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Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce, or 54 staff, as part of a broad restructuring amid leadership turnover and growing Ethereum fragmentation — The Ethereum
Brendan Murray / Bloomberg: The EU is set to impose a €3 duty on non-EU items under €150 from July 1, as the bloc seeks to slow the flood of low-priced merchandise from retailers like Temu — Bargain-h
David Shepardson / Reuters: The FCC says an auction of wireless mid-band spectrum raised 3.5B+, which will largely be used to fund the replacement of Chinese telecom equipment in the US — The U.S. Fed
Google Health Coach seems to think I'm on the verge of physical collapse. My sleep is not where it needs to be, hence my unimpressive readiness score. My heart rate variability, a measure of how recov
New York Times: The NSA was red-teaming Mythos 5 before losing access amid the Anthropic dispute; the tests showed Mythos identified cybersecurity flaws in classified systems — A recent episode unders
Enterprises are increasingly evaluating alternative cloud providers beyond the major hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) due to cost, performance, and vendor lock-in concerns. This shift reflects
This article from Databricks outlines ten artificial intelligence solutions that businesses can implement to accelerate growth and improve operational efficiency. The piece likely covers practical AI
Don Clark / New York Times: Top500: China's Arm-based LineShine surpasses the US' El Capitan by 20% to be the world's fastest supercomputer, the first time China takes the crown since 2017 — A superco
U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for the acceleration of the nascent quantum computing industry, signing a pair of executive orders today aimed at speeding up the technology’s development and si
Our hands are the nimblest parts of our bodies, coordinating 34 muscles, 27 joints, and over 100 tendons and ligaments to perform countless nuanced movements and gestures. So far, robots have been not
The Trump administration shut down the major federal climate website climate.gov , but former climate.gov staff members launched climate.us, a nonprofit organization working to archive the resources p
Protecting sensitive data used with AI is a critical part of our commitment to providing advanced and secure cloud infrastructure. Confidential Computing cryptographically protects data in use in hard
Artificial intelligence security startup Virtue AI Inc. is expanding its capabilities with the launch of Shadow AI, a new addition to its AgentSuite platform that gives enterprises clear visibility in
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Walmart acquires Paris-based Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and run targeted ads on streaming services; Vibe.co's co-founders will join Walmart Connect — Walmart is o
Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: Walmart acquires Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and buy ads on CTVs, sources say for 1.4B cash; top executives get 180M to stay for four years — Retail gia
Vector search is a retrieval method that converts unstructured data (text, images, audio) into numerical vector representations and finds similar items by comparing vectors in high-dimensional space,
President Trump signed an executive order on June 22, 2026, mandating a complete migration to post-quantum cryptography by the end of 2031, four years earlier than originally planned. The order direct
Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers chronicling the misadventures of their favorite tech overlords and Washington swamp creatures. ('Favorite' is, of course, subjectiv
Starfall is a proposed reentry vehicle designed by SpaceX to provide uncrewed, point-to-point cargo delivery from orbit by safely returning payloads to Earth. The design focuses on precision delivery
The Information: xLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for EUV machines, told investors that it is in talks to raise 350M led by Boardman Bay and Bain Capital — XLight, a startup developing adv
Hillel Aron / Courthouse News Service: YouTube settles a lawsuit ahead of a second California trial over social media harms to minors; Meta, TikTok, and Snap remain defendants — The case will now pit
ZenBusiness Inc., a company that offers an all-in-one-platform to help entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses, today announced it’s expanding its Velo artificial intelligence guide, featuring
Chevrolet's Corvette ZR1X, powered by a hybrid all-wheel drive system with 1,250 horsepower, set a new Pikes Peak production car record at the 104th running of the hill climb. Driven by IndyCar vetera
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: A US NLRB judge ruled that Amazon violated federal law by not recognizing the Teamsters union at a SF warehouse and must collectively bargain with the workers — A US labor b
Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn't think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn't think it'd be 'hell.' After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she des
Data center networking startup Upscale AI Inc. today announced that it has raised 190 million in fresh funding. The capital was provided as an extension to a 200 million Series A round that the compan
Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg: Air Space Intelligence won an $875M, 12-year FAA contract to develop AI tools that map flight trajectories and identify areas of congestion to reduce delays — Air Space
Bloomberg: Alphabet stock fell as much as 7.2%, the most intraday since February, after Google DeepMind VP John Jumper became its second top AI exec to leave in a week — Alphabet Inc. shares tumbled o
JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer at Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich, runs on NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking — and it’s had a busy year. A
