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Summer is heating up — and GeForce NOW is taking players along for the ride. Start the month with Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains, bringing a galaxy far, far away to the iconic board-game fran

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised 2B at a 15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as 3B — China's Kling AI has raised an

Large language models can exhibit emergent reasoning behaviors, often manifested as recurring lexical patterns (e.g., “wait,” indicating verification). However, complex reasoning trajectories remain s

Diffusion (Large) Language Models (dLLMs) now match the downstream performance of their autoregressive counterparts on many tasks, while holding the promise of being more efficient during inference. O

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Letter: chip sector group SEMI, including Micron and Samsung, warns Scott Bessent US policies affecting prices or production capacity would worsen the shortage — Governmen

Release: llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 Another Fable 5 experiment. Now that my LLM library has evolved into more of an agent framework it's time to see what a simple coding agent would look like built on it.

Vultr will be participating in the RAISE Summit Paris 2026, showcasing their infrastructure and AI ecosystem partnerships at the event. The summit appears to be a major gathering focused on AI and rel

The Information: Memo: Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot chatbots into a single app featuring coding tools and AI agents dubbed AutoPilot — Microsoft is merging

Understanding how transformer components operate in LLMs is important, as it is at the core of recent technological advances in artificial intelligence. In this work, we revisit the challenges associa

Meta Compute explores Meta's strategy to position itself as a cloud infrastructure provider, leveraging its massive internal compute investments and AI capabilities to offer services to external custo

Microsoft Corp. has formed a new business that will help organizations build and manage artificial intelligence applications. The Microsoft Frontier Company, as the venture is called, launched today w

Multi-agent LLM systems are increasingly deployed as autonomous collaborators, where agents interact freely rather than execute fixed, pre-specified workflows. In such settings, effective coordination

Fifteen privacy and consumer groups warned the FTC that X poses serious privacy risks, calling the company's petition to end oversight audits illegal. X requested that the FTC terminate data security

Wall Street Journal: Nansen: about two-thirds of Trump's memecoin investors are currently in the red, and 85% of World Liberty's $WLFI buyers on the secondary market are underwater — Roughly two-third

PamStealer is a macOS infostealer disguised as the legitimate Maccy clipboard manager that uses a two-stage attack chain to silently harvest data and clipboard contents while evading detection. The ma

As AI moves from model development to production inference, compute demand is accelerating and shifting toward continuously operating AI factories that generate tokens at scale. This shift requires ac

Reinforcement learning (RL) finetuning has become a key technique for enhancing large language models (LLMs) on reasoning-intensive tasks, motivating its extension to vision language models (VLMs). Wh

OpenAI Group PBC has reportedly floated the idea of giving a 5% stake to the U.S. government. Sources told the Financial Times today that the ChatGPT developer’s executives made the suggestion during

OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Fin

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp appeared to go into meltdown mode during an interview with CNBC today where for 20-odd minutes he went off script after being asked to discuss his

Pinecone Systems Inc., an artificial intelligence infrastructure company providing fully managed vector databases, Wednesday launched the public preview of Pinecone Nexus, which curates and distribute

New York Times: President Trump says Micron will invest 250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a 250 deposit in some US states — President Trump said the

Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to purely autoregressive language models because they can decode multiple tokens in parallel. However, state-of-the-art

Vercel has introduced routing rules functionality for AI Gateway, enabling users to define custom logic for directing requests to different AI models or endpoints. This feature allows developers to im

Sam Altman is calling for a US-led international forum to set global safety standards for artificial intelligence, arguing that no single country should be left to dominate the technology. In an op-ed

Sam Altman / Financial Times: Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies — The labs devel

This article discusses 'skill engineering' as an approach to AI system design that emphasizes iterative development and refinement of AI capabilities, arguing against the 'one-shot' design philosophy

Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by 2030 — SoftBank Group Corp

Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank Group Corp. and its telecommunications subsidiary SoftBank Corp. are planning to launch a new neocloud business in the U.S. that will rent access to artificia

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~2B valuation, six months after raising 75M at a 1B valuation — Binance is set to lead

Business Insider: Sources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently in training, codenamed Watermelon, matches GPT-5.5 and uses an “order of magnitude more compute than Avocado” — Meta is making sign

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip — Anthropic

The Information: Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal — A British law firm h

Bloomberg: Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October — Crusoe, the data center upstart wi

Bloomberg: Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~22B; it was valued at 11B in February — ElevenLabs has held early ta

Bloomberg: Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank is in talks to raise money at an 8B+ valuation, up from 4.35B in 2025; its deposits are up from 1.1B in March to 4.05B — Erebor Bank is in talks to rais

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincided with suspicious Kalshi wagers — Pl

British data intelligence startup StirlingX Ltd. has raised 20 million in an early-stage round to accelerate product development and push into new markets. StirlingX describes itself as a data intelli

Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential use cases are unfolding far from consumer-facing tools. In in

Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles globally in Q2 2026, representing a 25% increase over the prior year's 384,122 units . The recovery was driven by stronger demand in Europe and China, with higher fuel

This article outlines three key questions organizations should address when scaling AI initiatives from pilot projects to production impact. Based on the Databricks focus, it likely covers questions r

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. LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying

Bloomberg: The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android market power should stand — Google lost its long-running fi

Joe Warminsky / The Record: The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks — A 19-year-old

This article discusses how future websites could dynamically generate personalized content and layouts for each individual visitor using AI and generative technologies, rather than serving static page

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Travel app Hopper agrees to a 35M FTC settlement over allegations the company misled users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs — Hopper, the trav