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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is 'the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers.' Messages in Incognito Chat aren't saved or stored in
Amber Tong / Bloomberg: Metis TechBio, a biotech company using AI to deliver and formulate drugs, surged as much as 185% in its Hong Kong market debut after raising ~$270M in its IPO — Shares of Metis
Maybe I'm just punch-drunk in my third week attending Musk v. Altman, but I have become very, very fond of Microsoft during the course of this trial. They don't want to be here any more than I do. The
Gyana Swain / CSO: Microsoft unveils MDASH, a security system that orchestrates 100+ AI agents to find vulnerabilities, and says it identified 16 previously unknown Windows flaws — The agentic tool, c
Emma Roth / The Verge: Microsoft updates Edge with new AI features, including letting Copilot gather information from open tabs and use browsing history for more relevant answers — The new features in
Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot ques
Microsoft Corp. today detailed a new artificial intelligence-powered vulnerability discovery system that uncovered 16 previously unknown flaws in Windows networking and authentication components, incl
mimalloc is an open-source, modern, scalable memory allocator that is a drop-in replacement for malloc and free. It is relatively small (~12K lines), with clear internal data structures, and is easy t
Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Microsoft executive Michael Wetter testifies that Microsoft has spent 100B+ on OpenAI, including its investments and to build infrastructure — Microsoft Corp. has spent more
AI Security Institute: Mythos Preview is the first AI model to complete both of AISI's cyber ranges, which measure models' cyberattack capabilities; GPT-5.5 solved only one of them — In February 2026,
NASA is moving quickly to define next year's Artemis III mission in Earth orbit, a crewed flight that will test rendezvous and docking capabilities between the agency's Orion spacecraft and commercial
Dutch artificial intelligence infrastructure giant Nebius Group N.V. said today it’s recruiting the core engineering team from AI orchestration software firm Clarifai Inc. in an effort to boost its ma
Emma Roth / The Verge: Netflix says its ad tier now has 250M monthly active viewers, up from 94M in 2025, and is expanding to 15 new countries, as it tests an ad personalization tool — The streaming s
Reinforcement-learning agents — AI systems that learn by trial and error — can convert computation into new knowledge. That’s the focus of a new engineering-level collaboration between NVIDIA and Inef
Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: Ofcom fines an unnamed suicide forum £950K, the largest OSA fine so far, for hosting illegal content accessible in the UK; the forum is linked to 130+ deaths — Britain's commu
OpenAI Global Affairs: OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act and Illinois SB 315, an AI safety bill to create requirements around transparency, incident reporting, and more — Welcome (back) to Th
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: OpenAI says it would support a global AI governance body that is led by the US and includes China as a member, similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency — OpenAI w
Jared Perlo / NBC News: OpenEvidence, an AI-powered medical search tool, says it's used by two-thirds of US physicians, or ~650K doctors, and an additional 1.2M doctors internationally — OpenEvidence,
At the Android Show yesterday, we introduced Googlebooks: a new category of premium laptops built with Gemini’s helpfulness at the core. Designed for Gemini Intelligence, Googlebooks will give persona
OpenAI details its response to the TanStack “Mini Shai-Hulud” supply chain attack, outlines protections taken to secure systems and signing certificates, and explains why macOS users must update OpenA
Analysis of proteins in six 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China identified genetic variants shared with Denisovans, providing the first evidence of genetic mixing between the two groups. On
Ashlee Vance / Core Memory: Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stack, launching Muse Spark, personal superintelligence, acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence, and more — Last June, Meta pri
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Q&A with Amazon SVP of Devices and Alexa Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, its Leo satellite broadband business, and more — Execu
Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the “cone of uncertainty” in AI, allocating compute, returns to frontier intelligence, platform vs. application, and more — In th
“11 AI agents” is meaningless as a phrase. If I said “I have 11 spreadsheets” or “I have 11 browser tabs” to do my work, it means about the same thing. — Boris Mann Tags: ai-agents, ai, agent-definiti
Recursive Superintelligence Inc., a startup that hopes to develop self-improving artificial intelligence models, launched today with 650 million in funding. Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund and Greycroft led t
As companies move from testing AI to broader adoption, the biggest challenge is building scalable AI inference systems that perform without breaking the budget. The next wave of AI won’t be won on raw
Cade Metz / New York Times: Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised 650M+ from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a 4B valuation to pursue “recursive self-improvement” — Recursive S
