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Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Google selling $10B of equity to Berkshire is fascinating and functions as a signal that AI demand is high, in a world where the most cash buys the most compute — What does
Google is launching a new feature for its Phone app that aims to protect you from AI impersonation scams. Now, when you receive a call from a scammer that appears to be coming from the same number as
Holo3.1 is a computer use agent developed by Hugging Face that enables fast, local execution of tasks on computing systems without requiring cloud infrastructure. The model is designed to interpret an
This post walks through how Baz built their Spec Review agent using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. We'll cover the architecture decisions, implementation details, and the business outcom
This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox,sign up here. From accounting to design t
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s artificial intelligence servers sold like crazy during its fiscal second quarter, powering the company to an impressive earnings and revenue beat, and the company’s st
IBM announced a $10 billion investment in quantum computing to advance the development and commercialization of quantum technologies. The investment aims to accelerate quantum hardware improvements, e
Impulse Space raised 500 million in Series D funding to expand production of orbital transfer vehicles and spacecraft for commercial and government demand. The funds will scale production of Mira, a m
China launched its partially reusable Long March 12B rocket for the first time on June 1, 2026, without issuing advance airspace closure notices. The rocket successfully deployed two satellites and di
Accelerated computing has revolutionized industrial engineering, compressing simulation times from weeks to hours. Today’s remaining challenges sit in the end-to-end workflow surrounding the simulatio
AskData implemented optimization techniques to dramatically reduce token consumption in their AI system by over 90%, likely through strategies such as prompt engineering, caching, retrieval optimizati
Intel Corp. today debuted a line of central processing units based on its latest manufacturing process and shared new details about its next-generation graphics cards. Both product families are geared
Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal memo: Meta is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool, launched in April to help train its AI models, after staff raised concerns — Meta Platforms is
Databricks introduces Cross-Engine Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), a feature that extends fine-grained access control policies across multiple query engines and data processing platforms within
Lambda workspaces help teams organize cloud resources, control access, and separate dev, staging, and production in shared GPU environments. A junior researcher kills a production training run. A cont
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli data security startup Cyera raised 300M at a 12B valuation, after raising 400M at a 9B valuation in January — The Israeli data security company raised 400 million at a 9 b
Artificial intelligence risk management platform provider JupiterOne Inc. today announced the launch of JupiterOne Continuous Controls Monitoring, a new product that tests whether security and complia
A University of Exeter study found that male bowerbirds in Australian cities use human-made items—including glass, plastic, and unconventional objects like handcuffs—to decorate their bowers and attra
Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC: Marvell shares closed up 32.52% on Tuesday after Jensen Huang hailed the chipmaker as the “next trillion-dollar company” at Computex — Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang hailed Marvell
Mathematicians from major institutions have published the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, which outlines key challenges that widespread AI use poses to mathematics resea
Israeli distributed denial-of-service resilience company MazeBolt Technologies Ltd. today launched RADAR VectorAI, a new module that uses artificial intelligence to generate previously unseen DDoS att
Eli Tan / New York Times: Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including on nutrition, weight lifting, and anxiety — The changes,
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta is testing a Series feature, letting select creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profile, using both old and new Reels — Meta is test
Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a0 My latest sandboxing experiment: This alpha package bundles a lightly customized WASM build of MicroPython with a wrapper to execute code in it via wasmtime. Tags: pyth
micropython-wasm 0.1a1 is a Python library for running a MicroPython sandbox using WebAssembly . This alpha release includes fixes for limitations discovered while building datasette-agent-micropython
Clare Duffy / CNN: Microsoft and Mayo Clinic partner for an AI model trained on Mayo's medical data, with plans to build an AI healthcare assistant and AI tools for clinicians — People have been seeki
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces developer tools for Windows: a set of Linux-like command line utilities called Coreutils, WSL containers, Intelligent Terminal, and more — Microsoft is embr
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: Microsoft announces new on-device AI updates for Edge: a dev preview of a new SLM called Aion-1.0-Instruct, Language Detector and Translator APIs, and more — Tied to the earl
Microsoft Corp. today announced it’s bringing agentic development capabilities into the hands of developers with a new desktop form factor supercomputer called the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. Developed
Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Microsoft announces the Agent Control Specification, an open-source standard that gives developers a granular, consistent way to control what AI agents can do — As AI agents gro
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI development, powered by Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark chips and 128GB of unified memory — The Surface RTX
Microsoft’s annual developer conference is kicking off on June 2nd in San Francisco with the keynote presentation streaming live at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT, and we will be following along here with eve
Microsoft just kicked off Build 2026 with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella and other company leaders. As expected, it was filled with announcements, ranging from new Surface hardware to an always-on p
Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra at the weekend, and it's now revealing a miniature Surface PC aimed at developers. The new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is powered by Nvidia's new
Microsoft Corp. announced an expansion to its artificial intelligence models and agentic AI infrastructure today that brings more data and context into the hands of developers and business users as th
Jay Peters / The Verge: Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning AI model, trained “from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models” — MAI-Thinking-
Microsoft Corp. today introduced Rayfin, an open-source software development kit and command-line interface that lets developers and coding agents define an entire application backend in code and depl
Microsoft announced at Build 2026 a new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, fresh Linux-friendly tooling, and a one-command developer configuration system for Windows 11. The desktop workstation is powered by
Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Microsoft releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions — AI researchers and labs have ad
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Microsoft releases Web IQ, a search service for AI agents that is powered by Bing, currently used by Copilot, ChatGPT, and other platforms — Table of Contents — Mi
Much like Google, Microsoft is launching its own version of OpenClaw. Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, all
Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Microsoft unveils Majorana 2, a quantum chip that it developed using AI tools for materials science, and says it will have commercial quantum machines by 2029 — Microsoft (MS
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Microsoft unveils Microsoft Execution Containers for Windows, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI, Nvidia, Manus, and Nous Research as partners — For the past t
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others — [Editor's Note:
Microsoft just announced 'Project Solara,' a new OS designed for gadgets that run AI agents, at Build 2026. The company is calling it 'a new platform built from the ground up to power agent-driven exp
Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new 'flagship' model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its
Microsoft announced two new text LLMs this morning - MAI-Thinking-1 (reasoning, 35B parameters, available to 'select early partners') and MAI-Code-1-Flash (5B parameters, 'purpose-built for GitHub Cop
Microsoft has developed Project Solara, a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows. The platform is Microsoft's bet that AI will open up entirely ne
Patient-controlled health data startup Novellia Inc. today announced it has raised 18 million in Series A funding to scale up a platform that lets patients consolidate their medical records and choose
The DRC Ministry of Health removed suspected cases that have been ruled out after investigation on May 29, resulting in a significant reduction in suspect case counts . Improved laboratory capacity, i
Agentic AI is getting physical. At COMPUTEX on Tuesday, NVIDIA announced NVIDIA JetPack 7.2 and NVIDIA NemoClaw support on NVIDIA Jetson. JetPack 7.2 brings agentic AI skills, Yocto project support, N
The agentic AI moment has arrived, but delivering on its promise requires more than good models. It also takes fast hardware, secure runtimes, a responsive data layer and models tuned for long-running
In this post, we'll walk through implementing object detection with Amazon Nova 2 Lite. You'll learn how to deploy an object detection application using Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, and Amazon API Gate
NVIDIA and DigitalOcean are collaborating to develop an open infrastructure stack designed to support autonomous AI agents that operate continuously. The initiative emphasizes open-source principles a
OpenAI Group PBC today released a set of features that will make it easier for nontechnical people to use its Codex automation tool. The update comes five months after Anthropic PBC added similar capa
OpenAI: OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users — OpenAI today released a new report
OpenAI: OpenAI says it has not donated to any super PACs and does not have an employee-funded PAC, and that Greg Brockman's support for Leading the Future is personal — AI is going to be one of the mo
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI unveils new Codex plugins for tasks related to public equity investment, banking and sales, and other roles, and plans to integrate Codex into ChatGPT — OpenAI is e
Opus 4.8 likely refers to a software release, update, or feature announcement covered by Ben's Bites, a technology newsletter focused on AI and software developments. Without access to the specific ar
Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital — UK company has deployed q