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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber expands the list of criminal convictions that disqualify US drivers and expands the background-check timeline, possibly removing ~0.5% of active US drivers — Uber Techno
Unconventional AI Inc. has developed an artificial intelligence architecture that could improve the power efficiency of image generation models. The technology is the basis of a new neural network ser
Vercel Ship 2026 was Vercel's annual product announcement event showcasing new features, updates, and innovations across their development platform. The recap likely covers major releases in areas suc
Vultr has expanded its Clusters offering to support CPU-based workloads alongside existing GPU support, enabling more diverse compute deployments. The announcement includes additional enhancements to
Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is reportedly preparing a major overhaul that could eliminate up to 100,000 jobs worldwide and eventually close four factories in Germany. The plants targeted for closure a
What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held by his OpenClaw test instance by sending
The artificial intelligence industry is entering a phase where the race for more capable models is taking a back seat to the economics of building and deploying AI infrastructure. This has resulted in
Agentic search startup Seltz Inc. said today it has bagged 12.5 million in seed funding to build a more optimal infrastructure so that artificial intelligence agents can find their way around the web.
AI and Liability Bruce Schneier on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews: AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them
AI SDK 7 is a major release from Vercel that likely introduces new features, improvements, and capabilities for building AI-powered applications using their SDK. The release may include enhancements t
Vercel released AI SDK version 7, introducing new features and improvements to their JavaScript/TypeScript framework for building AI-powered applications. The update likely includes enhancements to mo
Meta released Harness, an open-source framework for evaluating and benchmarking AI model performance across diverse tasks and datasets. The tool enables standardized testing of language models and aim
Gianluca Lo Nostro / Reuters: Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic “better understand and adapt” its products to Europe and Africa — The artif
Anthropic accused Alibaba of a coordinated, industrial-scale operation to illicitly scrape data from Claude , using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 28.8 million exchanges betwe
Apple announced price hikes on MacBooks and iPads, citing increased memory and storage costs that CEO Tim Cook said had become unavoidable. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created extraordi
Reuters: Apple says it removed VK's apps from the App Store to comply with sanctions; VK says they were removed without warning and it has never been under US sanctions — The Kremlin demanded an expla
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple says “the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage”; the MacBook Neo rises from 599 to 699 — Apple Raises P
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Apple stock closed down 6.15% on Thursday after the company raised some product prices, its worst fall since April 2025 — Apple on Thursday announced price hikes on MacBooks
The surging cost of memory chips has translated into a bonanza for companies like Micron Technologies Inc., but for almost everyone else there’s going to be a steep price to pay, with both Apple Inc.
Chipmaking equipment giant Applied Materials Inc. is trying to make life easier for its chip fabrication plant customers, so they can build the extremely complex 3D architectures necessary for the nex
Incident response company BreachRx Inc. today launched the Rex Platform, an agentic artificial intelligence incident command center built for a future in which AI-accelerated attacks set off several b
In this post, we show you how to build Chaplin (Customer Health and Planned Lifecycle Intelligence Nexus), an open source solution that uses AI agents exposed through the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
This AWS ML Blog article explores how Data Product Agent Mesh makes data mesh practical by solving operational complexity through intelligent automation, grounding agentic AI capabilities in well-defi
Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: California launches a tool to serve as an “early warning system” for widespread AI-driven job loss, linking AI exposure with unemployment insurance claims — Politicians like
AI tokenization has become essential for enterprises seeking to balance data security with innovation, enabling sensitive data to be used safely in AI workloads without compromising utility or complia
Samantha Subin / CNBC: Chipmaker Onsemi agrees to buy Synaptics in a nearly 7B all-stock deal expected to close in the middle of 2027; ON drops 9%+ and SYNA jumps 11%+ after hours — ON Semiconductor h
Claude Code is now available in Slack, allowing users to run code directly within the messaging platform. This integration enables developers and teams to execute scripts, test code snippets, and coll
Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a2 An embarrassingly tiny release. The pyproject.toml had pinned to datasette==1.0a27, inadvertently making this plugin incompatible with all other Datasette vers
Vercel has released Deep Agents and OpenCode adapters for the AI SDK Harness, expanding the framework's integration capabilities. These new adapters enable developers to leverage Deep Agents and OpenC
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Doc: the DOD has quietly revised its doctrine on how the US military picks its targets, envisioning “systems where AI initiates actions with human monitoring” — The Pentago
