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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

Firefly Aerospace partnered with NVIDIA to deploy an NVIDIA Jetson module on its Elytra spacecraft in lunar orbit, enabling on-orbit AI processing for the Ocula Moon imaging service. The Jetson module

This article from Pinecone discusses methods and best practices for generating synthetic or sample test data to use when developing and testing applications with Pinecone's vector database. It likely

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Google says the Gemini app now offers personalized Nano Banana image generation, previously limited to Plus, Pro, and Ultra users, to eligible US users for free — Google

Matt Burgess / Wired: Google VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins warns the EU's DMA proposals to open Android and Search could lead to a significant rise in fraud within weeks — Europe's pro-com

Google argued that the European Commission's proposal to require sharing search data with third parties would 'force us to hand this data over to third parties, with dangerously ineffective privacy pr

Application observability startup groundcover Ltd. today announced a major expansion of Agent Mode that lets artificial intelligence agents act on a team’s observability data across the development to

David Segal / New York Times: How a Polymarket dispute over a single syllable ignited a bitter debate; Polymarket uses Risk Labs' Optimistic Oracle to decide ~200K tough call bets per month — In mid-A

Sam Fleming / Financial Times: How the UK is betting on IT and AI to combat slow economic and productivity growth, including moving beyond the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge — Region

Enterprise autonomous AI agents inspect code, run tests, search documents, and operate for extended periods on behalf of users , requiring governance frameworks to control access and actions. The Ente

Tool: HTML table extractor Yet another in my growing collection of paste-conversion tools. This one accepts pasted rich text from browsers (with embedded HTML tables) and converts every detected table

In this post, we cover best practices for implementing an effective backup strategy for BI assets in Quick Sight. We start by covering the options for selecting the assets to include in your backup, t

This newsletter issue covers three major topics in AI development: advances in self-improving robotic systems, details about a large-scale Chinese GPU cluster with 10,000 units for AI training, and a

Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire Iridium Communications for 54 per share in a cash and stock transaction, valuing the company at approximately 8.0 billion. The deal combines Rocket Lab's launch and sa

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: In Q2, there were thirteen 1B+ US venture-backed startup exits, either through acquisition or IPO, the most exits since the 2021 market peak — Startup exits valued at

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal documents: Meta is placing strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division can use Claude Code and Codex, fearing inadvertent distillation — As Meta Pl

Bloomberg: Japanese prediction market startups Miraima and Poyp are utilizing a “point-to-voucher” system to bypass strict anti-gambling laws, in a bid to rival Polymarket — Homegrown platforms, banne

Prediction market Kalshi sued Illinois over new taxes and licensing requirements enacted under Senate Bill 3019 to support the state's $55.9 billion budget. The new law imposes a 1.75% tax on the firs

A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Sena

This OpenAI publication analyzes employment opportunities and workforce transitions related to artificial intelligence development and deployment across Europe. It likely examines which sectors and re

Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg: Marc Andreessen is appointed to the DOD's Defense Policy Board, a committee tasked with giving strategic advice to the defense secretary and other top officials — Billionaire