SQL is the industry standard for high-performance structured data analysis. However, expressing complex procedural logic, scientific computations, advanced string manipulations, or machine learning wo
In this post, you will learn how Ampersend built a pay-per-intelligence routing layer on top of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments. AI agents autonomously route tasks to the most effective model, pay p
The Chat SDK now includes support for Kapso, expanding its integration capabilities. This addition allows developers using Vercel's Chat SDK to leverage Kapso's functionality within their applications
Vercel announced the addition of LINQ (Language Integrated Query) support to its Chat SDK, enabling developers to use LINQ syntax for querying and manipulating data within chat applications. This enha
Vercel's Chat SDK has integrated support for Novu, a notification infrastructure platform, enabling developers to add notification capabilities to their chat applications. This integration allows for
Vercel's Chat SDK has added integration support for Sendblue, enabling developers to incorporate Sendblue's messaging capabilities into their chat applications. This expansion allows for broader messa
This guide from OpenAI covers techniques for optimizing the use of Codex (their code generation model) for extended programming tasks and projects that require sustained AI assistance. It likely discu
Ben Weiss / Fortune: Crypto trading app Fomo raised a 75M Series B led by Index at a 550M valuation, taking its total funding to ~$94M, and claims to add 3,500 new users per day — Two established inve
DataOps is a set of practices and tools that apply DevOps principles to data engineering, focusing on automating data pipelines, improving data quality, and enabling faster iteration cycles. The strat
Daybreak is an OpenAI initiative focused on developing and distributing security tools designed to protect organizations globally from cyber threats. The program aims to democratize access to advanced
The next era of AI will not be defined by compute alone. Its growth will be determined by energy. As accelerated computing scales across AI factories, agentic AI, industrial AI, edge computing and phy
In this post, we walk through the problem space, our architecture on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, the evaluation methodology we built on OpenStreetMap ground truth, four experiment
DAQIRI (Data Acquisition for Integrated Real-time Instruments) is a high-performance networking library that streams data from fast detectors . DAQIRI keeps up by handling the stream as it arrives , e
IBM Quantum Credits is a program that provides researchers and developers with access to IBM's quantum computing systems to explore and develop advanced quantum algorithms. The initiative enables user
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Filing: Oracle's global workforce fell by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months to 141,000 as of May 31; the company says AI adoption has led to reductions — Oracle Corp. redu
AMD removed Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) from consumer Ryzen CPUs through a silent AGESA 1.2.7.0 firmware change, but reversed this decision after user backlash. AMD confirmed in June t
At the ISC conference running in Hamburg this week, NVIDIA is introducing new software that speeds AI for science, from chemistry and materials discovery to the search for dark matter. The NVIDIA DAQI
GLM-5.2 represents a significant advancement in open-source AI agent capabilities, marking a notable improvement over previous versions in terms of performance and functionality. The article from Inte
General Motors temporarily laid off 1,300 workers at its Factory Zero EV plant due to sluggish demand for battery-powered vehicles , following the discontinuation of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit .
Google LLC is investing around $75 million into the independent movie studio A24 Films LLC in order to explore the potential of artificial intelligence further in the entertainment industry. A24, whic
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing ~75M, roughly equal to Thrive's 2024 investment — Searc
Zsana Hoskins / Bloomberg: Groq raised 650M led by Disruptive and Infinitum after its Nvidia deal, aiming to hit 200 MW in capacity by the end of 2027, following a 750M raise in 2025 — Groq Inc. raise
Hot tubs sit at about 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, warm enough that most people can only soak for about 15 minutes. NVIDIA’s newest AI servers can run their cooling liquid even hotter — up to 45 degrees
The US government ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models in June 2026, citing national security concerns related to jailbreak vulnerabilities that cou
As AI factories evolve into “data centers of the future,” the infrastructure stack must also transform into a mix of CPU and GPU platforms that can deliver a full set of AI computing solutions. This r
This newsletter issue covers three major AI topics: techniques for making AI systems more persuasive ('superpersuasion'), the concept of self-sustaining or self-improving AI systems, and various theor
Sarah Basford Canales / The Guardian: In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes leaders warn AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, urging leaders to “act now” —
Vercel increased the maximum number of projects that can be linked to a single Git repository, allowing developers to deploy multiple projects from the same repository without hitting previous limitat
Seven months after inking a 20 billion chip licensing deal with Nvidia Corp., Groq Inc. today announced that it has raised 650 million in funding. Growth investment firm Disruptive and hedge fund Infi
It’s cold, it’s very, very noisy, and—if I can be quite honest with you—I’m not feeling super relaxed. I’m currently around 300 meters, or 1,000 feet, beneath the North Sea, in a dark, dank cave. It s