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Notion is shutting down Notion Mail, its AI-enhanced email client launched in April 2025 based on the Skiff acquisition, on September 22. More than 50% of Notion Mail users now manage their email usin

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Notion plans to shut down its Gmail client Notion Mail on September 22 and go “all in” on AI agents to run inboxes, saying 50%+ of users do not open the inbox — Last year, Notion e

Om Malik / On my Om: Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59 — Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital af

OpenAI Group PBC will roll out its next model, GPT-5.6, to a small group of partners rather than the public at the request of the Trump administration, the latest sign that Washington now wants to rev

The Trump administration, apprehensive of potential security issues, has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its next big-ticket model, GPT-5.6. The Information reported that OpenAI CEO

This post shows you how to configure training jobs on Amazon SageMaker AI to get the most out of Blackwell’s architecture on AWS. You learn how to select batch sizes and sequence lengths that take adv

Linear Elastic Caching addresses the problem of minimizing total cache cost by accounting for both cache misses and memory footprint over time. The approach connects this problem to ski rental algorit

Artificial intelligence startup Ornn AI Inc. made a big splash today as it raised 33 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto-focused fund and others to build out a marketplace for co

Ana Maria Constantin / The Next Web: Paris-based Tsuga, whose observability software runs in customers' own clouds to help them skip per-byte ingestion costs, raised a 35M Series A led by Singular — T

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a 50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to 70M — AI agents ar

Qiskit Paulice is a quantum error correction technique developed by IBM Research that uses postselection to improve the reliability of quantum computations. The method selectively retains quantum meas

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping assistants

In this technical collaboration between AWS and the authors, we present a pragmatic solution: agentic overlays. Agentic overlays are thin wrapper layers that transform traditional REST-based services

This article discusses routing infrastructure and architectural approaches for serverless computing platforms, examining how systems like Pingora and Envoy handle request routing and load balancing, w

DigitalOcean has launched a cloud-based service enabling users to run OpenAI's Codex, an AI code generation model, on DigitalOcean's infrastructure. This offering allows developers to access Codex cap

Artificial intelligence developer-centric cloud provider Runpod Inc. announced Tuesday it has raised 100 million in early-stage funding, pushing the valuation of the company to 1 billion. The Series A

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Sail, whose software optimizes how AI models run on existing chips, emerges from stealth with 80M in seed and Series A led by Kleiner at a 450M valuation — For months, Klei

Salesforce Inc. is launching a new prepackaged artificial intelligence agent for customer service, enabling organizations to quickly build and deploy AI agents. Today Salesforce announced Help Agent,

Artificial intelligence startup Scaled Cognition Inc. today announced that it has raised 100 million in funding. Khosla Ventures led the Series A deal with participation from Genesys Telecommunication

NVIDIA TensorRT's multi-device inference feature scales inference across multiple GPUs, enabling deployment of models that exceed single-GPU memory or reducing latency for memory-bound workloads. Each

Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg: SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut helped support Softbank's stock — SoftBank Gr

Ethan Gach / Kotaku: Sony's Bungie says it is laying off a “significant number of employees”, including “most of the Destiny team”; Bungie has an estimated headcount of 800 — The studio said the sci-f

Ann Gehan / The Information: Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models — Google i

Alan Neuhauser / Axios: Source: Muon Space, which operates satellite networks for climate and national security monitoring, is raising 250M; it has raised ~181M since its 2021 launch — Muon Space, whi

Alberto Nardelli / Bloomberg: Sources and a draft document: the US proposes that the EU sign on to an AI partnership to help secure chip supply chains; the one-page statement had few details — The US

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to skip higher-end M6 chips and launch its next Pro and Max chips in 2027 as part of the M7 lineup, to boost on-device AI capabilities — Apple Inc. is mak

Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Bumble explores a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector; its shares fell 48% over the past 12 months, giving it a market cap of $388M — Dating app Bumble

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to “midtraining” to try to catch up with Anthropic, after major executive departures — Google is r

Will Canny / CoinDesk: Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a 385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens — Crypto exchange Kraken, pa

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end — Facebook parent is accelera

New York Times: Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions — The A.I. company's advi

The Information: Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT 5.6 over security concerns, approving “access customer by customer” — For AI companies on t

Written by: Jordan Jones Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has conducted an in-depth analysis of a .NET backdoor, tracked as STOCKSTAY, that has been continually developed and deplo

Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data — Palo Alto-based bl

Vercel explores how to teach AI agents to understand and participate in product design processes, likely discussing methods for training agents to assist with design decisions, user experience conside

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. Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants Europe is

Bloomberg: The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand chip equipment export controls that would constrain ASML's ability to sell immersion DUV machines to China — The Netherlands is lobbying the

Europe experienced severe heatwaves beginning in late May 2026, with the first starting May 24 bringing temperatures 10-15°C higher than normal and causing several deaths. A second, more intense heat

Summer savings are heating up. From the Steam Summer Sale to GeForce NOW membership discounts, this week’s GFN Thursday delivers double the deals and more ways to get the most value from cloud gaming.

James Attwood / Bloomberg: The US awards 250M in CHIPS funds to a startup co-founded by billionaire mining magnate Robert Friedland to develop silicon-carbide chips and pulsed-power tech — I-Pulse Inc

Wall Street Journal: TRM Labs: Iran-linked wallets, including those tied to Iran's central bank, have moved over 3.84B in transactions through the crypto exchange CoinEx since 2019 — Iranian entities

TrueFoundry Inc., a startup providing management for artificial intelligence workloads, announced Wednesday that it acquired open-source cloud-agnostic enterprise machine learning platform Seldon Tech

Researchers introduce generative causal testing, which translates black box models into clear hypotheses and verifies them in the scanner, revealing what specific brain regions respond to in language.

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare: Upside, which provides social workers with AI-powered housing insights, raised a 20M Series A led by Aquiline with Flare Capital, 645, and others participating — fu

This analysis examines the growing power demands of behind-the-meter datacenters in the US, projecting capacity could exceed 40GW by 2028, and discusses how grid constraints and infrastructure limitat

David Politis / Utah Money Watch: Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an 81M Series B at a 1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation from Pelion and Cervin — The Utah eCommerc