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Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. more than quadrupled its revenue growth in the most recent quarter as it continued to benefit from surging demand linked to the artificial intelligence industr

Bloomberg: Sources: Google AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are planning to leave for Anthropic — Two leading artificial intellig

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, accessing Claude 28.8M times from April to June via ~25K accounts — Anthropic

Moneycontrol: Sources: India drives 50%+ of WhatsApp's revenue, generating $1B+ annually, largely via business messaging, likely helping Kunal Shah get WhatsApp's top job — A prolific angel investor k

Financial Times: Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise a funding round at a ~40B valuation that may close as soon as Q3; Kalshi raised 1B at a $22B valuation in May — Rapidly growing company is increas

Reuters: Sources: Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, based partly on connectivity tech from Alphawave Semi, which Qualcomm acquired in 2025 — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) is in talks to p

Hugo Lowell / Wired: Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 — At high-stakes me

Dong Cao / Bloomberg: Sources: Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar Hong Kong share sale after its stock surged 2,000% since its January IPO, pushing its market cap above $128B — Chinese artific

The common cold comes for us all—often more than once a year. And there is no way to prevent it. The best you can do is take vitamin C and stay away from people with the sniffles. Now the payment comp

Talos was built to help resolve a major bottleneck in genomic medicine: human review time. The open-source system recovered 90% of in-scope diagnoses while surfacing just 1.3 candidate variants per pa

The expensive, $27 million political proxy war between Anthropic and OpenAI came to a draw last night when Alex Bores, a New York state Assemblyman whose popularity surged after being targeted by a pr

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. Introducing: the Engineering issue We can’t fix everything, bu

AI is booming. New use cases are emerging each day. To capitalize on the technology’s potential, enterprises require data at scale. In many cases, though, the relevant information is blocked or unstru

Right out of the box, the new Google Home Speaker passed a couple of important tests. Even with the volume at 100 percent and music blaring out of the speaker, it quickly ducked the audio and listened

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: The US FDA drops an enforcement complaint against Whoop over its blood pressure tracking tool, reversing a July 2025 warning letter; Whoop is updating the tool — The US Foo

As soon as August, a giant silver bullet will cut its way through the dry air of the southwestern US and cross the Pacific to reach the coast of Japan. Once there, the roughly 200-foot-long craft, bui

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Trase, which is building an operating system and infrastructure layer for AI agents in industries like health care and defense, raised a 107M seed led by Arch — Trase, an AI

Slate Auto's Blank Slate is a stripped-down, two-seat electric pickup truck starting at $24,950, featuring a 65 kWh LFP battery pack with 205 miles of range and 181 horsepower. The vehicle achieves it

New research explores how game theory can optimize NVIDIA Dynamo disaggregated serving architectures, revealing critical performance thresholds and reducing worst-case AI inference latency by up to 7.

Upbound Inc. today released Modelplane, a new open-source tool for managing artificial intelligence inference clusters. San Francisco-based Upbound is backed by $69 million from Alphabet Inc.’s GV fun

Jack Healy / New York Times: Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, who championed a huge data center beside the Great Salt Lake, lost his Republican primary on Tuesday after voter backlash — The upse

Vercel Flags now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication by default for Vercel deployments, eliminating the need to manually configure SDK Keys. This security improvement simplifies the setup pr

Vultr has integrated AMD Enterprise AI Software into its VKE (Vultr Kubernetes Engine) marketplace, enabling customers to deploy AI solutions more easily on Vultr's cloud infrastructure. This integrat

The California Science Center in Los Angeles will open the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center on November 13, revealing Space Shuttle Endeavour in its launch position. This will be the only place

This Databricks blog post explores how organizations can leverage their existing data assets to find answers to business questions without requiring additional data collection or external sources. The

This article discusses why Databricks leaders argue that the frontier AI ecosystem should remain open rather than closed, likely covering topics such as open-source AI development, the benefits of col

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: XCures, which uses AI to streamline patient data and medical records, raised a 46M Series B at a 127M post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to 76M — XCur

Written by: Chester Sng, Pete Boonyakarn, Logeswaran Nadarajan Introduction In early 2026, Mandiant identified a threat actor targeting SD-WAN infrastructure at a service provider. After gaining initi

The conversations at last week’s AWS Summit NYC 2026 showed that AI evolution is entering a new phase. From physical robots tackling labor shortages to agentic systems reshaping enterprise operations,

With a test being developed at MIT, diagnosing pneumonia and other lung conditions could someday be as easy as breathing into a tube. The test, dubbed PlasmoSniff, is a portable, chip-scale sensor tha

The 2026 Toyota C-HR is a fully electric compact SUV constructed on Toyota's dedicated e-TNGA battery-electric platform, positioned as the brand's most style-forward and performance-leaning EV. It off

Brian Sietsema has a favorite word. It’s somewhat surprising that he can choose just one. He’s the person spellers rely on to confirm pronunciations and answer questions about the roots of the words t

ABC launched an on-air campaign urging viewers to support 'The View' and eight Disney-owned ABC affiliates in its battle with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC launched an investiga

This article analyzes SpaceX's valuation and business model through the lens of AI infrastructure, arguing that SpaceX functions as a 'Neocloud' (a next-generation cloud computing platform) generating

Ben Kamisar / NBC News: Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate who argued for AI safeguards, lost to Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary, which drew millions in AI PAC spending — NBC News project

Bloomberg: Alibaba sues the DOD, seeking removal from a blacklist of companies supporting China's military, says the decision is a violation of constitutional due process — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

French semiconductor startup AlpSemi SAS today announced that it has raised €17 million, or about 19.5 million, in funding. The investment was led by Paris-based private equity firm Yotta Capital. Nas

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: An interview with Nvidia VP of Healthcare Kimberly Powell on how AI can ease doctors' workloads, help address trained medical staff shortages, and more — The chipma

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI coworker for Slack that can learn context, give suggestions, and more, in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise tiers — ZDNET's key ta

Cloudflare Inc. and newsletter platform beehiiv Inc. today launched an integration that hands independent publishers a single toggle to decide whether artificial intelligence crawlers can reach their

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control to writers' dashboards, allowing them to decide whether AI crawlers can scrape their work — Cloudflare Inc. and newsletter platfor

Allium Inc., a startup that provides financial institutions with data about the cryptocurrency market, has raised 40 million in funding. Amplify Partners led the Series A round. Allium stated in its a

DFlash is an open source block diffusion model for speculative decoding that significantly accelerates LLM inference on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs by drafting entire token blocks in parallel and verifying

This post shows you how to build a conversational protein research assistant that combines three capabilities: Natural language query parsing to extract structured search parameters, vector similarity

The NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit enables AI scientists to use structure prediction, molecular generation, docking, sequence analysis, design, and genomics as callable tools , allowing AI agents to exe

CUGA is a lightweight framework from IBM Research for building agentic AI applications, featuring two dozen practical working examples. The framework enables developers to create autonomous AI agents