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Will Canny / CoinDesk: Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a 385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens — Crypto exchange Kraken, pa

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end — Facebook parent is accelera

New York Times: Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions — The A.I. company's advi

The Information: Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT 5.6 over security concerns, approving “access customer by customer” — For AI companies on t

Written by: Jordan Jones Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has conducted an in-depth analysis of a .NET backdoor, tracked as STOCKSTAY, that has been continually developed and deplo

Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data — Palo Alto-based bl

Vercel explores how to teach AI agents to understand and participate in product design processes, likely discussing methods for training agents to assist with design decisions, user experience conside

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. Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants Europe is

Bloomberg: The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand chip equipment export controls that would constrain ASML's ability to sell immersion DUV machines to China — The Netherlands is lobbying the

Europe experienced severe heatwaves beginning in late May 2026, with the first starting May 24 bringing temperatures 10-15°C higher than normal and causing several deaths. A second, more intense heat

Summer savings are heating up. From the Steam Summer Sale to GeForce NOW membership discounts, this week’s GFN Thursday delivers double the deals and more ways to get the most value from cloud gaming.

James Attwood / Bloomberg: The US awards 250M in CHIPS funds to a startup co-founded by billionaire mining magnate Robert Friedland to develop silicon-carbide chips and pulsed-power tech — I-Pulse Inc

Wall Street Journal: TRM Labs: Iran-linked wallets, including those tied to Iran's central bank, have moved over 3.84B in transactions through the crypto exchange CoinEx since 2019 — Iranian entities

TrueFoundry Inc., a startup providing management for artificial intelligence workloads, announced Wednesday that it acquired open-source cloud-agnostic enterprise machine learning platform Seldon Tech

Researchers introduce generative causal testing, which translates black box models into clear hypotheses and verifies them in the scanner, revealing what specific brain regions respond to in language.

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare: Upside, which provides social workers with AI-powered housing insights, raised a 20M Series A led by Aquiline with Flare Capital, 645, and others participating — fu

This analysis examines the growing power demands of behind-the-meter datacenters in the US, projecting capacity could exceed 40GW by 2028, and discusses how grid constraints and infrastructure limitat

David Politis / Utah Money Watch: Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an 81M Series B at a 1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation from Pelion and Cervin — The Utah eCommerc

Vercel Ship Berlin 2026 was a developer conference held by Vercel featuring announcements, product updates, and talks from the web development and deployment platform company. The event likely showcas

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Warp, a startup using AI to automate payroll compliance and employee management, raised a 60M Series B led by Battery, bringing its total funding to 85M — Warp, a startup using A

Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised 60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff i

This release brings the HFresh disk-based vector index and the built-in MCP Server to general availability, rebuilds cluster-wide async replication to run from a single scheduler (on by default), and

It’s been hard to look away from headlines about the European heat wave this week. Temperatures are breaking records across the continent, and the weather is threatening lives, shutting down schools,

At CVPR 2026, Lambda ran a live demo for two and a half days: Claude Code teaching Google's Gemma 4 to play a Tetris-like game. Claude Code started with a Gemma 4 model that couldn't play at all. It p

IBM's nanostack is a chip architecture that stacks multiple layers of transistors vertically to increase transistor density and computing power within a smaller physical footprint. This 3D approach en

Serverless PostgreSQL is a managed database service that abstracts away infrastructure management, allowing users to run PostgreSQL databases without provisioning or managing servers. This approach en

A serverless database for AI applications should prioritize scalability, low latency, and seamless integration with machine learning workflows, eliminating the need for infrastructure management. Key

This article from Allen AI discusses how hybrid models that combine different prediction approaches perform across various token types, likely comparing their effectiveness on common tokens versus rar

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: YouTube rolls out changes to Shorts, including adding a setting to double playback speed, eliminating the “dislike” button, and more — YouTube is rolling out a series of chan

NASA cancelled the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) after spending more than $3.5 billion with no operational flights, opting instead to shift toward commercial hardware like Centaur V. On February 26, 2

IBM Research presents a framework for benchmarking quantum optimization algorithms, addressing the need for standardized methods to evaluate quantum computing performance on optimization problems. The

NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel is a tool designed to accelerate the fine-tuning process of transformer models by automating model selection and configuration. The solution leverages NVIDIA's NeMo framework to

Speculative decoding is a technique for reducing inference latency in large language models by using a smaller, faster model to generate candidate tokens that are then verified by a larger model in pa

This article discusses a collaboration between AMD and Vultr to implement AI solutions in the property insurance sector, leveraging AMD's processors and Vultr's cloud infrastructure. The partnership l

To gain a better understanding of the longer-term impact that autonomous agents will have on the nature of work, Dell Technologies Inc. has been taking a closer look at how AI is already changing how

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: AI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $83M and claims to have 30M users, releases the open weights for its image model Krea 2 under a custom license — While many

In this post, you will learn how to build an end-to-end integration between Snowflake semantic views and Amazon Quick. The sample data is user review data for a media company. You start by loading mov

Anthropic's Claude API now supports multiplayer agent capabilities that enable multiple Claude instances to collaborate within Slack, with features for proactive behavior and persistent state manageme

When I was 18, I skipped my high school graduation and headed to Kuwait. It was 1991, the first Gulf War had just ended, and the country was in complete chaos. There was little to no electricity, asid

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Amazon plans to expand Amazon Now to 300+ Indian cities and towns, up from 100 at present, as CEO Andy Jassy visits India; a source says he is set to meet Modi — Amazon.

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: An Amazon seller reveals how middlemen on chat apps offer access to Amazon employees who allegedly grant favors, like reinstating suspended accounts, for a fee — Middlemen l

Kevin Schaul / Washington Post: An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning responses to political prompts — Excerp

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Disney's CEO, his legacy, new CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Chapek, Apple, Disney+, purchasing Pixar, AI, and more — For two dec

Anthropic PBC today unveiled a new version of its chatbot Claude that lives inside Slack, where it operates like a virtual employee. It’s called Claude Tag, and it’s designed to work across entire org

Is Argentum AI building the financing layer for the AI infrastructure boom? Yesterday, Barron’s reported that Argentum AI, the infrastructure startup led by Andrew Sobko and backed by Supermicro, had

Reuters: Binance says it will make a fresh push for permission to operate in the EU after its MiCA license application in Greece failed ahead of the June 30 deadline — Crypto platform Binance intends