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NOAA forecasts a 55% chance of a below-normal 2026 Atlantic hurricane season (June 1 - November 30) with 8-14 named storms, 3-6 hurricanes, and 1-3 major hurricanes. The below-average forecast is driv

Pigeons possess iron-rich macrophages in their livers that act as magnetic sensors, enabling detection of Earth's magnetic field for navigation. Removal of these cells disrupts magnetic-based homing,

IBM Corp. today introduced a new cloud sovereignty tool aimed at helping enterprises demonstrate compliance, operational control and governance as artificial intelligence deployments expand across hyb

IBM Corp. and its Red Hat subsidiary today launched an initiative called Project Lightwell to improve the security of open-source projects. Project Lightwell is backed by a 5 billion commitment. In ad

Bloomberg: Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows to protect the company's 900,000 employees from AI and automation, saying it will “do everything possible” — JD.com Inc. founder Liu Qiang

Raphael Satter / Reuters: Letter: US Central Command says it received “threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data” to target US personnel in war zones — U.S. forces d

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security and governance platform for AI agents, raised a 30M Series A led by Balderton at an estimated 180M valuation — Geordie AI, a Lon

Semiconductor specialists Marvell Technology Inc. and Synopsys Inc. today posted quarterly revenue numbers that topped analyst expectations. The two companies also raised their guidance. Both attribut

Microsoft is launching a revamped version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, offering a cleaner design that the company claims loads twice as fast. As part of this update, Copilot will provide more reliable an

Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: Microsoft overhauled Copilot's design in Microsoft 365 with a minimalist black-and-white, text-focused interface aimed at creating a more consistent experience — The AI

Hyperconverged cloud infrastructure company Nutanix Inc. delivered a mostly upbeat earnings report today, easily beating estimates on profit and revenue, and investors liked the news as the company’s

Shares of Okta Inc. rose more than 6% in late trading today, while SentinelOne Inc. fell more than 18%, as the two cybersecurity companies reported quarterly results hours apart with sharply different

OpenCode now integrates with DigitalOcean's Inference Router, enabling intelligent routing of AI model requests across distributed infrastructure. This integration allows developers to optimize model

MIT researchers developed a low-temperature process for extracting battery-grade lithium from the common mineral spodumene. The process uses a liquid reagent to dissolve the rock into useful forms inc

Today, I’m talking with Wassym Bensaid, the chief software officer at Rivian, and the co-CEO of Rivian’s platform joint venture with Volkswagen, which everyone just calls RV Tech. That joint venture k

Salesforce Inc. delivered stronger-than-expected financial results today, but the software vendor came up short when it issued its current quarter and full-year revenue forecast, as the stock barely m

Choi Yeon-jae / The Korea Herald: Samsung's Securities, SDS, and Card units jointly acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange, in a ~$446M all-cash deal — Samsung

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Snowflake stock closed up 36% on Thursday, its best day ever, after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon — Software stocks popped on Thursda

Axios: Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~12B valuation, up from 8B late last year, and hit 1.5B in ARR, up from 1B in October — Payments firm Airwallex has raised

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks — Senio

Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease — Apollo Global Management Inc

Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok is cutting music label-facing jobs to focus on its music distribution arm SoundOn and other projects that connect it more directly with artists — Music has been core to TikT

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the DSA for allegedly failing to adequately stop the sale of illegal products; further penalties could follow — Chinese online re

Sean Hollister / The Verge: The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from 399 in 2022 to 789 today, is the end of an era for gaming handhelds, coming amid RAMageddon, tariffs, and the Iran war — The Steam De

Apple's long-awaited Siri overhaul, expected to arrive in iOS 27, might look a lot like ChatGPT with a splash of Liquid Glass. Renders from Bloomberg offer a preview of iOS 27, including the new app a

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Triomics, which is building an AI-powered platform to help oncologists automate data-heavy tasks, raised a 22M Series B, following a 15M Series A in 2024 — Triomics, a star

Chris Vallance / BBC: UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years — Scientists from K

Unity Catalog, Databricks' open governance solution, integrates with Apache Iceberg to provide unified metadata management, access controls, and data lineage across data lakes and warehouses. This int

New features coming to YouTube could make it better for listening to podcasts, rolling out to Premium subscribers starting today on Android and coming later to iOS. A new 'on-the-go mode' shifts YouTu

YouTube is launching a new AI feature that creates a personalized video feed based on descriptions of what you want to watch. In its announcement, YouTube says custom content feeds can be built around

By the time that the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district wraps up in June, Anthropic and OpenAI will have spent millions on their battle over the political future of AI: who

Airis Labs Ltd., a provider of video analysis software for government agencies, launched today with 60 million in funding. The startup raised just over half the capital through a Series A round led by

Reuters: Amazon says it invested £15B in the UK in 2025, including new sites and expanded studio facilities, keeping it on track to invest £40B over three years by 2027 — Amazon (AMZN.O) invested over

Databricks announced the launch of Change Data Feed (CDF) for Lakebase, a feature that captures and tracks data modifications (inserts, updates, deletes) in real-time or batch processes. This capabili

Blockchain privacy company Aztec Labs Ltd. announced today that it has acquired Obsidion Labs Ltd., the British startup behind zero-knowledge identity protocol ZKPassport. The deal comes as government

This Databricks blog post provides guidance on optimizing business intelligence serving infrastructure for both performance and total cost of ownership. It likely covers best practices for configuring

Broadcom Inc. today debuted three new chips designed to power multi-gigabit Wi-Fi 8 routers. Wi-Fi 8 is an upcoming version of the eponymous networking standard that is set to be finalized in 2028. Ch

In this post, we share how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) collaborated with Works Human Intelligence (WHI) to build two AI agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. We discuss the chal

A new report out today from Cisco Systems Inc. argues that none of the closed flagship large language models it tested can be considered safe once an attacker is allowed to push past a single prompt,

Shares in Everpure Inc., formerly Pure Storage Inc., fell more than 7% in late trading today despite the data storage company beating expectations on revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2027 first quar

Financial Times: How AI is starting to dismantle the hegemony of the Big Four consultancies and other large firms, as AI agents help smaller consultancies handle big workloads — The technology opens t

Databricks' lakebase architecture incorporates design principles and mechanisms to maintain resilience and availability when cloud infrastructure failures occur. The architecture likely employs redund

HP Inc. reported revenue and earnings beats in its fiscal 2026 second-quarter results today, with stronger-than-expected demand for commercial PCs driving 9% revenue growth at the personal computer an

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: HP reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to 14.4B, vs. 14B est., Personal Systems revenue up 13% to $10.2B, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS above estimates — HP Inc. gave a profit forecast

Databricks introduced Always-On pricing, a new pricing model for Databricks Lakehouse that provides automatic cost savings to customers. This pricing option likely offers discounted rates for committe

Astronomers directly measured the mass of a black hole in a 'little red dot' observed when the universe was just 700 million years old, finding it is much too massive for its host galaxy, suggesting i