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The Supreme Court allowed Texas to continue enforcing a law requiring app stores to verify buyers' ages and obtain parental consent for minors to download apps and purchase paid content. Challengers a

Puyaan Singh / Reuters: Sleep apnea device maker ResMed agrees to sell its software business MatrixCare to PE firm Frazier for 490M in cash; ResMed bought MatrixCare for 750M in 2018 — ResMed (RMD.N)

Solos announced a new version of its AirGo smart glasses, one that forgoes cameras for a sleeker design and an AI assistant that relies on voice interactions. Last year's AirGo A5 weighed 36 to 40 gra

Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: Solos unveils the AirGo A6 camera-less smart glasses, cutting the weight to 19g from the AirGo A5's 36g to 40g, and V2 privacy accessories like a clip-on shield — The Air

Fanny Potkin / Reuters: Sources: Beijing recently held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, Z.ai, and others to discuss restricting overseas access to advanced open and closed AI models — Chinese authori

Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek is in the early stages of developing its own AI chip designed for inference, in a bid to reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei hardware — Chinese startup DeepSeek is deve

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Sources detail Xbox's big reset after its Game Pass strategy failed; Xbox spent nearly 80B on content deals, but gamers prefer to stick with a handful of games — Micro

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft, looking to reduce AI costs, is starting to replace models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook — Microsoft Corp.

sqlite-migrate is a simple database migration system for SQLite, based on sqlite-utils. Version 0.2 represents sqlite-migrate as a database migrations system for SQLite, loosely inspired by Django mig

sqlite-utils 4.0 introduces three major new features: database migrations for schema evolution, nested transaction support via db.atomic(), and support for compound foreign keys. The release includes

This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0, the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant breaking changes (des

The year 2026 could be remembered as the moment when storage technology received a massive promotion. The reason is that the current transition from simple chatbots to agentic AI systems has raised th

Byron Kaye / Reuters: Study: 50 test accounts created in Australia across nine platforms were never asked to verify their age, despite the Australian law mandating a ban on under-16s — Australia's onl

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Super.com, which offers a savings app for lower-income consumers, raised a 65M Series D led by TPG at a 1.2B valuation and says it is profitable — In 2022, Hussein Fazal fl

Nearly a quarter of adults in states with lone star ticks have alpha-gal antibodies in their blood, according to recent CDC estimates. Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is a serious, potentially life-threateni

Gao Yuan / Bloomberg: Survey: Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI accelerator budget to domestic products in the next 12 months, up from 30% today, a shift from Nvidia — Chinese compani

A chipmaker called Syntiant Corp. that specializes in making low-powered processors that run artificial intelligence locally on devices has filed to go public. The company filed its initial public off

This study focuses on Text-to-Sounding-Video (T2SV) generation, which aims to generate a video with synchronized audio from text, with both modalities aligned to the text conditions. Despite progress

Tangos AI Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to conduct financial crime investigations at unprecedented scale, said today it has closed on 20 million in seed funding. The round was led

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Tangos, which uses AI to conduct financial crime investigations at scale, raised a 20M seed led by Red Dot — Tangos AI Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence t

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. Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI Sam Altman’s proposal that

With the rapid progress of AI capabilities and the move to agentic systems, organizations are expanding their use cases as the technology continues to grow. That constant evolution also introduces ris

Written by: Shebin Mathew Introduction The 'Golden SAML' technique, first described by CyberArk researchers in 2017, and further detailed by Mandiant researchers in 2021, remains one of the most effec

Nintendo announced in July 2026 that it will discontinue sales of the Switch console family in Europe as of February 2027. This coincided with Nintendo announcing new Switch 2 versions with user-repla

The Weather Channel raised the price of its direct-to-consumer streaming service from 2.99 per month to 4.99 per month , representing a price increase that aligns with industry trends. Annual subscrib

Lola has replaced the original fiberglass bodywork with a composite system made from plant fibers and basalt fibers from volcanic rock, held together by plant-based resin from sugar cane. The vehicle'

Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: UK-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale secures a 900M line of credit to expand its data center buildout across Europe, the US, and the Asia Pacific — Nscale raised

ULA's last six Atlas V rockets are all reserved for Boeing's Starliner missions, with no other payloads contracted for these final launches. No Starliner flight dates are currently set as Boeing and N

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for autonomous “killer robots” to be “banned by international law”, a central issue in the US DOD-Anthropic clash — Ant

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: US autonomous military vehicle startup Forterra says it deployed 100+ Lancer UGVs, based on Polaris ATVs, in Ukraine since 2025, completing 1,100+ missions — Forterra, a US

Vercel has acquired Better Auth, an open source authentication library, to strengthen its authentication capabilities and support for developers building on its platform. The acquisition aims to accel

The web is complex, open-ended, and constantly changing, making it challenging to scale training data for visual web agents. Existing data collection attempts remain limited to offline trajectories fo

Enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure has become as critical to AI success as the models themselves. As organizations move AI into production, attention is increasingly shifting toward the

Claude is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry. Here's everything else that shipped between Build 2026 and the end of June — autopilot agents, expanded Toolboxes and Routines, Agent Optimizer'

Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips on his family’s land in Hickman, a tiny town in the state’s agricultural heartland. He re

Vercel has added the ability to view activity logs at the project level, allowing users to monitor and track actions, changes, and events specific to individual projects. This feature enhances visibil

Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: A profile of Rachel Whetstone, who has led comms for Google, Meta, Uber, Netflix, and now Sierra, as her husband Steve Hilton runs for California governor

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: A profile of Samsung union leader Choi Seung-ho, who helped win a ~$26B bonus package for chip employees, as he tries to resolve the rift over bonus gaps — Avoiding old-school

Cloud security company Sysdig Inc. has documented what it says is the first ransomware operation carried out from start to finish by an autonomous artificial intelligence agent, a campaign it calls Ja

Olivia Fletcher / Bloomberg: AI-driven drops in labor income and gains in capital income could hit Ireland's tax base, with 6%+ of its workforce in tech and heavy exposure to US companies — The countr

Bespoke Labs Inc., a startup working to streamline the post-training phase of artificial intelligence projects, has raised 40 million in funding. The company stated today that the capital arrived in t

This Databricks resource covers best practices for implementing automatic upgrades on lakehouse tables, likely discussing how to leverage automated features to optimize table performance, maintain dat

In this post, we present a multi-step pipeline directed by Amazon Nova, which uses its contextual vision reasoning to coordinate complementary tools, including Meta’s open-source Segment Anything Mode

Barracuda has integrated with Databricks' AI assistant Genie to enable natural language querying of security logs, allowing security teams to analyze and extract insights from log data through convers

Armin Ronacher / Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings: Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 seem worse at tool calls than older models, likely due to post-training that assumes Claude Code-like harnesses as

Databricks describes contextual policies in Omnigent, a framework that leverages session state to implement more effective governance and control mechanisms for AI agents. By maintaining and utilizing