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Wall Street Journal: Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday — The talks have been
S&P Dow Jones Indices decided against changes to S&P 500 eligibility requirements, meaning SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic must wait 12 months and become profitable before inclusion. S&P said it will no
@starlink: Starlink says that it has 12M+ “active customers” across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 — Starlink is connecting more than 12M active customers
Postgres database startup Supabase Inc. has closed on a 500 million late-stage investment that brings its valuation to a cool 10.5 billion, it revealed today. The company, which provides ready-to-use
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. The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos On
The Fitbit Air is a screenless health tracker with sensors that connect to Google's new Health app , offering hardware for just 100, compared to Whoop's subscription models costing 200-$360 annually .
Wall Street Journal: The largest US banks plan to launch a tokenized deposit network in 2027 to connect traditional payment rails with the infrastructure that digital assets run on — The new network c
Google's May 2026 AI updates center on the new 'agentic' era, featuring the Gemini 3.5 model and Gemini Omni for advanced reasoning and creation. Gemini Omni is a new model that can create anything fr
On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: The NY State legislature passes a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law — It could b
A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station prompted five astronauts to temporarily take shelter and prepare for evacuation on Friday as Russia attempted to fix a crack on its portion
Vercel has released the skills.sh API, expanding its platform capabilities for developers. This API likely enables programmatic access to skill-based features or integrations within the Vercel ecosyst
When Quilty hit the industry trades earlier this year, the AI startup promised that its tool could accurately predict a film's success just by reading the script. When people actually got a chance to
We're now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvi
Thousand Token Wood is a multi-agent economy simulation built on a 3 billion parameter language model, demonstrating how small models can power complex interactive systems with multiple agents. The pr
The Trump administration announced $700 million in funding for coal plants and a new export terminal , utilizing Cold War-era authority to support existing facilities and build new coal plants. This i
Reuters: Trump signs a national security memorandum seeking to “accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains in line with American values” — The White House said on Friday it w
James Gallagher / BBC: University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans — Artificial int
Google's RAG Engine securely connects private enterprise data to LLMs to improve answer accuracy and reduce hallucinations , making it a key component of the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for build
Noel Randewich / Reuters: US-traded chipmakers plunged on Friday, after Broadcom missed expectations; Nvidia fell 6.19%, Micron fell 13.25%, AMD fell 10.86%, and Broadcom 7.92% — U.S.-traded chipmaker
A proposed Utah data center backed by Kevin O'Leary was drastically scaled back after pressure from lawmakers. The original project would have consumed 9 gigawatts of power—more than double what Utah
The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is a computationally efficient algorithm that converts time-domain signals into their frequency-domain representation, reducing computational complexity from O(n²) to
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect at WWDC 2026: an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, a slew of new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability and responsiveness, and more — The iPhone maker w
AI Gateway now features real-time spend limits to prevent runaway token bills across multiple AI providers. By integrating with Cloudflare Access, companies can use identity-driven budgets and policie
Databricks presents Instructed-Retriever-1, a system that achieves 3x faster search performance through parallel test-time scaling techniques. The approach optimizes retrieval operations by executing
Why edge AI development is still hard AI is no longer confined to cloud experiments. Developers are increasingly expected to deliver AI inside apps, devices, and edge systems where responsiveness, pri
NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft has ended after more than 11 years in orbit at Mars, far exceeding its original one-year mission. The spacecraft was last heard from on
The rise of agentic commerce is forcing retailers to rethink their entire data strategy — not as a future concern, but as the immediate prerequisite for competing in a world where AI agents make purch
AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy Charity Majors neatly captures the dynamic between AI enthusiasts and AI skeptics, both of whom are trying to build
Some of the AI industry's biggest rivals have put their many, many grievances aside for a common cause: making it harder for people to use their technology to develop biological weapons. In an open le
Flourish Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence models inspired by the human brain, has raised 500 million in funding at a 2.5 billion valuation. Wired reported today that about a fifth of
This AI News summary covers recent developments in image generation models, specifically discussing Reve 2 and Ideogram 4's layout capabilities for creating structured visual designs. The piece likely
Amazon has announced a new version of its fully autonomous warehouse robot, Proteus, that will interact using language instead of code. The expanded capabilities come as part of a growing pivot toward
Zoe Kleinman / BBC: An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company 20 years ago, on Zuckerberg's “unfair” reputation, AI agents' capabilities, more — When Naomi Gleit joi
Wired: Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year — Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered
Anthropic PBC has sounded the alarm on the rapid pace of artificial intelligence development and is calling on the world’s top AI laboratories to consider slamming on the brakes. In a blog post today,
Wall Street Journal: Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks — The $1 trillion start
Anthropic: Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude — Our progress toward recurs
Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal: Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, proposes a 45% electricity-rate increase for data centers to ensure “that they are paying their fair share”
Enterprise AI is entering a new phase where competitive advantage depends less on foundation models and more on the ability to connect data and business knowledge through an enterprise context layer.
Asana Inc. announced today during the company’s Work Innovation Summit in London the launch of a new product suite that helps organizations manage work by humans and artificial intelligence agents usi
The Supreme Court rejected Verizon and AT&T's constitutional challenge to FCC fines exceeding 100 million combined for illegally sharing customers' location data with third parties, ruling 8-1 that no
This document likely examines how artificial intelligence and advanced intelligence capabilities can be applied to biodefense strategies, including disease surveillance, threat detection, and pandemic
This article covers Vercel's integration capabilities that enable developers to build and deploy Shopify storefronts directly on the Vercel platform. The feature likely streamlines the process of crea
This article from Ben's Bites likely discusses how creating foundational tools and infrastructure enables developers and organizations to build more complex applications and scale their operations mor
Arize AX is adding managed agents, full-agent experimentation, expanded multimodal support, and Harness-as-a-Judge to help teams observe, evaluate, and improve production agents. The post Building the
A study published in Science found that bumblebees can solve a completely novel object-manipulation task without training. The bees spontaneously moved a ball underneath an out-of-reach flower and cli
In March 2026, the FCC added all consumer-grade routers produced in foreign countries to its Covered List, prohibiting new models from receiving authorization . The ban cites supply chain vulnerabilit
Nivedita Balu / Reuters: Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups — Canada unveiled a new artificia
Cloudflare Inc. today said it has acquired VoidZero Inc., the open-source company behind Vite and the widely used JavaScript build tools that surround it, in a move to position its developer platform
Cloudflare: Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source — VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest,
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is “growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time” — Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP
This article explores the evolution of human-AI collaboration, arguing that the era of 'co-intelligence'—where humans and AI work together as complementary partners—may be transitioning as AI capabili
Yogita Khatri / The Block: Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months — Quick Take — Coinbase
Pluto Security Inc. today disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Hugging Face Inc.’s Transformers library that allowed attacker-controlled artificial intelligence models to run ar
An external party launched a brute force attack on May 31, 2026, targeting Dashlane user accounts by brute-forcing two-factor authentication (2FA) protections to register new devices on existing accou
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered payments tools for liquor retailers, raised a 20M Series A from VMG Partners, following a 10M seed in 2024 — Scotch, an
The Hugging Face CLI (command-line interface) is designed as an agent-optimized tool that enables AI agents and users to interact with the Hugging Face Hub more efficiently. The design prioritizes com
OpenAI's 'Dreaming' feature enhances ChatGPT's memory capabilities by allowing the model to retain and leverage information from previous conversations to provide more personalized and contextually aw
Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times and coauthor of the excellent book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which came out in 2024. I ca