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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

Vercel Sandbox has expanded its capabilities to support custom images, allowing developers to use personalized or pre-configured container images for their sandbox environments. This feature enables g

Vercel Services enables developers to run complete full-stack applications on the Vercel platform, extending beyond static site hosting to include backend capabilities. This feature allows seamless in

Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons raised 1.68B by selling 58M shares at 29 each, valuing it at ~18.4B, in one of the largest US IPOs by a European company in 2026 — Bending Spoons

Kyle Baird / The Block: Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves — Quick Take — Paym

A consortium of more than 140 financial, payments and technology companies, including Visa Inc., Stripe Inc. and BlackRock Inc., is backing a new stablecoin called Open USD, taking direct aim at the m

Agentic ecosystem security startup Vorlon Inc. today launched Guardian, a real-time enforcement gateway that aims to block risky actions by artificial intelligence agents before a transaction complete

What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning. I always head straight for the 'what's new' developer docs because they tend to have more actionable information than the official

This article discusses why specialization in AI models and systems is becoming an inevitable trend, likely examining factors such as the limitations of generalist approaches, efficiency gains from foc

Max Miller / Engadget: A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K+ AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock — “You can't get

Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Next Platform: Academic papers and conference materials offer a deep dive into China's all-CPU LineShine, which pairs custom 304-core Arm CPUs with HBM to top the Top500

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Adobe: online spending across all retailers in the US hit 26.4B during Amazon's four-day Prime Day event, up 9.3% YoY; Walmart and Target also hosted sales — Online spending

Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mount

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will r

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO — Chamath Palihapitiya,

Mark Maurer / Wall Street Journal: AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and difficult for the industry — As AI t

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: AI leaderboard provider Arena says it hit $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching AI Evaluations, which offers performance analytics — Just eight

Software development automation startup 8090 Solutions Inc. today announced that it has raised 135 million in funding. Salesforce Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Palo Alto Networks I

Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal: An interview with Axon CEO Rick Smith, who transformed the Taser maker into a policing software company, as its revenue from AI policing tools rises 700%+ YoY —

The IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2026 is accepting applications from developers interested in quantum computing. This conference, organized by IBM Research, provides an opportunity for quantum dev

Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence consulting firm Arcova today launched an end-to-end data center development offering that brings engineering, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance and grid-pl

Bloomberg: As a new law bars DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms drop companies like Alibaba and Tencent — Washington's most powerful

Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg: Australia's ACCC sues Amazon for allegedly introducing ads to Prime Video under unfair contract terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them — Amazon.com

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Baz releases Baz Planner, which uses four specialized AI agents to analyze code at the planning stage, and extends its seed funding by 9M to 17M — Agentic coding startup

In this post, we show you how to build an automated claims processing pipeline using two key Amazon Bedrock capabilities: Amazon Bedrock Data Automation for intelligent document extraction from health

Vercel announced capabilities for building real-time voice agents using their AI Gateway, enabling developers to create conversational AI applications with voice interaction. The post likely covers te