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Google's new '24/7' AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. But I'm not sure it's worth the financial cost and potential privacy tradeoffs. The company gave me a
Michelle Ma / Bloomberg: Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a 250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom — Gigascale Cap
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: GitHub Copilot's new pricing model went into effect today, and many noted sticker shock with some saying a few hours of AI usage ate big chunks of monthly caps — In April,
Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US, in Tokyo's Omotesando district “this summer”, marking Google's 11th physical store — After being excl
Hackers exploited Meta's AI support chatbot to break into high-profile Instagram accounts by requesting the bot change associated email addresses. Compromised accounts included those of the Obama-era
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to change emails tied to Instagram accounts amid a wave of high-profile account takeovers; Meta fixed the issue — The exploit
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked I had trouble believing this story was true, but I've seen it verified from multiple sources now: One vid
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 uses a mixture-of-transformers architecture that pairs a reasoning transformer with a generation transformer, enabling it to understand object interactions and spatial-temporal relatio
Hermes from NousResearch is a strong open-source agent harness. This post examines how its runtime loop, context management, tool scoping, session infrastructure, and orchestration patterns map to a m
Processing millions of user reviews in real-time, under strict latency and cost constraints, is no easy task. Trustpilot has been doing exactly that with custom machine learning since long before larg
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: HPE reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to 10.7B, vs. 9.74B est., Server revenue up 33%, forecasts revenue for FY26 and FY27 above est.; HPE jumps 30%+ after hours — Hewlett Packard
Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg: IBM shares jump 9%+ after a six-month old video of Trump praising CEO Arvind Krishna was recirculated on X; IBM had surged ~40% in a little over two weeks — A nearly six-m
This newsletter issue discusses three key topics in AI development and safety: the challenges involved in overseeing and controlling advanced AI systems, empirical findings about how protein folding A
Intel plans to ship its Crescent Island AI GPU in 2026, targeting Nvidia and AMD on cost and power efficiency. The chip uses cheaper LPDDR5X memory and is designed to run in air-cooled server racks ra
Intel Corp. today announced that more than 130 design engagements for its Series 3 processor family for edge artificial intelligence and edge computing designs and also unveiled a new open-source fram
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: Internal documents: Chinese company Geedge is working to build AI tools to predict those who could pose a political risk, but US chip controls hampered its work — Ne
Mellum2 is a 12-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts language model developed by JetBrains, designed to efficiently process complex tasks by selectively activating different expert networks. The model
Application owners and platform engineers have long faced a difficult choice: spend excessively by over-provisioning to guarantee quick startups, or minimize costs but endure slow cold starts. We are
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli networking company DriveNets raised a 410M Series D led by Bessemer and Atreides at an 8.5B valuation, taking its total funding to ~1B — The Israeli networking company say
Ian King / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users for Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster for AI workloads than x86 chips — Nvidia Corp. sai
I just sent out the May edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Al got expensive, and Anthropic had
Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal: Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 5.6% YoY to ~13.5B, above ~13.4B est., and a ~$1B net loss, its third straight quarter of losses amid a food delivery price war — Meituan
Merge API Inc., a platform provider delivering connective infrastructure for artificial intelligence to business data and tools, launched Agent Handler for Employees, easing the strain on information
Meta's AI support chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared on Telegram, a hacker shows how they could take over an account by asking Meta's
Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this week in a bid to win back developers at its Build conference. I've been attending Build since the days when Microsoft called it the Professional Developers C
The Surface Laptop Ultra is Microsoft's direct answer to Apple's MacBook Pro, built in partnership with NVIDIA and running Windows on Arm with an RTX Spark chip. This 15-inch device features NVIDIA's
Sovereign cloud discussions have been a core part of artificial intelligence and infrastructure conversations for the past few years and are now critical to communications. Historically, the communica
The example of a growing restaurant Imagine you are running a restaurant chain. You just can't physically feel and touch things to know how your business operates. You need tools and a digital replica
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) announced an expanded collaboration with Moderna, committing up to $50 million to support preclinical development and Phase 1 clinical testin
Bloomberg: Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are aggressively shortening entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's $75B IPO, as Elon Musk targets retail investors — The company's ambitious listing
