Scientists at Sissa Medialab and Princeton University found that transfer learning can reduce the number of expensive cosmological simulations needed to search for new physics by more than a factor of ten. However, the A…
The Dutch government and state-backed investor Invest-NL are injecting an additional €360 million into the Deep Tech Fonds, bringing its total to €610 million, as the Netherlands seeks to reduce reliance on foreign criti…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced in a memo that storage component costs have more than doubled since February and are expected to rise to five times their original price by the 2027 holiday season, which may signal the lau…
SpringerNature is contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics to request peer reviews, as revealed by a literary executor who received review requests for a mentor who died three years ago. The publisher’s…
Marketing professionals can no longer reliably measure the performance of email and push notification campaigns because Apple, Google, and other platform intermediaries actively edit, summarize, or suppress messages with…
Amazon has discounted the 2026 Hisense 50-inch Hi-QLED mini-LED 4K TV by 39%, bringing the price to $427.99. The TV features a native 144Hz refresh rate, AI-enhanced picture and audio technologies, and Dolby Vision IQ an…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 11, #1096, features categories including parts of a workout routine, things with horns, homophones of SUVs, and payment apps minus a letter. The puzzle's blue and purple cat…
Anthropic apologized for a hidden guardrail in its Fable 5 AI model that silently sabotaged users' attempts to train other AI systems, and announced it will make the safeguard visible. The company acknowledged it "made t…
Anthropic is reversing a policy that secretly degraded performance for researchers using its Claude Fable 5 model to build competing AI systems, the company told Wired. The restrictions, which were not disclosed in the m…
Microsoft expanded its Microsoft Marketplace at Build 2026 to include software agents, allowing developers to publish and sell AI agents built across platforms like Copilot Studio and Visual Studio. The move aims to help…
DubGuild raised ¥2.1 billion in seed funding led by JAFCO to develop a text-free, voice-focused AI model, signaling Japan's strategic push to build sovereign AI capabilities in niche areas. The investment, supported by M…
Howden Group CDO Barry Panayi argues that traditional data product models fail at acquisition pace, urging companies to build open, governed data services instead of pre-defined product catalogs. Howden, which acquired m…
A developer built a 340-million-parameter vintage LLM from nearly scratch, training it exclusively on texts from before 1900 using custom scripts and datasets. The open-source model, available on HuggingFace, is time-loc…
Cohere AI released North Mini Code, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 3 billion active parameters per token, optimized for code generation, agentic software engineering, and terminal tasks.…
Check Point announced a major expansion of its Managed Service Provider platform, adding AI governance tools, a multi-tenant management portal, and unified security bundles to help MSPs secure AI adoption and simplify ma…
The UK Treasury has not yet decided whether to attend a £1.7 billion enterprise resource planning (ERP) program it previously agreed to fund, raising questions about the project's future. The delay in confirming particip…
Apify released a Content Gap Analyzer Actor that automates content gap analysis by scraping top-ranking Google pages, crawling their content, and using an LLM to identify missing insights. The tool aims to replace manual…
Anthropic reversed its plan to silently degrade Claude Fable 5's performance for users training competing AI models, admitting the company "made the wrong tradeoff" after backlash from the research community. The company…
Fintech company Block laid off 4,000 employees in February with CEO Jack Dorsey citing AI as enabling smaller teams, but subsequent reporting revealed the cuts were driven by financial pressure after pandemic-era overhir…
Engineering leaders Eric Anderson of Intuit and Ben Matthews of Stack Overflow discussed on the "Leaders of Code" podcast how the near-zero cost of AI-generated code is reshaping software team management and engineering …