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OpenAI frontier models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4, and Codex, the OpenAI coding agent, are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. AWS customers can access these latest OpenAI models through the same Amaz

OpenAI outlines its positions on AI policy priorities and explains its approach to political engagement and advocacy efforts. The document likely covers key regulatory areas OpenAI supports, such as s

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Palo Alto Networks says Mythos found 24+ critical bugs using $1M+ in tokens; Anthropic subsidizes Mythos but some companies plan to boost their Mythos budgets — When Pa

IBM Research's June 2026 Ponder This Challenge presents a mathematical or logical puzzle involving superhero team movies. The challenge likely requires solvers to work through constraints and combinat

@theallinpod: Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic staffers believing “they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species”, and more — Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thi

Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in “founder mode”, differences between “founder mode and hustle culture”, AI customer service, listing hotels, and more — The ho

Vercel has made Qwen 3.7 Plus, an AI model, available through its AI Gateway service, allowing developers to access this model via Vercel's platform. This addition expands the model options available

Today, we’re excited to announce the ability to reference a secret in AWS Secrets Manager for AgentCore Identity, so you can reference your own preconfigured secret from Secrets Manager and retain ful

This article argues that the primary challenges in deploying reinforcement learning systems are infrastructure-related rather than algorithmic, focusing on issues like distributed training, simulation

Renowned mathematician Subhash Khot has joined IBM Research, bringing his expertise to the organization's research initiatives. Khot is known for his work in theoretical computer science and computati

Rohan Prabhu / Step Security Blog: Researchers find packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware that harvests credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, Azure, and others — Sev

The Information: Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; source: Salesforce paid between 1B and 1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021 — Salesforce is acquiring Conten

In this post, we use a lakehouse data agent to demonstrate how you can use Policy for deterministic access control and Lambda interceptors for dynamic validation. We then show how to combine Lambda in

Kerry Flynn / Axios: Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a 20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a 6M seed in 2025 — Sekai has raised a $

Financial Times: SoftBank becomes Japan's biggest company by market value after hitting an all-time high, overtaking Toyota, which has been the country's largest for 20+ years — Demand for AI stocks p

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Source: Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth ~5B; Salesforce first invested about 50M in an early 2023 round and has continually invested in rounds since — Salesforce Inc.

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic plans to let the EU's cyber agency ENISA join Project Glasswing, giving it access to Mythos; EU officials went to the US to ask for access — Anthropic P

Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning AI model developed by Microsoft AI, and lots of Windows developer features — Build will incl

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Tencent, which has fallen behind domestic rivals in AI models, plans to test an AI agent for WeChat with a small group of users before a phased rollout — Maker of

Hugh Son / CNBC: Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220+ are “fallen unicorns” — Five years ago, ventu

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised 50M led by a16z — Endra, a startup automating the design of plumbing

The popular fitness-tracking platform, Strava, is restricting access to its API as part of efforts to clamp down on AI scraping, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Developers who want to build an app

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Strava is adding a $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping — AI companies

Taiwan is home to more than 500 NVIDIA ecosystem partners. More than 1 million NVIDIA MGX rack components for NVIDIA Vera Rubin infrastructure come together in Taiwan, from across 25 factory sites. As

A practical comparison of production AI evaluation harnesses, including what to look for across instrumentation, evaluators, online evals, CI gates, and agent workflows. The post The best eval harness

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. China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer c

AI agents possess incredible reasoning capabilities and can perform increasingly complex actions. But the reliability of agentic outcomes depends entirely on the quality of the context they can access

This article discusses how prefix-aware routing and prefix caching techniques can reduce the computational overhead and costs associated with running large language models at scale by eliminating redu

Nvidia's announcement that it's getting into the consumer laptop chip space with RTX Spark is huge. Apple has proved for years that Arm-based chips can perform incredibly well while also delivering gr

In this post, we walk through how to use Amazon Quick Research to integrate biomedical data sources for rare cancer research. The walkthrough uses pediatric sarcoma as the research domain and draws on

When we design large GPU clusters, the network is no longer a background system. It's part of the compute envelope. At the 800G and NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 scale, the back-end fabric accounts for 86% of ne

Vercel Blob has added support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication, enabling more secure and flexible identity verification for accessing blob storage. This enhancement allows users to authenticat

NVIDIA Cosmos 3 is an open-source omni-model designed for physical AI reasoning and action tasks, representing an advancement in multimodal AI systems. The model integrates multiple modalities to enab

Video agent models represent the next frontier in AI by extending language model capabilities to process, understand, and act on video content in real-time, enabling autonomous agents to perceive and

New York Times: Wirescreen analysis of 3,800 Chinese military procurement records finds 500+ instances since 2019 where the PLA sought Nvidia chips, including the A100 and A800 — An analysis of six ye

Simon Lock / TBIJ: Wise confirms it is under investigation by Belgian prosecutors over suspicions its accounts were used for money laundering involving €500M in transactions — Help change the world by

Nvidia Corp. says it’s uprooting supercomputers from the vast, sprawling data center complexes they normally live inside and squeezing them into compact, desktop-sized workstations that can sit on or

Reuters: A look at AMD CEO Lisa Su's and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's contrasting China playbooks, with Su keeping a lower profile; China accounts for ~20% of AMD's revenue — When AMD CEO Lisa Su arrived

Brent Crane / Bloomberg: A profile of Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, who became CEO in 2024 and has overseen back-to-back years of revenue growth, with record gross bookings of $119B in 2025 — Atop the glo

Zack Abrams / The Block: A US court ordered Circle to blacklist Zama's cUSDC contract, freezing ~12.6M in funds, likely catching many in the “crossfire” of a civil suit against a DAO — Quick Take — A

Exponential View: AI adoption follows the J-curve path of general-purpose tech, like early US factory electrification, requiring years of investment before noticeable ROI gains — A framework to unders

Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: Bill Gates' carefully crafted public image has been eroded by revelations about his ties to Epstein; Gates was recently snubbed from Microsoft's CEO Summit — The bi

Vercel's Chat SDK has expanded its integration capabilities to support Lark and Feishu, two popular communication and collaboration platforms. This addition enables developers to build chat applicatio

Nikkei Asia: China will implement new online food delivery regulations on June 1, requiring platforms to regularly verify businesses' identities, locations, and licenses — BEIJING/SHANGHAI — The Chine

Release: datasette 1.0a32 A minor bugfix release. Fixes a bug with INSERT ... RETURNING queries via the new /db/-/execute-write endpoint and a bunch of base_url issues which showed up when I was exper

Jacob Judah / Financial Times: Experts say ChatGPT, Gemini, and other Western AI models are turbocharging Iran's cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch phishing attacks — Western AI m