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The Vercel Open Source Program Spring 2026 cohort announcement highlights selected open source projects that have been accepted into Vercel's sponsorship and support initiative for the spring 2026 per

Bloomberg: Verizon and the UK's BT agree to create a joint venture for their international businesses with ~4B in combined yearly revenue; Verizon will pay 625M to BT — Verizon Communications Inc. and

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Waymo and Uber quietly ended their partnership in Phoenix in May; Uber says it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city — Waymo robotax

Amazon Web Services’ new mandate is turning agentic hype into practical applications for the public sector. That will be the focus of the company’s upcoming event, AWS Summit Washington, D.C. Kicking

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: WhatsApp rolls out username reservations globally, allowing users to claim a unique name before the privacy-focused feature launches later this year — Following years of antic

A featurette showing Laika's process for crafting the stop-motion film, featuring nearly two-and-a-half minutes of the studio's crew building out the world in perfect detail. The featurette reveals ne

xAI's Grok audio models are now accessible through the Vercel AI Gateway, expanding the platform's capabilities for developers to integrate advanced audio processing into their applications. This inte

Wired: A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including “transfer station” sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users — As Anthropic tightens restricti

Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic — Andreou, who onc

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: An analysis of US payroll data across 730+ occupations: employment among workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs is now shrinking by 3.8% per year — Last August, a

Alistair Gray / Financial Times: Apple's appeal to a London Court of Appeal ruling begins Monday at the UK Supreme Court; the ruling required it to pay $502M for using Optis' wireless patents — Battle

Bloomberg: Australia-based Firmus partners with Nvidia to build its first data center in Batam, Indonesia; the 360 MW Nvidia DSX AI factory campus is developed with DayOne — Firmus Technologies Pty Lt

Jackson Chen / Engadget: Australian government says it plans to double the maximum penalty for any social media company breaking its minimum age law and grant more powers to enforcers — The fine can n

New York Times: Brazil, which has struggled to standardize soccer talent scouting, is embracing AI-powered scouting apps that assess players by analyzing video clips and more — Recruitment apps powere

China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from

With organizations reorganizing themselves to put artificial intelligence at the center, we’ve seen a shift from information being valuable to being a means of achieving intelligence, which is far mor

Within hours of the first U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran in February 2026, hacktivists went to work launching massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. Both pro- and anti-Iranian groups targete

New York Times: Google's Earthquake Alerts system reached 11.4M+ people in Venezuela, giving them seconds or up to two minutes notice before two powerful earthquakes struck — Jose Flores was driving w

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: GPT-5.6 system card indicates Sol is well below the level of most worrisome Mythos use cases, suggesting all GPT-5.6 versions could be released without del

Hack Your Summer I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning: It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who want

HP Inc. has launched a strategic partnership with OpenAI called Frontier, aimed at integrating OpenAI's AI capabilities into HP's products and services. The partnership likely focuses on enhancing HP'

Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: Humanoid robot maker Apptronik raised ~1B at a ~5B valuation, including from Mercedes-Benz, which has a handful of Apptronik's Apollo robots in its factories — Jeff Carden

Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: Jefferies: memory prices are expected to rise 40-50% in Q3 2026 and 30-40% in Q4, as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide meaningful near-term relief — Memory price

This article discusses recent open-source AI model releases and developments from three companies—Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside—and their contributions to expanding the broader AI ecosystem. It likely

Marton Eder / Bloomberg: Letter: Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to boost bloc independence from US and Chinese tech — Austria is pu

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Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is just 7% of costs and the AI race will be won on Earth within a few years — SoftBank's

Jonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year's Day in 2025, which became one of the deadliest wildfires in LA history. To make their case, prosecutors turned to locati

Human Agent in the loop I dislike the phrase “human in the loop” because it cedes authority to the machines. Let’s flip the narrative. It’s our loop, we work the same way we always have, now we recrui

Wall Street Journal: Researchers say Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches latest US models at finding security bugs, as critics question the US' lax approach in restricting Chinese open models — Clampdown on top U.

Reuters: Shanghai-based Momenta, whose driver-assist tech is used by Toyota, Mercedes, and Audi in China, files for an IPO in Hong Kong, seeking to raise up to $751.1M — Chinese self-driving technolog

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin Technology plans a Hong Kong IPO at a $50B target valuation, asking investors to buy chips worth 3-7x their IPO investment — In China

Financial Times: Sources: Google told Meta around March it couldn't offer all the Gemini capacity Meta wanted to buy, disrupting and delaying some of Meta's internal AI projects — Surging appetite for

Suno has ambitions to be more than just a toy to churn out AI slop, it also wants to be a streaming destination and to break new artists. Spark is their new incubator program for independent artists t

Two Max Planck papers published in Naturwissenschaften were retrospectively marked as retracted on Springer's digital platform. Rather than resulting from scientific fraud, these withdrawals appear to

Don Clark / New York Times: A look at advanced chip packaging, now more reliant on TSMC and its partners in Taiwan than ever, and the efforts to address this bottleneck in the US — A silicon wafer ref

Max Kim / New York Times: A look at South Korea's four vocational “meister” schools that train students to work in semiconductor manufacturing, leading to jobs at Samsung and SK Hynix — Chungbuk Semic

Politico: AI executives and lobbyists say they are seeking regulatory clarity from the Trump administration but are wary of pressing for answers, fearing retaliation — The unpredictability was on disp

OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 with three variants (Sol, Terra, Luna) in a restricted beta program limited to trusted partners, according to reporting from Latent Space. The restricted access model sugge

A Portugal-based startup called Amble, founded by alumni from Apple, Audi, Ford, and Cowboy, unveiled the Amble One, a street-legal electric buggy with a top speed of 40 mph. The vehicle's design is i

We believe much of the artificial intelligence industry is chasing the wrong prize. Frontier model vendors such as Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC, they may have shifted their commercial focus towa

Bloomberg: How AI is shaping the 2026 US midterms, as public anger grows against data center expansion and the AI industry emerges as one of the biggest financial backers — From data center backlash t

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. is joining an initiative that IBM Corp. and its Red Hat unit launched in May to fix open-source software vulnerabilities. The companies announced the move today. U.K.-bas

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own — Y Combinator-backed insu

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~289M, set to close in October — Japanese financia

Reuters: LSEG: tech companies have raised $3.1B from mainland China stock market listings YTD, up 5x+ from a year earlier, as AI and chip companies drive onshore IPOs — China's onshore technology IPOs