Ben Weiss / Fortune: New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised 60M, including a 25M Series A — Data is the oil of the AI boom—and
The NVIDIA AI Cloud ecosystem is accelerating the global buildout of AI factory infrastructure. Partners are expanding capacity to meet growing demand from enterprises, startups, nations, AI labs and
Nvidia Corp. today introduced a system-on-chip designed to power Windows laptops and compact desktops. RTX Spark, as the processor is called, will roll out alongside Windows upgrades that will make th
NVIDIA DSX OS is an open source, modular software platform designed for operating and scaling multi-tenant AI factories. It provides foundational technologies for building and operating AI factories,
As factories move from isolated automation to plant-wide intelligence, manufacturers need AI systems that can connect live machine signals, quality systems, work instructions and operational alerts in
Not content with just providing the infrastructure for the next generation of artificial intelligence agents, Nvidia Corp. is also providing the tools for developers to build them. At Nvidia GTC Taipe
Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter MoE open model; Artificial Analysis: it's the smartest open US model but trails the Chinese model Kimi K2.6 — It
Personal agents are exploding in popularity, with open source projects like OpenClaw and Hermes seeing rapid adoption by AI developer communities on GitHub. Built to adapt to individual preferences an
Nvidia Corp. said early Monday at the Computex conference in Taipei that it’s gearing up the production of its forthcoming Vera Rubin platform, which is set to become the foundation of a new generatio
NVIDIA Vera is a purpose-built CPU for agentic AI and reinforcement learning, delivering twice the efficiency and 50% faster performance than traditional rack-scale CPUs. The processor helps AI factor
Artificial intelligence adoption has brought hardware back in style, with Dell Technologies Inc. having an astounding week. The hardware firm saw an 88% jump in revenue and its stock closed up at 33%
This article analyzes the diverging performance trajectories between open-source and closed-source AI models, suggesting they follow different exponential growth curves rather than converging paths. T
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already u
OpenAI frontier models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4, and Codex, the OpenAI coding agent, are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. AWS customers can access these latest OpenAI models through the same Amaz
OpenAI outlines its positions on AI policy priorities and explains its approach to political engagement and advocacy efforts. The document likely covers key regulatory areas OpenAI supports, such as s
Aaron Holmes / The Information: Palo Alto Networks says Mythos found 24+ critical bugs using $1M+ in tokens; Anthropic subsidizes Mythos but some companies plan to boost their Mythos budgets — When Pa
IBM Research's June 2026 Ponder This Challenge presents a mathematical or logical puzzle involving superhero team movies. The challenge likely requires solvers to work through constraints and combinat
@theallinpod: Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic staffers believing “they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species”, and more — Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thi
Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in “founder mode”, differences between “founder mode and hustle culture”, AI customer service, listing hotels, and more — The ho
Vercel has made Qwen 3.7 Plus, an AI model, available through its AI Gateway service, allowing developers to access this model via Vercel's platform. This addition expands the model options available
Today, we’re excited to announce the ability to reference a secret in AWS Secrets Manager for AgentCore Identity, so you can reference your own preconfigured secret from Secrets Manager and retain ful
This article argues that the primary challenges in deploying reinforcement learning systems are infrastructure-related rather than algorithmic, focusing on issues like distributed training, simulation
Renowned mathematician Subhash Khot has joined IBM Research, bringing his expertise to the organization's research initiatives. Khot is known for his work in theoretical computer science and computati
Rohan Prabhu / Step Security Blog: Researchers find packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware that harvests credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, Azure, and others — Sev
The Information: Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; source: Salesforce paid between 1B and 1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021 — Salesforce is acquiring Conten
In this post, we use a lakehouse data agent to demonstrate how you can use Policy for deterministic access control and Lambda interceptors for dynamic validation. We then show how to combine Lambda in
Kerry Flynn / Axios: Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a 20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a 6M seed in 2025 — Sekai has raised a $
Financial Times: SoftBank becomes Japan's biggest company by market value after hitting an all-time high, overtaking Toyota, which has been the country's largest for 20+ years — Demand for AI stocks p
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Source: Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth ~5B; Salesforce first invested about 50M in an early 2023 round and has continually invested in rounds since — Salesforce Inc.
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic plans to let the EU's cyber agency ENISA join Project Glasswing, giving it access to Mythos; EU officials went to the US to ask for access — Anthropic P