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The Pentagon's 1.5 trillion fiscal 2027 budget proposal allocates nearly 54 billion for military drones and related technology, plus 21 billion for counter-drone weapons systems. At nearly 54 billion,

Real-time decisioning for AI agents requires a foundational customer context layer that provides unified, up-to-date customer data to enable accurate and personalized decisions. Databricks explains ho

Meta is installing tracking software on U.S.-based employees' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes for training AI models to build autonomous AI agents . The tool focuses on ar

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: a handful of unauthorized users in a private Discord channel have been accessing Anthropic's Mythos model since the day the company announced it — A small group of una

Sam Sabin / Axios: Sources: CISA doesn't have access to Mythos Preview, even as some other government agencies use it; Anthropic says it briefed CISA before Mythos' unveiling — The Cybersecurity and I

Yueqi Yang / The Information: Sources: Kalshi plans to offer crypto trading in the US, offering perpetual futures, putting it in competition with exchanges like Coinbase — Prediction market Kalshi pla

With an IPO looming for Elon Musk's SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an odd arrangement to either acquire the automated programming platform Cursor for 60 billion or p

New York Times: SpaceX says it's working with Cursor to build “the world's most useful models” and it has the right to acquire Cursor for 60B or pay 10B for the partnership — The potential acquisition

During Supreme Court oral arguments on April 21, 2026, the FCC argued that its roughly 100 million in fines against Verizon and AT&T were 'nonbinding' and did not violate the companies' Seventh Amendm

Maddy Varner / Wired: The nonprofit Consumer Federation of America sues Meta, accusing it of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scam ads on Facebook and Instagram — A lawsuit from the Co

Database powerhouse Oracle Corp. is making its case that database architecture must serve as a trusted foundation for the AI that gets built on top. The company’s major step into the AI database as a

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Tim Cook reshaped Apple in his own image and exits as CEO on his own terms, seemingly picking the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook — It's a p

Todd Spangler / Variety: Trump Media & Technology Group names Kevin McGurn as interim CEO, succeeding Devin Nunes; McGurn previously worked as an executive at Hulu, Vevo, and T-Mobile — Trump Media &

Real value is emerging as process-centric AI becomes embedded in how work actually gets done. Enterprises are moving beyond isolated automation and embedding AI directly into workflows where decisions

NASA's next-generation spacesuit for the Artemis III mission, the AxEMU developed by Axiom Space, has passed a contractor-led technical review and continues undergoing testing with NASA astronauts and

Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: A Blue Origin rocket failed to correctly place a BlueBird satellite from satellite networking company AST into its intended orbit; ASTS falls 14% pre-market — AST SpaceMobi

Washington Post: A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from “fanatical” donors since early 2025 — Summary — Kristine Kasu

Emily Steel / New York Times: A US jury finds Uber liable for a sexual assault by a driver in 2019, handing Uber a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of 3,000+ pending lawsuits — The ride-h

An unpublished USC study found an association between healthier diets rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and higher rates of early-onset lung cancer in nonsmoking adults, suggesting possible

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Amazon agrees to invest up to 25B in Anthropic, on top of the 8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend 100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years — Amazon has agreed

Anthropic announced its Mythos AI model on April 7 and refused to release it publicly, citing its unprecedented ability to find and exploit software vulnerabilities . The company is instead limiting a

Apple: Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering — Apple today announced that, effective immedi

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple says Tim Cook, as executive chairman, “will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world” — Apple confirmed today th

Deezer announced that AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded to its platform, receiving almost 75,000 AI-generated tracks per day. AI-generated music accounts for only 1-3% of

A hacker has stolen a limited amount of customer data from Vercel Inc., a major developer tooling provider. The company disclosed the incident late Sunday. Vercel, which received a $9.3 billion valuat

Edward Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At: Docs: Microsoft plans to eventually move GitHub Copilot from request- to token-based billing, as the week-over-week cost to run it has nearly doubled si

David McCabe / New York Times: Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products — The sta

Following last year's AI-powered Darth Vader in Fortnite that swore in a re-creation of James Earl Jones' voice, Epic Games is now letting Fortnite creators experiment with a new 'conversations' tool

The Data+ AI Summit features hands-on workshops and sessions covering practical applications of AI agents, vibe coding (a Databricks term for intuitive, conversational AI development), and other emerg

F1's 2026 regulations feature new V6 hybrid engines with a near 50/50 split between combustion and electrical power, creating challenges with energy management and an unpopular driving style among dri

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: In an email to employees, Johny Srouji details newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division, organized across five key areas — Apple Inc.'s newly com

CNBC: John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board — Apple said on Monday that John Ternus is s

Apple announced that Tim Cook will step down as CEO on September 1, 2026, ending his 15-year tenure, with John Ternus, the senior vice president of hardware engineering, succeeding him as chief execut

Danny Park / The Block: LayerZero says North Korea's Lazarus is likely behind the 292M Kelp DAO exploit on April 18, which triggered 10B in outflows from Aave over bad debt concerns — Quick Take — Lay

Bruce is a kea parrot native to New Zealand who has lived in captivity at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve for about 12 years after being discovered as a juvenile with his entire upper beak missing . He de

Mercedes-Benz implemented a cross-cloud data mesh architecture using Databricks Delta Sharing and intelligent replication to optimize their data infrastructure across multiple cloud providers. The sol

The GitHub Blog: Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ — As shared in our recen

Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg: Nigeria-based Terra, which makes pilotless drones and defense systems, raised $34M from Joe Lonsdale, Lux Capital, and others, as jihadist groups drive demand — Terrahaptix

André Beganski / Decrypt: RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated — RaveDAO's to

A humanoid robot named Lightning, developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, completed a 21-kilometer half-marathon in Beijing in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, surpassing the human world record by over

Rogue Trooper is an upcoming adult animated military science fiction film based on the 2000 AD comic strip, written and directed by Duncan Jones. The film follows 19, a 'Genetic Infantryman' who is th

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses the idea of vibe coded CRM replacing SaaS companies, saying data security and compliance make Salesforce indispensable —

This Databricks resource explains how to implement customer-managed keys (CMK) for encryption in Lakebase Postgres, enabling users to control their own encryption keys rather than relying on provider-

We built our internal AI engineering stack on the same products we ship. That means 20 million requests routed through AI Gateway, 241 billion tokens processed, and inference running on Workers AI, se

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: The US Air Force cancels RTX's ground-control network for the US' next generation of GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns — The Air Force on Monday canc

Apple Inc. announced today that John Ternus, its senior vice president of hardware engineering, will become chief executive officer on Sept. 1, succeeding Tim Cook, who will transition to executive ch