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Ashlee Vance / Core Memory: Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stack, launching Muse Spark, personal superintelligence, acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence, and more — Last June, Meta pri

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Q&A with Amazon SVP of Devices and Alexa Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, its Leo satellite broadband business, and more — Execu

Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the “cone of uncertainty” in AI, allocating compute, returns to frontier intelligence, platform vs. application, and more — In th

Rivian released its new Rivian Assistant AI feature as part of software update 2026.15, enabling owners to interact more naturally with their vehicles through voice commands. Unlike phone-mirroring vo

OpenAI Group PBC co-founder and Chief Executive Sam Altman faced the witness stand today in the high-stakes trial that could determine the future of the company. Elon Musk is suing the company and its

David Keohane / Financial Times: SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~11.6B, above ~1.5B est., driven by a 25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit 64.6B — Japanese

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Source: Cerebras priced its IPO at 185 per share, above the expected range of 150 to 160, raising at least 5.55B and valuing it at 56.4B fully diluted — Cerebras Systems, a maker

Bloomberg: Sources: Arm and SoftBank expressed preliminary interest in acquiring Cerebras weeks before its expected IPO; Cerebras rebuffed them — Arm Holdings Plc and its majority owner SoftBank Group

Reuters: Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is shopping for artificia

Bloomberg: Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~28.9B, below ~29.4B est., and net income of ~$8.5B, meeting est., amid a costly AI pivot; its stock is down 23% YTD — Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported

The Information: Tencent says it plans to spend significantly more on AI infrastructure in H2 2026 as more China-designed AI chips become available “month by month” — Tencent Holdings is gearing up to

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: The FTC says Shutterstock will pay 35M to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel — Shutterstock

Shiona McCallum / BBC: The Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Project Intercept, a partnership with Google, TikTok, and Meta, sent 70M+ warning messages to users seeking CSAM in two years — More than 70 mill

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: UK chip startup Fractile raised a $220M Series B led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Founders Fund to make specialized logic and memory chips for inference — Factori

Veeam Software Group GmbH today debuted new features that will make it easier for enterprises to back up their records and protect them from hackers. Some of the capabilities are rolling to the compan

This article argues that infrastructure quality and architecture are more critical to AI/ML project success than the choice of underlying model. It likely explores how proper deployment, scaling, moni

Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1

Artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Grego AI formally launched today with a claimed method of using existing AI models to find critical software vulnerabilities that human auditors and other

Amazon employees are reportedly using the company's internal AI platform MeshClaw to automate routine or unnecessary tasks as pressure grows to demonstrate AI adoption, in a practice known as 'tokenma

Google announced a slew of upcoming features for Android 17 operating system, including advanced capabilities for the company's Gemini AI assistant, redesigned emoji and video improvements. The event

Databricks announced a new feature called Native Lakehouse Sync, which enables seamless synchronization of data between external data sources and Databricks' lakehouse platform. This capability likely

Bloomberg: Anthropic In Talks to Raise 30 Billion at 900 Billion Valuation — Anthropic PBC is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, according to people famili

Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to get rid of the bottleneck between architectural planning and code execution with a number of upgrades to its artificial intelligence software development tool Kir

Space technology startup Cowboy Space Corp. today disclosed that it has raised 275 million in funding at a 2 billion valuation. Index Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by NEA, IVP and sev

eBay rejected GameStop's unsolicited 56 billion takeover bid, with eBay's board declaring the offer 'neither credible nor attractive.' The proposal called for purchasing eBay shares at 125 apiece with

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Exaforce, which uses AI agents to detect and thwart cyberattacks, raised a 125M Series B at a 725M valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M — As bad actors weaponize

The Databricks JDBC driver is an open-source tool that enables Java applications to connect to Databricks SQL warehouses and clusters with improved query performance and enhanced capabilities. The dri

Foundry Local 1.1 adds live transcription, embeddings, Responses API, WebGPU plugin, and download cancellation. The post Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API appeared f

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Foxconn says some of its North American factories suffered a cyberattack in recent days; ransomware group Nitrogen claims it stole 8TB of data — Famous for helping build Apple

Hollywood actors and producers are standing behind a new AI licensing standard that will tell AI systems whether they'll need to pay to use a person's likeness, creative work, characters, and designs.

German defense technology firm Helsing GmbH is reportedly on the verge of securing a bumper 1.2 billion in funding that would bring its valuation to around 18 billion, making it one of Europe’s most v

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google announces Pause Point, an Android 17 feature that forces a mandatory 10-second pause before opening any app a user has labeled as a distraction — An anti-doomscrolling

Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more — ZDNET key takeaways — Google par

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google unveils a “full bleed” Android Auto design that fills unconventionally shaped screens like in the BMW Neue Klasse, plans to add YouTube video streaming — The phon

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Google unveils Android security features, including protection from spoofed banking calls, default theft protection, and biometric protection for Mark as lost — Here

Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: Google unveils Googlebook, its new laptop lineup featuring a unified OS merging ChromeOS and Android, with devices from Dell, HP, and others coming this fall — ZDNET's key take

Google introduced Googlebooks, a new high-end laptop segment that will run Android and prominently feature Gemini artificial intelligence . Googlebooks, launching this fall, are the first laptops desi

This article discusses how Chief Financial Officers at consulting firms can use Databricks' data and AI platform to improve operational margins and profitability. It likely covers strategies for lever

Qasim Nauman / New York Times: Instructure reached a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without disclosing what it gave in exchange — Instruct

Molly Taft / Wired: Internal emails: xAI added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site — Emails show that Elon M

Ben Lang / Road to VR: Meta schedules its annual Connect event for September 23-24 and says the event will focus on “the latest in VR, wearables, metaverse, and AI” — Meta's annual Connect event is se

Meta announced on Tuesday that it's testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers to questions or context about a conversation on the platform. If you've spent any tim

Business Insider: Musk v. Altman: Altman faced an intense cross-examination from Musk's attorney, who asked “are you completely trustworthy?”; Altman replied “I believe so” — - Sam Altman faced intens

Emma Roth / The Verge: Nonprofit RSL Media announces the Human Consent Standard, an AI licensing framework for use of people's work or likeness, backed by George Clooney and others — This new standard

SpaceX fueled its new Starship V3 megarocket for the first time, setting a new record as the world's tallest rocket at approximately 408 feet (124.4 meters), surpassing the V2 by 4 feet. The successfu

The family of a 19-year-old college student is suing OpenAI over claims that his conversations with ChatGPT led to an accidental overdose. In the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Sam Nelson's parents allege