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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been offered since 2024 and users can remove it via settings — The ongoing marc
Google DeepMind has entered a research partnership with Fenris Creations (formerly CCP Games) focused on advancing AI understanding of complex, dynamic systems by exploring long-horizon planning, memo
Max Zeff / @zeffmax: Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 — NEW: Google quietly s
Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and xAI have agreed to share unreleased versions of their artificial intelligence models with the U.S. Department of Commerce to ensure the technologies do not pose a threa
At Google, we see firsthand how cyber threats can outpace traditional defense mechanisms — and how agentic threat intelligence can help bridge the gap. We have a vision for agentic defense where auton
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Google releases Multi-Token Prediction drafters for its Gemma 4 models, which use a form of speculative decoding to guess future tokens for faster inference — Google launc
Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired's Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page n
Google is updating its AI Search features to make it easier for users to find information from sources they know and trust. One of the more notable changes introduces 'a preview of perspectives' from
NASA has unveiled an expansive strategy to establish a permanent human base on the Moon, outlining a plan that includes 73 landing missions. The agency aims to undertake at least one surface landing e
ChatGPT learns about the world through training on diverse text data while implementing privacy protections that prevent it from storing personal information from individual conversations or retaining
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Frontier enterprises are adopting AI technologies to gain competitive advantages through early implementation and strategic integration of advanced AI systems into their business operations. OpenAI's
An analysis of more than 5 million births nationwide identified an ongoing drop in newborns receiving a vitamin K shot that helps prevent dangerous bleeding , with the number of babies not receiving t
When it comes to artificial intelligence, enterprises want speed, lower cost and security. For IBM Corp., these are the value points it wants to provide for its hybrid AI customers. The computing gian
Neil J Kanatt / Reuters: Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to 1.02B, GTV up 13% to 10.29B, and orders up 10%, compared with a 16% growth a year earlier; CART drops 8.18% — Instacart (CART.O) on
Meet the ChatGPT Futures Class of 2026—26 student innovators using AI to build, research, and drive real-world impact. Discover how this generation is redefining learning, creativity, and opportunity
Simon Willison's live blog covers Anthropic's Code w/ Claude 2026 event, documenting the morning keynote sessions with real-time updates. The event featured announcements including updates to Claude m
Microsoft's LinkedIn chief, Ryan Roslansky, took on an expanded role at the company as head of Office last year, and he's now getting more responsibilities as part of the latest leadership reshuffle i
Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model. In a video deposition shown during the ongoing Musk v. Altman
Cloud project management provider monday.com Ltd. today relaunched itself as an “AI work platform,” repositioning itself around context-aware artificial intelligence agents that execute tasks alongsid
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe confirmed that the company is developing undisclosed variants of the R2, hinting at both a pickup truck and an 'R2X' performance model shortly after starting volume production o
Jay Peters / The Verge: Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult — OpenAI's former C
Carly Nairn / Courthouse News Service: Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI
I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone's minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testif
Nvidia Corp. will help publicly traded glass maker Corning Inc. boost the rate at which it produces parts for optical data center networks. The partnership, which the companies announced today, will s
The race to build the world’s most powerful AI factories demands networking that keeps pace with the ambitions of AI itself. NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet scale-out infrastructure stands at the forefront
Nvidia Corp.‘s latest networking innovations meet the needs of a new kind of network that supports the unique demands of artificial intelligence factories. Ethernet is no longer a generic plumbing cho
OpenAI Group PBC is replacing the default model in ChatGPT with the launch of GPT-5.5 Instant, claiming users will notice fewer hallucinations when it’s discussing “sensitive topics” such as finance,
Consumer-focused artificial intelligence startup PineAI, the business name of 19Pine Pte. Ltd., has launched an agentic AI service designed to handle time-consuming customer service interactions on be
AI coding agents are rapidly becoming ubiquitous across the software industry, fundamentally changing how developers write, test, and debug daily code. While these tools excel at localized, self-conta
SpaceX's IPO will give CEO Elon Musk 'virtually unchecked executive authority' and limit shareholder rights to sue the company. The company combines supervoting shares, mandatory arbitration, stricter
This Databricks article examines how distributed systems architectures need to be redesigned for serverless computing environments, addressing the unique performance and reliability challenges that ar
Jen Judson / Bloomberg: Scale AI wins a 500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a 100M deal in 2025 — The Pentagon aw
Vercel introduced a security feature allowing marketplace credentials to be restricted to production-only access, preventing their use in development or preview environments. This enhancement helps pr
Scott Calvert / Wall Street Journal: Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong — AI
Security training platform startup Herd Security Inc. today announced that it has raised 3 million in new funding to expand product development across new training categories in human resources and ar
Singular Bank leverages OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex to accelerate banking operations and developer productivity. The integration enables bankers and software engineers to streamline workflows, automate
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to 1.53B, in line with est., and says it ended its 400M Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops 4%+ after hours — Snap shares dropp
The Information: Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms — Private equity firms B
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX — Rocket maker hopes to quell em
Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft is considering delaying or dropping its 2030 goal of matching its hourly power use with renewable energy purchases, amid the data center boom — Microsoft Corp. may shelve
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US and China are considering recurring talks on the security risks posed by AI models, with Scott Bessent leading the American side — Washington and Be
Enterprises are entering a new phase of cloud adoption where flexibility, control and performance are no longer trade-offs but requirements. As AI workloads become more distributed and data-intensive,
SpaceX is transitioning from the highly successful Falcon 9 rocket program toward the next generation as the Starship program enters its operational phase. SpaceX is preparing Starship V3, a larger an
xAI: SpaceX signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital compute capacity — SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models enable sparse expert activation, meaning that only a subset of the model’s parameters is used during each inference. However, to translate this sparsity into practical
Dana Goldstein / New York Times: Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being — Cellpho
Cybersecurity software provider Tanium Inc. today announced a new partnership with ServiceNow Inc. to deliver a joint autonomous information technology solution, ITOM AI Prime powered by Tanium. The j
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured the 'Hello, World' photograph of Earth from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission on April 2, 2026, during the spacecraft's outbound journey toward th
Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to
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. Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea
TSMC has signed a 30-year offshore wind power agreement to secure renewable energy as power demand from AI-driven chip production continues to climb. Taiwan's semiconductor industry faces a forecasted
Uber has integrated OpenAI's technology to enhance its platform, helping drivers optimize earnings through intelligent features and enabling users to book rides more efficiently. This partnership like
I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit's High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my highlights, including my
This article from Hugging Face discusses an approach to reinforcement learning (RL) that prioritizes ensuring model correctness as a foundational step before applying corrections or refinements. The p
Sample-based quantum diagonalization is a quantum algorithm technique that estimates the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices using measurements from quantum hardware, rather than requiring full q
Open hybrid cloud is becoming the control plane that determines how enterprise artificial intelligence actually runs in production. The conversation has moved quickly from experimentation to execution
The AI era demands a fundamental shift in security, and that includes identity and access management (IAM). Traditional controls simply aren’t built for autonomous AI agents that interact with sensiti
This article explains how retrieval quality directly impacts large language model performance in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, emphasizing that even advanced LLMs cannot produce better
Databricks describes their approach to handling massive-scale observability and monitoring infrastructure that processes 10 trillion samples daily, moving beyond conventional monitoring solutions. The