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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Google introduces its eighth generation of TPUs, including the TPU 8t for training and the TPU 8i for inference, generally available later this year — Alphabet Inc.'s Google Cloud division unveiled the latest generation of its tensor processing unit, or TPU, a homegrown chip that's designed …
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| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
Google announces the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a revamped developer tool built on Vertex AI that manages the full lifecycle of AI agent fleets — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google updates Enterprise tools for agentic AI at Next. — A new Agent Platform streamlines automated work and security.
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LinkedIn: Guillaume Roques, Sujay Solomon, and Michael Bachman. Bluesky: @chicagomike. Forums: r/Bard
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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LinkedIn: Jyoti Ramnath, Adam Walkiewicz, and Vishnu Nath
| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
Kalshi suspends and fines congressional candidates Mark Moran of Virginia, Matt Klein of Minnesota, and Ezekiel Enriquez of Texas for political insider trading — Prediction market platform Kalshi said Wednesday it had suspended and fined three candidates for Congress from Minnesota …
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| Will Dunham / Reuters: |
Sony AI says its autonomous ping pong robot is the first robot to attain expert-level performance in a physical sport after beating some top-level human players — An autonomous robot ping-pong player dubbed Ace has achieved a milestone for AI and robotics in Tokyo by competing …
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| Politico: |
Sean Plankey, President Trump's pick to lead CISA, withdraws from consideration after resistance from Sen. Rick Scott stalled his nomination for over a year — Spokespeople for the White House, DHS and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.| Qwen: |
Alibaba launches Qwen3.6-27B, an open-weight dense model with 27B parameters, saying it surpasses Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on major coding benchmarks — · 4226 words · QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文 — HUGGING FACE — MODELSCOPE — DISCORD
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI announces workspace agents in ChatGPT, letting teams create Codex-powered shared agents for complex tasks, and says they are “an evolution of GPTs” — Codex-powered agents for teams. — Create an agent(opens in a new window)Contact sales(opens in a new window)
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| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Sources: xAI held talks in recent weeks with Mistral and Cursor about a potential three-way partnership; Mistral co-founder Devendra Chaplot joined xAI in March — - Elon Musk's xAI recently announced a partnership with AI coding startup Cursor. — The two companies have also explored …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
LinkedIn names COO Daniel Shapero as its new CEO, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who will retain his position as EVP at Microsoft — Microsoft has tapped Dan Shapero to be the new CEO of its LinkedIn division, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who has run the subsidiary since 2020 and last year took …
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LinkedIn: Ryan Roslansky, Daniel Shapero, Jeff Weiner, and Mohak Shroff
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
IBM reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $15.92B, vs. $15.62B est., software revenue up 11% to $7.05B, and maintains FY 2026 guidance; IBM drops 7%+ after hours — IBM shares slipped 6% in extended trading on Wednesday after the hardware, software and consulting provider reported stronger …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Texas Instruments reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $4.83B, vs. $4.52B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 10%+ after hours — Texas Instruments Inc. shares surged in late trading after the chipmaker gave a surprisingly strong forecast, helped by booming spending on data centers and industrial equipment.| Lola Murti / CNBC: |
ServiceNow reports Q1 subscription revenue up 22% YoY to $3.67B, vs. $3.65B est., says conflict in the Middle East weighed on growth; NOW drops 12%+ after hours — ServiceNow reported first-quarter results on Wednesday that narrowly beat Wall Street's estimates as the company said the conflict …
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
SK Hynix reports Q1 revenue up 198% YoY to ~$35.55B, vs. ~$36.2B est., and operating profit up 405% YoY to ~$25.4B, vs. ~$25.6B est., as memory prices rise — South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix posted yet another quarter of record profit and revenue on Thursday, as prices for its products continue to surge amid strong AI demand.| CoinDesk: |
Filing: Tron founder Justin Sun sues the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, alleging it unfairly locked up his WLFI holdings and threatened and defamed him — World Liberty unfairly froze Sun's $WLFI tokens and threatened him, the lawsuit alleged. … What to know:
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| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
The UK FCA says it has carried out its first joint operation to disrupt illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading, targeting eight premises across London — Quick Take — The UK's Financial Conduct Authority said it has carried out its first coordinated operation targeting illegal peer … | Bloomberg: |
Dune Analytics: Polymarket's global trading volumes have fallen behind Kalshi in recent months; sources: product delays are contributing to Polymarket's decline — Polymarket, the long-time leader in prediction market trading volume, has fallen behind its chief rival as it faces a growing list …
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Vast Data, which makes software infrastructure for managing large amounts of data with a focus on AI applications, raised a $1B Series F at a $30B valuation — Vast Data announced a $1 billion funding round at a $30 billion valuation on Wednesday, with Nvidia among those backing the AI company.
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| Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: |
An undergraduate used AI assistants to rewrite leaked source code for Claude Code in a different language, highlighting the uncertainty over copyright and AI — Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore?| Business Insider: |
Core Automation, co-founded by ex-OpenAI VP Jerry Tworek, launches to build “the world's most automated AI lab” with talent from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind — - A new AI startup, Core Automation, has entered the chat. — Started by an ex-OpenAI researcher, it has …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta unveils Live Chats on Threads for real-time conversations during cultural events, launching first within the NBA Threads community during the playoffs — Threads is launching “Live Chats” to allow for real-time conversations during cultural events, the Meta-owned platform announced on Wednesday.
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| Mason Boycott-Owen / Politico: |
The UK's GCHQ believes ~100 countries have procured cyber intrusion software, such as Pegasus, suggesting the barrier to get access to the tech is dropping — GLASGOW — More than half of the world's nation states are believed to have purchased technology that could be capable of hacking …
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