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The modern software development landscape isn’t happening just on one surface — it’s happening across an entire ecosystem of agentic tools. Agents are being developed at an unprecedented scale, and th

I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic last week began letting Mythos users share cybersecurity threats with others who may face similar vulnerabilities, modifying its previous stance — How

Dell Technologies Inc. today is kicking off its Dell Technologies World conference by expanding its artificial intelligence portfolio with enhancements aimed at helping enterprises move AI projects fr

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Internal chats: in March, xAI offered employees $420 in exchange for completed tax filings as training data for Grok, but the bonuses haven't been paid out — Elon Musk's xAI

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance — The com

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber increases its stake in Delivery Hero to 19.5%, up from 7% in April, and says it “has no intent to acquire 30% or more” of Delivery Hero's voting rights — Uber Technologi

Jack Kubinec / Fortune: Ciridae, which is developing AI to streamline back-office operations for real-economy businesses, raised a $20M seed led by Accel, with a16z participating — AI is swiftly rewir

The Hacker News: Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay — Grafana has disclosed that an “unautho

David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: Milan-based Webidoo, which develops an operational layer designed to help SMBs access AI tools, raised $25M led by IXC3 for North American expansion — Milan-based We

SaaS applications are being transformed into deterministic engines as AI agents replace traditional user interfaces and drive the rise of the headless enterprise — where AI, not humans, serves as the

Chipmaking equipment giant Applied Materials Inc. is expecting stronger sales this year compared with what it originally forecast, thanks to surging demand for artificial intelligence chips. The compa

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don't hav

In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involv

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Replit says it has “worked things out with Apple”, which has approved a Replit update after four months, following a reported dispute over vibe coding apps — All's well that ends w

Cowboy Space has filed FCC plans for a 20,000-satellite 'Stampede' orbital data center constellation, after raising $275 million to develop rockets whose upper stages would serve as computing platform

Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market — Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by

At the tech world’s poker table, Coupa Software Inc. is betting that 10 trillion in cumulative spend gives it an edge in artificial intelligence. Who’s to say it’s wrong? That’s how much Coupa’s execu

Anthropic PBC today launched an offering called Claude for Small Business that is designed to expand the adoption of its chatbot among entrepreneurs. The feature bundle is the fifth market-specific ve

Unified identity security platform provider Permiso Security Inc. today launched AI agent runtime security capabilities that give security teams continuous visibility into agent activity across cloud

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cerebras pops 68% in Nasdaq debut, pushing the AI chipmaker's market cap to 95 billion … Cerebras Systems soared 68% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, closing at 311.07 after selli

Cisco announced nearly 4,000 job cuts as part of a restructuring to shift investment toward artificial intelligence while simultaneously raising its annual revenue forecast after strong hyperscaler de

Freshworks Inc. today unveiled an expanded set of agentic capabilities in its Freshservice information technology service management platform led by a new no-code Freddy AI Agent Studio that lets ente

This Mitchell Hashimoto quote about Bun migrating from Zig to Rust reminded me of a similar conversation I had at a conference last week. I was talking to someone who worked for a medium sized technol

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Anthropic PBC today announced a major expansion of their alliance, as the consulting giant is set to roll out Claude Code and Claude Cowork across its workforce and trai

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital told its stakeholders that it has invested ~$100M in Shopify, framed as a bet on how AI could lead to gains in commerce — Josh

Open source AI trust has become a central concern for enterprises moving agentic AI into production, where governance, security and reliability matter as much as model performance. That pressure is la

XANI (X-ray Analysis for Nanoscale Imaging) is an accelerated computing pipeline developed by NVIDIA engineers for rapid X-ray data analysis. NVIDIA's accelerated computing enables real-time experimen

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to 15.84B, vs. 15.56B est., forecasts Q4 revenue above est., and is cutting almost 4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps 17%+ after hours — Cisco shares soare

Every day, thousands of hours of new video content sits waiting to be discovered. Most of it lives in long-form, horizontal formats, while audiences are scrolling through vertical feeds on their phone

Artificial intelligence risk management platform provider JupiterOne Inc. today announced the launch of two new offerings aimed at helping security teams get a handle on risk created by the sprawl of

Ashlee Vance / Core Memory: Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stack, launching Muse Spark, personal superintelligence, acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence, and more — Last June, Meta pri

Recursive Superintelligence Inc., a startup that hopes to develop self-improving artificial intelligence models, launched today with 650 million in funding. Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund and Greycroft led t

Mind Robotics Inc., an industrial robotics startup founded by Rivian Automotive Inc. Chief Executive RJ Scaringe, said today it has raised 400 million in new funding to put more of its artificial inte

Reuters: Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is shopping for artificia

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. A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial A startup ca

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: UK chip startup Fractile raised a $220M Series B led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Founders Fund to make specialized logic and memory chips for inference — Factori

Veeam Software Group GmbH today debuted new features that will make it easier for enterprises to back up their records and protect them from hackers. Some of the capabilities are rolling to the compan

Artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Grego AI formally launched today with a claimed method of using existing AI models to find critical software vulnerabilities that human auditors and other

Databricks announced a Student Fellows program designed to provide educational opportunities and professional development for undergraduate and graduate students interested in data engineering, data s

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Exaforce, which uses AI agents to detect and thwart cyberattacks, raised a 125M Series B at a 725M valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M — As bad actors weaponize

Enterprise software buyers are moving fast — and they’re no longer shopping the way they used to. The shift toward platform-centric, outcome-driven procurement is accelerating the new agentic reality

Full-stack observability startup Hound Technology Inc., which does business as Honeycomb, introduced a number of new platform updates aimed at investigating artificial intelligence agent activity in p

Molly Taft / Wired: Internal emails: xAI added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site — Emails show that Elon M

Pritam Biswas / Reuters: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery spinoff from Google DeepMind, raised 2.1B led by Thrive, after raising 600M in its first round in March 2025 — Isomorphic Labs, a

Ben Lang / Road to VR: Meta schedules its annual Connect event for September 23-24 and says the event will focus on “the latest in VR, wearables, metaverse, and AI” — Meta's annual Connect event is se