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Artificial intelligence played a prominent role at this week’s Bio International Convention in San Diego, the largest biotech event with vendors spanning the full ecosystem of companies in this indust

Telecom operators have seen remarkable returns from using generative AI to automate network management, customer care and back-office operations. Most of that impact has been task‑based: automation th

News Highlights: NVIDIA technology runs 81% of the TOP500 and 90% of the systems new to the list. 26 systems on the TOP500 adopted the NVIDIA Grace CPU, up eight from the previous list. The top eight

Sacramento County deputies used a drone to disarm a suspect during a standoff in a 'nationwide first.' Deputies attached a strong magnet to the drone and flew it toward the suspect's hand, with the dr

Identity and access management company Okta Inc. today said more than 25 software makers have signed on to its Cross App Access framework, which routes the connections artificial intelligence agents m

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: On the first day of their trial, two members of Scattered Spider plead guilty in the UK to charges stemming from a 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London — Two men p

Telecommunications is an incredibly complex, highly specialized domain. Modern mobile networks are inherently multi-vendor, featuring diverse and often proprietary data structures. While AI has made m

Financial Times: OpenAI debuts at Cannes Lions, pitching its new ChatGPT ad business and Codex to marketers, as it tries to build a multibillion-dollar business ahead of an IPO — Lossmaking AI group i

Tool: OPFS + Pyodide test harness I've been pondering if Datasette Lite - the Python Datasette application run entirely in the browser using Pyodide and WebAssembly - might be able to edit persistent

Oracle reduced its workforce by 21,000 employees (13% of global headcount) as part of a restructuring to expand AI adoption across operations and investments. The company's capital expenditure jumped

Orderful Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make supply chains more efficient, today announced that it has raised 35 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Koch Disruptive Tec

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Orderful, which offers AI-powered tools to automate supply chain data management, raised a 35M Series C led by KDT, bringing its total funding to 85M — Orderful Inc., a

ParallelKernelBench is a benchmark from Together AI that evaluates frontier large language models' ability to write optimized multi-GPU CUDA kernels, revealing significant limitations in current LLMs'

Partly Group Ltd., a New Zealand startup using artificial intelligence to change up the automotive parts business, announced today that it has raised 50 million new funding at a 500 million valuation.

Probook is an AI operating system for home services built around dispatch that automates intake, dispatch, and customer communications across the entire customer experience, expanding margins for serv

MIT engineers have found the first direct evidence that plant seeds can sense sounds in nature: Rice submerged in shallow water germinated 30% to 40% more quickly when exposed to vibrations from water

The Vercel CLI now preserves locally configured environment variables when linking a project, preventing them from being overwritten by remote environment variable settings. This feature allows develo

Prosper AI Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence software for healthcare organizations, today announced that it has raised 30 million in funding. The Series A round was led by Andreessen Horowit

This article from Ben's Bites likely covers methods or tools for documenting and recording professional skills, possibly in the context of AI-assisted learning, portfolio building, or skill verificati

Vercel has introduced a redesigned trace viewer for Vercel Workflows that improves the visualization and debugging experience for workflow executions. The updated interface likely provides enhanced vi

With an adaptable fastener designed at CSAIL, pitching a tent or adjusting the cast for a broken bone could be almost as easy as zipping your coat. The researchers, led by associate professor Stefanie

This IBM Research article discusses optimizing AI inference performance and costs by leveraging mixed hardware configurations, combining different types of processors and accelerators rather than rely

Jan Wolfe / Reuters: SCOTUS ends a suit alleging Cisco aided China's Falun Gong persecution, further limiting a law used to hold corporations liable for overseas human rights abuses — The U.S. Supreme

In this post, you will learn patterns for implementing production-ready multi-tenant systems using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. You will see these patterns demonstrated through healthcare AI agents that

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. delivered mixed results in its first earnings report since going public last month, beating Wall Street’s revenue projections but falling short on earnings, sending its

The national conversation about the value of education is currently dominated by speculation about the risks and positive potential of AI. Whatever your own perspective on that debate, I hope you’ll b

This article describes Hugging Face's automated weekly release process for the huggingface_hub library, which combines AI-assisted tools with human oversight to streamline software deployment. The app

Cybersecurity company Snyk Ltd. today launched Evo Agentic Development Security, a new layer of its artificial intelligence security platform built to police the autonomous coding agents that increasi

Last week, Midjourney, an AI startup best known for its image generator, made an unusual pivot: medical imaging. The company announced a futuristic ultrasound scanner that would dunk users into a vat

Sony released the first trailer for Taika Waititi's dystopian sci-fi film 'Klara and the Sun,' starring Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, and Natasha Lyonne. The film is based on Kazuo Ishiguro's New York Time

When Sony announced the Xperia 1 VIII last month, it promoted the phone by sharing some of the worst photos taken on a Sony camera in years. These weren't just any photos, though: they were taken with

Dinesh Nair / Bloomberg: Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX has raised close to 50B from regional sovereign wealth funds, global pension funds, and others to accelerate spending on AI deals — Abu Dhabi's MGX ha

Bloomberg: Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce space and defense parts, is in talks to raise ~1B at a ~7.5B post-money valuation — Company runs AI-powered factories tha

New York Times: Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers — The experimental app, internal

Bloomberg: Sources: Miami-based cybersecurity company Varonis is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest; VRNS jumps 6%+ — Cybersecurity company Varonis Systems

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Sources: prices for Nvidia's AI chips on China's black market have more than doubled amid a US export crackdown; its flagship DGX B300 server has risen to $1.1M — US

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX, which is seeking to raise between 20B and 25B in its debut US bond sale, has drawn about 89B of demand — SpaceX Loses 600 Billion in Value Over Three Days — Video Player is

Bloomberg: Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from several game studio investments in Japan, including Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio — Tencent Holdings Ltd. is negot

New York Times: Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review; Meta is the only major US AI developer without an agreement — Federal officials are urg

Chloe Taylor / CNBC: South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading — Global stocks sold

Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for: America’s scientific and technological leadership Merit-based admissions and affordable education Advances that increase US health, sec

Financial Times: Stark, which has a deal to supply “kamikaze” drones to the German military, raised €500M from Founders Fund, Sequoia, others; it faced criticism over Thiel ties — US billionaire's fun

Here’s a problem you probably didn’t solve in school: You’re an ambitious young plumber from Brooklyn in a world inhabited by violent human-size mushrooms called Goombas. The love of your life has bee

Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero, which has 19M+ registered users and 30M in annual recurring revenue; PitchBook: GPTZero is valued at 88M+ — As AI-gene

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Syntun: online sales during China's 618 shopping festival grew 4% YoY, a drop from 15.2% growth in 2025, amid China's persistent consumer spending slowdown — BEIJING — China's con

Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled al