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S&P Dow Jones Indices decided against changes to S&P 500 eligibility requirements, meaning SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic must wait 12 months and become profitable before inclusion. S&P said it will no

@starlink: Starlink says that it has 12M+ “active customers” across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 — Starlink is connecting more than 12M active customers

Postgres database startup Supabase Inc. has closed on a 500 million late-stage investment that brings its valuation to a cool 10.5 billion, it revealed today. The company, which provides ready-to-use

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. The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos On

The Fitbit Air is a screenless health tracker with sensors that connect to Google's new Health app , offering hardware for just 100, compared to Whoop's subscription models costing 200-$360 annually .

Wall Street Journal: The largest US banks plan to launch a tokenized deposit network in 2027 to connect traditional payment rails with the infrastructure that digital assets run on — The new network c

Google's May 2026 AI updates center on the new 'agentic' era, featuring the Gemini 3.5 model and Gemini Omni for advanced reasoning and creation. Gemini Omni is a new model that can create anything fr

On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: The NY State legislature passes a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law — It could b

A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station prompted five astronauts to temporarily take shelter and prepare for evacuation on Friday as Russia attempted to fix a crack on its portion

Vercel has released the skills.sh API, expanding its platform capabilities for developers. This API likely enables programmatic access to skill-based features or integrations within the Vercel ecosyst

When Quilty hit the industry trades earlier this year, the AI startup promised that its tool could accurately predict a film's success just by reading the script. When people actually got a chance to

We're now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvi

Thousand Token Wood is a multi-agent economy simulation built on a 3 billion parameter language model, demonstrating how small models can power complex interactive systems with multiple agents. The pr

The Trump administration announced $700 million in funding for coal plants and a new export terminal , utilizing Cold War-era authority to support existing facilities and build new coal plants. This i

Reuters: Trump signs a national security memorandum seeking to “accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains in line with American values” — The White House said on Friday it w

James Gallagher / BBC: University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans — Artificial int

Google's RAG Engine securely connects private enterprise data to LLMs to improve answer accuracy and reduce hallucinations , making it a key component of the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for build

Noel Randewich / Reuters: US-traded chipmakers plunged on Friday, after Broadcom missed expectations; Nvidia fell 6.19%, Micron fell 13.25%, AMD fell 10.86%, and Broadcom 7.92% — U.S.-traded chipmaker

A proposed Utah data center backed by Kevin O'Leary was drastically scaled back after pressure from lawmakers. The original project would have consumed 9 gigawatts of power—more than double what Utah

The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is a computationally efficient algorithm that converts time-domain signals into their frequency-domain representation, reducing computational complexity from O(n²) to

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect at WWDC 2026: an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, a slew of new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability and responsiveness, and more — The iPhone maker w

AI Gateway now features real-time spend limits to prevent runaway token bills across multiple AI providers. By integrating with Cloudflare Access, companies can use identity-driven budgets and policie

Databricks presents Instructed-Retriever-1, a system that achieves 3x faster search performance through parallel test-time scaling techniques. The approach optimizes retrieval operations by executing

Why edge AI development is still hard AI is no longer confined to cloud experiments. Developers are increasingly expected to deliver AI inside apps, devices, and edge systems where responsiveness, pri

NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft has ended after more than 11 years in orbit at Mars, far exceeding its original one-year mission. The spacecraft was last heard from on

The rise of agentic commerce is forcing retailers to rethink their entire data strategy — not as a future concern, but as the immediate prerequisite for competing in a world where AI agents make purch

AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy Charity Majors neatly captures the dynamic between AI enthusiasts and AI skeptics, both of whom are trying to build

Some of the AI industry's biggest rivals have put their many, many grievances aside for a common cause: making it harder for people to use their technology to develop biological weapons. In an open le

Flourish Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence models inspired by the human brain, has raised 500 million in funding at a 2.5 billion valuation. Wired reported today that about a fifth of

This AI News summary covers recent developments in image generation models, specifically discussing Reve 2 and Ideogram 4's layout capabilities for creating structured visual designs. The piece likely

Amazon has announced a new version of its fully autonomous warehouse robot, Proteus, that will interact using language instead of code. The expanded capabilities come as part of a growing pivot toward

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company 20 years ago, on Zuckerberg's “unfair” reputation, AI agents' capabilities, more — When Naomi Gleit joi

Wired: Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year — Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered

Anthropic PBC has sounded the alarm on the rapid pace of artificial intelligence development and is calling on the world’s top AI laboratories to consider slamming on the brakes. In a blog post today,

Wall Street Journal: Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks — The $1 trillion start

Anthropic: Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude — Our progress toward recurs

Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal: Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, proposes a 45% electricity-rate increase for data centers to ensure “that they are paying their fair share”

Enterprise AI is entering a new phase where competitive advantage depends less on foundation models and more on the ability to connect data and business knowledge through an enterprise context layer.

Asana Inc. announced today during the company’s Work Innovation Summit in London the launch of a new product suite that helps organizations manage work by humans and artificial intelligence agents usi

The Supreme Court rejected Verizon and AT&T's constitutional challenge to FCC fines exceeding 100 million combined for illegally sharing customers' location data with third parties, ruling 8-1 that no

This document likely examines how artificial intelligence and advanced intelligence capabilities can be applied to biodefense strategies, including disease surveillance, threat detection, and pandemic

This article covers Vercel's integration capabilities that enable developers to build and deploy Shopify storefronts directly on the Vercel platform. The feature likely streamlines the process of crea

This article from Ben's Bites likely discusses how creating foundational tools and infrastructure enables developers and organizations to build more complex applications and scale their operations mor

Arize AX is adding managed agents, full-agent experimentation, expanded multimodal support, and Harness-as-a-Judge to help teams observe, evaluate, and improve production agents. The post Building the

A study published in Science found that bumblebees can solve a completely novel object-manipulation task without training. The bees spontaneously moved a ball underneath an out-of-reach flower and cli