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Enterprise AI transformation has a new home: the boardroom. Across financial services, CEOs are now demanding results, not more roadmaps. As Google Cloud Next 2026 packed Las Vegas with announcements

Now Available on Qdrant Cloud: GPU Indexing, Multi-AZ, and Audit Logging We’re excited to announce some Qdrand Cloud upgrades to address AI workloads that write continuously, must meet higher uptime S

Open-source vector database startup Qdrant Solutions GmbH today announced three new enterprise-grade capabilities on its cloud service to address performance, availability and compliance requirements

Unified identity security company Silverfort Inc. today announced that it has acquired Fabrix Security Ltd., an artificial intelligence-native identity security company, for an undisclosed price. Foun

The Information: Analysis: as of late 2025, 79 of 500 tracked software companies including HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce adopted usage-based AI fees, more than doubling on 2024 — Dozens of enterprise

Sam Goldfarb / Wall Street Journal: Analysis of 100 actively traded software company loans since January 20 finds sector-wide price pressure as investors seek defensive moats against AI disruption — M

Google DeepMind announced a partnership with South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) , marking the 10th anniversary of the historic AlphaGo match. Google will establish an AI Campus in Seoul

Amazon Quick Flows enables users to build automations for repetitive or routine tasks using simple, everyday language prompts , with no technical expertise required. The service uses an AI-powered UI

microsoft/VibeVoice VibeVoice is Microsoft's Whisper-style audio model for speech-to-text, MIT licensed and with speaker diarization built into the model. Microsoft released it on January 21st, 2026 b

The artificial intelligence arms race has spent the last two years obsessed with a duopoly of constraints: the desperate hunt for Nvidia Corp. silicon and the grueling wait for grid-scale megawatts. I

GPT-5.5 prompting guide Now that GPT-5.5 is available in the API, OpenAI have released a wealth of useful tips on how best to prompt the new model. Here's a neat trick they recommend for applications

This article describes a technique for accelerating reinforcement learning (RL) rollouts using distribution-aware speculative decoding, which can achieve up to 50% speedup improvements. The method lik

Developers can build with DeepSeek V4 through NVIDIA GPU-accelerated endpoints on build.nvidia.com, with hosted endpoints providing a fast way to prototype before moving to self-hosted deployment. Dee

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: ComfyUI, which gives creators granular control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models, raised 30M at a 500M valuation — ComfyUI, a startup that helps cr

Raphael Satter / Reuters: Diplomatic cable: US State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to what it says are efforts by Chinese companies to steal IP from US AI labs — The U.S. Sta

Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from 16.7B in 2021 to 2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 — Vent

Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: Instagram launches Instants, an app for sharing disappearing photos, in Italy and Spain, after rolling out an Instants feature in its main app in some regions — - In

Alexandra Alper / Reuters: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Nvidia has yet to sell H200 chips to Chinese companies and that the Chinese government has not approved such purchases — Nvidia's (

Today, we announced the preview of Spanner Omni, a downloadable version of Spanner, that expands its industry-leading distributed database capabilities beyond Google Cloud. This enables enterprises to

SpaceX Corp. will help Cursor, a venture-backed vibe coding startup, train artificial intelligence models optimized for programming tasks. The companies announced the initiative on Tuesday. According

New York Times: SpaceX says it's working with Cursor to build “the world's most useful models” and it has the right to acquire Cursor for 60B or pay 10B for the partnership — The potential acquisition

Australian chip manufacturing startup Syenta Inc. today announced that it has raised 26 million in funding to expand its production capacity. Playground Global and Australia’s National Reconstruction

A hacker has stolen a limited amount of customer data from Vercel Inc., a major developer tooling provider. The company disclosed the incident late Sunday. Vercel, which received a $9.3 billion valuat

The GitHub Blog: Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ — As shared in our recen

Zack Abrams / The Block: An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, appears to have drained ~$292M worth of rsETH before Kelp paused all rsETH contracts — Quick Take — An a

Loop Payments Inc. today announced that it has raised 95 million in funding to upgrade its supply chain optimization platform. Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund led the Series C rou

DigitalOcean's Inference Cloud Memory Layer is a technical architecture component designed to optimize database performance by implementing an in-memory caching layer for faster data access and reduce

Databricks and Google Cloud have partnered to enable organizations to build and deploy data and AI solutions more efficiently. The collaboration integrates Databricks' lakehouse platform with Google C

This Google Research work presents guidelines for synthetic data mechanism design and provides insights into generating and evaluating synthetic data at scale. The research introduces a reasoning-driv

Expo, the developer of a popular open-source tool for building cross-platform applications, today announced that it has raised 45 million in funding. Developers often implement web application interfa

Speculative decoding is a technique used to accelerate the slow, sequential token generation (decode stage) in LLM inference. This method significantly reduces latency and improves hardware utilizatio

Matt Burgess / Wired: Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600 students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 — An analysis by WI

Boston Dynamics has integrated Google's Gemini and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 into its Orbit software platform, specifically its AI Visual Inspection systems, which analyze images captured by the Spot rob

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNET: Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code — ZDNET's ke

Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research division, Tuesday introduced a new foundation robotics AI model designed as a significant upgrade for understanding and precise spatia

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to 17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY — European ventu

Customer data platform maker GrowthLoop Inc. today introduced a composable artificial intelligence analytics platform designed to help better understand the causal drivers of customer behavior. The Ne

Today, Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, our latest text-to-speech model, is available on Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. It delivers precise controllability and expressivity, empowering developers and enterprise

Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Parasail Inc. today announced that it has raised 32 million in early-stage funding. Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures jointly led the Series A round.

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more — “If o

AI-driven decision-making has arrived, putting a focus on trusted data and strong governance so outputs stay reliable at scale. The shift is rewriting the relationship between people and data. Instead

Reuters: AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, an AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models — Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit on

The AWS Generative AI Path-to-Value (P2V) framework is a structured mental model and practical guide designed to help organizations move generative AI initiatives from ideation and experimentation thr

Artificial intelligence powerhouse OpenAI Group PBC is lending its expertise to Novo Nordisk A/S in a new partnership announced today that aims to accelerate research in the pharmaceutical industry. T

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative touch displays and scrapped plans for a Hub 4; Hub 3 debuted in 2023 in 50' and 85' sizes — Microso

The author provided an update on several ongoing technical projects, including the ATOM Report, a new post-training course, and