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MCP tool design involves deciding the granularity of tools—whether they map to individual API calls or complete workflows—which directly impacts how many tools agents need and their effectiveness. Eff
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A — Brendan Foo
Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financi
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta launches a Meta Model API, which Mark Zuckerberg says will have “aggressive and attractive” pricing at ~25% of the cost of OpenAI's and Anthropic's models — In a crowded
Meta Platforms Inc. today launched a new flagship large language model optimized to power multi-agent automation workflows. Muse Spark 1.1 is available in the company’s Meta AI chatbot service and via
Ina Fried / Axios: Meta prices Muse Spark 1.1 at 1.25/1M input tokens and 4.25/1M output tokens; Alexandr Wang says improving coding and agentic performance was a key focus — Facebook's parent company
Dominic Preston / The Verge: Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview — Muse Spa
Meta Platforms Inc. this week sought to reassure consumers about the privacy safeguards of its controversial artificial intelligence-enabled glasses, yet at the same time it’s reportedly pushing even
After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta
Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan have been diagnosed with cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea, making it the largest outbreak in state history. No deaths have
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Micron raises its US capex commitment to 250B through 2035, adding 50B for New York, Idaho, Virginia, and other projects, and invests $500M in GlobalWafers — Micron Raises
Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI “regulation without transparent or complete rules”, and adds that “without rules, businesses can't plan” — Microsoft Pre
Microsoft may once again be struggling to keep up with its own climate goals, according to its 2026 sustainability report. As reported by GeekWire, the report states that Microsoft's carbon emissions
Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it's now using AI to 'identify potential issues earlier,' which means 'cust
Enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Mindbeam AI Inc. today published research showing how generative AI can aid in the discovery of safer pain-relief drugs. The company used acet
Bloomberg: MiniMax is looking to raise as much as 1.9B by selling 35.6M shares at ~34 each and offering ~$830M in convertible bonds due 2027 — MiniMax Group Inc. is joining a rush by Chinese technolog
Modal is a cloud computing platform that provides serverless infrastructure for running Python code at scale, enabling developers to execute functions, train machine learning models, and process data
Muse Spark 1.1 has been released and is now accessible through Vercel's AI Gateway, representing an update to the Muse Spark model or service. This release likely includes performance improvements, ne
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a 65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a 15M Series A led by Benchmark — The popular open sou
Ollama Inc., the largest artificial intelligence platform connecting developers to open models, today announced it has raised 65 million in a new funding round led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC,
Axios: OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on Mac and Windows — - Sol is the most powerful versio
OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new “agentic” tool called ChatGPT Work as it announced the global rollout of its most advanced model family so far in GPT-5.6. ChatGPT Work is a new mode within ChatG
Multiple news organizations including The New York Times and Daily News have asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, alleging the company hid evidence critical to a copyright infringement
About two weeks after OpenAI's GPT-5.6 was caught up in regulatory drama - rolled out only to government-approved organizations during a 'limited preview' period - the company has received the Trump a
OpenAI released ChatGPT Work, a general-purpose productivity agent designed to help people with ambitious tasks beyond traditional coding projects. The tool performs actions autonomously across connec
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Oxylabs, which develops web data scraping infrastructure, received a 130M investment at a 3.6B valuation from Warburg Pincus, its first outside investment — Data scraping
I found search results covering multiple Windows Defender zero-days from 2026, but the specific article about a disk-fill vulnerability isn't in these results. However, based on the Ars Technica title
Unified identity security platform provider Permiso Security Inc. today launched the Risk Score Engine, a model that assigns continuous, multidimensional risk scores to every human, machine and artifi
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: PitchBook: US venture funding hit 412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or 355.9B; Q2 saw seven 1B+ rounds — U.S. venture c
U.S. venture capital deal value hit 412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 30% more than investors put to work in all of last year — and a small cluster of giant artificial intelligence round
Artificial intelligence training startup Prime Intellect Inc. has raised 130 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. The consortium included Nvidia Corp.’s NVentures, Intel Capital and