Rivian released its new Rivian Assistant AI feature as part of software update 2026.15, enabling owners to interact more naturally with their vehicles through voice commands. Unlike phone-mirroring vo
Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's Mind Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots for manufacturing tasks, raised 400M, source says at a 3.4B valuation — Funding for AI-po
Mind Robotics Inc., an industrial robotics startup founded by Rivian Automotive Inc. Chief Executive RJ Scaringe, said today it has raised 400 million in new funding to put more of its artificial inte
OpenAI Group PBC co-founder and Chief Executive Sam Altman faced the witness stand today in the high-stakes trial that could determine the future of the company. Elon Musk is suing the company and its
The Cisco and AWS partnership addresses three challenges enterprises face when scaling AI agents: visibility gaps, security bottlenecks, and compliance risks. In this post, we explore how you can over
What does transportation mean to you? For some, it’s making sure the train is on schedule so they can get to work on time. Maybe it’s making sure you have time connecting between flights. Maybe it’s a
David Keohane / Financial Times: SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~11.6B, above ~1.5B est., driven by a 25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit 64.6B — Japanese
Jordan Novet / CNBC: Source: Cerebras priced its IPO at 185 per share, above the expected range of 150 to 160, raising at least 5.55B and valuing it at 56.4B fully diluted — Cerebras Systems, a maker
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work — Elon Musk'
Bloomberg: Sources: Arm and SoftBank expressed preliminary interest in acquiring Cerebras weeks before its expected IPO; Cerebras rebuffed them — Arm Holdings Plc and its majority owner SoftBank Group
Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its I/O conference next week; the model will land roughly in the class of GPT-5.5, but short of Mythos — Sources say that
Reuters: Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is shopping for artificia
Bloomberg: Sources: Mistral has been developing a cybersecurity-focused AI model and held discussions about it with European banks, which don't have access to Mythos — French artificial intelligence s
Bloomberg: Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~28.9B, below ~29.4B est., and net income of ~$8.5B, meeting est., amid a costly AI pivot; its stock is down 23% YTD — Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported
The Information: Tencent says it plans to spend significantly more on AI infrastructure in H2 2026 as more China-designed AI chips become available “month by month” — Tencent Holdings is gearing up to
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. A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial A startup ca
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: The FTC says Shutterstock will pay 35M to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel — Shutterstock
Shiona McCallum / BBC: The Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Project Intercept, a partnership with Google, TikTok, and Meta, sent 70M+ warning messages to users seeking CSAM in two years — More than 70 mill
In the healthcare and life sciences industries, speed saves lives, but meeting regulatory requirements and other administrative burdens often pumps the brakes for manufacturers of software as a medica
Databases have introduced new AI-powered SQL functions which take natural language instructions as input and are evaluated using LLMs. They leverage the power of LLMs to answer new kinds of queries: W
Claroty developed an AI-powered library that serves as a translation tool for industrial control system (CPS) protocols and communications, helping security teams understand and analyze diverse indust
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others — TikTok anno
NVIDIA's video analytics AI agents analyze and process large volumes of video data through natural language tasks to provide critical insights , powered by vision language models, large language model
Vercel introduced a trusted sources feature for deployment protection that allows teams to control which sources can trigger deployments, enhancing security by restricting deployment access to verifie
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: UK chip startup Fractile raised a $220M Series B led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Founders Fund to make specialized logic and memory chips for inference — Factori
Veeam Software Group GmbH today debuted new features that will make it easier for enterprises to back up their records and protect them from hackers. Some of the capabilities are rolling to the compan
Veeam Software Group GmbH used VeeamON 2026 in New York City this week to punctuate its shift from “the backup company” to a data and artificial intelligence trust platform for the agentic era. With a
This article argues that infrastructure quality and architecture are more critical to AI/ML project success than the choice of underlying model. It likely explores how proper deployment, scaling, moni
Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1
The enterprise artificial intelligence stack is getting smarter — but is it getting the context it needs to make agentic AI deployment actually work? The defining problem of the agentic era might neve
MatterSim is expanding what AI can do for materials science—from faster large-scale simulations to MatterSim-MT, a new multi-task model for simulating properties beyond potential energy surfaces alone
Agentic security operations startup Exaforce Inc. today announced that it has raised 125 million in new funding to scale up its AI-driven security operations platform and expand its real-time threat r