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Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The printing press spread vernacular literacy, helping give rise to the Reformation and, eventually, repr
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Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The printing press spread vernacular literacy, helping give rise to the Reformation and, eventually, repr
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: A US court sentences a Latvian national to 8.5 years for acting as a negotiator for Russia's Karakurt ransomware group — A Latvian national extradited to the United S
In this episode of The Agent Factory, Vlad Kolesnikov and I sat down with Omar Sanseviero from the Developer Experience team at Google DeepMind. We explored the groundbreaking release of Gemma 4: a ne
AI agents require specialized testing and debugging approaches that differ from traditional software due to their non-deterministic behavior and complex decision-making processes. This entry likely co
Eight months after closing a 350 million funding round, Sierra Technologies Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional 950 million at a 15 billion valuation. Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capi
Artificial intelligence data center operator IREN Ltd. today announced plans to acquire Mirantis Inc., a provider of infrastructure management software. The all-stock transaction is worth 625 million.
Claims automation has evolved from a competitive advantage into a survival imperative for global healthcare and insurance organizations, as rising payer expectations and demands for real-time patient
Data quality is a foundational prerequisite for successful AI applications, often more important than model complexity or sophistication. The article emphasizes that clean, well-organized data directl
Seattle-based artificial intelligence research institute Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, today announced its next-generation open-source foundation artificial intelligence models, aimed at enabling r
Reuters: AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to 10.25B, vs. 9.89B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ after hours — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) f
Artificial intelligence giants Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC are going after the enterprise in full force now, announcing the creation of new AI services companies in joint ventures with some of
Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would a
The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to allow third
Michael Acton / Financial Times: Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a “personalized” Siri in 2024 — iPhone bu
The artificial intelligence era is widening the gap between winners and laggards, and the delta is not only determined by who has the most AI but also how deeply AI is embedded into business processes
Sovereign AI is changing more than technology stacks — it’s forcing organizations to confront who governs the workforce and what the very nature of work itself has become. The shift is far more than j
Networking chip company Astera Labs Inc. is trying to ease the traffic congestion in artificial intelligence data centers with the launch of the latest generation of its Scorpio smart data fabric swit
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs — I've been playing
Enterprise productivity has long been measured by output and headcount, yet the tools and overhauls meant to improve it keep delivering diminishing returns. The discipline software teams quietly perfe
Autonomous software development startup Blitzy Inc. said today it has raised 200 million in new funding on a valuation of 1.4 billion to expand its enterprise coding platform. The company was founded
Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company 'engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history'
Cisco Systems Inc. today revealed it will buy the Israeli cybersecurity firm Astrix Security Ltd. in an effort to bolster the defenses of artificial intelligence agents. The startup has developed a pl
The world of AI is rapidly shifting from experimental Large Language Models to an era of Agentic AI. In the agentic era, autonomous software agents act on behalf of employees and consumers—driving a f
Codex, likely referring to OpenAI's code generation model, is experiencing increased adoption and usage. The article from Ben's Bites discusses the growing momentum and applications of this AI coding
Reuters: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying “AI is changing how we work” — Coinbase (COIN.O) said on Tues
Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Brian Armstrong announced today that the company intends to cut its headcount by 14%, or roughly 700 jobs, citing a combination of market forces and artificial int
The Korea Herald: Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to 8.5B and a net loss of 266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 — US-listed e-commerce giant Coupang
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 — Freshworks (FRSH.O) sai
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire Equiniti, a UK-based financial services outsourcing business, from Siris Capital in a 4.2B deal, set to close in 2027 — Bullish agr
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a7 Mechanism for configuring default options for specific models. Part of Datasette's evolving support mechanism for plugins that use LLMs. It's now possible to configure a m
