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Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Upscale, which is building AI networking infrastructure to rival Cisco, raised a 190M Series A-1 at a 2B valuation, up from 1B after raising 200M in January — Every time co

Jay Peters / The Verge: Valve says Steam Machine, its new living room-friendly PC, will start at $1,049 for the 512GB base model, and go on sale starting June 29 — You can register your interest start

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Valve Steam Machine review: much smaller than PS5, surprisingly smooth, and navigable with any modern gamepad but very expensive and needs manual configuration — My first d

Vercel has added support for signing blob URLs directly through the Vercel CLI, enabling developers to generate authenticated URLs for accessing stored blobs. This feature enhances security by allowin

Vercel Flags is a platform-native feature flagging system integrated directly into Vercel's deployment platform, enabling developers to control feature rollouts and perform A/B testing without externa

This article discusses using local language models to automatically triage pull requests in the OpenClaw repository at no cost, eliminating the need for expensive API-based solutions. The post likely

Vercel announced that WebSocket support has entered public beta, enabling developers to use WebSocket connections on the Vercel platform. This feature allows for real-time, bidirectional communication

Latent Space is offering an exclusive promotion providing $250 off tickets to an AI Engineer event, with the discount valid until Monday. This appears to be a time-limited offer announced through thei

Samsung Electronics deployed OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex tools to its employees, integrating AI capabilities into their workforce operations. This implementation likely enabled Samsung staff to leverag

sqlite-utils is my combined Python library and CLI tool for working with SQLite databases. It provides an extensive set of higher-level operations on top of Python's default sqlite3 package, including

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents The announcement says this is 'for AI agents' but (as is pretty common these days) the AI hook isn't really necessary, this is an interesting feature for ev

The Trump administration funded 12 coal plants, at least three of which have been repeatedly cited for violating environmental regulations. The administration invested approximately $500 million in ta

Adding more artificial intelligence agents to the workflow doesn’t make an enterprise smarter. In fact, it can make operations harder to manage. The problem is not the capabilities of individual agent

Every time users belatedly discover that an artificial intelligence feature has been drawing on their data in ways they did not fully grasp, the reaction is often an instinctive sense of violation – o

Public sector organizations are increasingly rethinking how they manage critical infrastructure as demands for always-on digital services and greater operational efficiency continue to grow. As govern

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 mill

The UK Home Office is testing facial age estimation technology throughout 2026, with plans to implement it at the border in 2027 to help determine whether undocumented asylum seekers are adults or chi

Elastic NV has reportedly acquired Deductive AI Inc., a startup with a platform that helps enterprises fix errors in their technology infrastructure. TechCrunch on Thursday cited a source as saying th

The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...] Maybe the idealized form

The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a set of orders designed to expedite data center projects. The agency’s five commissioners unanimously approved the directives on Thursday. The

This episode discusses the growing landscape of open-source AI models, contrasts the approaches and philosophies of Model Labs versus Agent Labs in AI development, and explores fundamental limitations

Financial Times: Analysis: Conservative and Reform UK MPs have increased their volume of posts on X since Elon Musk's takeover, while center-left politicians have reduced theirs — Majority of Labour a

Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude Big scoop for Maxwell Zeff at Wired: “We’re changing Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei is calling on the U.S. government to block the deployment of dangerous artificial intelligence models in the same way as it prevents unsafe airplanes from ta

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Applied Materials opens a 500M chip equipment manufacturing campus in Singapore, making the city-state home to ~50% of its production capacity alongside the US — SINGAPO

Cloud-based artificial intelligence infrastructure startup TensorWave Inc. said today it has closed on a bumper 350 million Series B funding round as it strives to meet demand for an alternative to Nv

Google LLC today released DiffusionGemma, a large language model based on an emerging machine learning approach known as text diffusion. The company says the algorithm can generate text four times fas

An astrophysicist leverages OpenAI's Codex AI model to accelerate the development of code for simulating black hole physics and behavior. Codex assists in generating complex scientific code more effic

Organizations are increasingly focused on AI-native development architectures where frontier agents handle complex tasks including identity, state, policies, evals, and long-running workflows through

Moneycontrol: Opendoor says it is shutting down its India operations and laying off nearly 250 employees, replacing them with smaller, AI-enabled teams in the US — Affected employees will receive seve

Drew Friedman / Federal News Network: US OPM awards a ~400M, 10-year IT contract to Oracle to develop a single, government-wide system for agencies to manage their HR capabilities — The nearly 400 mil

The government of Canada announced today that it’s mulling a ban on social media for children under 16, though unlike some other countries that have already introduced such a ban, Canada has said the

OpenAI models and Codex are available to Oracle Cloud customers through an integrated partnership, allowing users to access these AI capabilities within their existing Oracle cloud infrastructure and

AI FinOps is busy rewriting the rules of cloud financial management, systematically dismantling its own rulebook, which took nearly a decade to write. The shift goes deeper than simple cost optimizati

Databricks offers an AI serving platform designed to flexibly accommodate different machine learning models and their specific requirements. The platform likely provides features for deploying, scalin

This article from Latent Space discusses Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model, examining its capabilities in handling creative and mythological content while maintaining safety guardrails, along with cove

Akash Systems Inc. believes it has a solution for the heat problem of graphics processing units: lab-grown diamonds. The company originally got its start in space, managing solar radiation on satellit

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Alex Karp says Palantir's enterprise customers are “unhappy” with how the frontier labs are operating, believing the labs only care about tokenmaxxing — - Palantir CEO Alex Karp

Bloomberg: Amazon secures a 17.5B loan from Citigroup and other banks, after selling CA14B in bonds on Monday, the largest corporate debt offering in Canadian dollars — Soon after selling the biggest

Dario Amodei: An essay on policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, civil liberties, geopolitics — In one of the side plots

Databricks announced a storage ecosystem that enables organizations to govern and manage enterprise data across multiple storage locations and cloud environments. The solution addresses the need for u

Databricks announced a public preview feature enabling users to customize URLs for their workspace instances, improving accessibility and branding capabilities. This feature allows organizations to re

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Anthropic backtracks on a policy limiting Claude Fable 5's ability to develop other AI models, after significant backlash from the AI research community — The company changed cou

Anthropic: Anthropic releases two policy proposals on how governments should address catastrophic risks and manage labor market disruption from advanced AI systems — AI is advancing at exponential spe

Dean W. Ball / @deanwball: Anthropic secretly limiting Claude's usefulness for LLM development strengthens the argument that Anthropic is using AI safety to justify monopolistic behavior — My last obs

Sarah Guo: As AI commoditizes benchmarkable work, an organization's lasting moats lie in tasks that are verifiable through its private data and judgment — The mid-2026 investor's version of AI psychos