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French multinational energy giant Schneider Electric SE said today it’s buying an industrial artificial intelligence company called Cognite Holding B.V. in a 3.1 billion all-cash deal, with an eye to

Frank Connelly / Bloomberg: Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a 3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva — Schneider

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 contempt ruling in its Epic case after a district judge found Apple violated an order to make App Store changes — The U.S. Supr

shot-scraper is a command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites . It is designed primarily for documentation but also has scraping applications . The 1.10 release likely includes u

In this post, we show you how to use managed entitlements for Amazon Bedrock to subscribe once from a central account and distribute model access across your organization. This approach removes the ne

AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavio

Israeli startup Arato Software Ltd. is developing tools for developers to test and evaluate their artificial intelligence applications, and it has just gotten 10 million in seed funding to pursue that

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference — We closely track efforts b

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026 shipment targets, with Xiaomi cutting 30% to ~95M units — TAIPEI — Major Chinese sma

Bloomberg: Sources: Kalshi agreed to pay 20M to sponsor the World Cup knockouts, after initially balking at FIFA's 150M asking price, alongside ADI Predictstreet — When the World Cup knockout round be

Bobby Allyn / NPR: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, before directing Meta employees to build a prediction market app — Before Meta CEO Ma

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources: Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox — -

Politico: Sources: the Trump administration plans to lift export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 as early as Tuesday evening, making it available to all general users — Anthropic and the administr

Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok settles a lawsuit before a second California trial over social media harm to minors for an undisclosed sum; Meta and Snap remain defendants — TikTok is finalizing a settleme

Rocket Lab Corp. today announced plans to acquire Iridium Communications Inc., a major satellite operator, for 8 billion in cash and stock. The companies expect to complete the transaction in mid-2027

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: SpaceX cuts monthly Starlink prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its Colossus data centers — SpaceX is offering

Nano Banana 2 Lite is Google's fastest and most cost-efficient image generation model, generating images in approximately 4 seconds , while Gemini Omni Flash is a multimodal model supporting high-qual

OpenMatter Network Inc. today launched a platform it says lets organizations collaborate, run sensitive workloads and deploy artificial intelligence agents across computing environments they do not fu

Chip component supplier Stathera Inc. today announced that it has closed a 35 million funding round. Semiconductor-focused fund Maverick Silicon led the Series A deal. It was joined by chipmaker Media

The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), held annually for over forty years, is among the most influential conferences in modern AI research. This year in Seoul, ICML is hosting its se

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that law enforcement’s use of warrants to collect large amounts of cellphone location data requires privacy protections under the Fourth Amendment. The case centered

The AI Compass This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit. I'm impressed that my answe

John Harney / Bloomberg: The DOD seeks to recruit engineers experienced in frontier AI, machine learning and automation, and data systems, to embed them “down to the unit level” — The Trump administra

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. AI agents are not your “coworkers” Imagine coming in to work t

This article likely examines the limitations and declining effectiveness of current chatbot technology, exploring why large language models may be reaching performance plateaus and what challenges lie

Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment “steering” rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it “already made the changes” — Britain's com

A study from the American Lung Association found that if the U.S. transitions to a 100% zero-emission passenger vehicle fleet by 2050, it would result in 89,300 fewer premature deaths and $978 billion

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

Zep says its MCP server shares persistent user memory across agents with SSO, retention policy and Zep Cloud or customer VPC deployment.

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

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