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Conductor migrated its parallel coding agents infrastructure from local laptops to the cloud using Vercel Sandbox, enabling improved scalability and distributed execution of AI-driven code generation

Databricks' lakebase architecture incorporates design principles and mechanisms to maintain resilience and availability when cloud infrastructure failures occur. The architecture likely employs redund

HP Inc. reported revenue and earnings beats in its fiscal 2026 second-quarter results today, with stronger-than-expected demand for commercial PCs driving 9% revenue growth at the personal computer an

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: HP reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to 14.4B, vs. 14B est., Personal Systems revenue up 13% to $10.2B, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS above estimates — HP Inc. gave a profit forecast

Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staf

Jared Perlo / NBC News: Illinois Legislature passes SB 315, a bill requiring annual independent third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; the bill heads to the governor's desk — The measure,

Databricks introduced Always-On pricing, a new pricing model for Databricks Lakehouse that provides automatic cost savings to customers. This pricing option likely offers discounted rates for committe

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ITBench-AA is a new benchmark developed by Artificial Analysis and IBM that evaluates frontier AI models on agentic enterprise IT tasks, with results showing that current leading models score below 50

Nikkei Asia: Jensen Huang says Nvidia is spending 100B-150B annually on its Taiwan supply chain, up from 10B-15B four years ago, and will boost its Taiwan staff to 4,000 — TAIPEI — Nvidia is now spend

This newsletter episode covers major AI developments including Elon Musk's legal loss against OpenAI, updates announced at Google's I/O conference, and OpenAI's achievement in solving the Erdős discre

Astronomers directly measured the mass of a black hole in a 'little red dot' observed when the universe was just 700 million years old, finding it is much too massive for its host galaxy, suggesting i

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Mark Zuckerberg tells shareholders that a Meta cloud computing business is “definitely on the table” if it overspends on data centers and has excess capacity — Meta CEO Mark Zu

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta rolls out Plus plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, will test 7.99/mo. and 19.99/mo. Meta AI plans, a $49.99/mo. creator plan, and more — Meta is doubli

Memory chipmakers Micron Technology Inc. and SK Hynix Inc. each saw their market values surge above 1 trillion for the first time today, driven by insatiable demand for their products from artificial

Enterprises are adopting an agentic AI PC strategy as Copilot+ PCs shift AI workloads from expensive cloud inference to secure, high-performance on-device processing. As agentic AI moves from experime

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a 58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin — WeRoad, the

Mina the Hollower is an action-adventure game from Yacht Club Games where players control Mina, a renowned Hollower on a mission to rescue a cursed island. The game features nostalgic throwback visual

Motorola's 2026 Razr lineup features durable and visually refined hardware design , but critics note the devices struggle to establish clear leadership in any single category . Motorola raised prices

NASA satellites can detect and localize GPS jammers operating from orbit using civilian satellite data with improved accuracy over previous methods. A GPS jammer near Shiraz, Iran has remained active

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the chip company plans to invest approximately 150 billion annually in Taiwan, terming it the 'epicentre' of the AI revolution . This represents a dramatic increase f

NVIDIA's Blackwell GB200 NVL72 architecture achieved the fastest-ever results on the STAC-AI benchmark for financial LLM inference, delivering up to 3.2x single-GPU performance improvements over the p

NVIDIA Dynamo Snapshot introduces ModelExpress for 7x faster startup via checkpoint restore and weight streaming with NVIDIA NVLink and NIXL , enabling efficient model initialization for inference wor

Nvidia has officially retired the NVIDIA Control Panel after 20 years of service, shifting all functionality to the newer Nvidia App. The legacy Control Panel is no longer included in default GeForce

Maria Curi / Axios: OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes — OpenAI is announcing

Reuters: OpenAI Foundation says it is committing an initial 250M for grants, partnerships, and direct work aimed at helping workers and economies navigate AI disruption — The non-profit that controls

As agent adoption scaled, we saw a common pattern emerge across enterprises, including our own sales organization: specialized agents deliver value, but without orchestration, users carry the cognitiv

Google Research presents a zero-trust approach to private analytics that combines cryptographic and hardware protection mechanisms to reduce trust in any single entity. The solution uses a cryptograph

In this post, we explore how Amazon Bedrock Data Automation can accurately extract information from four common types of financial documents: bank statements, W-2 forms, 1099-B tax forms, and vendor c

PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE

Reachy Mini, a robotic system, can now operate with fully local processing capabilities, enabling on-device inference without requiring cloud connectivity. This advancement allows the robot to run AI

Vercel announced a redesign of its Deployments List interface to improve visibility and management of project deployments. The update likely enhances the user interface for viewing deployment history,

This article from Databricks discusses strategies and best practices for deploying large language models in production environments at scale while maintaining reliability and performance. It likely co

British software supply chain security startup RevEng.AI says it has raised 15 million in early-stage funding after developing technology similar to Anthropic PBC’s Mythos model and working out a way

Robinhood Markets Inc. today opened its trading and banking platforms to artificial intelligence agents, launching a beta Agentic Trading product and a virtual Agentic Credit Card that can place stock

Robinhood is opening its trading platform to AI agents. In an announcement on Wednesday, Robinhood says traders can now create a separate account for an AI agent and add a specific amount of money, al

Roku's redesigned home screen now features larger advertisements that remain visible at all times, and this persistent ad placement has proven more effective in generating revenue. The first major hom

This article discusses implementing role-based access control (RBAC) systems that work for both human users and AI agents, likely addressing how to manage permissions and authentication in environment

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Salesforce reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to 11.13B, vs. 11.05B est., Agentforce annual recurring revenue up 205% to $1.2B, and forecasts Q2 revenue below est. — Salesforce reporte

DigitalOcean introduced a unified batch inference solution designed to enable scalable and cost-efficient AI model inference workloads. The offering allows users to process multiple inference requests

Delta Weight Sync (DWS) is a technique for efficiently distributing and synchronizing large language models with trillions of parameters across distributed systems using Hugging Face's TRL (Transforme

CNBC: Snowflake reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to 1.39B, vs. 1.32B est., and commits to spending 6B on AWS over five years; SNOW jumps 35%+ after hours — Amazon said Wednesday that its cloud division h

Snowflake Inc.’s shares jumped in late trading today after it announced a $6 billion spending commitment on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud infrastructure, including a deal to use the company’s custo

Bloomberg: Source: at a town hall, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told staff they will see a 30%+ bump in their profit-sharing payouts in 2026 on average, after some staff had concerns — Taiwan Semiconductor Manuf

Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance is discussing capex of up to 70B in 2026 as it builds out data centers and AI infrastructure, underwriting it with its 50B profit from 2025 — ByteDance Ltd., the develope

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: EU leaders are divided on curbing Big Tech as they weigh cloud tender rules and giving EU companies preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum — European leaders