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Bloomberg: Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows to protect the company's 900,000 employees from AI and automation, saying it will “do everything possible” — JD.com Inc. founder Liu Qiang

This article likely explores practical applications of image processing for IoT devices deployed across hybrid cloud architectures, discussing how organizations can leverage both on-premises and cloud

Raphael Satter / Reuters: Letter: US Central Command says it received “threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data” to target US personnel in war zones — U.S. forces d

Weaviate has expanded its role-based access control (RBAC) capabilities for the Weaviate Cloud console, enabling more granular permission management and user access control. This enhancement allows ad

Release: llm-anthropic 0.25.1 New model: Claude Opus 4.8 (claude-opus-4.8). New -o fast 1 option for fast mode, for organizations with that feature enabled on their account. Default max_tokens for eac

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a 50M Series B led by Plural — Orbital Industr

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security and governance platform for AI agents, raised a 30M Series A led by Balderton at an estimated 180M valuation — Geordie AI, a Lon

Tool: markdown-svg-renderer A slightly customized Markdown rendering tool with special treatment for fenced code SVG blocks - it both renders the image and provides a tab for switching to the code vie

Semiconductor specialists Marvell Technology Inc. and Synopsys Inc. today posted quarterly revenue numbers that topped analyst expectations. The two companies also raised their guidance. Both attribut

Microsoft is launching a revamped version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, offering a cleaner design that the company claims loads twice as fast. As part of this update, Copilot will provide more reliable an

Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: Microsoft overhauled Copilot's design in Microsoft 365 with a minimalist black-and-white, text-focused interface aimed at creating a more consistent experience — The AI

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence development to ensure Europe's independence from US tech giants, and signs deals to supply Airbus and BMW — Frenc

Agentic artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Modiqo Inc. says it can assist companies in moving from experimental workflows to repeatable and production-ready systems after raising 3 million

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Japan's largest financial institution, is partnering with OpenAI to integrate advanced AI capabilities across its operations and become an 'AI-native' organizati

Organizations are unlocking entirely new ways to use image generation and editing across their industries. To drive next-generation experiences, businesses are embedding AI directly into creative, age

IBM has introduced new classroom accounts that provide educators with expanded access to quantum computing resources for teaching and research purposes. These accounts are designed to make quantum tec

Hyperconverged cloud infrastructure company Nutanix Inc. delivered a mostly upbeat earnings report today, easily beating estimates on profit and revenue, and investors liked the news as the company’s

Robotics is entering a new phase: moving from controlled demos and scripted automation toward generalizable, reliable embodied autonomy in the real world. At the International Conference on Robotics a

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Okta reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to 765M, vs. 752M est., says the agentic AI build-out is spiking demand for its identity tools; OKTA jumps 8%+ after hours — Okta beat Wall St

Shares of Okta Inc. rose more than 6% in late trading today, while SentinelOne Inc. fell more than 18%, as the two cybersecurity companies reported quarterly results hours apart with sharply different

OpenAI's Frontier Governance Framework outlines the organization's approach to managing risks associated with advanced AI systems, including safety, security, and responsible deployment practices. The

OpenCode now integrates with DigitalOcean's Inference Router, enabling intelligent routing of AI model requests across distributed infrastructure. This integration allows developers to optimize model

Vercel announced support for Claude Opus 4.8 on its AI Gateway, enabling developers to integrate Anthropic's latest large language model through Vercel's unified API platform. This update allows seaml

Orchid Security Inc. today extended its Identity Control Plane with a set of capabilities aimed at governing artificial intelligence agents, saying existing identity and access management models canno

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Pittsburgh-based Gray Swan, which stress-tests AI models for top frontier AI labs, raised a 40M Series A at a 200M valuation co-led by Wing VC and Madrona — Gray Swan works

MIT researchers developed a low-temperature process for extracting battery-grade lithium from the common mineral spodumene. The process uses a liquid reagent to dissolve the rock into useful forms inc

Artificial intelligence has turned technology spending into a strategic boardroom priority across the entire enterprise. Companies are now using FinOps data to decide where capital goes and the value

With artificial intelligence tools proliferating across the enterprise world, observability is a more critical sphere than ever before. Riverbed Technology LLC, which specializes in unified observabil

Today, I’m talking with Wassym Bensaid, the chief software officer at Rivian, and the co-CEO of Rivian’s platform joint venture with Volkswagen, which everyone just calls RV Tech. That joint venture k

Salesforce Inc. delivered stronger-than-expected financial results today, but the software vendor came up short when it issued its current quarter and full-year revenue forecast, as the stock barely m

Choi Yeon-jae / The Korea Herald: Samsung's Securities, SDS, and Card units jointly acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange, in a ~$446M all-cash deal — Samsung

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Snowflake stock closed up 36% on Thursday, its best day ever, after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon — Software stocks popped on Thursda

Reuters: Source: the Shanghai Futures Exchange is in the early stages of designing futures contracts for AI tokens; US exchanges are set to launch GPU compute futures — China is designing a futures ma

Axios: Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~12B valuation, up from 8B late last year, and hit 1.5B in ARR, up from 1B in October — Payments firm Airwallex has raised

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks — Senio

Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease — Apollo Global Management Inc

Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok is cutting music label-facing jobs to focus on its music distribution arm SoundOn and other projects that connect it more directly with artists — Music has been core to TikT

Starburst Data Inc. today is expanding its push into enterprise artificial intelligence with the introduction of a platform aimed at allowing organizations to run AI workloads directly on distributed

In this post, we demonstrate how to build a secure Flask-based MLflow proxy service that provides HTTPS access to Amazon SageMaker MLflow without requiring the MLflow SDK. This solution is for organiz

Vercel introduced a team-wide provider allowlist feature for AI Gateway, allowing teams to control which AI providers their members can use within the platform. This security and governance enhancemen

This episode of the Latent Space podcast features Walden Yan from Cognition and Cole Murray from OpenInspect discussing the emerging paradigm of asynchronous AI agents—autonomous systems that operate

It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told University of Arizona graduates that their t

Wall Street Journal: The CFTC moves to vacate a 5M settlement with Gemini, reversing a Biden-era enforcement action, following a lobbying campaign by the Winklevoss twins — A 5 million settlement at 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. Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next? Solar an

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the DSA for allegedly failing to adequately stop the sale of illegal products; further penalties could follow — Chinese online re

Bloomberg: The European Commission launches a full review of JD.com's €2.2B acquisition of German electronics retailer Ceconomy under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation — Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com