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Grace Kay / The Information: Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 — Tesla said it rolled
Financial Times: A look at the troubled rollout of the EU's automated biometric entry/exit border system, as airport operators warn of severe delays ahead of the summer holidays — Automated system fir
Robert P Baird / The Guardian: A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs — Since
Data center builder Crusoe Inc. is reportedly in talks to raise a 3 billion funding round. Bloomberg on Thursday cited sources as saying that the deal could value the company at 30 billion. That’s abo
Simon Sharwood / The Register: AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement — Workers w
Better Models: Worse Tools Armin reports on a weird problem he ran into while hacking on Pi: The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in
Building a World Map with only 500 bytes Iwo Kadziela (assisted by Codex) figured out a way to generate a credible ASCII world map using 445 bytes of data: The key trick is to use deflate compression,
Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times: How ByteDance is making Hollywood inroads with its Seedance video generator, thanks to low pricing, striking realism, and features like timeline-based prompting
Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: How some high-income families use AI-powered private schools and tutors, such as Alpha School, to teach their children life skills and tailor their curriculum
Marcel Thee / Nikkei Asia: Indonesia's enforcement of social media restrictions for under-16s has been patchy, with tech companies ignoring the rules and youth still accessing platforms — JAKARTA — An
Mari Kiyohara / Bloomberg: Micron breaks ground on its ~9.3B Hiroshima factory expansion, part of its global ramp-up to meet AI demand, and plans to start HBM shipments from summer 2028 — Micron Techn
Madison McLauchlan / BetaKit: Montreal-based Stathera, a maker of MEMS-based silicon timing components for chips, raised a 55M Series B led by Maverick Silicon, taking total funding to 75M — Stathera
Bloomberg: Official data shows Hong Kong accounted for 50%+ of China's 239B in chip imports in the first five months of 2026, a record share, up from ~33% a decade ago — Hong Kong has become a vital c
Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a Series A at a $500M valuation — Three former Deep
Jason Hiner / The Deep View: Q&A with Doug Brooks, senior product manager of Apple silicon, about Mac minis becoming preferred AI agent machines, future of on-device AI, and more — W — alk into any of
Supergirl follows Kara Zor-El on a protective quest across alien worlds that helps the young Kryptonian discover her identity and purpose . The origin story leans into the emotional fallout of grief w
Duc Dao / TNGlobal: Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics, which develops spatial tech to let autonomous robots operate in complex, GPS-denied environments, raised a 125M Series A — Singapore-based dCon
Aisha Down / The Guardian: Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms — Exclusive: £
Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative AI. But the detection methods being implemented are questionable, and any fanfic writer co
A loss of smell can be an early sign of disease, while in other circumstances it may directly contribute to disorders. Smell helps parents and children bond, warns of environmental dangers, and anchor
Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scanner. It still hasn't shown much proof it works. The AI startup, best known for generating images, released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk
It’s not easy to transplant a whole human eye. The surgery is difficult. And the eyes themselves start to degenerate as soon as they’ve left the body. When surgeons attempted it a few years ago, the n
Bloomberg: A look at the quant fund frenzy in China, as assets under management have more than doubled to ~$384B in less than a year amid rapid AI adoption — Quant funds in China have become so popula
Janko Roettgers / The Verge: A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability — Cath Virgi
Vercel has announced the availability of Agent Runs in both the Vercel MCP (Model Context Protocol) and CLI (Command Line Interface), expanding developer capabilities for AI-powered automation and dep
This dispatch from Latent Space discusses debates within the AI engineering community regarding 'loops' in AI systems and the current state of AI engineering practices. The article likely covers techn
Financial Times: An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says “there will not be an FDA for AI” under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industry's “doomer” messaging, and more — Sriram Krishnan tell
Anthropic PBC is reportedly in talks with Samsung Electronics Co. to produce a custom artificial intelligence chip. The Information today cited sources as saying that the discussions are in an early s
At the event 'The Briefing: AI for Science' earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new 'AI workbench for scientists' that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, an
Dawn Lim / Bloomberg: Blackstone's QTS abandons plans to build its portion of a 2,100-acre data center campus in Virginia, following years of local opposition and legal challenges — Blackstone Inc.'s
