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Thomas Claburn / The Register: Cloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on PACT, a protocol to distinguish legitimate human or bot traffic from undesirable network requests — Makers of

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today said it has signed a multiyear partnership with Microsoft Corp. that will see its data security and cyber recovery technology offered as a native

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says her staff used AI for 'spellcheck' in an amendment summary for a major defense bill, but denies it was used for the bill text itself and says 'NO Legislation is ever

Voice artificial intelligence testing startup Coval Inc. revealed today that it has raised 28 million in new funding to expand its platform as more enterprises put voice agents into production. Founde

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Customer engagement service MoEngage acquires Aampe, whose AI agents help brands personalize messaging, for “tens of millions”, per a source; Aampe raised ~$28M — Indian cu

Databricks achieved the highest position in execution and furthest advancement in vision within the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the second consecutive year, reflecting its leadership in the data and an

Bloomberg: Digital advocacy firms like CiviClick and Influent appear to use AI to generate mass public comments on local energy projects, mostly favoring fossil fuel use — From California to North Car

Bobby Allyn / NPR: Documents: Meta's planned prediction markets app will use Meta AI models to generate questions from trending topics, make recommendations, and resolve markets — Meta is planning to

A Tesla Model 3 crashed into a residential home in Katy, Texas, killing a 76-year-old grandmother, with the driver claiming Autopilot was active at the time. Elon Musk disputed the claim, and Tesla's

To maintain business continuity, you need a robust data-backup strategy. While multi-region backups offer the highest availability, many organizations want a more cost-effective way to protect their d

Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid is being pushed to its limits as people turn to fans and air-conditioning to try to stay cool. Some power plants won’t be online to

French researchers designed experimental glass tubes mimicking wine bottle necks and used fluorescent sensors to track oxygen movement through corks over 18 months without opening them. By varying cor

The FCC is considering new rules that would require phone companies to collect government IDs and physical addresses from customers to combat scam calls and robocalls. Privacy advocates warn the propo

Figma has revealed some new design and coding product updates at its annual Config conference that aim to help creatives 'push their ideas further' and automate tedious tasks with AI. Part of this is

Formula E announced its first calendar for the 2026-27 GEN4 era featuring a record 21 races across 13 cities, with three new permanent circuit venues including COTA in Austin, Brands Hatch in London,

Gartner published a market guide analyzing specialty cloud providers, with Vultr receiving recognition in the assessment. The guide likely evaluates providers offering specialized cloud services beyon

GLM 5.2 Fast, a faster variant of the GLM language model, is now available through Wafer on Vercel's AI Gateway. This integration allows developers to access the optimized model through Vercel's platf

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Google Home Speaker review: the $100 speaker, the company's first such device in six years, works for Gemini power users but has underwhelming music playback — The Google Home

Mateo Quiros / The Keyword: Google says computer use is now a built-in tool supported in Gemini 3.5 Flash, available via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform — Computer use is now a bui

Google LLC-owned YouTube today reached a settlement with a Florida-based minor in a social media addiction case, one of many trials that will take place as social media platforms face growing scrutiny

Google announced changes to its Play Store model to settle its years-long legal fight with Epic Games, including lowering the commission fee to 20 percent on in-app purchases and creating a new progra

Superhuman Inc., the company formerly known as Grammarly, said today it has agreed to acquire GPTZero Inc., the startup whose detection tools tell teachers, editors and hiring managers when a piece of

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost — For decades

HelloTwin.ai GmbH today announced what it calls an accountable artificial intelligence AI twin that holds business intelligence and goals in a single source of truth. HelloTwin said it built its data

Take-Two Interactive will sell the standard version of Grand Theft Auto VI at 80, a more traditional price after speculation the company would raise costs . The 80 price exceeds that of most other PS5

Jeanne Whalen / Wall Street Journal: How Chicago is betting on quantum computing, including turning the site of the former US Steel mill into a campus, after largely missing the digital revolution — I

Daikin Applied Americas leverages Databricks' Genie Code to build and maintain data pipelines at scale with consistency and efficiency. The solution enables the organization to streamline data pipelin

In this post, we demonstrate the architecture and approach Loka used to solve a common frustration: robotic, slow voice assistants that cause customers to hang up, damaging brand reputation and drivin

New York Times: How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became its wealthiest hub; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household incomes of $146K, 5x the average — Fortunes, luxury buildin

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing it at ~$2.5B and listing under ticker symbol AGLT — Agili

In this post, we walk through how Huntington built a scalable AWS solution to detect and redact Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Payment Card Industry (PCI) data from over 400 million doc

The FFASR Leaderboard is a benchmarking platform introduced by Hugging Face for evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems on real-world performance metrics. It provides a standardized eval

Mobile application operations startup Kinoa Labs Ltd. said today it has raked in 10 million in funding to help app developers unlock more revenue from their users with its artificial intelligence-nati

David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: London-based Isometric, which develops AI agents that work with human verifiers to automate industrial certification, raised a €34M Series A led by AVP — Isometric h

A field guide to the new wave of long-horizon agent benchmarks: what each one actually measures, the realism-versus-verifiability bargain it strikes, and the seam where its score leaks. The post Long-

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Micron reports Q3 revenue up 346% YoY to 41.46B, vs. 35.84B est., gross margin above estimates, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; MU jumps 14%+ after hours — Micron's revenue mo

Lorelei Smillie / Bloomberg: Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to help take them down — Investigator

After Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ended the military's flu shot mandate in April 2026, a major flu outbreak struck Lackland Air Force Base in Texas , with at least 222 recruits diagnosed with th

Voice artificial intelligence company Modulate Inc. today launched a tool that flags AI-generated music straight from the audio. The product, an application programming interface called AI Music Detec

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on “basic Python errors” and data cherry-picking — Nature pa

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: New York-based Probook, which is building an AI operating system for home service businesses, raised a 34M Series A led by a16z and a 6M seed led by Sequoia — George Eliadi

Building AI systems at scale is demanding, requiring low-latency inference, fast vector search, strong GPU price-performance and infrastructure that can grow without multiplying operational complexity

Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: NYC-based Taktile, which helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows, raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, and plans a São Paulo office — Banks and

Law enforcement from the Netherlands, Canada, United States, and Germany disrupted TA569 (SocGholish) operations on June 18, 2026, taking down over 100 servers and domains worldwide and remediating 14

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first Intelligence Processor designed specifically for LLM inference , with early testing showing substantially better performance per watt than current

OpenAI: OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models — Loading... - Early testing shows