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Cristian Dina / The Next Web: Munich-based QuantumDiamonds, which uses quantum sensors to detect chip defects, raised €91M, including €76M under the European Chips Act — QuantumDiamonds, a spin-out of

NASA released a draft request for the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destination Contract, which will determine who builds and operates the space station(s) intended to succeed the International Space Sta

MiniMax Group Inc., a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence developer, is raising 2 billion in funding. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that more than half the funds are expected to come from the sale

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI's head of safety, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving as OpenAI integrates its research and safety teams; Mia Glaese will become VP of research and safety — Johannes Heidecke's

Bloomberg: Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions — Phia, an advertising startup co

Bloomberg: Polymarket is seeking CFTC and NFA approval to offer margin trading in the US, which would let users bet on events with less capital upfront and attract traders — Polymarket is seeking regu

Ina Fried / Axios: Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts — Meta's move to allow

This article explores profiling techniques for attention mechanisms in PyTorch, the computational bottleneck in transformer models. It likely provides practical tools and methods for measuring and ana

Everyone who’s anyone in the crazy artificial intelligence world attended the RAISE Summit in Paris this week. Bigger, noisier and more crowded than last year’s installment, this year’s summit feature

The reality is to make augmented reality glasses, you need to put a camera next to your eyes that is continuously recording everything you see and processing that to put information over it. There is

[...] Work on web and mobile runs in the cloud. Work in the desktop app can also use local files and desktop apps with your permission. At launch, cloud Work conversations do not appear in desktop Wor

This post describes how Henry Schein One closed that gap by building Image Verify, an AI-powered quality verification system on Amazon SageMaker AI that evaluates dental X-ray quality at the point of

Large language model training workloads increasingly encounter GPU memory limits before compute is fully utilized, with high-bandwidth memory capacity becoming the primary scaling bottleneck as model

Industry concerns about SpaceX's Transporter rideshare program availability have reached 'panic' levels, with reports that SpaceX is not accepting new Transporter reservations beyond late 2028 or earl

In this post, we show you how to combine case management with agentic automation capabilities in Quick Automate. We introduce case management and explore the lifecycle of cases in an agentic workflow

Reuters: SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says the memory industry is heading for its worst-ever supply shortage in 2027 and demand will outstrip supply beyond 2030 — SK Hynix (000660.KS) Chief Executive Kw

Kif Leswing / CNBC: SK Hynix opens up 14% at 170 after raising 26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company — SK Hynix opened at $170 per share on the Nasdaq on Friday, rising about

CNBC: Source: Greg Brockman will continue to oversee OpenAI's products as the company doesn't plan to hire anyone to replace Fidji Simo after she stepped down — There's a new second-in-command at Open

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Manus investors and management are discussing unwinding Meta's $2B buyout at the same valuation, with Tencent in talks to become the largest investor — Chinese te

Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic in the Netherlands using sperm provided by an anonymous donor. After the Netherland

The Trump administration, under Health Secretary RFK Jr., has proposed breaking up combination vaccines like MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) into separate shots , and medical organizations including the

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: Taiwan's leading DRAM maker Nanya Technology expects its capex to exceed ~6.2B in 2027, up ~4x YoY, and reports unaudited Q2 revenue of ~2.6B, up 684% YoY — Taiwanese memory chi

Agentic marketing leverages AI agents to automate marketing tasks, and this approach requires a robust data foundation as its core component. Databricks discusses how organizations need unified data p

The article discusses the disparity between healthcare organizations' capabilities in leveraging data and AI for ambulatory care versus inpatient settings, highlighting how ambulatory providers often

Karen Freifeld / Reuters: The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license — The U.S. Depa

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. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over conce

Muvija M / Reuters: The UK designates Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle as critical third-party financial sector suppliers, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight — Britain has designated

Thinking Machines Lab: Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that “extends human will and judgment” — The mission of Thinkin

Vercel has added Tree and Waterfall view options to its Traces feature, providing developers with enhanced visualization tools for analyzing application performance and request flows. These new view m

Valve has introduced new verification systems for its upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame hardware, detailed at GDC 2026 . Steam Machine Verified functions as a higher-performance extension of Stea

As AI infrastructure investment scales globally and inference workloads multiply, cache storage is emerging as the critical data layer that makes AI factories functional, persistent and economically v

Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume presented a comprehensive restructuring plan to the supervisory board aimed at making the group more robust and competitive in a challenging environment. The plan reportedl

Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising 130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The round is the first time the bootstrapped c

The AI engineering world is using “loop” to describe several different agent architectures. This post maps execution loops, task loops, product loops, system loops, and the human oversight loop that c

A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one - instead, it's offering to pay its customers to put its compute units in their homes. Sunrun is laun

Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: Xreal launches $299 A01 Plus AR glasses, weighing just 62 grams and featuring 1080p micro OLED panels with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 50-degree field of view — The A01 Pl

Boone Ashworth / Wired: 1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give it 25 degrees of freedom of movement, nearly the same as a human hand — The soft, wei

Emma Whitford / Inside Higher Ed: A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% — Brown U

This guide covers GPU-initiated communication techniques using NVSHMEM, which allows GPUs to directly communicate with other GPU memory spaces, leveraging global address space for higher bandwidth and

Lyzr Inc., a startup that helps enterprises build artificial intelligence agents, is reportedly raising a funding round worth about 100 million. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the deal h

SpaceX's AI division has launched Grok 4.5, positioned as their first Opus-class model following the acquisition of Cursor. The release represents a significant capability upgrade in SpaceX's AI offer

Allstate Insurance claims that Broadcom initiated a software license audit only after the insurer decided to stop using VMware and CA software. Both Broadcom business units have brought copyright infr

Infrastructure design is being redefined by agentic AI, pushing the industry toward system-level AI infrastructure optimization, balancing performance and cost across diverse workloads rather than foc

Anthropic: Anthropic debuts a “reflection” dashboard in beta for Free, Pro, and Max users with memory turned on, to track their Claude activity over 1, 3, 6, or 12 months — Today we're introducing, in

The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they

Databricks' 5th Genie Hackathon demonstrated key insights about their Genie AI product through three core capabilities: asking questions about data, building analytical solutions, and composing workfl