Richard Speed / The Register: Elastic announces a ~7% reduction in its workforce, and says “advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams”; ESTC closed down 8.70% — CEO says a
Analysis of ancient proteins from 23 fossilized teeth belonging to at least 20 Homo naledi individuals revealed no male genetic markers, suggesting the assemblage may represent females only. The findi
Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. today expanded its Chainguard Repository product with malware scanning, policy enforcement and visibility features that now cover Java pa
LucidLink Corp., the maker of a cloud network-attached storage system based on object storage technology, today extended its distributed file system technology into agentic artificial intelligence wit
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance — Facebook anno
Meta is bringing back the Facebook Creator Studio page manager, now 'reimagined' as a standalone AI companion app. The new app aims to make it easier for creators to connect with their audiences and s
The U.S. has denied authorization for Polestar to sell 2027 model-year vehicles, effectively preventing new Polestar models from entering the U.S. market. The Connected Vehicle Rule restricts vehicles
To celebrate its new status as No. 1 in JD Power's initial quality ranking among mainstream automakers, Ford is opening up about the challenges it has faced in recent years, especially around its reli
AVL, a leading automotive testing company, modernized its measurement data analytics by adopting Databricks' Lakehouse architecture to replace traditional test bench data processing systems. The imple
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised 320M led by Khosla at a 2.3B valuation, for $454M in total funding — As soon as
Google launched a redesigned Google Finance in general availability on June 25, 2026, including a dedicated Android app featuring watchlists, real-time market data, financial news, an AI research tool
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google launches a Google Finance app for Android, with market data, financial news, and an AI-powered “Key Moments” feature, and plans an iOS version this year — Google on Th
OpenAI discusses how AI agents are reshaping workplace processes and productivity by automating complex tasks, handling multi-step workflows, and enabling workers to focus on higher-level decision-mak
PUBG Ally is an interactive co-playable character for PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS powered by an on-device small language model built with NVIDIA ACE technology, equipped to communicate and cooperate with play
Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: How the US AI build-out is pushing up prices for electricity, software, and more; in a survey, 81% of economists say it will add to inflation over the next year —
IBM unveiled the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology at the 0.7 nm node, featuring a revolutionary 'nanostack' transistor architecture . The chip packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a
IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the size of a fingernail, which is twice the density of the company’s previous state-of-the-art technology announced i
IBM announced the development of sub-1 nanometer computer chips, representing a significant advancement in semiconductor miniaturization beyond previous technological limits. This breakthrough in chip
IBM Corp. today unveiled what it says is the world’s first sub-one-nanometer chip technology, a research breakthrough that it said will fuel the next 10 years of semiconductor development and pave the
In this post, we demonstrate how to implement video upscaling using SeedVR2 on SageMaker AI. We cover the solution architecture, walk through the deployment steps, and show performance comparisons tha
Identity verification company Incode Technologies Inc. today announced that it has acquired Identiq Protocol Ltd., an Israeli startup that builds cryptographic tools letting companies share fraud sign
Madison Mills / Axios: Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring three founders and other team members behind AI security startup Virtue AI; two founders report to Nat Friedman — Meta Superintellige
SK hynix Inc., the world’s largest supplier of HBM memory, today filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The South Korean company hopes to sell up to 17.79 million shares for 29.4 billi
Microsoft has extended its free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for consumers by an additional year, allowing enrolled devices to continue receiving security updates until October 1
Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku: Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by 100 for 512GB models and 150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025 — Microsoft is increas
Mirendil Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence models for scientists, has raised 200 million in funding at a 1 billion valuation. The seed round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Mirendil s
Bloomberg: NAND flash maker Kioxia, Japan's most valuable company since June 12, plans to offer US depositary shares in spring 2027 amid AI-driven demand for memory chips — Kioxia Holdings Corp. inten
Threat hunting startup Nebulock Inc. revealed today that it has raised 25 million in new funding to push its autonomous hunting platform into broader “hunt-first” security analytics. Founded in 2023,
Chris Metinko / Axios: Nebulock, which helps security teams proactively find and remediate threats across a company's security stack, raised a 25M Series A led by FirstMark — Contextual security start
A comprehensive effort is underway to sequence the genomes of endangered species, with Google providing funding and AI tools to the Vertebrate Genomes Project and the Earth BioGenome Project. Google.o