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Together AI presented research at ICML 2026 covering advances across the full technology stack, likely including foundational model improvements, inference optimization, and practical deployment solut

TokenBudgeting examines enterprise spending patterns and cost management strategies related to AI token consumption, based on SemiAnalysis's direct conversations with corporate customers. The analysis

Vercel Agent pricing has been updated, likely reflecting changes to the cost structure for using Vercel's AI agent capabilities. The specific details of the new pricing tiers, feature inclusions, and

Vercel and Shopify collaborated to rebuild Hydrogen, Shopify's React-based framework for building custom storefronts. The rebuild likely focused on improving developer experience, performance, and int

Vercel Private Blob, a storage solution for secure file management, has reached general availability status. This feature enables developers to store and manage private files within Vercel deployments

Vercel Sandbox has expanded its capabilities to support custom images, allowing developers to use personalized or pre-configured container images for their sandbox environments. This feature enables g

Vercel Services enables developers to run complete full-stack applications on the Vercel platform, extending beyond static site hosting to include backend capabilities. This feature allows seamless in

Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons raised 1.68B by selling 58M shares at 29 each, valuing it at ~18.4B, in one of the largest US IPOs by a European company in 2026 — Bending Spoons

Kyle Baird / The Block: Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves — Quick Take — Paym

A consortium of more than 140 financial, payments and technology companies, including Visa Inc., Stripe Inc. and BlackRock Inc., is backing a new stablecoin called Open USD, taking direct aim at the m

Agentic ecosystem security startup Vorlon Inc. today launched Guardian, a real-time enforcement gateway that aims to block risky actions by artificial intelligence agents before a transaction complete

What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning. I always head straight for the 'what's new' developer docs because they tend to have more actionable information than the official

This article discusses why specialization in AI models and systems is becoming an inevitable trend, likely examining factors such as the limitations of generalist approaches, efficiency gains from foc

Max Miller / Engadget: A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K+ AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock — “You can't get

Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Next Platform: Academic papers and conference materials offer a deep dive into China's all-CPU LineShine, which pairs custom 304-core Arm CPUs with HBM to top the Top500

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Adobe: online spending across all retailers in the US hit 26.4B during Amazon's four-day Prime Day event, up 9.3% YoY; Walmart and Target also hosted sales — Online spending

Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mount

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will r

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO — Chamath Palihapitiya,

Mark Maurer / Wall Street Journal: AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and difficult for the industry — As AI t

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: AI leaderboard provider Arena says it hit $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching AI Evaluations, which offers performance analytics — Just eight

Software development automation startup 8090 Solutions Inc. today announced that it has raised 135 million in funding. Salesforce Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Palo Alto Networks I

Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal: An interview with Axon CEO Rick Smith, who transformed the Taser maker into a policing software company, as its revenue from AI policing tools rises 700%+ YoY —

The IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2026 is accepting applications from developers interested in quantum computing. This conference, organized by IBM Research, provides an opportunity for quantum dev

Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence consulting firm Arcova today launched an end-to-end data center development offering that brings engineering, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance and grid-pl

Bloomberg: As a new law bars DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms drop companies like Alibaba and Tencent — Washington's most powerful

Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg: Australia's ACCC sues Amazon for allegedly introducing ads to Prime Video under unfair contract terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them — Amazon.com

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Baz releases Baz Planner, which uses four specialized AI agents to analyze code at the planning stage, and extends its seed funding by 9M to 17M — Agentic coding startup

In this post, we show you how to build an automated claims processing pipeline using two key Amazon Bedrock capabilities: Amazon Bedrock Data Automation for intelligent document extraction from health

Vercel announced capabilities for building real-time voice agents using their AI Gateway, enabling developers to create conversational AI applications with voice interaction. The post likely covers te

Christine Mui / Politico: California strikes a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of Claude products across state agencies and local governments at a 50% discount — “A lot of departments are going

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: Changpeng Zhao says Binance's MiCA application in Greece was fully compliant and close to approval by at least one EU regulator but “other forces” opposed it — Quick Take

Two Chinese general-purpose and embodied artificial intelligence firms, AI2 Robotics and X Square Robots, today announced funding rounds that pushed their respective valuations beyond 50 billion RMB,

Bloomberg: Chinese robotics startup AI² Robotics raised ~736M at a ~2.9B valuation; Alibaba-backed X Square Robot raised an undisclosed amount at a ~2.9B valuation — Two Chinese robotics startups have

Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry — hosted on Microsoft Azure and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs — are now generally available, giving Azure-native enterprises a powerful ne

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we’re discussing how we use AI to chart a path to autonomous software development lifecycle security.As with all Cloud CISO Perspect

Comcast announced plans to separate into two independent publicly traded companies through a tax-free spin-off of NBCUniversal and Sky. The split will separate its cash-generating broadband arm from a

Artificial intelligence cloud operator CoreWeave Inc. today launched ARIA, an AI research agent built into the Weights & Biases platform. The agent reads experiment data and surfaces insights research

David Keohane / Financial Times: Dealogic: Japan saw 18 IPOs in H1 2026, the lowest since 2011, despite stock market surges, partly due to Japan's lack of AI, data center, and chip startups — Tokyo's

In this post, you learn how to debug production agent failures using built-in observability capabilities. We walk through common failure patterns, show how to analyze agent behavior with traces and me

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and was tested on Gemma and Qwen — Chin

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Digital Realty says it plans to acquire a majority stake in three fully leased Northern Virginia data centers from Blackstone-managed funds in a $7.8B deal — Digital Realty (

DiScoFormer is a unified transformer architecture designed to handle both density estimation and score-based modeling across different probability distributions. The model enables a single framework t

Agentic coding startup Baz Technologies Inc. said today it’s launching a new platform that sits between developers and the code bases they’re working on in order to catch software vulnerabilities befo

George Russell won the 2026 Austrian Grand Prix held on June 28 at the Red Bull Ring, converting pole position into victory with Max Verstappen and Kimi Antonelli completing the podium. The race was r

James Hunt / The Block: Filing: Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead topping up its USD reserve to 2.55B and announcing a 1B digital credit buyback program — Quick Take — Strate