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A phase 1 clinical trial published in *Nature* (2026) demonstrated that a transformer base editor can effectively treat severe β-Thalassaemia by modifying patients' own CD34+ haematopoietic stem ce...

James Strahler II of Columbus, Ohio became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act — a federal law criminalizing the posting of nonconsensual explicit imagery, including AI-generated ...

After canceling its long-anticipated 'Model 2' affordable EV program in 2024 and pivoting toward robotaxis, Tesla is now reportedly developing an all-new compact electric SUV priced substantially b...

Zalando built a unified data foundation on Databricks using Unity Catalog, Metric Views, and Genie to govern data, standardize metrics, and enable natural language analytics — centralizing previous...

Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami announced at the company's .NEXT conference in Chicago that approximately 30,000 customers have migrated from VMware to Nutanix's hyperconverged platform since Broadcom'...

Pennsylvania State Police Corporal Stephen Kamnik used his department-issued computer to create AI-generated deepfake pornography of multiple women, drawing source images from the state's driver's ...

Artificial intelligence model compression startup Refiant AI said today it has raised $5 million in seed funding from VoLo Earth Ventures to try to put an end to the “arms race” that has ignited a mul

Following a courtroom defeat, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. rewrote the charter of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), broadening its membership criteria, increasing its focus on...

The Artemis II crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen — launched on April 1, 2026, sending the first humans toward the Moon since 1...

NASA's Artemis II mission, which launched April 1, 2026, sent four astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen — on the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1...

Databricks has announced that its support for Apache Iceberg v3 is now in Public Preview (available in Databricks Runtime 18.0 and above), introducing key capabilities including Deletion Vectors, R...

A three-judge panel of Trump appointees on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — including Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, both veterans of Trump's first administration — denied Anthropic'...

The world's largest known wild chimpanzee group — the roughly 200-member Ngogo community in Uganda's Kibale National Park — split in 2015 into two factions called Western and Central, after which t...

Volkswagen ended production of the ID.4 electric SUV at its Chattanooga, Tennessee plant in mid-April 2026, primarily due to a sharp drop in EV demand following the Trump administration's withdraw...

The Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is seeking unprecedented access to the medical records of millions of federal workers, retirees, and their families. The proposed re...

Prompt caching delivers significant efficiency gains at a single replica, but under standard round-robin load balancing, a request with an identical prefix has only a 1/N chance of hitting the repl...

Jack Clark / Import AI: Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says “I now think it's more likely we'll see full RSI become possible in 2027”, earlier than his previous prediction of 2028 — Will we give robo

Managing AI model access across dozens or hundreds of AWS accounts creates friction when each account must accept AWS Marketplace Private Pricing Offers individually. This post shows two ways to activ

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Meta expands its AI-powered “Your Algorithm” feature from Instagram to Facebook and Facebook Reels and says it is using LLMs more in its ranking systems — Meta's bringing

AWS engineers share kernel optimizations for fused Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models on Amazon SageMaker AI: Swap-AB for WGMMA utilization, Triton backend routing for FP8 quantization, and eliminating T

Aditya Soni / Reuters: Sources: Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for substantial control over what external AI evaluators can publish, out of concern that trade secrets could leak — Anthropic and Open

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at 30B+, up from 15B in June — For the last

Physical AI needs context about its surroundings to adapt beyond a fixed set of instructions. Munich-based Spranic is building a spatial memory layer that records physical spaces and how they change.

Cybersecurity company Trellix today launched Trellix Wise for Private Cloud to let enterprises run its artificial intelligence engine for security operations entirely inside their own environments. Th

Aaron Holmes / The Information: A profile of Microsoft EVP of Copilot Charles Lamanna, a potential Satya Nadella successor; a source says Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic $2B+ per year — In the

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: An interview with ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver on his startup Ineffable, building an AI “super learner” using RL as an alternative path to LLMs, and more — Th

Anthropic: Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes — Our experiments suggest that

Flo Health leveraged Databricks AI Runtime to create open‑source language models that prioritize both safety and practical utility. By integrating Databricks’ scalable training infrastructure with rob

Chao Kong / South China Morning Post: Leading Chinese mathematicians launch an alliance, including eight orgs and aiming for 1,000+ scientists, to focus on developing specialized AI models for math —

Ambient intelligence startup Mistlabs Ltd. today brought its Ambi artificial intelligence system out of beta test on Apple Inc. devices, backed by 26 million in new funding. Ambi is designed to act wi

Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly engaged in discussion over the potential acquisition of artificial intelligence developer Decart.ai Inc. in a deal that could be worth up to 7 billion. Decart has develop

Nikkei Asia: Sources: NTT Data is in advanced talks to build an up to 500 MW data center for Anthropic in Osaka, among Japan's largest, potentially costing $6.3B — TOKYO/OSAKA — NTT Data Group is in t

Financial institutions are adopting artificial intelligence faster than many compliance teams can establish the controls needed to oversee it. That gap is raising new questions about AI-powered compli

Achint Srivastava / Command Line: Microsoft unveils Microsoft-Decision-1, a fast decision-scoring model trained on Qwen3.5-9B, and says it will soon rebase it on MAI, OpenAI, and other models — Decisi

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: PitchBook: robotics and physical AI companies have raised ~$48B YTD, as they gather training data from people completing tasks in factories, offices, and homes — ‘

CBS News: Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on the Iran school strike and AI targeting, the DOD dropping Anthropic, AI liability, effective altruism, and more — The following is the full transcript o

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~6B in September — San Francisco comp

Bloomberg: A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share — When measuring the race be

Professional services firms are rethinking how they deliver client value as artificial intelligence takes on more routine work, shifting attention toward human judgment, trusted outcomes and new opera

After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed '

Adam Morgan / Wired: Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more — Workers at three m

New York Times: Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed — The Philadelphia Polic

We see a control gap between what artificial intelligence can do and what the evidence supports trusting it to do. A great demo doesn’t prove that a system will stay within the limits of an intended d

The artificial intelligence infrastructure race is no longer just about building faster chips. AI infrastructure bottlenecks are shifting attention to a bigger challenge: keeping those chips supplied

We are expanding the Clef decision model family with Clef-omni, natively processing audio, video, images, and text in a single pipeline. We’ve also lowered Clef-flash pricing and boosted Clef inferenc

Bloomberg: Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised ~870M led by a16z at a 7.5B valuation with Sequoia and angel investors also participating; ~33% of the Fortune 500 use Jev — TypeSafe AI, the startup behind