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In this post, you’ll build a server that extracts text from PDF files in Amazon S3 in real time. This protocol-based approach provides programmatic document access. You’ll walk through the architectur
At this week’s TM Forum DTW Ignite conference in Copenhagen, industry leaders gathered to evaluate how agentic AI — the autonomous artificial intelligence systems capable of executing complex workflow
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Despite the “DeepMind mafia” pulling billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis' former lieutenants is building a homegrown UK frontier AI model — The tec
A federal FOIA lawsuit seeks discovery into DOGE's activities inside the FCC, questioning ethics clearances, data access, and withheld communications tied to contract cuts and Musk-linked entities. Th
Traditional alerting systems often force a compromise: you can either alert immediately on simple, noisy log events, or monitor rigid, pre-configured metrics that fail when faced with data with many u
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol matches Mythos Preview on ExploitBench, adds Ultra mode with subagents for complex workflows, and max reasoning for deep problem-solving — We're beginning a limited preview of the
It’s been hot in London this week. Really hot. A dangerous heat wave has hit Western Europe. Yesterday, the UK recorded its highest ever June temperature at 36.1 °C (about 97 °F). But as the weather a
Stephen Foley / Financial Times: How AI-native law firms use “management services organization” structures to access capital historically barred from US law firms, including PE and VC funds — Interest
In this post, we explore how Cara, built in cooperation with AWS, addresses these challenges. We walk through the technical design decisions and the AWS services that support the solution. We also sha
Databricks describes how its platform enables organizations to process and analyze video data, converting raw video content into searchable and actionable intelligence through machine learning and dat
The English Office for Students uses Databricks' data platform to analyze higher education data at scale, enabling better monitoring of institutional performance and student outcomes across English un
Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: How US federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque, and how to fix it, including using independent auditors — 35 thoug
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt. Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request
Giulia Segreti / Reuters: Italy is investigating Microsoft 365's price hike, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were being integrated into the service — Italy's antitru
Semafor: Letter: the US lifts its block on Mythos 5, allowing Anthropic to release it to more than 100 US institutions; sources: talks about Fable 5 are ongoing — THE SCOOP — The US government Friday
Netflix is rolling out a change requiring each sub-profile within a subscriber's account to have its own email address attached , with the update slowly rolling out to select users rather than being d
The New York Times has amended its copyright infringement lawsuit to specifically target Microsoft for providing OpenAI with a supercomputer platform designed to train models on copyrighted works with
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: OpenAI appoints ex-Uber India head Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, to scale its presence in its second-largest market after the US — OpenAI is mak
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI hopes to make GPT-5.6 generally available in the coming weeks and says “this kind of government access process” should not become the long-term default —
OpenAI Group PBC today introduced GPT-5.6, a new series of large language models that it says can outperform Claude Mythos 5 across certain coding tasks. The most advanced algorithm in the lineup is k
Axios: OpenAI releases three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to ~20 companies, with participants disclosed to the US government — OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.6 F
Thomas Claburn / The Register: OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees are now using Codex, up from ~40% in August 2025; non-developer usage of Codex has risen 137x for individual users — Codex, it's not j
OpenAI: OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra were capable of identifying vulnerabilities but were unable to execute autonomous, end-to-end attacks against hardened targets — GPT-5.6 is a new family of th
Less than 24 hours after news broke that OpenAI would stagger its next model release at the request of the Trump administration, that model, GPT-5.6, is here. On Friday, the company unveiled the limit
Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle's stock fell 19% this week, the steepest weekly drop since a 20% plunge in August 2001, amid concerns about its debt load and AI investments — Oracle just wrapped up its wo
Fast-growing world model startup Patronus AI Inc. is priming itself for even more rapid growth after raising 50 million in Series B funding today. The round was led by Greenfield Partners and saw the
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: President Trump threatens to impose a 100% tariff on any country that imposes a digital services tax on US companies — President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose a
In this post, you learn how Stripe built a production-grade AI agent system for financial compliance. We cover the technical architecture of Stripe’s ReAct agent framework and the infrastructure decis
Tim Clark / PC Gamer: Q&A with Tim Sweeney on his vision for a cross-platform gaming social system, Unreal Engine 6, AI's PR challenges, the state of AAA game development, and more — The Epic Games CE
