it raised 40 million in early funding to change how manufacturing works. The company focuses

Samantha Elkins / NBC News: Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked — Cloudflare gave

For more than 35 years, Dell Technologies Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have collaborated on a wide range of enterprise technology offerings. From support for Azure hybrid cloud to server-based Windows sol

Wall Street Journal: Emails disclosed in a court filing detail the uneasy back-and-forth between Dario Amodei and DOD's Emil Michael and how Anthropic's relationship with DOD soured — Undersecretary E

This SemiAnalysis article discusses advanced semiconductor packaging technologies and innovations presented at or related to ECTC 2026, including Intel's EMIB-T chiplet interconnect roadmap, custom HB

The FAA proposed noise standards for civilian supersonic aircraft, moving to lift the decades-old ban on flights exceeding Mach 1 over U.S. land due to sonic booms. The proposal establishes a noise-ba

Fable, a platform or service, has made a return or comeback according to reporting from Ben's Bites, a newsletter covering AI and tech developments. The article likely discusses the relaunch or reviva

New York Times: Filings: President Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day as his AI action plan — President Trump and hi

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2% in its Nasdaq debut Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~1.9B valuation — IQM, a full-stack quantum company ou

Jim Tankersley / New York Times: German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 — The Ger

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised 1.2B led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent at an ~8B valuation — Quantum Systems

Startups worldwide raised a record 510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to a new report out today from market intelligence company Crunchbase Inc. The figure was more than investors put in

Google LLC has disrupted NetNut, one of the largest residential proxy networks in operation, degrading a service that had turned more than 2 million home devices worldwide into relays for other people

Google lost its long-running fight against a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc's top judges said regulators were right to punish the company for abusing Android'

Google's electricity consumption grew 37 percent in 2025, its largest year-on-year annual increase to date, driven predominantly by AI demand. This brought cumulative growth in electricity use to more

Background Today, in coordination with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google took action against the NetNut residential proxy network, also known as Popa. This action builds on our disruption of the IPID

NVIDIA Confidential Computing addresses data privacy and security concerns for AI workloads by protecting data during inference and engagement with models, offering high-performance protection in loca

Homebuilding artificial intelligence startup Higharc said today it has raised 95 million in a new round of funding to transform the way construction projects are planned and run. Today’s Series C roun

Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose a new challenge for security teams managing email s

Agent evals are repeatable tests that score whether AI agents completed a task correctly. Learn how to design rubrics, test suites, and trace-based evals that catch failures and prevent reward hacking