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The Department of Health and Human Services issued a request for information on June 8 seeking industry feedback for a pilot program to deploy advanced AI tools for its "power users," aiming to test premium reasoning, lo…
Jerome Swannack, an original architect of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), identified a critical gap in the protocol: the inability for clients to expose tools back to servers, which he calls "second-order" servers. At …
Trent AI learned three MCP server design principles after shipping a public-facing server consumed by third-party agents. The team consolidated tools from 17 to 11, enforced consistent naming across schemas, and aligned …
Epic Games open-sourced Lore, a version control system built for large binary files, at State of Unreal 2026 alongside Unreal Engine 5.8. The MIT-licensed, Rust-based tool uses content-defined chunking and BLAKE3 hashing…
At the G7 Summit, French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concerns that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI models at any time, following the Trump administration's ban…
Researchers from Tencent, Tsinghua University, and HKUST developed FlashMemory-DeepSeek-V4, which uses Lookahead Sparse Attention to reduce memory consumption in large language models by predicting and storing only relev…
Kaito, an AI-driven InfoFi platform, is pivoting from its Yaps program to launch Kaito Studio, a curated creator-brand marketplace targeting finance, entertainment, sports, and other verticals. The shift follows a succes…
Vercel launched a suite of agentic infrastructure products at its Ship conference, including Vercel Services, Agent Stack, open-source framework eve, Vercel Agent, and enterprise controls. Founder Guillermo Rauch said th…
Cloudflare announced that starting next month, users will be able to create and bill PlanetScale databases directly from the Cloudflare dashboard, integrating Postgres and MySQL databases with Workers via Hyperdrive for …
Allbirds, the sustainable footwear company, has renamed itself Smartbird and appointed Nadia Carlsten as CEO to pivot into AI infrastructure, selling its shoe business for $39 million. Shares surged over 50% on the annou…
Smartbird, formerly Allbirds, appointed former Amazon executive Nadia Carlsten as CEO to lead its pivot to managed AI infrastructure, sold its footwear brand, and expanded its convertible financing to $100 million, sendi…
JPMorgan raised its price target on Broadcom stock to $580, implying over 46% upside, citing the company's dominance in AI chips and accelerating AI revenue growth past 200% year-over-year. The bank reaffirmed an Overwei…
Shoemaker Allbirds rebranded to Smartbird and pivoted to AI infrastructure, appointing a new CEO, sending its stock up over 20%.
Port has identified seven categories of hidden infrastructure debt that arise when AI agents move from local demos to production in enterprise systems, including integrations, observability, governance, human-in-the-loop…
Anthropic became the first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition, contributing to a new $915 million funding tranche that brings total pledges to $1.8 billion. The move marks Anthropic's first climate-…
Amazon AI chief Peter DeSantis admitted the company's AI models lag behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but expressed hope of catching up within a year. Amazon is investing $33 billion in Anthropic while building its own rival …
Amazon Senior Vice President Peter DeSantis acknowledged the company's AI models have not been at the frontier of the largest workloads but expressed hope that Amazon will be in the conversation about leading models with…
Britain lobbied the White House for an exemption from the Anthropic AI export ban but was told there was "zero chance." The rejection exposes the UK's dependence on American AI and strengthens the case for sovereign alte…
AI researcher Gary Marcus warns that a weak OpenAI IPO could trigger a cascade of financial problems for Nvidia, Oracle, and CoreWeave, as their valuations depend on OpenAI's massive chip and data center demand. OpenAI i…
A developer designed a system using HTTP 402 Payment Required to let AI agents pay for API calls per use. The approach involves a gateway proxy that verifies budget-capped tokens, checks spending limits, and forwards req…