Release: datasette-referrer-policy 0.1 The OpenStreetMap tiles on the Datasette global-power-plants demo weren't displaying correctly. This turned out to be caused by two bugs. The first is that the C
Dedicated inference cloud startup Deepinfra Inc. is looking to expand its global capacity after raising 107 million in a Series B round of funding led by 500 Global and Georges Harik, who was one of G
The Department of Homeland Security demanded that Google turn over location data and activity logs from a Canadian man who had criticized U.S. government actions following ICE killings, invoking a 'cu
Shares of DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. rocketed more than 40% today after the developer-oriented cloud infrastructure provider topped Wall Street targets in its fiscal 2026 first quarter. It also lifted
Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf — - Go
Alex Lupsasca from OpenAI discusses unconventional or intuitive approaches to physics research and problem-solving, likely exploring how intuition, visualization, and creative thinking ('vibe') comple
Dyna Software Inc., a company that provides platform governance and health provider for ServiceNow Inc., today announced the launch of Platform Copilot, an agentic artificial intelligence tool the com
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to 1.86B, vs. 2B est., weighed down by a post-launch drop-off in engagement for Battlefield 6 — Videogame publisher Electronic Arts (EA
Regulated industry AI is evolving beyond compliance foundations to drive greater efficiency gains, reducing routine work and freeing teams to focus on critical, higher-impact decisions. Years ago, Pfi
Building AI agents that work well in a demo is one thing, but running them in production requires serious infrastructure. At Google Cloud Next '26, we introduced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to he
Semiconductor Industry Association: Global chip sales hit 298.5B in Q1 2026, up 25% from Q4 2025, and March sales were up 79.2% YoY to 99.5B, driven by strong sales in Asia and the Americas — Worldwid
Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily: GlobalFoundries reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.63B, in line with est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted earnings above estimates; GFS closes up 9.28
Staffers at Google DeepMind's headquarters have voted to unionize in an effort to prevent the AI firm's technology from being used by Israel and the US military. In a letter to Google management on Tu
Google Home's May 2026 update brings a faster camera experience, Gemini 3.1 for complex voice commands, and new web-based controls. The refreshed camera UI features faster navigation and zoomed-in pre
Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will imp
Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Depart
As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation into production, government agencies are becoming an unexpected proving ground for large-scale workforce transformation. Faced with mounting opera
GPT-5.5 Instant is OpenAI's faster, more efficient variant of their GPT-5.5 model, designed to deliver improved reasoning and clarity while maintaining lower latency for real-time applications. The mo
GPT-5.5 Instant is a faster, more efficient variant of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 model designed for real-time applications and lower-latency tasks. The system card documents the model's capabilities, limitatio
Ford's Long Beach skunkworks operation houses an engineering team developing a new electric vehicle lineup that breaks with convention . The 350-member team has engineered Ford's Universal Electric Ve
Hapag-Lloyd's Digital Customer Experience and Engineering team, distributed between Hamburg and Gdańsk, drives digital innovation by developing and maintaining customer-facing web and mobile products.
KIKO Milano, an Italian cosmetics brand, leveraged Vercel's platform to handle massive traffic spikes during Black Friday sales, ensuring reliable performance and fast load times during peak shopping
nOps rebuilt their cloud optimization platform using Databricks Lakehouse, leveraging its unified data and analytics capabilities to improve performance and scalability. The article discusses the tech
The automotive cockpit is undergoing a fundamental shift from rule-based interfaces to agentic, multimodal AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, and acting. This is enabled by an agentic AI pipel
IBM Corp. will use its Think 2026 conference today to outline a broad expansion of its enterprise artificial intelligence portfolio, positioning a new “AI operating model” as the next stage in its cus
Counterpoint Research: In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone, with 6% of global sales; the iPhone 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro were 2nd and 3rd, and Galaxy A07 was 4th — Harshit Rastog
In this post, you will learn how you can use Amazon Nova Foundation Models in Amazon Bedrock to apply generative AI techniques for both business protection and enhancement. You can identify obvious an
Managing agents and their actions can quickly grow in complexity and introduce security risks unique to AI. To address these challenges, at Google Cloud Next we announced Agent Gateway to provide simp
We’re announcing OS Level Actions for AgentCore Browser. This new capability unblocks these scenarios by exposing direct OS control through the InvokeBrowser API, so agents can interact with content v
Pinecone Marketplace is a platform feature that enables users to quickly deploy pre-built vector database solutions and integrations to production environments. The marketplace likely provides curated