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Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, which is training models directly on observational data, is now valued at 5.3B, and added 40M in ARR in Q2 — Every major A

Bloomberg: A profile of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who is killing projects, cutting staff, and pleasing Wall Street, while steering the company toward an AI-focused era — Thirteen miles north of Jackson,

Agent risk management is evolving rapidly as AI moves into consequential decision-making arenas, collapsing the boundary between human and machine risk across the enterprise. The dual-threat landscape

SaaS applications are being transformed into deterministic engines as AI agents replace traditional user interfaces and drive the rise of the headless enterprise — where AI, not humans, serves as the

Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models ou

Last summer, Peter Degen's postdoctoral supervisor came to him with an unusual problem: One of his papers was being cited too much. Citations are the currency of academia, but there was something unus

This Latent Space article likely discusses how Conductor, an AI orchestration or workflow platform, is becoming a central infrastructure component across various AI applications and systems. The piece

Meir Orbach / CTech: Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of AI tools, for ~$205M in cash — Deal expands Zero T

A US federal judge delayed final approval of Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors, requesting additional details on lawyers' fees and lead-plaintiff payments. The fairness hearin

Chipmaking equipment giant Applied Materials Inc. is expecting stronger sales this year compared with what it originally forecast, thanks to surging demand for artificial intelligence chips. The compa

Samantha Cole / 404 Media: ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work — The change c

ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. If a paper has 'incontrovertible evidence that the author

This article is the second installment in a series exploring Lakebase, Databricks' data management solution, providing behind-the-scenes insights into its architecture, capabilities, or integration wi

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investors have underestimated Microsoft — Bill Ackman

California's AB 1921 (Protect Our Games Act), introduced in February 2026, would require publishers to take responsibility for the long-term playability of online games. The bill passed a key hurdle o

Three years of enterprise AI investment, and most companies are still waiting for the payoff. Boomi LP thinks it has found it, unveiling Boomi Companion, a collection of open-source agent skills that

Are IPOs finally back? It sure looks like it, if Cerebras’ monster initial public offering this week is any indication. After raising its offering price twice, the stock rose 68% on the first day of t

Claude Code's product lead addresses how Anthropic tunes the 'harness' (the structural layer around the model) for each new model release to optimize performance and reduce verbosity. The company comm

Contact center AI transformation is accelerating in financial services as new innovations close the gap between surface-level metrics and genuine customer understanding in high-stakes interactions. Fo

Databricks has integrated OpenAI's GPT-5.5 model into enterprise agent workflows, enabling organizations to build and deploy AI agents with advanced language capabilities. This partnership leverages D

Dataiku Inc. today announced a deeper integration with Snowflake Inc. aimed at simplifying the creation of enterprise AI agents while preserving governance and operational controls, a growing concern

Release: datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0 This plugin works in conjunction with datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant to let you configure a per-user (or global) spending limit for LLM usage inside of

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don't hav

An Ebola outbreak confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's remote Ituri province in May 2026 resulted in 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths, primarily in the Mongwalu and Rwampara health zones.

Bloomberg: Filings: YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle a lawsuit headed to trial in June over claims addiction to social media has disrupted students' learning — Google's YouTube and Snap I

Our recent paper, “LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate”, has generated discussion about the reliability of AI systems in delegated workflows. We appreciate the interest in this work and want

The Gemini Live Agent Challenge is officially in the books! We challenged developers worldwide to break out of the traditional 'text box' paradigm by building next-generation AI agents. From our initi

Akshay Gangwar / Android Authority: Google confirms it's testing a new storage policy after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get only 5GB of free storage unless they add a phone number — Up

Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to 'manipulate' its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: 'In the co

GridCare Inc., a startup that helps data center operators more quickly connect their facilities to the electrical grid, has raised 64 million in funding. Early Nvidia Corp. backer Sutter Hill Ventures

Bianca Giacobone / Latitude Media: Gridcare, which uses AI to detect underused capacity in electric grids, raised a 64M Series A, following a 13.5M seed in 2025 — The grid intelligence startup uses AI

Honda previewed two new hybrid prototypes scheduled to launch by 2028 after absorbing a 9.2 billion EV-related loss, its largest in company history. The company indefinitely suspended its planned 15 b

This document from OpenAI describes how business operations teams leverage Codex, OpenAI's code generation model, to automate and streamline their workflows. It likely covers practical applications su

In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body, fusing with her flesh. She levitates, then

This OpenAI Academy resource explores practical applications of Codex, their AI code generation model, within data science workflows and teams. It likely covers how data scientists leverage Codex to a

This resource from OpenAI's Academy demonstrates practical applications of Codex, their code-generation AI model, within sales team workflows. It likely covers how sales professionals can leverage Cod

Bill Gurley / Bill's Substack: How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more — How the S

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a “VC vs GC” video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen — One of the m

Release: inaturalist-clumper 0.1 Part of the infrastructure I use for publishing my iNaturalist sightings on my blog. I've been running this in production for a few weeks now, inspiring some iteration

Pramugdha Mamgain / DealStreetAsia: Indian ride-hailing app Rapido raised 240M led by Prosus as part of a broader primary and secondary financing transaction, valuing Rapido at 3B post-money — Ride-ha

Bloomberg: Kioxia reports record Q4 earnings of ~3.8B, forecasts Q1 operating profit of ~8.2B, and says it is planning a US listing; Kioxia shares are up 300% YTD — Kioxia Holdings Corp., the world's

Kieran Smith / Financial Times: London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised 70M at a 2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January — Multiverse

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers — You can also no

Anyscale provides integrated dashboards for monitoring and debugging Ray workloads, offering persistent visualization of Cluster and Actor metrics and status. These dashboards enable users to track pe

In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involv

Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: Nvidia's future in China remains unclear after the Trump-Xi Summit; Trump says China “chose not to” buy Nvidia chips as “they want to try to develop their own” — The st