The Vercel CLI now includes functionality to query web analytics data directly from the command line, allowing developers to access analytics information without leaving their terminal environment. Th
This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few post-re
We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance to
This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do. — Timothy B. Lee, on the idea that LLMs take no skill and have no lea
China is set for a debut flight of its Long March 10B reusable rocket in July with a launch window opening July 10 and an attempt to recover the first stage at sea. This would be China's third booster
This guide demonstrates how to deploy a vLLM (a fast, open-source LLM serving engine) server on Hugging Face Jobs using a single command, streamlining the process of setting up and running an inferenc
Apple removed several Russian mobile apps related to the Russian internet company VK from its App Store , prompting the Kremlin to demand an explanation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggested that
Artificial intelligence inference startup Sail Research Inc. today announced that it has raised 80 million in funding at a 450 million valuation. The company received the bulk of the capital in the fo
This article discusses using Ray and Anyscale's distributed computing platform to scale the evaluation of robot control policies across multiple simulations in parallel. It likely covers techniques fo
As enterprises scale autonomous AI agents into production, enabling safe innovation requires robust architectural guardrails. AI agents connect across tools and datasets, so it’s essential to establis
Sam Nussey / Reuters: Shares of Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia slid 12% on Friday after a report that OpenAI was considering delaying its IPO sparked a selloff in AI-related shares — Shares of Japan
Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic and the White House are moving closer to an agreement to lift US restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — Anthropic PBC and the Trump administration are moving closer to an
Financial Times: Sources: Apple is lobbying the Trump admin for clearance to buy memory chips from US-blacklisted Chinese company CXMT to ease pressure from rising chip prices — The iPhone maker wants
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's 14' and 16' OLED touch screen MacBook Pros will be powered by the existing M5 Pro and M5 Max chips and have an updated industrial design — Apple Inc.'s first-
The Information: Sources: DeepSeek's $7.4B raise was prompted by the release of Mythos as CEO Liang Wenfeng realized DeepSeek couldn't compete without a massive war chest — Up until two months ago, De
George Steer / Financial Times: Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~300K in Kalshi equity after becoming a strategic adviser in 2025, when Kalshi was valued at ~2B; now it's worth $22B+ — Privately owned c
Tyler Katzenberger / Politico: Sources: Meta lobbyists are urging California lawmakers to exempt social media platforms from legislation that would increase penalties in child-harm cases — Meta's plea
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Paul Meade, Apple's top executive in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses efforts, is leaving for OpenAI to work on the company's AI-powered devices — Apple Inc.'s
Financial Times: Sources: Revolut told new hires they'll have to work in office at least three days a week from next year, retreating from its long-held remote-first approach — Europe's most valuable
New York Times: Sources: Russian hackers were behind a 2025 ransomware attack on Jaguar Land Rover that used “mind-blowing” encryption and cost UK's economy an estimated $2.5B — A loose collective of
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks on a consumer mobile phone offering, which would help SpaceX become a DTC mobile phone provider — SpaceX and Cha
Financial Times: Sources: SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell told investors during an IPO roadshow SpaceX may launch a Starlink mobile product and build its own terrestrial US network — Move would test whethe
New York Times: Sources: the CFTC began an extensive investigation of Polymarket earlier this year; the agency's former acting head killed a separate investigation in July 2025 — Last year, the Commod
Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active “predictors” aged 18-34 — Mr. Zucker
South Korea's Defense Ministry announced it will train 500,000 'drone warriors' in a major shift toward drone-centric warfare . The plan aims to train personnel across all military branches so that 'a
SpaceX is planning to launch a direct-to-consumer Starlink mobile service in the US , as SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell discussed during a recent investor roadshow . A standalone mobile service woul
California's State Bill 576, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, prohibits streaming services from airing commercials louder than the programs they accompany, taking effect July 1, 2026. The law requires
Alistair Gray / Financial Times: Swiss watchmaker Swatch seeks $170M from Samsung in a London trial over 26 digital watch face apps that allegedly cloned luxury brand designs, including Omega — Swiss
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. Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to figu
Bloomberg: The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers — Elon Musk received a regula
Vercel has introduced observability features that enable developers to trace and debug sessions for Eve agents, allowing better monitoring and troubleshooting of agent behavior and performance. This f