A chip industry association has urged the White House not to make major changes to the way the memory market is regulated. The group, SEMI, represents most of the world’s major semiconductor equipment
One of the most interesting tips I got from the Fireside Chat I hosted with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at AIE on Wednesday was to let Fable (and to a certain extent Opus) use
Reuters: Filing: GoDaddy challenges a New Delhi court ruling requiring domain sellers to stop offering privacy by default, saying it could expose website owners globally — The world's biggest internet
Google DeepMind and A24 announced a first-of-its-kind research partnership pairing the AI research lab with the filmmaker-focused studio to help artists develop new workflows and techniques. Google is
Wall Street Journal: How Jeff Bezos' changing relationship with President Trump has helped Amazon and Blue Origin, such as more federal contracts awarded during Trump's second term — Space company has
Reuters: India's IT secretary said the country is investigating a data breach at Apple supplier Tata, which exposed files that included photos of iPhone 18 Pro models — India is investigating a data b
The Summer of Ludd is a weeklong festival in New York City's East Village bringing together young people to learn how to live without constant digital connectivity and resist Big Tech's omnipresence.
Divya Arya / BBC: Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like “rape video” and “child video” and linking to Telegram channels — Warning: This story c
The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, and US export rest
Denver-based Luxonis Holding Corp. announced Thursday it raised 14 million in early-stage funding to transform industrial automation with cameras and machine vision, providing a perception layer for r
This changelog entry announces the ability to manage Vercel Flags segments directly through the Vercel Command Line Interface (CLI), enabling developers to create, update, and configure feature flag s
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal town hall meeting that the company’s work on artificial intelligence agents hasn’t progressed as quickly as he had hop
Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis: Meta could use its compute for its own models, ad scaling, SpaceX-like neocloud deals, and hosting 3rd-party models; it may be close to an Anthropic deal — Zu
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout — Their need to diversify the
Meta Platforms Inc. is gearing up to release a new version of its flagship Muse Spark artificial intelligence model. Alexandr Wang, the company’s chief AI officer, wrote on X today that the update wil
Gene Maddaus / Variety: Midjourney wants Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to reveal in court how they use AI across their companies; studios sued Midjourney in 2025 for infringement — The studios s
Open Source AI Gap Map Current AI is 'a global partnership building a public option for AI', founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 and backed by serious capital ($4
OpenAI reportedly has floated giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, perhaps the start of a series of such stakes in other AI companies as well. This no doubt has traditional anti-indus
Declan Harty / Politico: Pitch document: Chris Larsen and Palmer Luckey invested an undisclosed amount in APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the son of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand — Democratic meg
I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales a
India's first space unicorn is preparing for its first orbital launch , with Skyroot Aerospace developing the Vikram series of launch vehicles . In 2025, SpaceX posted a net loss of $4.9 billion , hig
The Information: Sources: Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers, citing security concerns — Alibaba Group has banned
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic moves to close loopholes that let Chinese firms like Ant use its models via workarounds including cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries — Engineers are still fi
Giles Turner / Bloomberg: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opens an investigation into StubHub following complaints of last-minute ticket cancellations for FIFA World Cup 2026 matches — Texas Attorne
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 UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporti
As the parent of two little girls, I often think about how their childhood is different from mine. The seven-year-old is learning about AI at school. The five-year-old is given internet-based homework
Vercel Sandbox has added support for FUSE-based (Filesystem in Userspace) filesystems, enabling developers to implement custom filesystem behaviors within sandbox environments. This enhancement expand
Andrew Qu from Vercel discusses how AI agents represent a fundamentally different category of software compared to traditional applications, exploring their unique characteristics and implications for
Wing Commander was a popular 1990s space combat simulator series known for strong narratives that switched to full-motion video starting with Wing Commander III, with Wing Commander IV: The Price of F
As organizations race to operationalize generative and agentic artificial intelligence, the conversation is shifting from pilots and proofs of concept to real-world AI deployments that deliver measura