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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Meta is alerting Instagram users whose accounts were taken over using Meta AI chatbot; some hackers claim to still be able to exploit Meta AI chatbot — The

At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a super app, in-house reasoning models, a cybersecurity tool, and OpenClaw-

Microsoft and Atom Computing achieved a major quantum computing milestone by creating and entangling 24 logical qubits on a commercial quantum machine. The breakthrough demonstrated significant error

Microsoft's open trust stack for AI agents puts ASSERT and Agent Control Specification on top of OpenInference, connecting evaluation, runtime controls, and observability through a shared trace contra

Cory Weinberg / The Information: Nearly 40% of Alphabet's planned ~85B in equity offerings for AI will go toward covering tax obligations tied to employee equity awards, amid the AI talent war — Alpha

Plex unveiled several social features aimed at changing how users interact with the platform , including Discussions, a community forum where users can post comments and talk about movies or TV shows

The Information: Nvidia acquired Kumo, which sells predictive AI software to enterprises, a source says for 400M+; PitchBook: Kumo raised 37M at a 250M valuation in 2022 — Nvidia has bought Kumo AI, a

At CVPR, NVIDIA is unveiling new physical AI agent skills that help researchers and developers speed the development of autonomous vehicles, robots and vision AI systems. The core challenge in physica

What makes a robot gripper useful isn’t that it can pick up one object — it’s that it can pick up the next one, and the one after that, with a tool it’s never held before. What makes an autonomous veh

As enterprises race to support machine learning, agentic workflows and analytics on the same infrastructure, open data architecture has emerged as the dividing line between platforms that scale and th

Brendan Bordelon / Politico: OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA — OpenAI's ne

OpenAI's public policy agenda outlines the organization's priorities and positions regarding AI regulation and governance. The document likely details OpenAI's recommendations for government policies,

British quantum computing startup OQC today announced that it has raised £260 million, or 350 million, in new funding. Bullhound Capital led the oversubscribed Series C round. It was joined by more th

Pinecone Nexus has integrated with Microsoft OneLake, enabling AI agents to access and work directly with enterprise data stored in OneLake without requiring data movement or copying. This integration

The USDA announced it is testing a suspected case of New World screwworm in South Texas, which would be the first of its kind in the U.S. in decades. Samples were taken from two calves on a ranch in L

DigitalOcean discusses infrastructure and platform capabilities designed to support the inference phase of machine learning, where trained models are deployed to make predictions on new data at scale.

Qiskit Fall Fest 2026 is an event organized by IBM that focuses on quantum computing education and community engagement through the open-source Qiskit framework. The event likely provides opportunitie

French quantum computing startup Quobly SAS today announced that it has raised €130 million, or about 150 million, to commercialize its technology. The Series A round was led by publicly traded chipma

In this post, we look at how to use SOCI on publicly available Deep Learning AMIs and Containers, when to use the various SOCI modes provided by the tool, and how to quickly and efficiently use this t

The pharmaceutical industry’s research and development marathon — stretching 10 to 12 years from hypothesis to approval — is set to shrink as AI-driven drug development compresses that timeline. The s

This episode features Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, in a crossover special between the 'No Priors' and 'Latent Space' podcasts, likely discussing Microsoft's AI strategy, product developments, and

Databricks Genie enables enterprise conversational intelligence across multiple industries through partner technology and functional solutions, allowing organizations to interact with data and systems

Carina Hong discusses how Axiom Math is scaling beyond informal AI approaches to create more rigorous, systematic methods for AI-assisted mathematics education and problem-solving. The episode likely

The Hacker News: Security firm Calif says it used OpenAI's Codex to discover HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS exploit affecting web servers like Nginx, Apache HTTPD, and Microsoft IIS — Cybersecurity researc

Sema4.ai Inc. a startup that provides tools for building and managing artificial intelligence agents, today announced a massive revamp of its platform, with big changes coming to every layer of the ag

As AI moves from analytical tool to active participant in daily business operations, solutions like Snowflake CoWork are helping to close the gap between data insight and real-world execution faster t

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Benchmark raised 2B across two new funds, including a 1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups — After a

Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL at a valuation of between ~52B and ~59B — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is set to ra

Bloomberg: Sources: Lila Sciences, which uses AI tools to speed up the rate of scientific discovery, is in talks to raise a 2B Series B at an expected valuation of ~8.5B — Artificial intelligence rese

Historically, investment research involved human analysts spending days reading and evaluating massive financial reports. Now, AI-driven financial analysis is covering all of that work in just a few m

Richard Milne / Financial Times: Supercell, King, and Sybo warn that EU's Digital Fairness Act, requiring pop-ups showing real-world values of virtual currencies, could make games “unplayable” — Maker

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. 5 key points in Trump’s new AI order Less than two weeks after

Google has open-sourced its flood forecasting framework, which replicates operational FloodHub model training settings and reflects methodology described in a 2024 Nature paper for global ungauged flo

This article profiles the team and processes behind DigitalOcean's Deploy product, which enables users to ship AI applications to production. It likely covers the engineering approach, team structure,

Greg Miller / Washington Post: The US and other Five Eyes nations warn that China is flooding online job platforms with fake profiles and offers targeting government and military personnel — Nations i

Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction

Dell Technologies Inc. opened its annual gathering in Las Vegas this month with the news that it had added 1,000 AI Factory customers globally in a single quarter, bringing its total base to over 5,00

This article explores the potential viability and benefits of locating data centers in space rather than on Earth, likely discussing advantages such as reduced cooling costs due to the vacuum environm

Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, establishing a voluntary framework for the federal government to evaluate risks posed by advanced AI systems before release and encouraging companies t

President Donald Trump today signed an executive order designed to broaden the use of artificial intelligence in federal cybersecurity initiatives. Trump planned to hold the signing ceremony last mont

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would ha

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has ordered Google LLC to give publishers more control over how their content appears in search results. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, announced the mov

Whether you use it for data preparation, real-time interactive queries, AI model training, or something entirely different, running Apache Spark at scale is demanding — you shouldn’t have to manage th

Enterprise AI programs are moving beyond experimentation, but agentic AI maturity — the ability to run governed, autonomous workflows at production scale — remains out of reach for most organizations.

Microsoft Corp. today announced an updated chip for quantum computing called Majorana 2 that it says is 1,000 times more reliable in terms of qubit stability. According to the company, it opens the do

WordPress hosting company WP Engine Inc. today added bot management to its Global Edge Security service, giving site operators a way to filter the growing volume of automated and artificial intelligen