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Breaking. Sam Altman himself finally confirms what I was the first to point out publicly: his indirect equity stake in OpenAI. … which he failed to acknowledge when asked about his financial interest

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Exaforce, which uses AI agents to detect and thwart cyberattacks, raised a 125M Series B at a 725M valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M — As bad actors weaponize

Enterprise software buyers are moving fast — and they’re no longer shopping the way they used to. The shift toward platform-centric, outcome-driven procurement is accelerating the new agentic reality

Full-stack observability startup Hound Technology Inc., which does business as Honeycomb, introduced a number of new platform updates aimed at investigating artificial intelligence agent activity in p

Molly Taft / Wired: Internal emails: xAI added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site — Emails show that Elon M

Pritam Biswas / Reuters: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery spinoff from Google DeepMind, raised 2.1B led by Thrive, after raising 600M in its first round in March 2025 — Isomorphic Labs, a

Ben Lang / Road to VR: Meta schedules its annual Connect event for September 23-24 and says the event will focus on “the latest in VR, wearables, metaverse, and AI” — Meta's annual Connect event is se

Sam Altman made statements under oath in May 2023 regarding AI safety and OpenAI's practices, but Gary Marcus critiqued these statements as incomplete or misleading, suggesting Altman failed to fully

Financial Times: Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets — In-house MeshClaw tool

Yohei Nakajima shared recent funding and news updates about OpenAI and Anthropic on X, including information about a trial involving the wokeloai MCP, a tomorrow acquisition, and additional details (c

Thinking Machines Lab Inc., the artificial intelligence research startup founded by former OpenAI Group PBC Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, wants to move beyond the era of “turn-based” AI intera

We're live from the floor at SaaStr today! 🎙️🚀 Joined by some amazing guests straight from the SaaStr stage: Amjad Masad (@amasad), Michele Catasta (@pirroh), and Ghazi Masood. Talking about how B2B c

Human risk management is becoming a practical measure of enterprise security. The old playbook treated employees as the weak link; the new one has to account for people, AI agents and automated decisi

What’s special about the @LangChain community is that it’s built by those who are willing to take the extra step to push the boundaries of what’s possible. It’s a community that builds technologies th

A California couple is suing OpenAI after their 19-year-old son, Sam Nelson, died from a drug overdose following advice from ChatGPT about combining kratom and Xanax . The lawsuit alleges OpenAI desig

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Agentic inference is set to be different than today's inference, and will change compute infrastructure because speed won't matter when humans aren't involved — Subscribe t

Shares of Circle Internet Group Inc. closed 15.9% higher today after it reported earnings, announced a token sale and debuted a new set of developer tools. NYSE-listed Circle issues the popular USDC s

At Google Cloud Next ’26 we announced Cloud Storage Rapid, a family of object storage capabilities for data-intensive workloads like AI and analytics. Out of the gate, Cloud Storage Rapid consists of

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its previous reboot shut down in March — Digg is back from the

Dustin Volz / New York Times: Google's TIG reports the first known example of hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day; TIG's chief analyst says “this is the tip of the iceberg” — The com

Managing a modern database fleet is both a scale and cognitive problem. As database estates grow, the effort required to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize them often outpaces teams’ capacity, who fi

CNBC: Nvidia embraces its role as an AI investor in 2026, committing 40B+ to equity investments including a 30B stake in OpenAI, 3.2B in Corning, and 2.1B in IREN — Nvidia stepped on the gas last year

OpenAI is launching Daybreak, our effort to accelerate cyber defense and continuously secure software. AI is already good and about to get super good at cybersecurity; we'd like to start working with

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI facilitated a 6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600+ current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of 30M — Employee

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Netflix for allegedly spying on consumers by collecting their data without consent, and designing its platform to be addictive — Netflix (NFLX.O) w

“we gonna yolo our way into running the biggest conf in town.” and somehow… we actually did it with @aiDotEngineer singapore a year ago, @agrimsingh @unprofeshme and i joked about the idea of running

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate rose from 3.6% in March to 3.8% in April, as the sector shed 13,000 jobs amid AI uncertainty — The job ma

Bloomberg: Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising a ~300M round led by a16z crypto at a ~2B valuation — Digital Asset Holdings LLC,

Krysta Fauria / Associated Press: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality — As conce

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens — In

Full stack engineering refers to the ability of engineers to work across all layers of a technology system, from backend infrastructure and databases to frontend user interfaces and everything in betw

Maybe one of the only moats in 2026 is the context layer. AI improvements mean: ✅ UI/UX might simplify and consolidate. Instead of a lot of fancy buttons/knobs, you need simple, clean interfaces where

Moneycontrol: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable — On Wall Street, the ann

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023 — The j

Questions people will be writing about in the coming years: • Was it a Ponzi scheme? • Why didn’t more people worry about the circular financing? • Why were investors so blasé about the lack of profit

Yann LeCun closed 1.03B for AMI Labs on March 10. Three days later, this paper dropped from his NYU collaborators. 15M parameters. Single GPU. A few hours of training. LeWorldModel is the first JEPA t

AI promised to change everything about how enterprises work — and human-AI collaboration was supposed to be the easy part. But what happens when the technology is ready and the organization isn’t? Tha

AI Ascent 2026 is Sequoia Capital's event that convened leading AI researchers and founders including Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, and Demis Hassabis. The event featured discussions on AI agents, s

Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted a set of features that artificial intelligence agents can use to make purchases. The capabilities are available in preview through the cloud giant’s Amazon Bedro

“Combined free cash flow across Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle is projected to FALL more than -70%, to ~100 billion, by the end of …. AI capital expenditure is consuming nearly every do

Mechanistic interpretability research aims to uncover specific neurons and circuits in neural networks responsible for tasks, but over a decade of efforts suggests these findings may not translate int

Happy to see that The White House has finally realized that the Andreessen-Sacks zero regulation approach to AI was going to blow up in the their face. Also glad to see them finally consider the kind

Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a 136.6M net loss on revenue of 5.2M for the three months ended March 31; sources: it could raise $1.5B+ — Quantinuum

Intel Corp. has reportedly inked a preliminary deal with Apple Inc. to produce chips for some of its devices. The Wall Street Journal today cited sources as saying that the contract was signed in rece

Elon Musk visited Intel's semiconductor manufacturing facility in Oregon and expressed optimism about potential partnerships between Intel, SpaceX, and Tesla. The visit highlights interest in collabor

Researchers demonstrated that spin qubits hosted in bulk-manufactured quantum dots can be moved between quantum dots without losing quantum information. The ability to move qubits around could enable