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Databricks has announced that its support for Apache Iceberg v3 is now in Public Preview (available in Databricks Runtime 18.0 and above), introducing key capabilities including Deletion Vectors, R...

A three-judge panel of Trump appointees on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — including Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, both veterans of Trump's first administration — denied Anthropic'...

The world's largest known wild chimpanzee group — the roughly 200-member Ngogo community in Uganda's Kibale National Park — split in 2015 into two factions called Western and Central, after which t...

Volkswagen ended production of the ID.4 electric SUV at its Chattanooga, Tennessee plant in mid-April 2026, primarily due to a sharp drop in EV demand following the Trump administration's withdraw...

The Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is seeking unprecedented access to the medical records of millions of federal workers, retirees, and their families. The proposed re...

Prompt caching delivers significant efficiency gains at a single replica, but under standard round-robin load balancing, a request with an identical prefix has only a 1/N chance of hitting the repl...

Google DeepMind said today it wants to bring the artificial intelligence revolution to the estimated 70 million people across the world who are either deaf or hard of hearing with the launch of sign-l

Wall Street Journal: Some health and fitness obsessives are using AI for hyperpersonalized training, building custom dashboards and tools to analyze their sleep, workouts, and diet — From marathon tra

Ellen Milligan / Bloomberg: Sources: the UK government is planning to regulate the use of AI in gene synthesis to prevent terrorists and other bad actors from using AI for bioweapons — The UK governme

Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that 'your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your

Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI, specialized cyber defense models from OpenAI, are now available on Amazon Bedrock to eligible customers. Both models run with zero-operator access enforced

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo he later posted to X, Lightcap told col

“This investment is guaranteed to return 12% annually.” A claim like that in an email from an investment adviser is a regulatory disaster. Regulations prohibit financial firms from promising returns a

Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity. It is giving defenders new ways to sift through vast amounts of telemetry, identify anomalous behavior and automate rout

Julian Hast / Bloomberg: OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to manage commodity hedging across its expanding data center power portfolio, as tech companies seek reliable electricity — OpenAI is hir

After a former lead writer claimed Saber 'replaced me with ChatGPT,' CEO Matthew Karch now claims, 'Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI,' for the Rideshare 'Stimulator' game an

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised 40M led by Sequoia at a 300M valuation —

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI — Company is racing

Business Insider: Sources: former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is aiming to raise 150M for a new AI science startup, seeking a valuation of at least 750M — Kevin Weil, the former chief prod

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more — Wha

Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg: Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models — New la

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to say about the idealized future he now envisions for humanity co-existing with artificial intelligence - his latest essay spans more than 6,500 words on the matter

Graph neural networks are reshaping how enterprises hunt for fraud, moving detection beyond isolated transactions to reveal entire hidden networks of bad actors. As AI adoption accelerates, organizati

Liam Knox / Bloomberg: Revelio Labs: short-term AI training programs made up ~33% of the professional certificate market in 2026, up from just 2% in 2022 before ChatGPT launched — People are anxious t

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, 9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at a Rockdale, TX campus; RIOT jumps ~25% after hours — Anthropic PBC

New York Times: Sources: the AI-driven memory chip shortage has kicked off a rush of DC lobbying; many US officials appear unsympathetic to Apple's desire to buy Chinese chips — The artificial intelli

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is changing our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our s

Tim O'Reilly / Asimov's Addendum: Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity — SemiAnalysis

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't g

Hayden Field / The Verge: A look at “Spiralism”, a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory — “The Spiral did

Artificial intelligence can be technologically transformative and still produce a capital bubble. Those two ideas are not in conflict. The bubble bursting does not require AI to fail. It only requires

OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed that one of its unreleased large language models may pose a significant cybersecurity risk. The algorithm, which is known as Astra, was first detailed last week. OpenA

The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center built an automated system that uses constraint programming and custom tree search to determine, with mathematical certainty, when and how an NHL team clinches a

Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x larger than Kimi K3 and larger than the 8T estimate for Anthropic's Mythos 5 — TikTok owner trainin

A solid earnings and revenue beat helped to reignite investor enthusiasm for the communications software maker Twilio Inc. today, and its stock jumped more than 17% in after-hours trading. The company

AI assistants interpret user requests, automate routine tasks, and streamline enterprise workflows. Key considerations when choosing one include integration capabilities, data security, scalability, a

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to b

Bloomberg: A look at Sequoia's revamped strategy under new stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, including bold AI bets; sources: Sequoia recently closed $10B in new funding — Alfred Lin and Pat Grady ar

Broadcom Inc. today introduced new security, performance and automation capabilities for VMware Cloud Foundation that are intended to help enterprises defend private clouds against artificial intellig

Anthropic PBC today disclosed that it plans to develop a custom artificial intelligence chip. A spokesperson told Business Insider that the company will co-design the processor with its future large l

Megan Morrone / Axios: Filing: OpenAI says “Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products” — If the case survives

Bloomberg: Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is conce

Google LLC is reportedly in discussions with an artificial intelligence coding startup called Mechanize Inc. over a deal that would see it license some of its technology and hire a number of its most

Aleph, one of Israel’s top funds, is backing a new artificial intelligence-native venture studio with 6 million in pre-seed funding so it can build and launch dozens of new software startups by the en

The AI device OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive is 'essentially a smart speaker without a display' that's battery-powered, doughnut-shaped and roughly the size of a hockey puck,

Bloomberg: OpenAI files a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets, saying that the iPhone maker's allegations are meritless — OpenAI is asking a federal jud