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David Morris / Bloomberg: Akamai is seeking to raise 2.6B in a convertible bond offering, and plans to use 350M of the offering to buy back its common stock from buyers of the bonds — Akamai Technolog

Alexa Plus, Amazon's upgraded AI assistant, can now generate podcasts on 'virtually any topic,' according to an announcement on Monday. With the update, Amazon says you can give Alexa Plus a topic, an

Todd Spangler / Variety: Amazon's Alexa+ now produces AI-generated “podcasts” on various topics in the US, featuring chats between two AI “co-hosts”, using content from media outlets — The podcast sec

Benedict Evans: An overview of macro tech trends: capex explosion, unprecedented surge in chip demand, supply chain bottlenecks, model commoditization, AI automation, and more — Twice a year, I produc

Databricks announced a new learning pathway designed to help professionals develop skills in analytics engineering. The program likely covers essential competencies such as data transformation, SQL, d

Ansible, Red Hat Inc.’s automation platform, is emerging as the trusted execution layer that might bridge AI-generated insights and reliable IT operations, aiming to turn probabilistic agentic AI into

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Anthropic acquires NYC-based Stainless, which generates SDKs from APIs, and plans to wind down its hosted products, after reportedly discussing a $300M+ deal — Anthropic

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic last week began letting Mythos users share cybersecurity threats with others who may face similar vulnerabilities, modifying its previous stance — How

Reuters: Arkham: Iran's largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, processed 2.3B+ since 2023 via Tron and BNB Chain, including 23M+ since the Iran war started in February — Iran's Nobitex has processed at lea

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS is emerging as a strategic platform for enterprises seeking simplified procurement and optimized hybrid cloud operations. For IT leaders navigating sprawling provider

Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal: Baidu reports Q1 revenue down 1.1% YoY to ~4.7B, above ~4.5B est., and net profit down 55% YoY to ~506.6M, above ~462.5M est., amid a slow AI payoff — First-quarter net

Accessing enterprise data is shifting from static reports to dynamic use by autonomous systems. To keep up, organizations must route fragmented data from SaaS, IoT, and legacy sources into secure, sca

Wall Street Journal: Blackstone announces a JV with Google to create a US company that will offer customers access to Google's TPUs, and makes an initial equity commitment of 5B — Investment firm to p

BMW M marks the close of the sixth-generation M3 with the limited-edition M3 CS Handschalter, pairing lightweight construction with a 6-speed manual transmission and rear-wheel drive. The twin-turbo 3

Bug bounty platforms are being overwhelmed by a surge in AI-generated low-quality vulnerability reports, forcing companies to introduce stricter vetting procedures and filtering tools to manage submis

In this post, you will implement four Lambda-based custom code evaluators for a financial market-intelligence agent, register each with AgentCore, and run them in on-demand and online modes. You will

Grant Bourzikas / Cloudflare: Cloudflare tests Mythos against 50+ repositories, highlights its ability to chain bugs into a single exploit, and details a vulnerability discovery harness — For the last

Announcing coding harness tracing for observing, evaluating, and improving coding agent workflows across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI. The post Coding agent tracing and e

Jamie John / Financial Times: Companies running bug bounty programs are tightening background checks and building AI agents to triage a flood of low-quality reports generated by AI — ‘Bug bounty’ prog

Vercel announced the availability of consolidated commit status functionality for GitHub, which likely streamlines how deployment and build statuses are displayed and managed within GitHub's interface

Cursor: Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably; it's built on Kimi K2.5 — Composer 2.5 is now available

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, raised 300M at a ~4B valuation, up from 3.1B after raising 153M in August 2025 — Decart'

Dell Technologies Inc. today is kicking off its Dell Technologies World conference by expanding its artificial intelligence portfolio with enhancements aimed at helping enterprises move AI projects fr

Artemis II sent four astronauts on a lunar flyby in 2026, becoming the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since the Apollo program. The successful mission appears to have generated significant

The rise of agentic AI is reshaping what enterprise partnerships must deliver — and domain-specific AI is proving to be the real differentiator between systems that advise and systems that act. As AI

Chris Metinko / Axios: Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy specialized AI agents that work alongside humans, raised a 40M Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia — Dust, a human-agent collabo

The World Health Organization declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda caused by the Bundibugyo virus a 'public health emergency of international concern,' with the ou

After around two hours of deliberation, the jury has reached a unanimous verdict in Musk v. Altman, the tech trial of the year. The group found that two claims were barred by the statute of limitation

A federal jury found that Elon Musk waited too long to bring his lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others, dismissing his claims that Altman had unlawfully enriched himself from the organizati

The AI governance gap is widening rapidly as AI agents assume operational roles inside enterprise workflows, expanding the security perimeter faster than most organizations can mitigate exposure. But

Enterprise AI integration has become the defining challenge for organizations moving from pilot programs to production — and the companies solving it are reshaping how work gets done across every indu

Former Google LLC Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt drew boos from students during a commencement speech he gave over the weekend. The jeers came in response to Schmidt’s comments about the economi

Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider: Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs — -

Google DeepMind's Co-Scientist AI tool helps researchers identify genetic changes that push cells away from senescence toward youthful states in tissues like skin, hair, and muscle. The system scans s

A federal jury today voted to dismiss Elon Musk’s high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI Group PBC. The nine jurors found that the complaint, which Musk filed in 2024, was brought after the statute of li

This guide demonstrates how to fine-tune NVIDIA's Cosmos Predict 2.5 video generation model using parameter-efficient techniques like LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) and DoRA (Mixture of Experts-based adap

Vercel announced that traffic mitigated by its Web Application Firewall (WAF) will not count toward customer billing, reducing costs for users who experience DDoS attacks or other malicious traffic. T

Microsoft has introduced the ability to move the taskbar to any screen edge and added a smaller taskbar option in Windows 11, features previously removed at the OS's 2021 launch. The company also plan

A new report out today from cybersecurity company Forcepoint LLC’s X-Labs research team details a supply chain attack that compromised LiteLLM, a widely used open-source Python library that serves as

Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, in Los Angeles River, CA, USI'm heading home from PyCon US today so I went on a last morning walk to try and spot a pelican. I saw one!

A new Lanterns teaser trailer features Nathan Fillion returning as Guy Gardner , the character introduced in the 2025 Superman movie . Showrunner Chris Mundy confirmed Gardner will 'be in the show a f

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: How Amazon, which took a measured tone to AI, went from an AI also-ran to a real contender, thanks to 200B in spending, custom AI chips, and savvy deals — The pieces

Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs — With Cong

When most people think of A/B experimentation, they think of button colors, landing page layouts, or checkout flows. At Google, many fundamental infrastructure improvements also need the rigor of A/B

Alessandra Ram / Wired: How the AI industry's intense pressure to keep up and its financial rewards are creating “walls of resentment” between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses — Are you marrie

This newsletter explores three AI topics: potential weaponization risks of AI systems (framed as 'AI stuxnet'), issues with the Muon optimizer in machine learning, and progress or approaches toward po