Aaron Tilley / The Information: PrismML shrunk Qwen 3.6 to 27B parameters and ran it on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior mobile model; sources: Apple talked with PrismML about its tech — Apple
Cybersecurity startup QIZ Security Ltd. today announced it has raised 17 million in seed funding to expand a platform that discovers and governs the encryption buried across enterprise systems ahead o
Long-context handling remains a core challenge for language models: even with extended context windows, models often fail to reliably extract, reason over, and use the information across long contexts
Ruf unveiled a new 1,000+ horsepower twin-turbo flat-eight engine at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, paired with a six-speed manual transmission . The prototype engine is installed in an elongated Ruf
Here’s a question we hear often at Google Cloud: How do you safely run AI-generated code or untrusted binaries without putting your host application, data, and cloud credentials at risk? In other word
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: SAP will make it easier for customers to switch to rival service providers or end contracts, averting a possible EU antitrust fine after a September 2025 probe — SAP (SAPG.DE),
The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber - and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a '
DigitalOcean has released a public preview of Managed Weaviate, a fully managed vector database service that enables users to scale AI and machine learning applications without managing infrastructure
SensorFM is a foundation model that analyzes multimodal wearable sensor signals from devices like smartwatches and fitness trackers to generate insights into health and activities. The model was train
Bloomberg: Shanghai-based GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX raised ~902M in a Hong Kong share sale; the company's stock has soared 257% since its January IPO, which raised 473M — Shanghai Iluvatar CoreX Semico
Bloomberg: SK Hynix raises 26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for 149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed — SK Hynix Inc. raised $26.5 billi
Many of the most challenging and valuable problems in the world are related to optimization. Now, AI is now making these problems tractable. If you've ever tried to design a microchip, plan a delivery
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock — Streamer is rethink
Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Sources: Sonos' layoffs include some top design and product executives, like VP of Design Dana Krieger; CEO Tom Conrad says the move reduces management layers — Sonos Inc. has
Sparse V3 is Pinecone's updated sparse indexing technology designed to improve efficiency by skipping irrelevant data during vector search operations. The advancement likely focuses on optimizations t
NVIDIA's NeMo framework addresses the challenge of limited, imbalanced financial NLP data by generating synthetic financial news headlines to fill gaps for trading research, risk modeling, and surveil
Financial Times: The AI data center boom has led to surging demand for power transformers, with average lead times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years — Surging data-centre
OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of n
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. Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US —Casey Cro
Meta has made significant progress on its superintelligence research agenda, which aims to develop advanced AI systems with broad capabilities. The update covers Meta's infrastructure investments, res
OpenAI's latest flagship model hit general availability this morning, and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest). The new models are priced per 1M input/output tokens as
Impulse Space, an orbital transportation company, has been added to the Space Force's National Security Space Launch program's Phase 3 Lane 1 contract alongside launch startup Relativity Space. Unlike
A new economic analysis from theCUBE Research found that migrating from a fragmented, on-premises data estate to Oracle Corp.’s Autonomous AI Database on Multicloud can deliver meaningful modernizatio
Token per watt — not raw compute — is emerging as the defining efficiency metric for AI data centers, putting storage at the center of an infrastructure rethink that is reshaping how the industry meas
Kubernetes is strong for long-lived services, but it is often a poor default for short-lived agent sandboxes. Trace sandbox creation, tool execution, eval latency, and full trajectory time before you
On-policy distillation offers dense, per-token supervision for training reasoning models; however, it remains unclear under which conditions this signal is beneficial and under which it is detrimental
Paul Sandle / Reuters: US cybersecurity and data resilience company Rubrik plans to invest 500M+ in the UK over the next five years and establish its European headquarters in London — U.S. cybersecuri
Introducing VultronRetriever, a family of open visual document retrieval models built on Vultr. Achieve state-of-the-art retrieval performance with smaller indexes, higher throughput, and support for
Vercel announced integration support allowing developers to deploy applications built with Lovable directly to the Vercel platform. This integration streamlines the deployment workflow by connecting L