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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

Financial Times: Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets — In-house MeshClaw tool

Thinking Machines Lab Inc., the artificial intelligence research startup founded by former OpenAI Group PBC Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, wants to move beyond the era of “turn-based” AI intera

Human risk management is becoming a practical measure of enterprise security. The old playbook treated employees as the weak link; the new one has to account for people, AI agents and automated decisi

A California couple is suing OpenAI after their 19-year-old son, Sam Nelson, died from a drug overdose following advice from ChatGPT about combining kratom and Xanax . The lawsuit alleges OpenAI desig

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Agentic inference is set to be different than today's inference, and will change compute infrastructure because speed won't matter when humans aren't involved — Subscribe t

Shares of Circle Internet Group Inc. closed 15.9% higher today after it reported earnings, announced a token sale and debuted a new set of developer tools. NYSE-listed Circle issues the popular USDC s

At Google Cloud Next ’26 we announced Cloud Storage Rapid, a family of object storage capabilities for data-intensive workloads like AI and analytics. Out of the gate, Cloud Storage Rapid consists of

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its previous reboot shut down in March — Digg is back from the

Dustin Volz / New York Times: Google's TIG reports the first known example of hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day; TIG's chief analyst says “this is the tip of the iceberg” — The com

Managing a modern database fleet is both a scale and cognitive problem. As database estates grow, the effort required to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize them often outpaces teams’ capacity, who fi

CNBC: Nvidia embraces its role as an AI investor in 2026, committing 40B+ to equity investments including a 30B stake in OpenAI, 3.2B in Corning, and 2.1B in IREN — Nvidia stepped on the gas last year

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI facilitated a 6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600+ current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of 30M — Employee

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Netflix for allegedly spying on consumers by collecting their data without consent, and designing its platform to be addictive — Netflix (NFLX.O) w

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate rose from 3.6% in March to 3.8% in April, as the sector shed 13,000 jobs amid AI uncertainty — The job ma

Bloomberg: Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising a ~300M round led by a16z crypto at a ~2B valuation — Digital Asset Holdings LLC,

Krysta Fauria / Associated Press: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality — As conce

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens — In

Moneycontrol: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable — On Wall Street, the ann

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023 — The j

AI promised to change everything about how enterprises work — and human-AI collaboration was supposed to be the easy part. But what happens when the technology is ready and the organization isn’t? Tha

AI Ascent 2026 is Sequoia Capital's event that convened leading AI researchers and founders including Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, and Demis Hassabis. The event featured discussions on AI agents, s

Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted a set of features that artificial intelligence agents can use to make purchases. The capabilities are available in preview through the cloud giant’s Amazon Bedro

Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a 136.6M net loss on revenue of 5.2M for the three months ended March 31; sources: it could raise $1.5B+ — Quantinuum

Intel Corp. has reportedly inked a preliminary deal with Apple Inc. to produce chips for some of its devices. The Wall Street Journal today cited sources as saying that the contract was signed in rece

Researchers demonstrated that spin qubits hosted in bulk-manufactured quantum dots can be moved between quantum dots without losing quantum information. The ability to move qubits around could enable

In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny. Last week, Musk took the stand, alleging that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Anthropic has announced a major infrastructure deal valued at $5 billion annually for 300MW of power capacity to support Colossus I, its large-scale AI compute cluster, in partnership with SpaceX. The

Simon Sharwood / The Register: Arm expects the AGI CPU, its own AI chip for data centers, to drive 2B in sales in FY2027 and FY2028, doubling its March 2026 sales guidance for the period — Someone oth

CodeWords, operated by Agemo AI Ltd., today announced it raised 9 million in seed funding led by Visionaries to build artificial intelligence agents that don’t wait to build automations. Firstminute C

CNBC: Coinbase reports Q1 revenue down 31% YoY to 1.41B, vs. 1.52B est., and a loss of 1.49 per share, vs. a 0.27 profit est.; COIN drops 4%+ after hours — Coinbase posted lower-than-expected results

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves “the right to reclaim the compute” from Anthropic if its “AI engages in actions that harm humanity” — @MobofJoggers @nottombrown Just as SpaceX la

In 2018, Elon Musk wanted OpenAI founders Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever to lead Tesla's artificial intelligence projects. Musk proposed making OpenAI a Tesla subsidiary or hiring its t

Lambda Labs secured a $1 billion senior secured credit facility to fund the expansion of its AI infrastructure and meet growing demand for gigawatt-scale computational resources. This financing enable

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: Lyft reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to 1.65B, vs. 1.63B est., gross bookings up 19% to 4.95B, vs. 4.91B est., and rides up 8.5% to 236.9M, vs. 241.2M est. — The com

There weren't a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday's Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they've struck with SpaceX/xAI to use 'all of the capacity of their

Vibe Inc., the creator of a contextual artificial intelligence workspace platform that handles real-world meetings, introduced a wearable device today that brings an AI assistant to professionals wher