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This article discusses 'skill engineering' as an approach to AI system design that emphasizes iterative development and refinement of AI capabilities, arguing against the 'one-shot' design philosophy

Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by 2030 — SoftBank Group Corp

Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank Group Corp. and its telecommunications subsidiary SoftBank Corp. are planning to launch a new neocloud business in the U.S. that will rent access to artificia

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~2B valuation, six months after raising 75M at a 1B valuation — Binance is set to lead

Business Insider: Sources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently in training, codenamed Watermelon, matches GPT-5.5 and uses an “order of magnitude more compute than Avocado” — Meta is making sign

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip — Anthropic

The Information: Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal — A British law firm h

Bloomberg: Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October — Crusoe, the data center upstart wi

Bloomberg: Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~22B; it was valued at 11B in February — ElevenLabs has held early ta

Bloomberg: Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank is in talks to raise money at an 8B+ valuation, up from 4.35B in 2025; its deposits are up from 1.1B in March to 4.05B — Erebor Bank is in talks to rais

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincided with suspicious Kalshi wagers — Pl

British data intelligence startup StirlingX Ltd. has raised 20 million in an early-stage round to accelerate product development and push into new markets. StirlingX describes itself as a data intelli

Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential use cases are unfolding far from consumer-facing tools. In in

Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles globally in Q2 2026, representing a 25% increase over the prior year's 384,122 units . The recovery was driven by stronger demand in Europe and China, with higher fuel

This article outlines three key questions organizations should address when scaling AI initiatives from pilot projects to production impact. Based on the Databricks focus, it likely covers questions r

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. LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying

Bloomberg: The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android market power should stand — Google lost its long-running fi

Joe Warminsky / The Record: The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks — A 19-year-old

This article discusses how future websites could dynamically generate personalized content and layouts for each individual visitor using AI and generative technologies, rather than serving static page

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Travel app Hopper agrees to a 35M FTC settlement over allegations the company misled users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs — Hopper, the trav

Tripo AI, a developer of interactive 3D foundation models and world models, said today it has closed on a hefty 150 million Series A3 funding round to scale up its platform in the intelligent manufact

Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: Tripo AI, which is developing 3D foundation models and world models for use in games, raised 150M, a month after it said it raised 200M — Tripo AI, a global artificial inte

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: UK-based StirlingX, which develops secure data intelligence systems for defense and critical infrastructure, raised a 20M Series A, following a 11M seed — The UK company, whic

I saw Geoffrey Litt speak at AIE yesterday, and one framing he used particularly resonated with me: Understand to participate Geoffrey was talking about the challenge of collaborating with coding agen

Research: Using DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system prompts One of this morning's AIE keynotes covered dspy, which reminded me I've been meaning to see if it could help me improv

Physical artificial intelligence is becoming an industrial robotics problem. The market is shifting from software-only automation toward machines that must sense, decide and act in physical settings.

Something stinks in California’s climate policies. Years ago, the state set up a system that pays cattle farmers across the country to turn the methane emitted from cattle manure into natural gas, enc

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Z.ai launches ZCode, an “Agentic Development Environment” optimized for its new GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan costs from 16.20 to 144 per month — The move marks th

The 2026 Volvo EX30 Cross Country is a small electric SUV that is a joy to drive with a stylish cabin, though the rugged Cross Country variant sacrifices only modest range compared to the standard mod

Christopher Beam / Bloomberg: A look at Manifest, an annual convention for prediction markets where many purists worry that Kalshi and Polymarket are undermining the technology's public good — At Mani

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: A researcher says a vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email tool lets anyone see a user's real email address; first reported in June 2025, Apple has not fixed it — “Hide My Emai

The Viking 1 lander used its robotic arm to perform the first Martian soil sample analysis , collecting samples for biological experiments that involved scooping soil and testing it with nutrient solu

Andrea Shalal / Reuters: A UN panel co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio warns that AI capabilities are outpacing scientific understanding, the “potential benefits of AI are enormous”, and more — The rapid dev

Dinesh Nair / Bloomberg: Abu Dhabi-based MGX raised a 49B AI-focused fund, exceeding its 45B target, and plans to deploy as much as 10B annually from the fund over the next few years — MGX has raised

In this post, we demonstrate how to deploy BoltzGen on SageMaker AI and run an end-to-end protein design experiment. By the end of the walkthrough, you have a working setup that scales from quick vali

This dispatch covers developments from the AI Engineer World Fair, likely discussing emerging trends in AI engineering including feedback loops in AI systems, the concept of software factories powered

This Latent Space article discusses recent AI model releases, covering Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 and anticipated details about Fable 5, likely examining their capabilities, improvements, and implica

Team Aligned Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to streamline deal execution for corporate buyers and sellers, said today it has clinched 60 million in a new round of funding. PeakSpan

AlloyDB is an AI-native database—it isn’t just a passive data store, it intelligently understands and processes your data. With AlloyDB, you get industry-leading vector and hybrid search, near 100% ac

Together AI announced an $800 million Series C funding round to support its mission of advancing open-source artificial intelligence development and deployment. The funding will be used to accelerate

We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x

Anthropic PBC today debuted Claude Sonnet 5, a midrange large language model that outperforms its predecessor in several areas. The LLM will be the default option in the consumer tiers of the company’

Anthropic: Anthropic says Fable 5 will be available via usage credits for Claude users from July 7, and is working with partners to draft an AI jailbreak severity standard — On Friday, June 12, the US

Juro Osawa / The Information: Anthropic says it is rolling back a covert Claude Code tracking feature to identify users based in China or affiliated with Chinese AI labs, after backlash — Anthropic is

@anthropicai: Anthropic says “some routine tasks like coding and debugging” on Fable 5 “will fall back to Opus 4.8” in “the near term” as it works to “reduce false positives” — Claude Fable 5 will be

Security researchers at Armadin Inc. today detailed an attack chain that runs arbitrary commands as root inside the sandbox behind Anthropic PBC’s Claude Cowork, escaping the isolation layer, with a s