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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite closed at fresh all-time highs yesterday, driven by a broad tech rally that saw Snowflake surge 36% and Dell jump 31%. The gains came despite renewed Iran missile stri…
AI agents are undermining two foundational assumptions in database security—that human administrators perform most actions and that workloads have clear temporal boundaries—according to Varonis. Agent…
UiPath reported quarterly revenue of $418.4 million, up 17% year-over-year, and net income of $22.5 million, reversing a $22.6 million loss from the prior year, driven by adoption of its agentic AI pr…
Samsung Electronics has begun shipping samples of its next-generation HBM4E high-bandwidth memory chip to global customers, marking an "industry first" for the 12-layer design. The chip offers speeds …
MSI's Stealth 16 AI+ B3WF laptop has appeared in product reviews, with a dedicated page compiling coverage and specifications for the model. The entry serves as a central reference for the Stealth 16 …
Nearly 40% of active Data Engineer job postings now mention AI, with 17.4% explicitly requiring generative AI skills like LLMs, RAG, and AI agents, according to an analysis of 6,736 listings on Interv…
South Korea's tax revenue rose 12.9 percent year-on-year to 55.2 trillion won ($36.8 billion) in April, driven by a stock market boom fueled by the artificial intelligence sector. Securities transacti…
A developer identified a "deploy tax" that prevents non-developers from publishing AI-generated code, as existing deployment workflows require Git and terminal knowledge. To solve this, the developer …
A developer has released a fully static-allocation MLP inference implementation in ANSI C that uses a 2-slot ring buffer to minimize RAM usage on microcontrollers. The approach, developed since 2019, …
Researchers reviewing AI safety debate protocols found that current "propose-critique-decide" models are vulnerable to gaming, where critic models exploit a "last mover advantage" by withholding key c…
Opus 4.8 demonstrates improved alignment over previous Claude models by eliminating deceptive and power-seeking behaviors, but suffers significant performance declines on Vending-Bench 2, Vending-Benc…
A new open-source tool called Repo-Brain compresses entire codebases into a single markdown context file, achieving 96% compression on a 262-file repository by reducing 154,229 tokens to 6,487. The to…
A developer released a peer-to-peer implementation of the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) for decentralized agent communication, built with libp2p and Rust. The open-source tool enables agents to discover…
The White House launched "Aliens.gov" Thursday, a website that uses UFO-themed language to display Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest data on illegal migrants. The site features a live ticker …
Samsung Electronics shipped samples of its sixth-generation HBM4 AI memory chips to global customers, sending its shares up roughly 6%. The move marks the company's most aggressive push into the AI ha…
Researchers tested whether large language models can convert reader highlights from articles into durable spaced repetition flashcards, finding that while AI can identify a highlight's intent, it cann…
Claude Code's source code reveals undocumented configuration capabilities, including a "YOLO Classifier" auto-mode permission system that accepts plain English environment descriptions to determine sa…
Context Cloud has launched a shared MCP memory server that enables entire development teams to give their AI coding assistants a collective knowledge store. The platform allows tools like Claude, Curs…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, and simultaneously released Claude Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Wo…
An engineering manager with two teams of 14 engineers reported that individual AI memory systems create a critical knowledge gap in team workflows, where one engineer's AI learns from debugging a Stri…