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Google announced changes to its Play Store model to settle its years-long legal fight with Epic Games, including lowering the commission fee to 20 percent on in-app purchases and creating a new progra

Superhuman Inc., the company formerly known as Grammarly, said today it has agreed to acquire GPTZero Inc., the startup whose detection tools tell teachers, editors and hiring managers when a piece of

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost — For decades

HelloTwin.ai GmbH today announced what it calls an accountable artificial intelligence AI twin that holds business intelligence and goals in a single source of truth. HelloTwin said it built its data

Take-Two Interactive will sell the standard version of Grand Theft Auto VI at 80, a more traditional price after speculation the company would raise costs . The 80 price exceeds that of most other PS5

Jeanne Whalen / Wall Street Journal: How Chicago is betting on quantum computing, including turning the site of the former US Steel mill into a campus, after largely missing the digital revolution — I

Daikin Applied Americas leverages Databricks' Genie Code to build and maintain data pipelines at scale with consistency and efficiency. The solution enables the organization to streamline data pipelin

In this post, we demonstrate the architecture and approach Loka used to solve a common frustration: robotic, slow voice assistants that cause customers to hang up, damaging brand reputation and drivin

New York Times: How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became its wealthiest hub; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household incomes of $146K, 5x the average — Fortunes, luxury buildin

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing it at ~$2.5B and listing under ticker symbol AGLT — Agili

In this post, we walk through how Huntington built a scalable AWS solution to detect and redact Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Payment Card Industry (PCI) data from over 400 million doc

The FFASR Leaderboard is a benchmarking platform introduced by Hugging Face for evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems on real-world performance metrics. It provides a standardized eval

Mobile application operations startup Kinoa Labs Ltd. said today it has raked in 10 million in funding to help app developers unlock more revenue from their users with its artificial intelligence-nati

David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: London-based Isometric, which develops AI agents that work with human verifiers to automate industrial certification, raised a €34M Series A led by AVP — Isometric h

A field guide to the new wave of long-horizon agent benchmarks: what each one actually measures, the realism-versus-verifiability bargain it strikes, and the seam where its score leaks. The post Long-

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Micron reports Q3 revenue up 346% YoY to 41.46B, vs. 35.84B est., gross margin above estimates, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; MU jumps 14%+ after hours — Micron's revenue mo

Lorelei Smillie / Bloomberg: Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to help take them down — Investigator

After Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ended the military's flu shot mandate in April 2026, a major flu outbreak struck Lackland Air Force Base in Texas , with at least 222 recruits diagnosed with th

Voice artificial intelligence company Modulate Inc. today launched a tool that flags AI-generated music straight from the audio. The product, an application programming interface called AI Music Detec

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on “basic Python errors” and data cherry-picking — Nature pa

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: New York-based Probook, which is building an AI operating system for home service businesses, raised a 34M Series A led by a16z and a 6M seed led by Sequoia — George Eliadi

Building AI systems at scale is demanding, requiring low-latency inference, fast vector search, strong GPU price-performance and infrastructure that can grow without multiplying operational complexity

Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: NYC-based Taktile, which helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows, raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, and plans a São Paulo office — Banks and

Law enforcement from the Netherlands, Canada, United States, and Germany disrupted TA569 (SocGholish) operations on June 18, 2026, taking down over 100 servers and domains worldwide and remediating 14

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first Intelligence Processor designed specifically for LLM inference , with early testing showing substantially better performance per watt than current

OpenAI: OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models — Loading... - Early testing shows

OpenAI and Broadcom announced a collaboration on a specialized inference chip designed to optimize the performance and efficiency of large language model deployments. The chip, referred to as 'Jalapen

OpenAI Group PBC today revealed a custom chip called Jalapeño that it will use to power its large language models. The processor is the fruit of a collaboration with Broadcom Inc., which is no strange

OpenAI has just revealed a new 'intelligence processor' chip for AI servers made in partnership with Broadcom. The chip, called Jalapeño, is designed to power current and future large language models,

Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: Ornn, which plans to launch a marketplace for GPU capacity designed to function like an exchange to trade oil contracts, raised a 33M seed led by a16z — Ornn raised 33 m

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5B valuation, and is set for €1B+ in annual recurring revenue by year's end — Paris

Vercel has increased the concurrent build limit for Pro team accounts from a lower threshold to 500 simultaneous builds, enabling teams to scale their deployment pipelines and handle larger volumes of

Casey Newton / Platformer: Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, hiring entry-level staff, and more — Matt Garman argu

On June 11th, 2026, over 350 developers, researchers, and engineers came together at The Midway in San Francisco for Vector Space Day, our first event of its kind in the United States and our first ma

Reuters: Qualcomm expects 15B in data center chip sales by 2029, raises its non-handset chip revenue forecast to 40B by 2029, up from 22B; QCOM jumps 13%+ after hours — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) said it expec

Lauren Goode / Wired: Qualcomm says it will acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026 — Modular, one of

Qualcomm Inc.’s stock jumped 14% in after-hours trading today after it shared a series of updates about its artificial intelligence roadmap. The company announced plans to acquire an inference softwar

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm unveils Dragonfly C1000, a new data center CPU built for agentic AI, and says Meta will use the chip when production starts in 2028 — Qualcomm shares jumped 15% in extende

In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links to LLM-generated GitHub projects, with p

Tom Phillips / IGN: Rockstar says physical copies of GTA 6 will contain a digital download code, not a disc; physical copies release on November 12, ahead of the November 19 launch — Keep it on the do

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost 79.99, or 99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; pre-orders start at midnight tonight — The game

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Runlayer, which provides an infrastructure and control layer for enterprise AI agents, raised a 30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to 42M — When longti

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised 100M led by Summit Partners at a 1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024 — By s

The Information: SambaNova Executive Chairman Lip-Bu Tan says the AI chip startup is set to raise 800M to 1B, sources say at a ~10B valuation, up from 2B in February — AI server chips that effectively

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Seltz, which is building a web search engine that can be used by AI agents, raised a $12.5M seed led by Speedinvest and B Capital — The rise of AI has rekindled the long-dormant

simonw/browser-compat-db Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service - source code here - I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository full of browser compatibility